Confusion Regarding Gillick Competency
On 21 May 2009, confusion arose between Gillick competency, which identifies under-16s with the capacity to consent to their own treatment, and the Fraser guidelines, which are concerned only with contraception and focus on the desirability of parental involvement and the risks of unprotected sex in that area. A persistent rumour arose that Victoria Gillick disliked having her name associated with the assessment of children's capacity, although a recent editorial in the BMJ debunks this idea, quoting Victoria Gillick as saying that she "has never suggested to anyone, publicly or privately, that disliked being associated with the term 'Gillick competent' ".
Read more about this topic: Gillick Competence
Famous quotes containing the words confusion and/or competency:
“A woman’s beauty is a storm-tossed banner;
Under it wisdom stands, and I alone
Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone
Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost
In the confusion of its night-dark folds,
Can hear the armed man speak.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)