The study documents how publicly funded family planning providers struggled to provide teens with confidential access to contraception after Texas cut the state family planning budget in 2011 and excluded Planned Parenthood from funding. “The loss of Title X funds meant that clinics had to suddenly start requiring parental consent or send adolescent clients elsewhere,” said Kate Coleman-Minahan, lead author and a University of Colorado College of Nursing assistant professor.
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