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Health insurers would be required to cover all recommended over-the-counter contraception products, such as birth control and condoms, without a prescription and at no cost, for those with insurance.
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Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling.
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More than half of people who've used telehealth come from states like Texas that have banned or severely limited access to abortion.
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The Texas Supreme Court says Grissel Velasco can't recover damages the birth of a healthy child. She alleged the pregnancy was caused by her doctor's negligence.
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The First Unitarian Church of Dallas is starting The Truth Pregnancy Resource Center to counter anti-abortion messages from crisis pregnancy centers.
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Contraception options are available through most health insurance plans and government-funded clinics.
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A three-judge panel in New Orleans ruled that a Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain birth control does not conflict with the goals of the federally-funded Title X program, which has given teens birth control confidentially.
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Grissel Velasco chose not to get an abortion after the surprise pregnancy, but the El Paso woman's lawsuit could determine how a person in a post-Roe v. Wade Texas can be compensated for an unwanted pregnancy caused by medical negligence.
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Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that free birth control for teens from a federal program violates Texas law and parental rights. For now, it's still available in other states.
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In conservative Sabine County, it’s hard for teens to access contraception or sex education beyond lessons on abstinence. The Deep East Texas region has one of the highest teen birth rates in the state.
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As 2022 comes to a close, we’re hearing from North Texans about what they've learned this year.
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Texans will chair some powerful committees in the House, but their roles in top leadership elections last week were more often as anti-establishment voices than contenders.