All young people deserve to see themselves reflected in school curricula. Research shows that a person’s identities are strongly linked to their health outcomes. We can’t, and shouldn’t, ignore the unique challenges youth of color are facing in their lives.
“It’s despicable that the Court continues to turn a blind eye to a law that is so blatantly unconstitutional. We remain committed to working alongside young people to ensure every person’s right to bodily autonomy."
Access to affordable child care, employment, education, housing, health insurance and reproductive healthcare are crucial to the success of young birthing people and young parents.
The Rittenhouse trial has illuminated many outrageous failures of the U.S. justice system. From the very start of the trial, Judge Bruce Schroeder has created a mockery of these proceedings and provided the perfect example of what we mean when we refer to systemic racism.
New commentary from leading pediatricians and public health experts in the Journal of Adolescent Health identifies key shortcomings in recent sex-education guidelines from the Medical Institute for Sexual Health (MISH) and calls for the adoption of science-based standards for sex education such as the National Sex Education Standards (NSES).
WHPA is an important step from Congress that would prohibit states from imposing onerous restrictions, much like the bills we're seeing passed all across the nation, including the recently-enacted SB8 in Texas, the most restrictive abortion law in the country.