Abortion Opponents Are Also Threatening Birth Control Access
The case that legalized the use of contraception by married women is unlikely to be overturned anytime soon. But the threat to birth control is still very real.
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The case that legalized the use of contraception by married women is unlikely to be overturned anytime soon. But the threat to birth control is still very real.
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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