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Practices which state that a minor can get vaccinated or receive specific healthcare services including vaccines without the consent of a parent or guardian. so you cite on your website different laws, you can go look state by state. i was surprised to find out that there are many states where as long as a doctor believes that the young person is informed and is doing this with proper information, that they can go ahead and proceed. what about a situation where a family doctor might not want to override parents. what happens then? that s fair. yes, many of the bills and laws that do uphold this right depend on a judgment of maturity by provider. so the provider has to say they believe that a young person is sufficiently mature to make this decision for themselves. and it is this gray area. i think it is hard for a young person, for a parent, for a provider to sort of determine what is right and what ....