I would agree with that.
The best protection is indeed strict criteria, so I think the biggest concern that people would have with open criteria and situations where you could have a 16 or 17-year-old suffering from depression, which is not uncommon.... Having an 18-year-old myself, I know what the challenges are of dealing with an adolescent. So I think strict criteria that avoid our having the kinds of situation where families are confronted with an individual choice they have no say about, where they are worried about individual assessments by physicians, prior review with an additional vulnerability assessment, I think is, in the context of vulnerability lessons, not an unnecessary thing to propose....
If you look at the most liberal systems like those in Belgium and the Netherlands, Belgium introduced access for mature minors, but does require familial consent. In the parliamentary debates, people felt too uncomfortable not to have the family involved in the decision-making process. I would say that it's a difficult area to deal with. Obviously, there is something arbitrary about the cut-off age of 18, but at the same time sometimes we set a certain line and other cases could be dealt with through additional prior review from the vulnerability assessment judicial review. But I would say that familial involvement and narrow criteria already provide, in my view, some of the strongest safeguards and additional vulnerability assessment.