Press Statements
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Abortion Care is Essential Care
The decision of Ohio’s attorney general to force clinics to stop offering abortion care is unnecessary, opportunistic, and incredibly callous. Governor DeWine’s administration is using this opport…
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Experts Release Updated National Sex Education Standards
Today the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative, a partnership of Advocates for Youth, Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, released the second edition of The National Sex…
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Statement on Trump’s Expanded Travel Ban
This ban is another part of this President’s pattern of othering and ostracizing people of color both within and outside of our borders. For the last three years, we have…
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Advocates for Youth Opposes Puberty Blocker Bills
Advocates for Youth is strongly opposed to South Dakota’s “puberty blocker bill” and similar proposed laws around the nation which ban transgender children and young people from access to hormon…
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Statement on New Regulations Barring Pregnant Visitors from the U.S.
Advocates for Youth condemns in the strongest possible terms the State Department’s new regulation concerning the denial of visas to people who are pregnant or simply appear to be pregnant.…
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New Year, Same Attacks on Abortion Access
“We’re not surprised to learn that more than 200 Republican members of the United States Congress have signed a letter openly requesting the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. …