Press Statements
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Repro Blueprint: “President Biden’s Executive Actions on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice are a Good First Step”
Advocates for Youth applauds President Biden for taking the first steps to undo the harms of the previous administration’s dangerous and restrictive policies that robbed countless people of the righ…
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100 Organizations Call for Swift Expansion of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice by Biden Administration in Ad Published in Washington Post
Today, the Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice, representing more than 100 bold, progressive organizations, published a full-page ad in the Washington Post highlighting t…
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Advocates for Youth Welcomes the Incoming Biden-Harris Administration
The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration and the 117th Congress should be a time to course-correct the harms of the last four years, while re-imagining a future that…
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Statement on the Supreme Court Decision to Stop Mail Provision of Medication Abortion
We knew that Trump’s Supreme Court would impose restrictions on abortion, and now we’re continuing to see that they’re willing to contribute to the spread of deadly pandemic in the…
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Statement on the Georgia Runoff Election
Advocates for Youth congratulates Senator Raphael Warnock for his win in the Georgia Senate. With Jon Ossoff holding a strong lead, we may see Democrats win both seats and take…
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Statement on Historic Hyde Hearing in House
We stand with our colleagues across the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement in calling for an end to the discriminatory and oppressive Hyde Amendment.
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Dear Cis Folks, The Work Ain’t Nowhere Near Done
For Trans Awareness Week, our youth activist Maxine Spencer raises the question to cisgender folks: What more are you pledging to do for trans folks?
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Statement on DC violence incited by Trump supporters
If we have any hope of pulling this country back from the brink, we need to work alongside BIPOC youth activists who are putting their lives on the line to…