The U.S. might want to take cues from the medical community down under. The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons thinks teenagers should be banned from getting cosmetic procedures like breast augmentation and liposection. Queensland recently passed such a law, and the Society hopes all other Australian states and territories will follow suit.

As I pointed out in an earlier post, thousands of girls under 18 in the United States went under the knife for breast augmentation in 2007. Is plastic surgery like this something we want to allow, if girls aren’t necessarily fully developed, physically or emotionally? Here’s an interesting article evaluating Australia’s decision, and a resource for teens (and their parents) contemplating plastic surgery.

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