Section 50-20-502 - Legislative purpose and findings(1) The legislature finds that: (a) immature minors often lack the ability to make fully informed choices that take into account both immediate and long-range consequences;(b) the medical, emotional, and psychological consequences of abortion are sometimes serious and can be lasting, particularly when the patient is immature;(c) the capacity to become pregnant and the capacity for mature judgment concerning the wisdom of an abortion are not necessarily related;(d) parents ordinarily possess information essential to a physician in the exercise of the physician's best medical judgment concerning the minor;(e) parents who are aware that their minor daughter has had an abortion may better ensure that the daughter receives adequate medical care after the abortion; and(f) parental consultation is usually desirable and in the best interests of the minor.(2) The purpose of this part is to further the important and compelling state interests of: (a) protecting minors against their own immaturity;(b) fostering family unity and preserving the family as a viable social unit;(c) protecting the constitutional rights of parents to rear children who are members of their household; and(d) reducing teenage pregnancy and unnecessary abortion.Added by Laws 2013, Ch. 307, Sec. 2, eff. 7/1/2013.