Texas Judge Goes Full Dictator With TERRIFYING Ruling
January 1, 2023
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as posted by the channelTrump-appointed judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, makes an insane ruling to prevent minors from accessing any birth control. Ben Gleib and Jackson White break it down on The Damage Report.
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Texas Judge Rules Teens Need Their Parents' Permission for Birth Control
"It turns out, Texas officials are nowhere near done inflicting all kinds of cruelty on pregnant-capable people in the state: Just days before Christmas, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Trump, ruled that minors should be required to seek parental consent to get birth control because parents have “a fundamental right to control and direct the upbringing” of their minor children.
Already in the state, minors nearly always have to obtain parental consent to get birth control—Title X clinics are the only exception to this, as they aren’t allowed to require parental permission or notify parents about minors getting birth control. Title X is a federal program that offers cost-free and confidential contraception to anyone regardless of age or income. The state has just 176 Title X clinics serving its 254 counties, and teens without access to a car or money to travel may struggle to access them.
But Kacsmaryk’s decision explicitly challenged Title X’s confidentiality policy which allows it to serve minors, arguing it violates the Texas Family Code (which accords parents the “right to consent” to their kids’ “medical and dental care”), and even the 14th Amendment by denying parents’ fundamental rights… to own their children, I guess? Cool!"
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