Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that his office will be filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration over changes to Title X guidelines that allow schools to provide birth control to teenage students without their parents’ consent.
“By attempting to force Texas healthcare providers to offer contraceptives to children without parental consent, the Biden Administration continues to prove they will do anything to implement their extremist agenda — even undermine the Constitution and violate the law,” Paxton said in a statement.
In December 2021, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that Title X, a program providing contraception to individuals regardless of age, violates parental rights and contravenes both Texas state laws and federal laws. The case was brought by a father, Alex Deanda, who argued he was “raising each of his daughters in accordance with Christian teaching on matters of sexuality, which requires unmarried children to practice abstinence and refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.”
Following the ruling, the federal government revised the guidelines to state that Title X projects “may not require consent of parents or guardians for the provision of services to minors, nor can any Title X project staff notify a parent or guardian before or after a minor has requested and/or received Title X family planning services.”
Now, Paxton is seeking a permanent injunction against the rule. He has filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Amarillo, which means it will likely be heard by Kacsmaryk, who previously ruled that parents must be informed if their child is given birth control at school, according to Fox News.
