The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for forcing health care providers to provide contraception to minors, according to a press release Thursday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the agency unlawfully violated Texas parental consent laws by using Section 10 of the Public Health Service Act to give minors access to contraception. according to According to a press release, the Title X rule adopted by the Biden administration would prohibit health care providers who receive federal funding from notifying parents that their children are taking contraceptives.
“By attempting to force health care providers in Texas to provide contraception to children without parental consent, the Biden Administration continues to demonstrate that it will do whatever it takes to enact its radical agenda, even to destroy the Constitution and violate the law,” Paxton said in a press release. “Federal courts have already blocked their attacks on parental rights, and I will make sure to block them again.” (Related article: Texas Attorney General sues Biden Health and Human Services Department for forcing medical workers to perform transgender surgeries)
Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration, alleging that rules that force health care providers to provide contraception to minors without parental consent violate state law. https://t.co/mrB1sJsO6f
— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) July 25, 2024
Texas law requires that parents must consent to their children's medical care. according to Texas Family Law. Title X provisions would violate Texas law by not allowing federally funded health care providers to inform parents of their children's decision to take contraceptives. according to Documents submitted to the court.
In June, Texas sued the Department of Health and Human Services for forcing medical personnel to perform sex-reassignment surgery on children. Paxton argued that the rule was unconstitutional because it superseded a state law banning sex-reassignment surgery on minors.
The defendants are Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Under Secretary of Health Rachel Levin and a deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Health.
Swafford Marsella, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS, and the United States.
Levin pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) not to include guidelines on age for gender reassignment surgery in its Standards of Care 8 (SOC-8) guidelines. WPATH also avoided an “evidence-based” review, concerned that there was “little to no evidence” to support the guidelines.
Texas seeks to block enforcement of Title X regulation forms and to prohibit federal funding for Title X projects that conflict with Texas parental consent laws.
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