What are the laws concearning minors & birth control in North Carolina?

Question

My best friend is 17 years old. She was sexually active, without her father's knowledge. Her father is a real religious nut, and would go crazy if he found out she was on birth control. The main reason that she wants to go on birth control now is because of the intense cramp pains that she has with her period. Her dad's girlfriend confronted her about the idea of using birth control, but she doesn't want her dad's girlfriend to be in the middle and responsible for hiding it from her dad. She does not have any health insurance because her dad will not buy it. He will also not get the money together for her to go to the gyno. We know that she can get the birth control shot from the health department, but she has celebral pausy and during several of her surgeries was poked several points to the point of being sick and passing out, so is terribly afraid of needles. Our question is, what are the laws concearning her father's knowledge (her mother is dead) and can she get pills free?

Answer 1

Your friend should be able to get birth control withour her father knowing about it. There is a law that is being considered but hasn't been voted in committee, known as the "Permit Notification to Treat Minors."

See if you can help your friend get to a local Planned Parenthood. She will be able to have other options available besides Depo Provera, such as different birth control pills, Nuva Ring, etc. They also have a sliding fee scale so if you can't afford it, that's what they provide the services for. They may even have a program for teens that lets them get their birth control free of charge. My friend is on this program and it pays for birth control as well as yearly pap smears and breast exams.

Answer 2

Tell her to go to the local health dept. or free clinic, with the new privacy laws,i wouldn;t think they would be able to tell her father, and both agencies are based on earnings.The local health dept here in N.C. supplies them