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Press Statements

  • Statement on the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act

    Advocates for Youth is thrilled that the House of Representatives passed the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act (H.R.4176) last week. We urge the Senate to join their colleagues in taking this…

  • B

    My fiancé was very abusive when I found out I was pregnant.

  • K

    I remember not having any money or anyone, not even my mom, who I felt I could go to for a ride or support.

  • Ellen

    We had to make a life altering decision, scrounge up an insane amount of money and grieve our baby in one day.

  • Diann

    I got pregnant in December 1970. I was an 18 year old college freshman, a virgin, with very little sexual experience.

  • Miss J

    I became a mother on my own terms. Having an abortion was one of the best decisions I ever made.

  • Jade

    I knew if I had the baby, I didn’t want to be a single mom.

  • AB

    I would have done anything to save those babies, but I didn’t want to risk my life for a baby that had no chance of being born healthy.

  • Lily

    The person I was then, and the things that I was struggling with, I could not have been a mother.