✕

Search

Search Advocates for Youth

Press Statements

  • iYAN Signup

    ‘);

  • Celebrating today, continuing the work tomorrow

    Advocates for Youth is thrilled about today’s decision finding same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional. It’s beyond time to stamp out all legislated bigotry. Recognizing marriage equality in every…

  • Anti-abortion extremism in Paraguay

      Right now in Paraguay, we are seeing the dangers of extremist abortion laws play out in real time. An 11-year-old girl, allegedly sexually assaulted by her stepfather, is entering…

  • Anonymous

    I was 16 years old and it was 1975 (5 years after Roe V Wade) and I was dating a 19 year old who had been sexually active. We started…

  • Anonymous

    At 17, I graduated high school early with honors as a student heavily involved with my community. A few months later, I jumped a bigger and more dangerous hurdle: I…

  • Karen

    I will never forget discovering your website. I stumbled upon it not long after my son taught me how to use Twitter. I was overwhelmed with gratitude to find all…

  • Anonymous

    At 17 years old I encountered an unexpected pregnancy. Struggling with severe depression I had made the decision to terminate my pregnancy.

  • DC Fringe…here we come!

    Did you miss out on the premiere of Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign last January at Studio Theater? Now, you have five chances to…

  • Mourning the losses in Charleston

    Some crimes are too hard to face, too much to bear. The murders of nine churchgoers at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina disheartens, outrages,…