Guttmacher Institute

40 Percent Of Young Adults Think Birth Control 'Doesn't Matter'

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Video, Contraceptives, Sex Ed, Abstinence-Only Sex Education, Abstinence, Birth Control, Sexual Education, Sex Education, Guttmacher Institute, Education News

Greater education about contraception is directly correlated to a decrease in risky sexual behavior among young adults, according to a new study. B...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

Some States Buck National Trend, Expand Abortion Access

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Abortion, Video, California, Abortion Debate, Abortion Rights, Washington State, Laurie Jinkins, Abortion Access, Christine Kehoe, Guttmacher Institute, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As many states debate and pass new restrictions on abortion, often against increasing resistance, a small number of others are consideri...

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Sex Ed Makes for Smarter Sexual Decisions -- So Why Aren't Politicians Promoting Such Programs?

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Abstinence, Sex Education, Guttmacher Institute, Birth Control, Contraceptives, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Douglas Kirby, Education News
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright

Policymakers have been ignoring the evidence for far too long, continuing to cultivate a culture of sexually ignorant youth, who lack the knowledge and skills necessary to postpone sex or protect themselves.

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The Birth Control Debate That Isn't Happening

Margie Omero | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Obama Birth Control, Women's Rights, Women, Pollster Analysis, Women's Issues, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, New York Times, Birth Control, Gallup, Barack Obama, Gender, Pollster, Guttmacher Institute, Obama Contraception Rule, Obama Birth Control Mandate, Obama Contraception, Politics News
Margie Omero

It's 2012, but to hear the Right talk about birth control, and "emotional" women in the workforce and the military, one might think we're trapped in Downton Abbey's 1914.

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What Women Really Want for Valentine's Day

Robert Engelman | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Population, Robert Engelman, Empowerment, Sex, Reproductive Health, Education, Health, Girl UP, Ethiopia, Guttmacher Institute, Girls, United Nations Population Fund, Unfpa, Obama Youth Vote, Women, Worldwatch Institute, More, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Robert Engelman

Access to family planning and other reproductive health services safeguard the lives of women and their children and promote families that are emotionally and economically healthy.

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Dear Rick Santorum: Whose Family? Whose Values?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Shane Vander Hart, Caffeinated Thoughts, Thinkprogress, Reproductive Rights, Rick Santorum, Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood, Dan Bimrose, Family Values, Guttmacher Institute, Politics News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

I agree with Santorum et al. that the American family is indeed under attack. The question is: By whom?

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Number of Teens Getting Pregnant, Having Abortions Plummets

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rates, Teen Abortion, Guttmacher Institute, Video, High School News

A Guttmacher Institute study reveals that in 2008, teen births and abortions decreased to their lowest levels since 1972 -- the year before the Suprem...

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Behind the Sharp Decline in Teen Births

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Contraception, Birth Control, Cdc, Teen Birth Rate, Teens, Guttmacher Institute, Teen Birth Control, Teen Birth, Health News, Healthy Living News
Sharon L. Camp

The recently-reported decline in teen pregnancy can be linked almost exclusively to improvements in teens' contraceptive use, according to new data from a major government study, the CDC's National Survey of Family Growth.

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Seven Billion People & Women's Rights: What Is the Connection?

Anushay Hossain | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Population, Women's Rights, Population-Action-International, Seven Billion People, Reproductive Rights, Overpopulation, Overpopulation Climate Change, Maternal Health, Guttmacher Institute, Icpd, World News
Anushay Hossain

Reaching seven billion may be a milestone today, but unless we address women being able to access modern contraception, this number will only increase and bring with it dire consequences.

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Laura Bassett

Kansas Restrictions on Private Abortion Coverage Are Challenged In Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Abortion, Aclu, Kansas Abortion, Abortion Insurance Coverage, American Civil Liberties Union, Kansas, Abortion Insurance, Abortion-Coverage, Kansas Abortion Insurance, Guttmacher Institute, Politics News

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against a new Kansas law that bans the coverage of abortion as part of standar...

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Gag Me: The War on Women Goes Global

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, War on Women, Global Gag Rule, Planned Parenthood, Center for American Progress, Rep. Lois Capps, Guttmacher Institute, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Surely you have heard that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to reinstate the Global Gag Rule that prevents any family planning agencies that provide information about abortion service from receiving any U.S. foreign aid.

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Laura Bassett

Unintended Pregnancies Cost Taxpayers $11 Billion A Year: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Abortion, Kansas Abortion, Family Planning, Gop-Planned-Parenthood, Unintended Pregnancies Cost, Unintended Pregnancies, H.R. 3, Planned Parenthood Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood Funding, Kansas Family Planning, Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood Indiana, Politics News

During a recent debate over a bill that would make it necessary for women to buy separate, abortion-only insurance policies to cover the expensive pro...

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GOP Governor Likely To Approve 'Some Of The Strictest' Abortion Restrictions In Country

AP | By NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Aclu, Abortion, American Civil Liberties Union, Alpha Center, Abortion-Waiting-Period, Anti-Abortion, Gop, Dennis Daugaard, South Dakota, Guttmacher Institute, Republicans, Politics News

PIERRE, S.D. -- South Dakota's governor said Thursday that he'll likely sign off on new abortion guidelines that would be some of the strictest in the...

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Weekly Pulse: Giffords Shooting Reveals Flaws in U.S. Mental Health Services

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adele Stan, State, Violence, Repeal, Rate, change.org, Arizona, Medical Loss Ratio, Dc, Lawsuit, California, Alternet, Insurance, Guttmacher Institute, Legislature, Autism, Disability, Health Care, Abortion, Mmr, Conflict of Interest, Blue Shield, Shooting, Brie Cadman, Chamber of Commerce, Rachel Gold, Care2, Choice, Kristina Chew, Vote, Suzi Khimm, Health Insurance, Andrew Wakefield, Gabrielle Giffords, Mental Illness, Elizabeth Nash, Rhetoric, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head at a constituent outreach event in a supermarket...

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Weekly Pulse: End-of-Life Counseling Returns, But Death Panels Still Nonsense

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, Abortion, American Prospect, American Independent, Statistics, Abuse, Death Panels, John Tomasic, Pharmaceutical, Rate, Colorado Independent, Medicaid, Fertility, Cdc, Teenage, Martha Rosenberg, Facebook, Sarah Palin, Drug, Fraud, Deficit, Advocates for Youth, Insurance, Guttmacher Institute, Jason Hancock, Health, Waste, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Health Care, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger A proposed program to cover counseling sessions for seniors on end-of-life care has risen from the a...

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Important Progress, But Also New Challenges, in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, World Aids Day 2010, Hiv Infections, International-Family-Planning, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, Unaids, Young People, World AIDS Day, Guttmacher Institute, World News
Sharon L. Camp

Fewer people worldwide are getting infected with HIV than 10 years ago, and those who have already contracted the virus are living longer, according t...

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Baby Boom Has Gone Bust

Tom Silva | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: National Center for Health Statistics, Census Bureau, Gynecology, Great Recession, Pew Research Center, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Obstetrics, Birth Control, Illinois-Department-of-Healthcare-and-Family-Services, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Babies, Birth Rate, Guttmacher Institute, Great Depression, Healthy Living News
Tom Silva

One unexpected side effect of economic hard times is a sharp decline in birth rates. In Illinois, for example, the birth rate has fallen to its lowes...

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Weekly Pulse: Prostate Health is Girly and Other Health Care Paradoxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comprehensive Sex-Ed, Abortion, Sex Ed, Rand Paul, Libertarian, RH Reality Check, Abstinence, Kentucky, The Nation, Pro-Life, Feministing, Republican, Alternet, Guttmacher Institute, Prostate Cancer, Health, Talking Points Memo, Shelby Knox, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger This week's health care news was full of mind-bending paradoxes: Prostate health is girly, abstinence-...

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This International Women's Day Let's Aim to End Maternal Deaths

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Family Planning, Unfpa, Maternal Deaths, Pregnancy, Women Deliver, International Women's Day, Babies, Maternal Mortality, Guttmacher Institute, California, Healthy Living News
Tamar Abrams

Ninety-nine years ago, International Women's Day was founded to honor the accomplishments of women and to press for equality between men and women. Al...

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Whose Right to Sex Education?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Abstinence Education, Birth Control, Abstinence Only, Virginity Pledges, Sex Education, Guttmacher Institute, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Barack Obama, Wisconsin, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

What did we get for $1.9 billion? Nothing good. Abstinence-only education has been shown to have no effect on how much teenagers have sex - none.

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Unsafe Abortions Kill 70,000 Women Annually: Report

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unsafe Abortions, Unsafe Abortions Kill Thousands, Unsafe Abortion Deaths, Abortion Mortality Rate, Annual Unsafe Abortions, 70, 000 Women Killed, Sub-Sahara Africa, Contraceptive Use, Guttmacher Institute, Abortion Rights, Abortion-Related Trends, Abortion Laws, Sharon Camp, Abortion in Developing Countries, World News

(AP) NEW YORK - Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,...

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Spain Expands Legal Access to Abortion

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Reproductive Health, Spain, Abortion Laws, Reproductive Rights, Guttmacher Institute, World News
Sharon L. Camp

On February 24, the Spanish senate approved a new law on sexual and reproductive health, which relaxes restrictions on women's access to abortion.

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International Women's Day: The Enormous Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Pregnancy Related Care

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Planning, Newborn-Health, United Nations Population Fund, Maternal Health, International Women's Day, Guttmacher Institute, Women's Day, World News
Sharon L. Camp

This year International Women's Day coincides with the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic...

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Black History Month: Addressing Health Disparities

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Health Disparities, Guttmacher Institute, Black History Month, Reproductive Health, World News
Sharon L. Camp

As the United States celebrates Black History Month, one enduring challenge we face as a nation is the persistent health disparities between black and...

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Haiti Relief Efforts Cannot Afford to Overlook Reproductive Health Needs

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reproductive Health, Family Planning, Reproductive Health Response in Conflict, Haiti Earthquake, International-Family-Planning, Guttmacher Institute, Rhrc, World News
Sharon L. Camp

During this time of displacement, the health and lives of Haiti's women and girls are threatened by severe living conditions, including the virtual absence of reproductive health services.

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