U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a former religious liberty lawyer, found that a...
A federal court ruling last week may make it nearly impossible for Texas teens to access birth control without their parents’ permission.
Kacsmaryk did not grant an injunction, which would have immediately prohibited Title X clinics from providing contraception to minors without parental consent. Mitchell is representing Alexander Deanda, a father of three who is “raising each of his daughters in accordance with Christian teaching on matters of sexuality, which requires unmarried children to practice abstinence and refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage,” according to the complaint.
Minors in Texas almost always have to get their parents’ permission to get on birth control. Even Texas teens who already have had a baby cannot consent to getting on birth control. The state has theTexas is also one of just two states that does not cover contraception at all as part of its state-run Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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