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  • Policy analysis
  • Guttmacher Policy Review
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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. A purple background with two intertwined images: One of a gavel on a pride flag and the other of an "Abortion is Health Care" protest sign.
    April 2026 Opinion

    Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are inextricably linked

    Meera Rajput and Kimya Forouzan The Advocate
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    April 2026 Research Article

    Availability of Protocols Supporting Transgender and Gender-Expansive Patients: Results From a National Survey of Clinics Providing Contraceptive Services

    Alicia VandeVusse, Priscille Osias, Madeleine Haas, Tamrin Ann Tchou and Jennifer Mueller Women's Health Issues
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    December 2025 Policy Analysis

    State Policy Trends 2025 Full-Year Analysis

    Kimya Forouzan
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    July 2025 Research Article

    Provision of person-centered contraceptive care to adolescents: results from a national survey of family planning clinics

    Jennifer Mueller, Tamrin Ann Tchou, Madeleine Haas, Priscille Osias, Laura D. Lindberg and Alicia VandeVusse Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
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    June 2025 Policy Analysis

    State Policy Trends Midyear Analysis

    Talia Curhan, Mollie Fairbanks, Kimya Forouzan, N. Sydney Jemmott and Rosann Mariappuram
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    April 2025 Fact Sheet

    Evidence-Based Sex Education: The Case for Sustained Federal Support

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    December 2024 Policy Analysis

    State Policy Trends 2024: Anti-Abortion Policymakers Redouble Attacks on Bodily Autonomy

    Kimya Forouzan, Isabel Guarnieri, Mollie Fairbanks and Talia Curhan
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    May 2024 Policy Analysis

    First Quarter 2024 State Policy Trends: An Evolving Focus of Attacks on Abortion, Youth Access, IVF and More

    Talia Curhan, Mollie Fairbanks and Kimya Forouzan
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    April 2024 Research Article

    Characteristics and Circumstances of Adolescents Obtaining Abortions in the United States

    Doris W. Chiu, Ava Braccia and Rachel K. Jones International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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    July 2021 Policy Analysis

    State Policy Trends at Midyear 2021: Already the Worst Legislative Year Ever for U.S. Abortion Rights

    Elizabeth Nash and Sophia Naide

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