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  • Anonymous

    I was 12 when I first became pregnant. I had just lost my virginity and had moved with my father. I was used to guys making advances at me, as…

  • Anonymous

    I’m 22 years old and about to start my fifth and last year of college. I broke up with my boyfriend a little more than 2 weeks before I found…

  • Press Release: Statement on Misleading Video of Planned Parenthood Provider

    Advocates for Youth condemns the tactics of anti-abortion activists who knowingly lie to provoke controversy and undermine confidence in Planned Parenthood in particular and around abortion care speci…

  • New birth control rules restore needed access

    By putting forth new rules which provide for insurance to cover birth control even when the employer claim a religious objection, the Department of Health and Human Services reaffirmed that emplo…

  • Press Release: Coalition Statement Opposing Reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule

    For Immediate Release: June 2015 Rachel Cooke, Advocates for Youth 202.419.3420 x45 [email protected] We join together as diverse voices from a variety of sectors to oppose any effort t…

  • Press Release: #4EACHofUS: Constant Attacks on Abortion End with EACH Woman Act

    We are proud to stand alongside Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) and 73 other Congressional co-sponsors as they introduced the…

  • Amanda

    My husband and I have a son together who is still an infant and we are still young and figuring our lives out.

  • Krissia

    The first time I got pregnant I felt like my life was over. I felt like my heart went down to my knees. But, I knew I was not ready…

  • Mari

    I have been pregnant 7 times–had 2 abortions, then a child, then another abortion, then another child, then a 5-month-along miscarriage, then my last child, and I got my tubes…