contraception

Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling.

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.

The notice to insurers comes after reports found many health plans weren't providing no-cost birth control for all prescription methods, a requirement under the Affordable Care Act.

More than half of Texas women faced at least one barrier to accessing reproductive health care in the years after lawmakers dramatically altered the…