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. 

Today, Advocates for Youth and We Testify filed a landmark Supreme Court amicus brief comprised of the narratives of people who have had abortions, and joined by over 6,600 people who have had abortions, representing all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

When we dated, we had talked about what would happen if I were to get pregnant, abortion was always the option. I have always been very pro-choice and thought that decision would be a no brainer.