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How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent

Teenagers come to Access Esperanza’s family planning clinics in the Rio Grande Valley for birth control. They leave with a full reproductive life plan.

Federal Title X clinics do not require parental consent for birth control — except in Texas, where a lawsuit upended the longstanding program.

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For low-income, rural, and uninsured women across the state, the Healthy Texas Women program means access to lifesaving medical care—and it may soon disappear.

Low-income Texans depend on family planning clinics. The clinics depend on a program that's in trouble.

Texas tops the nation in teens who give birth multiple times

More than 1 in 6 teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 already had a child. Texas does not require sex education and has the strictest abortion law in the nation.

More than 1 in 6 teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 already had a child.

More than 1 in 6 teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 already had a child. Texas...