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Sexual Health Rights

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Sexual health rights

In Canada, you have the right to make decisions about your body. You have the right to:

  • Agree whether or not to have sexual relations
  • Decide when to have sex or not
  • Choose your partner
  • Choose whether or not to marry, agree to the marriage
  • Respect your own body and your partner’s body, to protect yourself and your partner from STI’s and HIV.
  • Choose your own doctor
  • Choose a birth control method that is right for you
  • Receive sexual and reproductive health care services
  • Receive information about sexual and reproductive health
  • Decide whether or not to have children, when to have children and how many children to have

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Teen sexual health rights

Teens - These rights apply to you as well.

  • Teens have the right to access sexual health services in a confidential manner without having their parents notified.
  • Teens can get prescription birth control, pregnancy or STI testing and / or an abortion without parental consent.
  • Teens have the right to buy and use protection. (ie condoms)

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Visiting your sexual health care provider

  • You should feel comfortable with your health care provider.
  • You can have someone with you during the appointment.
  • You should expect to get answers that you understand. It helps to write down questions before you see your health care provider.
  • Sometimes the questions asked by your health care provider seem very intimate and uncomfortable, but remember your answers are confidential.
  • If you don’t share all the facts, you may not receive the best information about birth control or STI testing.
  • If you have left some information out at a visit because of embarrassment or if you have other questions, you can always call them back.

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Last Updated: 6/11/2013

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