Let Texas Require Parents’ Consent for Birth Control, Dad Says

A federal judge rightly held that the US Health and Human Services Department policy promoting family planning doesn’t preempt state parental consent requirements, a Texas father contends in a Fifth Circuit appellate brief.

“The law of Texas gives Mr. Deanda a statutory right to consent to his children’s medical treatment,” Alexander Deanda’s lawyers said in their brief filed with the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on June 23.

Deanda previously persuaded Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk to void as unconstitutional an HHS rule requirig family planning programs distribute contraception without parental consent.

HHS asked the US Circuit of ...