Confidential Health Services for Teens

It is the policy of Planned Parenthood Votes New Mexico to ensure that adolescents have access to accurate information about human sexuality and to a full range of reproductive health care services. While PPVNM believes adolescents should be encouraged, whenever possible, to involve their parents or guardians in their reproductive decision-making, PPVNM opposes restrictions on adolescents’ access to confidential reproductive health care services received through private health care providers. Furthermore, we support appropriate state level policies that provide personal health information confidentiality protections for youth when seeking reproductive health services.