Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal appellate court upheld a Texas law requiring parental consent for minors seeking to access birth control in a ruling ...

Is a 15-year-old scrolling TikTok more like getting a tattoo or buying a violent video game? That's one legal question at the heart of whether Ohio's new social media restrictions violate the First ...

I believe that teenage girls should need their parents’ consent to have an abortion since abortion is a major decision. It seems logical that a teen girl should get her parents’ permission in order to ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Certain teenagers managed to access abortions earlier in their pregnancies following passage of a 2020 law that scrapped the requirement for parental consent or a judge’s approval for ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Texas law requiring that minors have parental permission to get birth control does not run afoul of a federally funded pregnancy health program known as Title X, a federal ...

For pediatricians, navigating the consent process with teenage patients is becoming increasingly complex and challenging. Anyone with an adolescent child knows that as they mature into their teen ...

Since 1970, under the federal Title X program, sexual health clinics have been permitted to administer birth control to minors, with or without parental consent, in every state. The program’s goal, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Idaho law limits medical interventions for minors without parental consent. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline must now end ...

A long-awaited bill to revise Idaho’s 2024 parental consent law to address barriers to young people accessing emergency but non-life threatening care, medical examinations after reported abuse, and ...