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  • Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe
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  • Public-use data sets

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US Policy on Adolescents

Adolescents in the United States and around the world need and have a right to comprehensive, inclusive, and evidence-based sexual and reproductive health services and educational materials. The Guttmacher Institute’s analyses examine issues that affect adolescents, such as the need for comprehensive sex education, the harms of abstinence-only programs, and the importance of access to the full range of confidential sexual and reproductive health counseling and care, including abortion.

  1. March 2018 Opinion

    Four Big Threats To The Title X Family Planning Program: Examining The Administration’s New Funding Opportunity Announcement

    Kinsey Hasstedt Health Affairs Blog
  2. February 2018 Policy Analysis

    New Name, Same Harm: Rebranding of Federal Abstinence-Only Programs

    Jesseca Boyer Guttmacher Policy Review
  3. February 2018 Policy Analysis

    Coercion Is at the Heart of Social Conservatives’ Reproductive Health Agenda

    Joerg Dreweke Guttmacher Policy Review
  4. January 2018 Opinion

    Taking Stock of Year One of the Trump Administration’s Harmful Agenda Against Reproductive Health and Rights

    Kinsey Hasstedt and Heather D. Boonstra Rewire
  5. January 2018 Opinion

    High Schoolers Are Waiting Longer To Have Sex — Let’s Give Them the Information They Need

    Laura D. Lindberg and Jesseca Boyer The Hill
  6. December 2017 Opinion

    Despite New Branding, Abstinence-Only Programs Have Same Old Problems

    Laura D. Lindberg and Heather D. Boonstra The Hill
  7. July 2017 Opinion

    At It Again: Texas Continues to Undercut Access to Reproductive Health Care

    Kinsey Hasstedt and Adam Sonfield Health Affairs Blog
  8. March 2017 Policy Analysis

    The Looming Threat to Sex Education: A Resurgence of Federal Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs?

    Megan K. Donovan Guttmacher Policy Review
  9. February 2017 Policy Analysis

    In a State of Crisis: Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women in Humanitarian Situations

    Sneha Barot Guttmacher Policy Review
  10. September 2014 Policy Analysis

    More than a Pack of Pills: The Many Components and Health Benefits of Quality Family Planning

    Kinsey Hasstedt Guttmacher Policy Review

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