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  • Declare your love for safe abortion care

    Want to show your love for access to safe abortion care this Valentine’s Day? Bee sweet to your honey, or some otter special person in your life and send them a 1 in 3…

  • Press Release: Advocates for Youth Takes Lead on Testing Makes Us Stronger Campaign

    For Immediate Release  February 6, 2015 Contact Rachel Cooke 202.419.3420 [email protected] In honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) on February 6, Advocates for Yout…

  • The International Human Rights Defense Act

    This week, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) introduced the International Human Rights Defense Act (IHDRA), a bicameral piece of legislation that calls on the U.S. Stat…

  • Press Release: Advocates for Youth Statement on the Introduction of the International Human Rights Defense Act

    For immediate Release: January 29, 2015 Contact: Rachel Cooke // 202.419.3420 x45 [email protected] Today, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) introduced…

  • The attacks are relentless

    Forty-two years after the Roe v Wade decision legalized abortion, attacks on access to safe abortion care are relentless, from state legislatures, to the media, to the very sidewalks outside…

  • Susan

    When I was 18 I got pregnant. Abortion was illegal then and I couldn’t find the back alley. The boy, his parents and my mother pressured me to get married.…

  • Tanya

    14 years ago today my son was born. He weighed in at 1lbs 10oz. Had the sweetest little cheeks and a full head of the blackest hair I’d ever seen…he…

  • Brittany

    I had an abortion when I was 18. I had been feeling nauseated for a few days. My friend stood with me while I watched the test develop two pink…

  • Cheyenne

    I was 19 and had been dating a guy for about three months when we discovered I had become pregnant. We were on a vacation when I began to have…