Source: http://www.childrenslegalrightsjournal.com/childrenslegalrightsjournal/volume_36_issue_3?pg=16
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 18:10:35+00:00

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Cases about children’s rights to privacy reflect this balance between the fundamental nature of some rights and a developmental approach to children’s decision-making. Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976 established that a minor may have a right to obtain an abortion without requiring consent of her parents in certain circumstances.93 Carey v. Population Services International recognized the rights of minors to contraceptives, holding that the “right to privacy in connection with decisions affecting procreation extends to minors as well as to adults.”94 The Court took an interesting turn in children’s privacy jurisprudence in Belotti v. Baird, where it invalidated a statute requiring children to obtain parental consent before obtaining an abortion.95 This holding closely resembles that from Danforth, but in this case the Court also held that if a minor is mature then the court must authorize her to act absent parental consent—a notable nod toward choice theory.96 Though these cases expressly mention privacy, some scholars argue that they are actually grappling with the issue of autonomy.97 Children’s right to privacy in these situations was not totally unlimited; while the Court invalidated measures requiring parental consent, it did not invalidate statutes requiring parental notification.
91 Shmulei & Blecher-Prigat, supra note 2, at 772.
92 G.A. Res. 44/25, Convention on the Rights of the Child, at art. 16 (Nov. 20, 1989).
93 Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri, v. Danforth, 428 U.S. 52, 74 (1976).
94 Carey v. Population Serv. Int’l, 431 U.S. 678, 693 (1977).
95 Belotti, 443 U.S. at 647.
98 Id. at 773–74 (“[R]ecognizing the rights (in general, not just the right to privacy) of individual family members against each other does not seem to fully fit the family setting, where family members are believed to share some sense of collectivity . . . .”).

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