A Fifth Circuit ruling upholding a Texas law that requires parental consent for under-age teens to access contraception gives validity to the argument that Republicans don’t know when to stop.

Emboldened by the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe, conservative activists will keep pushing to curtail contraception cloaking it in the guise of parental concern for children.

For most Americans, this is a bridge too far. For the true believers, it’s a goal that they believe is within reach. Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice on the Supreme Court, signaled after Roe fell that the right to contraception should be re-evaluated along with the right to same sex marriage.

It’s more of the same out of Texas, and another push toward the dystopia that overturning Roe made possible.

Texas state law already requires parental consent for minors, and for the last year, providers receiving federal money have followed Texas rules, anticipating the crackdown.

Conservative Trump-appointed judges are the driving force, and the goal is to get the issue of Title........

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