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More Good News About Teens: Adolescent Pregnancy Rates at the Lowest Level in 40 Years
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
February 8, 2012 - 9:50am (Print)
Data released today show that the teen pregnancy rate is down 42 percent from its 1990 high with rates declining among all racial and ethnic and age groups. Researchers credit young people—and their effective contraceptive use—with these declines.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, Unmet Need for Contraception and Unsafe Abortion Are Widespread
January 22nd marked the 39th anniversary of one of the most significant legal decisions of the 20th century, Roe v. Wade. This landmark ruling from the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion and changed the course of history for women in this country. Yet women in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to struggle for this basic reproductive right.
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Teen Contraceptive Use Goes Up and Birth Rates Come Down
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
December 2, 2011 - 11:13am (Print)
The teen birth rate dropped by 9 percent and this good news is almost exclusively due to teens changing their contraceptive habits for the better.
The World at Seven Billion: Individual Needs, Environmental Challenges and U.S. Policy
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
October 26, 2011 - 11:33am (Print)
The world reaches seven billion people at a time of renewed debates about demographic changes, individual human rights and women's rights specifically, attacks on basic reproductive health care, and accelerated environmental disruption.
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Abortion in the United States
Who are the women who obtain abortions in the United States? Why do they decide to end a pregnancy? What are their social and economic circumstances? This video was created by the Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and policy organization on sexual and reproductive health.
Who Has Abortions?
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
May 16, 2010 - 10:00pm (Print)
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New Data on Global Abortion Trends: Implications for U.S. Policy
by Susan A. Cohen, Guttmacher Institute
October 15, 2009 - 4:12pm (Print)
To Have A Child or Not? Sometimes It's All About the Economy Finds Guttmacher Institute
by Amie Newman
September 23, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)
Withdrawal as Contraception: Why So Skeptical?
by Rachel K. Jones, Guttmacher Institute
June 2, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Research Says Parental Involvement Laws Don't Limit Abortions
Parental involvement laws are unconstitutional and don't even work.
