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Society needs to discuss the ethical dilemma of medical treatment without a parent's consent. Minors cannot give consent for any medical treatment.
That does not mean that we should withhold medical treatment from minors absent parent's consent. I am pretty sure if a student got shot at school, you wouldn't be for calling parents before giving medical aid - nor withholding aid if the parents say "just let them bleed out".
The issue is here that people don't see mental health treatment as necessary as physical health. There are mental heath situations as dire as being shot.
There's an ethical difference between emergency medical care and non-urgent but necessary medical care. You can't honestly compare treating a gunshot wound to therapy, and emergency mental health treatment usually involves hospitalization. That's not the kind of care that this article is talking about.
Minors can very much consent to medical treatments, even more so once they reached their teens. It's their own body and their own health.
Not in the USA. Providers are allowed to give emergency care, but anything else requires parental approval. Individual states may have exceptions passed into law (e.g. MN allows treatment of minors w/out parental knowledge for the areas of substance abuse and reproductive health, although not for abortions).
To be clear, I agree with your moral argument, but you are legally incorrect (in the USA, at least).
There is also the problem of bad faith actors. The US has a terrible track record with involuntary care, or just straight up lying and using people as human guinea pigs (the Tuskagee Airmen are just the tip of the iceberg). I would love to think that things are better now, but we have to accept a non-zero percentage of medical providers would absolutely do horrible shit if they could get away with it. We have relatively decent safeguards in place, but we could probably use more.
Incorrect. Minors cannot give consent, but older minors can assent to medical care, which is basically going along with it without complaint.