AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris Administration, suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) for illegally adopting rules that override state laws guaranteeing children’s parental rights to consent. It was a huge victory. medical care.
In July 2024, Attorney General Paxton sued HHS for conditioning its receipt of federal funds under Title X of the Public Health Service Act on health care providers providing contraceptives to minors without parental consent. I appealed. This requirement violates the state’s parental consent law, and multiple courts have previously ruled that Title X Projects must follow Texas’ parental consent law when dispensing prescription contraceptives to minors. The court held that
Now, the Biden administration has admitted it won’t even try to “enforce the regulations at issue in Texas.” This effectively invalidated the tortious rule in Texas, and Attorney General Paxton filed a notice of dismissal. With this outcome, Texas health care providers will no longer be forced to violate state law under threat of losing Title X funding.
“The Biden-Harris administration forced health care workers to violate state law and threatened to withhold taxpayer funds to provide contraceptives to children without parental supervision,” Attorney General Paxton said. “We won a complete and total victory, forcing the outgoing administration to abandon its illegal policies.”
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