Originally published in The BMJ.

In late June, over 50 grant recipients of the US’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program received notice that their funding, used to implement sexual health education initiatives, was being terminated because their programmes didn’t align with the Trump administration’s values. This came just days after the US Department of Health and Human Services released new notices of funding opportunities and laid out guidelines for new applications. The new guidelines emphasise abstinence-only education, “parental rights” (a conservative movement that uses the concept as a pretext for restricting young people’s autonomy), and themes of fertility tracking and hormone production favoured by the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.

Read the full article at The BMJ.