Under-age girls and birth control
- Title
- Under-age girls and birth control
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- 25 Jun 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:03:13
- Description
- Report on the British Medical Association (BMA) conference at which the General Medical Council decided that doctors should notify the parents in any case where an under-age girl requires birth control. Dr Robin Steele supports this in principle, but emphasises that doctors must exercise judgement. Dr Stuart Horner says doctors should not tell the parents, on grounds of patient confidentiality. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Robin Steele; Stuart Horner
- Keywords
- Medical ethics; BMA; Age of consent; Birth control; Doctors; Parents; Contraception; Girls; GMC
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