Jonathan Mitchell didn't get the outcome he wanted in a 2020 case about birth control provided by Title X family planning clinics, so he found a new plaintiff and teamed up with both Ken Paxton and Stephen Miller's America First Legal to sue again. Gift link: wapo.st/4c4F9DR
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing the Biden administration over a policy that allows adolescents to access birth control without their parents’ consent, arguing that the rule violates state law requiring guardians to consent to their children’s use of contraceptives.
Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said he was protecting parental rights in Texas; analysts say it’s an effort to upend a federal rule for the whole country.
And of course Paxton and Mitchell filed this suit in Amarillo, Texas, meaning they're almost guaranteed to get Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. We live in hell. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...www.courtlistener.com/docket/68979...
The obsession with controlling the bodies of females, by the American right wing, is both deeply weird and utterly repugnant.