A federal appellate court has upheld a Texas law prohibiting clinics across the state from giving teenagers birth control pills or devices without proof that their parents are in agreement.
In an opinion handed down on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously found that the state’s parental consent requirement does not violate what’s known as Title X, a federal law that provides funding for birth control services.
“We hold that Title X does not preempt Texas’s law,” Judge Kyle Duncan wrote for the court, noting that the two laws share a common stated goal of “encourag[ing] family participation” in their children’s medical decisions.
“So, far from undermining Title X’s purposes, Texas law concretely furthers them,” wrote Judge Duncan, an appointee of President Donald Trump.The case was brought in 2020 by […]
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