Your Rights
At Planned Parenthood, you have the right to:
- Privacy during your clinic visits.
- Confidential handling of your medical records.
- Be involved in planning your health care.
- Respectful treatment and equal access to care, regardless of lifestyle, race, ethnicity.
Washington State laws which protect a minor's rights:
Minors may get birth control, have an abortion, and consent to a number of health care services without parental consent. Your medical records are confidential. (See State v. Koome, 1975 and RCW references below.)
Reproductive Privacy
Every individual has the right to privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions.
It is the public policy of the state of Washington that:
1) You have the right to choose or refuse birth control;
2) You have the right to choose or refuse to have an abortion,
3) The state shall not deny or interfere with a woman's fundamental right to choose or refuse to have an abortion; and
4) The state shall not discriminate against the exercise of these rights in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information. (excerpts from RCW 9.02.100)
Right to have an abortion
The state may not deny or interfere with a woman's right to choose to have an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or to protect her life or health. (RCW. 9.02.110)
Statutory Rape
1) A person is guilty of rape of a child in the third degree when the person has sexual intercourse with another who is at least fourteen years old but less than sixteen years old and not married to the perpetrator and the perpetrator is at least forty-eight months older than the victim.
2) Rape of a child in the third degree is a class C felony. (RCW 9A.44.079)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
A minor 14 years of age or older may consent to the furnishing of hospital, medical, or surgical care related to the diagnosis and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. (RCW 70.24.110)
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