Minors can receive contraception confidentially under Title X in the state with the highest repeat teen birth rate

Minors can receive contraception confidentially under Title X in the state with the highest repeat teen birth rate

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has sued the Biden administration over a longstanding federal program that provides teenagers access to contraception without parental consent, the state’s latest attack against the federal government’s reproductive healthcare policies.

“This suit is likely a preview of where the Texas GOP – and national Republicans – stand on attacking contraception access,” says Mary Ziegler, a professor at University of California, Davis, School of Law and reproductive health expert. “While Republicans say they don’t want to take aim at contraception, this is another sign that this is actually where we’re headed.”

Title X, created in 1970, offers comprehensive family planning and preventive health care services for low-income and uninsured residents. Texas is among a handful of states that require parental consent before a teenager can get birth control – but Title X-funded contraception was the exception. Under the program, minors can receive contraception confidentially.

Texas has the highest repeat teen birth rate and one of strictest abortion bans in the US.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
    721·
    2 months ago

    Believe Republicans when they tell you that they are coming for your birth control and no fault divorce.

    It amazes me that the Protestants are more extreme Catholics than all but the fringiest Catholics.

    • Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      It’s not about religion, look at the recent laws put together and it only makes sense as a billionaire plan to increase slave reproduction.

      Project 2025 is moving forward unless these people are stopped

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      19·
      2 months ago

      But mostly they just want teenage girls, because the Group Of Pedophiles prefers them young as they keep showing us.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      Fuck these assholes

      Which was a crime in Texas until 2003 when the not yet completely FUBAR SCOTUS of the time declared such laws unconstitutional.

      They’re working to undo that too, of course 🤬

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    291·
    2 months ago

    Monsters are proud they are stopping people from reaching their potential before having kids.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    23·
    2 months ago

    Paxton must have another legal issue coming up that he needs to distract everyone from.

  • Unlocalhost@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    Watch what the talk about and shine a light on it. Ending contraception and abortion and easing laws on child labor…

  • ____@infosec.pub
    6·
    2 months ago

    This is hardly a new law, so the question follows why this is timely / why now.

    I’m hardly the expert here, but I wonder if there is even standing for TX to challenge a thirty year old federal law that’s effectively long settled law.

    More PR bullshit.

    • Euphorazine@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      I dunno, the SCOTUS has been overturning decades old rulings out of nowhere lately.

      How new SCOTUS can reverse old SCOTUS seems like an odd power for them to have.