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Children and medical consent: a philosophical approach
By removing parental oversight, are medical professionals removing safeguarding?
In writing the following essay, ‘Children and medical consent: a philosophical approach’ — there will be some unappealing and sensitive ideas covered in the following paragraphs.
Less a trigger warning, but more of a realism warning. Scroll to read on if you wish.
“…there no evidence or moral proof that blanket trustlessness applied by the Government to family rights benefits the majority of children…”
A state-based, fake-utilitarian model does not guarantee the least amount of harm. I will outline this in full, below.
Lowering the age of consent
Let’s dive into this mess immediately. There’s a slippery slope argument that by placing the government in loco parentis — without the parent’s permission —would lead to a child eventually being able enabled by the Government to consent to drug consumption including nicotine (for drug consumption is closest to pharmaceutical consumption); alcohol and sex.
