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  • Title: Storm over Washington: the parental notification proposal.
    Author: Kenney AM, Forrest JD, Torres A.
    Journal: Fam Plann Perspect; 1982; 14(4):185, 187-90, 192-7. PubMed ID: 7117507.
    Abstract:
    A proposed US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regulation requiring family planning clinics funded under Title 10 of the Public Health Service Act to notify parents when providing prescription contraceptives to patients under 18 years of age has been the subject of wide scale public debate. Under its provisions notification would be waived only if "evidence" were produced that such information might jeopardize the patient's physical health. The main rationale for parental notification has to do with possible negative health consequences of various prescription birth control methods. Another important consideration is the perception within the administration that parents and families have largely been alienated from any involvement in this area of their children's lives. It is anticipated that the net effect of this regulation will be a decline in the number of teenagers attending such clinics. With limited access to other affordable and/or confidential family planning services, teenagers can be expected to resort to less efficacious methods of birth control. A large number of national, state, and local organizations have come out against the regulation citing wide ranging concerns. 3/4 of the states have gone on record against the regulation, while none has directly supported the measure. A number of supporters of national church and family organizations, among others, expressed the feeling that the regulations did not go far enough.
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