A federal appeals court appears poised to side with a father seeking to upend a federal rule barring medical providers from notifying parents when their minor daughters seek reproductive health care.
A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 26, 2016. A drug company is seeking U.S. approval for the first-ever birth control pill that women could buy without a prescription. The request from a …
Texas, meanwhile, has a family law that requires parental consent for medical treatment for children. “The whole point is you don’t know what your kid is going to do on something like this,” said Judge Catharina Haynes, a Bush appointee. The father, Mr. Deanda, won in lower court when the judge said the program infringes on his due process rights to oversee the upbringing of three daughters he wants to raise in the Christian faith and has encouraged to abstain from sex before marriage.
Courtney Dixon, an attorney for the Justice Department, said Mr. Deanda’s filings don’t even state how old his daughters are or if they ever visited a Title X health care facility to obtain family planning services.