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