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Texas Has Become Ground Zero for Republicans’ Efforts to Kill Contraception
Did anyone really believe the GOP and its so-called “Christian” right puppeteers would conclude its war on women’s reproductive freedoms after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer?
We weren’t fooled.
We knew the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling was just a foothold into the all-out assault on anything resembling women’s bodily autonomy.
As we begin another year, it appears the next casualty is female Texans under age 18.
Just as 2022 was concluding, Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, former religious liberty lawyer, ruled the 1970 federal grant program known as Title X violated state law and parental rights.
The decision in the case Deanda v. Becerra states:
Texas law confers Plaintiff the right to consent to his children’s medical care and general standing to file suit for a violation of that right.
Children under age 18 in the state of Texas must now obtain parental or guardian approval before being permitted birth control from federally funded clinics — even if the minor is already a parent.
The now-repealed Title X encouraged family participation. This ruling mandates it, though, making it…
