“New York State is About to Eliminate Parental Consent for Medical Decisions”
Fake click bait.
They actually posted a link probably knowing 95% will not bother.
-————”certain youth”-————
2. Any person who has been married or who has borne a child may give
effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for
his [or], her, OR THEIR child. Any person who has been designated pursu-
ant to title fifteen-A of article five of the general obligations law as
a person in parental relation to a child may consent to any medical,
dental, health and hospital services for such child for which consent is
otherwise required [which are not: (a) major medical treatment as
defined in subdivision (a) of section 80.03 of the mental hygiene law;
(b) electroconvulsive therapy; or (c) the withdrawal or discontinuance
of medical treatment which is sustaining life functions].
4. Medical, dental, health and hospital services may be rendered to
persons of any age without the consent of a parent, legal guardian or
person possessing a lawful order of custody when, in the [physician’s]
PRACTITIONER’S judgment, an emergency exists and the person is in imme-
diate need of medical attention and an attempt to secure consent would
result in delay of treatment which would increase the risk to the
person’s life or health.
Did you read it? #4 is a loophole big enough to drive your favorite EV through.