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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The laws around healthcare consent for minors have conditions for pregnancy, STDs, and mental health. A minor can consent to an abortion without parental involvement, they can’t consent to knee surgery. You may disagree with that, but it is how the law stands.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title54.1/chapter29/section54.1-2969/
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Exactly.  And, what if the parents were Muslim or evangelical christians or something?

Then the teacher and her student would have no choice accept to navigate this termination all alone.[/quote]

FWIW, judicial authorization is indeed required if not involving the parents, but there's no requirement to prove abuse or anything, just that the minor needs to be "mature enough and well enough informed to make her abortion decision, in consultation with her physician, independent of the wishes of any authorized person".  Paragraph W of https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/16.1-241/

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W. Petitions filed by a juvenile seeking judicial authorization for a physician to perform an abortion if a minor elects not to seek consent of an authorized person.

After a hearing, a judge shall issue an order authorizing a physician to perform an abortion, without the consent of any authorized person, if he finds that (i) the minor is mature enough and well enough informed to make her abortion decision, in consultation with her physician, independent of the wishes of any authorized person, or (ii) the minor is not mature enough or well enough informed to make such decision, but the desired abortion would be in her best interest.
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My guess is that the legal obligation to get parental or judicial approval applies to the medical staff not the school staff.

I am not saying that what the school staff are alleged to have done, if it happened at all, is right, but my guess is that the legal violations that school staff committed have more to
do with using school funds.  [/quote]

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