Research Library

Why the Affordable Care Act Matters for Women: Comprehensive Sex Education for Teens

For the last few decades, most federal funding for sex education has been dedicated to abstinence-only until marriage education. Abstinence-only education has not been shown to reduce teen sexual activity, pregnancy or Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).

Bypassing Justice: Alaska

On the Road to Recovery: Reproductive Health Legislative, Regulatory and Political Highlights of 2008

In 2008, virtually all reproductive health debates and decisions in the legislative and policy arenas took place against the backdrop of one of the most unforgettable presidential campaigns in history – one in which voters could not have been presented with a starker choice between candidates on reproductive health policy. When the dust had settled, the country had elected a pro-choice, pro-prevention President with a strong track record of support for women’s reproductive health.

A Legal Guide for Pregnant Teens in Florida

This book is for girls and young women living in Florida who are under 18 and are pregnant or have a child.

Final HHS Regulation

Several provisions of federal law prohibit recipients of certain federal funds from coercing individuals in the health care field into participating in actions they find religiously or morally objectionable. These same provisions also prohibit discrimination on the basis of one’s objection to, participation in, or refusal to participate in, specific medical procedures, including abortion or sterilization.

The November 2008 Election and Reproductive Health Issues

The November 4 election will usher in a decidedly more pro-choice and pro-family planning environment than any in recent memory. Buoyed by the election of a pro-choice President and by a significant influx of Members of Congress who are friendly to reproductive health issues, we have high hopes that the anti-reproductive rights legacy of the past eight years can start to be reversed and that issues that advance a pro-active reproductive health agenda will take their rightful place at the top of the presidential and legislative agendas.

National Partnership Statement to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Abstinence-Only Programs

The National Partnership for Women & Families is pleased to submit a statement for today’s hearing in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence.” Our statement highlights a few of the reasons – practical, public health, and ethical – to question continuing the public investment in ideologically driven abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.

Letter: Leading Scientists Urge Congressional Leaders to Reduce or Eliminate Abstinence-Only Funding

As a group of leading scientists who have recently conducted research on adolescents, reproductive health, and abstinence-only education, we are writing to express our strong concern about increasing federal support for abstinence-only education (AOE) programs. This federal support includes monies going to states (Section 510 of the Social Security Act) and those going directly to community and faith-based organizations (the Community-Based Abstinence Education program).

Pregnancy and Parenting: A Legal Guide for Adolescents

Este libro es para niñas adolescentes y jovencitas de 17 años o menos que viven en Carolina del Norte y que están embarazadas o tienen un niño.

Pregnancy and Parenting: A Legal Guide for Adolescents

This book is for girls and young women living in North Carolina who are 17 or younger and are pregnant or have a child. If you are one of them, you are not alone. Each year, about 6,300 girls and young women in North Carolina become pregnant or give birth.

Legal Guide: Public Schools and Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents

This guidebook is third in a series explaining the law to pregnant and parenting adolescents, their parents, and the professionals who work with them.

Legal Guide: Social Services for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents

This guidebook for departments of social services (DSS) is one in a series explaining the law to pregnant and parenting adolescents, their parents, and the professionals who work with them.

Legal Guide: Health Care for Pregnant Adolescents

This guidebook for health care providers is the first in a series explaining the law to pregnant and parenting adolescents, their parents, and the professionals who care for these young women.

Bypassing Justice: North Dakota

Bypassing Justice: Colorado

Bypassing Justice: Nebraska

Bypassing Justice: Kansas

Bypassing Justice: Oklahoma

Bypassing Justice: Texas

Bypassing Justice: Minnesota