I say "other than" because pregnancy prevention is health care.
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Again, pregnancy prevention continues even during these "non-active" period weeks.
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And even though two-thirds of voting age adults support wide access to reproductive health care and pregnancy prevention, the Trump administration plans to defund a national teen pregnancy prevention program, returning to abstinence-only sex education.
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It announced that teenage pregnancy prevention grants would end two years early.
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Beginning in 2010, the OAH Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program began a competitive grant initiative, providing funding to hospitals, universities, churches, and community-based agencies to implement evidence-based pregnancy prevention programs or innovative approaches to prevent teen pregnancy.
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That would bring some much-needed gender equity to the pregnancy prevention pantheon.
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Now it seems they would like to end all access to pregnancy prevention.
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Under Obama, HHS approved 44 pregnancy prevention programs to coincide with their grants.
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Last year, BCHD trained 28500 teachers to deliver evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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At the point of the advance guard is the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP).
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Don Wright's office oversees the Office of Adolescent Health, which funds teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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That same department cut funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research nationwide this month.
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We see the faces of 20,000 teens who will not receive critical pregnancy prevention education.
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Similarly, the ACA has expanded women's reproductive health coverage to include contraception and teen pregnancy prevention.
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Other grant recipients of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program across the country received the same notice.
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Last summer, the Trump administration decided to end grant funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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In August, the Trump administration quietly cut federal funding to the National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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More women in this country are prescribed oral contraception for medical reasons than for pregnancy prevention.
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But paradoxically, kids with ID are often excluded from sexual education classes, including STD and pregnancy prevention.
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We tend to talk about BC being used in 2 ways: pregnancy prevention or a health issue.
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The administration outlined what it's looking for in order to continue to fund teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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Researchers have found that funding cuts affect groups that promote contraception use and other pregnancy prevention methods.
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So a pregnancy prevention program in eighth grade and another in her neighborhood this summer hit home.
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Some activists and researchers even ask us to do away with the framework of teen pregnancy prevention altogether.
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To be sure, appeals to teen pregnancy prevention are often effective in garnering resources for sexual health education.
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The department last year prematurely ended grants to some teen pregnancy prevention programs, claiming weak evidence of success.
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In the same conservative states, however, funding of pregnancy-prevention education was linked with decreases in adolescent births.
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It's worth noting that Obama also set aside $105 million to support community efforts to reduce teen pregnancy through a designated Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) and $7 million via the Public Health Service Act for the evaluation of teen pregnancy prevention activities as part of his FY 2015 Budget.
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In July, the Trump administration quietly cut—without explanation—more than $200 million from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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Everything he had learned in his high school's sex ed program was focused on vaginal sex and pregnancy prevention.
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These grants supported evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programming for young people most at risk for an unplanned pregnancy.
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Furthermore, we call for robust funding of the Title X Family Planning Program and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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In Congress and the courts we pushed for teen pregnancy prevention, stem cell research, emergency contraception and clinic access.
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But get off-schedule or miss a day, and the pill's 99 percent pregnancy prevention rate starts to dip.
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Likewise, Trump took aim at the successful Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in a move courts are now calling illegal.
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Without so much as an announcement, funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research was cut by the Trump administration.
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If so, the most effective way to fight against late-term abortions would obviously be programs like teen pregnancy prevention.
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Now Price is also the guy who is waging a war against birth control that's cratering teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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One such effort was the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, created by Congress and implemented by the Obama administration in 2010.
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In 2010, Congress created the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, with a mandate to fund age-appropriate and evidence-based programs.
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A federal judge in D.C. ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's cuts to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful.
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The TPP network is attempting to show how these model teen pregnancy prevention programs can be replicated in new settings.
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For women who are unsure, it doesn't seem enough for physicians to counsel them on pregnancy prevention or prenatal care.
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"I wanted to highlight the misconception I saw throughout the literature that equates contraceptive use with pregnancy prevention," she said.
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How To Take Action This Weekend The Trump administration cut $20.6 million in grants for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research.
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It is not the first time HHS has faced a court battle over intended changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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As reported last month, officials told all the groups their pregnancy prevention grants would end in June 2018, two years early.
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It's also not clear how the bill will treat the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP), which the administration wants to end.
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Last week's ruling means that students in our city will continue to receive evidence-based, science-based teen pregnancy prevention education.
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It has channeled funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and family planning grants into programs that emphasize sexual abstinence over contraception.
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From 2010 to 2014, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program's 102 grantees reached about half a million youth and funded 41 independent studies.
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The school would still cover birth control if it was used as treatment for a medical condition and not as pregnancy prevention.
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What students learn about pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, and human sexuality is one of the most hotly contested debates in education.
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Instead of ending the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in 29, as originally planned, the Trump administration decided it would end in 20183.
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Instead of ending the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in 2020, as originally planned, the Trump administration decided it would end in 2018.
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The Trump administration's recent attempt to defund Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPPP) grants to sexual health providers across the nation is evidence enough.
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Congress has appropriated about $110 million annually since 2010 for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which serves 1.2 million young people nationally.
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The same goes for expected efforts to change eligibility for Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants, which the administration has tried to unilaterally terminate.
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The lawsuits center on the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which Congress created in 2010 during the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama.
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Most projects begun under the Obama administration's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program teach about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases in addition to abstinence.
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According to its website, the "robot" baby offers lessons on teen pregnancy prevention, parenting skills, child abuse prevention, sex education, and more.
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In the realm of contraception, if your standard plan fails you (or is forgotten), it's a go-to backup option for pregnancy prevention.
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But buried in a Health and Human Services appendix, there it was: a $100 million line through the nation's teen pregnancy prevention program.
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The Trump administration issued a funding guidance Friday afternoon for government-sponsored Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs (TPPP) that favors specific, abstinence-oriented approaches.
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I've Tried Nearly Every Kind Of Birth Control — & Here's What I've Learned6 Reasons Why People Take Birth Control (Only One Is Pregnancy Prevention)
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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which was started by the Obama administration in 2010, will see a $200 million cut over two years.
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Pregnancy prevention, hormone regulation, and reduced STI risk (depending on the method) all rank high on the list of reasons women use it.
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An agency spokesperson told The Hill that HHS will continue grant funding this year for groups participating in the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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Experts have pointed out that many women use birth control methods for more than pregnancy prevention, including treatment of hormonal imbalances and endometriosis.
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Right now, if you look on the Health and Human Services' (HHS) website you'll find a page dedicated to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month.
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Experts pointed out last year that many women use birth control for more than pregnancy prevention, including treatment of hormonal imbalances and endometriosis.
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Letter To the Editor: I am saddened to read that "Pregnancy Prevention Programs Are at Risk of Being Cut" (news article, Aug. 11).
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Communities could apply for funding to put in only approved evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, or evaluate promising and innovative new approaches.
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As a result of the cuts, Wen estimated, 20,000 students in Baltimore would lose access to comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention programs and education.
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting short grants awarded to Planned Parenthood through a federal teen pregnancy prevention program.
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By contrast, the Brooking Institution estimates that over six dollars is saved for every dollar spent on evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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But even with proper placement and no abnormalities, the IUD, like any other form of birth control, does not completely guarantee pregnancy prevention.
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Then in mid-July, the Trump administration slashed more than $200 million worth of federal funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs around America.
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With other anti-abortion advocates in the office, he tried to end the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, a move blocked by the courts.
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One limitation of the analysis is that researchers relied on survey responses from teens about condom use for pregnancy prevention - not for preventing STIs.
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Washington state's King County, a recipient of one of 84 Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grants, sued the department and Secretary Alex Azar in February.
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The intrigue: Congress created the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in 2010, and provided more than $100 million for HHS to give out in grants.
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Trump is also trying to weaken a teenage pregnancy prevention program in the U.S. and trying to chip away at insurance coverage of contraception.
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In March, Baltimore City sued the Department of Health and Human Services after they cut an $8.6 million grant funding a teen pregnancy prevention program.
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An immigration horror story; Poland's presidential veto of two judicial reform bills; the Trump administration's quiet elimination of federal funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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But each time, side effects or lack of effectiveness foils every woman's dream of finally passing on the burden of pregnancy prevention to her partner.
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Buckles and Hungerman also discuss one last theory: that when schools implemented their condom programs, they put less effort toward other teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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Welcome to Thursday's Overnight Health Care, where a third federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration's cuts to a federal teen pregnancy prevention program.
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The city of Baltimore sued the Trump administration, on behalf of Wen and the health department, for cutting short federal grants for teen pregnancy prevention.
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Planned Parenthood affiliates have filed a motion in court to continue federal funding for programs receiving federal grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP).
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Last week, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled that the Trump administration's plan to cut funds to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful.
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As a youth leader for the Buffalo, New York-based teen pregnancy prevention program HOPE Buffalo, Ely talks to not only other teens but also adults.
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She said Congress, in creating the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in 2010, required HHS to provide grants based on the grantees' success in preventing teen pregnancy.
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Congress also could stop funding Title X programs that provide family planning services to low-income women and from an array of teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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Students in their early 20s arrived with questions and confusion about options for pregnancy prevention in a nation where talking about contraception is still largely taboo.
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Proponents of abstinence-only sexual education argue that the programs teach more than pregnancy prevention — they also build self-control and self-respect in young people.
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Worse, it seems they would like to end safe pregnancy care and care for the children that will result from lack of access to pregnancy prevention.
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The study also notes that the decline in formal education about birth control occurred even though the federal government spending has increased for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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The court's decision confirms that HHS must administer the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in accordance with the agency's own regulations and the requirement of reasoned decision-making.
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They are particularly concerned about access to long-acting birth control devices, which work for up to 22019 years and are the most effective pregnancy prevention options.
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A Senate no longer in the Republican grip could rescue women's reproductive rights on multiple fronts: maternity coverage, access to contraception, teen-pregnancy prevention, breast-cancer treatment.
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People who believe that the New York legislature will pass S9764 while "shoring up support for pregnancy prevention," as one male senator put it, are fooling themselves.
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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention program (TPP) became the target of the administration after the hire of Valerie Huber, the former head of a national abstinence education group.
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It recently axed federal funding for pregnancy prevention programs and appointed an abstinence-only advocate to an important position at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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I'd like to see renewed research on new or better birth control products — ones that are safe and convenient, and more equitably incorporate men in pregnancy prevention.
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HHS also issued new guidelines this year for federal teenage pregnancy prevention grants, which favor programs that promote abstinence rather than a full range of contraceptive choices.
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The Trump administration's efforts to reshape sex education in the U.S. continued last week with the introduction of an updated funding guidance for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs (TPPP).
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To understand what the state of sex ed looks like under Trump, it's essential to understand how his administration has tried to sabotage the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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Filed Friday morning, the lawsuit argues the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally ended grants to 81 organizations participating in a federal teen pregnancy prevention program.
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The curriculum is part of the Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, a long-term intervention intended to reduce pregnancy among the most marginalized kids in the United States.
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The chief of staff to the assistant secretary responsible for adolescent health programs, including teenage pregnancy prevention grants, is Valerie Huber, who previously ran an abstinence advocacy group.
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These grants were meant to allow health groups to experiment with various approaches to teenage pregnancy prevention to figure out what works best with different groups of teenagers.
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" She described the Obama administration's approach as one "that has been alternatively named teen pregnancy prevention or so-called comprehensive sex education, but which typically normalizes teen sex.
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The Trump administration was handed another loss Wednesday evening in a case surrounding its abrupt cuts to grants for organizations participating in a federal teen pregnancy prevention program.
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For every $1.00 per pupil increase in funding for pregnancy-prevention education, the teen birthrate went down by 63 per 1000 in conservative states compared with moderate states.
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The examiner will also perform STI testing and offer STI treatment and pregnancy prevention options, Dewey said, as well as treatment for any injuries the survivor has sustained.
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The majority also turned their backs on proven methods of avoiding pregnancy, eliminating funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) while steering funding toward abstinence-only education.
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Clearly, while the the Trump-Pence administration's HHS may appear to raise awareness about teen pregnancy prevention, it's done nothing but attack the nation's program for preventing teen pregnancy.
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Reimbursements for long-acting reversible contraceptives like IUDs, some of the most effective forms of pregnancy prevention, fell by more than 35 percent after the exclusion of Planned Parenthood.
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US District Judge John Coughenour, appointed under former president Ronald Reagan, was one of two Washington State judges to order the administration to resume funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program is an Obama-era program providing five-year grants to 81 organizations nationwide working to reduce teen pregnancy by creating and evaluating sex education measures.
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We can all agree that learning about abstinence and delaying sex is an important part of any pregnancy prevention or sex education program; however, it is not the only part.
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Sanofi's (SNY) drug to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder, valproate, was banned by U.K. regulators for women of child-bearing age, unless they are on a special pregnancy prevention program.
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In July, 2017, H.H.S. said that it would terminate the contracts of eighty-one organizations receiving pregnancy-prevention grants, and issued new rules that favored groups promoting abstinence-training programs.
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Sanofi – Sanofi's drug to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder, valproate, was banned by U.K. regulators for women of child-bearing age, unless they are on a special pregnancy prevention program.
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In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood argues that the new funding stipulations violate the congressional mandate that underlies the program: to provide federal grants for evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
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A fertility-tracking app, DOT, undertook a study that showed it was a successful method of pregnancy prevention, but that doesn't appear to be the aim of the Apple study.
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One program that has actually shown positive results is the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which is evidence-based and funds a wide variety of organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy.
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There are many more comprehensive programs (beyond the abstinence-only approach) on the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program's list that have been shown to affect these other aspects of sexual health.
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A class-action lawsuit filed Friday morning argues the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally ended grants to 81 organizations participating in a federal teen pregnancy prevention program.
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A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from terminating five-year grants under a federal teen pregnancy prevention program two years early, saying the decision was arbitrary and capricious.
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After HHS announced in August that it would cut funding for all TPPP grants, it said it would allocate $10 million toward researching "more effective" methods of teen pregnancy prevention instead.
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The Centerstone Teen Pregnancy Prevention program in rural Tennessee, which has seen its funding cut under Trump, has found open, frank talks with teens about pregnancy has helped push rates down.
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Programs like those funded by the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, a bipartisan, evidence-based grant program established with federal funding in 2010, have made huge strides in outcomes for young people.
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In July, the Trump administration proposed a cut of $229 million from teen pregnancy prevention programs and research, even though those programs have been proven to decrease unwanted pregnancies and abortion.
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After clinical studies with more than 15,500 women, the FDA approved a pregnancy prevention app marketed as "a natural method of contraception powered by a smart algorithm" last week, reports WashPost.
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Funding for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives (TPPI) was appropriated by an act of Congress — a statutory mandate — specifically dictating to HHS the parameters under which the funding was to be distributed.
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Valerie Huber, a prominent national abstinence education advocate, was recently named chief of staff to the assistant secretary for health, which oversees the office that manages the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program.
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Historically, women have been largely responsible for the mental, physical, and financial costs of pregnancy prevention, and men who want to help have been offered little options beyond wearing a condom.
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Teen pregnancy in the United States has been declining for decades, but experts fear abrupt funding cuts, including $214 million for the Obama-era Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, will reverse the trend.
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And she continues her activism and charity work, including with the organization she founded, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, which supports health, well-being and pregnancy prevention for teens.
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Current federal funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP Program) requires grantees to replicate one of 44 program models independently reviewed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Among the 2,800 girls who participated in the study from 203 to 2006, 1,200 were randomly assigned to participate in baby simulator programs, while the rest underwent the standard pregnancy prevention curriculum.
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The Department of Health and Human Services last year told participants in the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that their five year grants would be ending two years early, calling the program ineffective.
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"Not having timely access to emergency contraception is a problem - not only because its efficacy decreases with time but because it is an important part of pregnancy prevention," Wilkinson said by email.
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Fox and colleagues analyzed data on more than $26 billion in federal grants for abstinence-only education and sexuality education (including pregnancy prevention) between 22019 and 2016, along with adolescent birth rates.
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By issuing this ruling, Judge Blake vacated HHS's decision to prematurely terminate Baltimore's five-year Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grant and ordered HHS to process Baltimore's application for continued funding under the grant.
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Once their sperm counts have plummeted to a point identified as infertility, they and their female partners will then be asked to only use the gel for pregnancy prevention for the next year.
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The evidence shows that when young people get sex ed programs like those funded by the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, they delay having sex and use birth control when they do have sex.
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All of the organizations had received five-year program grants from HHS's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, but were informed last summer that their funding would end two years early on June 30, 2018.
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If the Trump-Pence administration really cares about Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, they need to put their words into action and put the health of American families like Julie and Emily above ideology.
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For a number of years, I worked as a sex educator at an adolescent pregnancy prevention program — and as part of that job, I was presented with an impressive collection of sex education films.
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Dr. Christine Dehlendorf, a family physician and associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, has been developing such research and evaluating a teen pregnancy prevention program called Speak Out.
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"The Court determines that the public interest weighs in favor of Plaintiffs, as it would prevent harm to the community ... and prevent loss of data regarding the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention," Rice wrote.
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In March, the White House released a "skinny budget" proposal that suggested $15.1 billion in cuts to Health and Human Services programs and included a $50 million cut to Obama's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI).
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And last fall, the school announced in a letter to its faculty, staff and students that it would cover contraception only in cases where it was used as medical treatment and not for pregnancy prevention.
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In her former role as Baltimore health commissioner, Wen lead the city in suing the Trump administration following its announcement that it would be cut a grant for teen pregnancy prevention programs across the country.
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) abruptly cut short grants to more than 80 institutions and organizations nationwide to prevent teen pregnancy through the aptly named Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program.
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Planned Parenthood officials did not comment on this week's filings when contacted by Reuters but noted that the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program has contributed to the teen birth rate dropping by 41 percent since 2010.
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Earlier this year, Baltimore sued the Trump administration for cutting teen pregnancy prevention funds, which resulted in a federal judge ordering $5 million in grant funding to be restored to two of the city's programs.
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From Jennifer Haberkorn and Sarah Ferris: The riders would cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood, eliminate a federal family planning program and ax the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, according to sources on Capitol Hill.
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The pregnancy prevention projects Latavia attended are among hundreds across the country, reaching more than a million youths, that are funded by a program the Trump administration has scheduled for elimination in its proposed budget.
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The groups filed four lawsuits in federal courts in Washington state, Maryland and the District of Columbia challenging the administration for ending grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program two years sooner than planned.
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Washington (CNN)A federal judge in Washington state has issued a permanent injunction that blocks the Trump administration from slashing grants to a Planned Parenthood program that funds teen pregnancy prevention programs across the country.
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"The Court determines that the public interest weighs in favor of (Planned Parenthood), as it would prevent harm to the community ... and prevent loss of data regarding the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention," Rice wrote.
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The Urban Assembly Institute and about five other schools in the city use the Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, which combines sex education with financial literacy lessons, career training and mental and physical health care.
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"This ruling means that Baltimore City students will continue to receive evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education delivered by teachers specially trained to teach these important curricula," Wen said in a written statement in April.
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Moreover, in a remarkable act of cynicism, many of the programs for low-income women that the administration cites are facing funding cuts under Trump, including Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, and the teen pregnancy prevention program.
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Booker says that as president he would also guarantee access to employer-covered contraceptive care and restore evidence-based guidelines for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program so that young people are educated about their healthcare options.
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But the Trump administration in June appointed abstinence-only supporter Valerie Huber to a position in the Department of Health and Human Services and cut more than $200 million in teen pregnancy prevention funding last month.
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In July, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would end its $200 million Teen Pregnancy Prevention program, which provides grants to local sex ed programs throughout the country, two years earlier than planned.
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Given that Huber now has a strong voice in deciding which pregnancy prevention programs get government funding, sex educators like Hauser are worried that access to comprehensive sex education could become a thing of the past.
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Women's reproductive health is under attack in this country in many ways, from cuts to funding for Teen Pregnancy Prevention programs to the never-ending cycle of congressional efforts to end federal support for Planned Parenthood.
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Last week, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ruled in Baltimore City's favor in its Teen Pregnancy Prevention suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Later, she co-founded #NoTeenShame, a social media movement led by seven young mothers that advocates for stigma-free teen pregnancy prevention messaging, LGBTQ-inclusive sexuality education, and equitable access to resources and support for young families.
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While Verbiest has no personal connection to the funding cuts, she said that, as the mother of 17-year-old and 20-year-old children, she finds it difficult to see such teen pregnancy prevention programs disappear.
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Reuters reports that HHS asked to toss out the lawsuits this week, arguing that Planned Parenthood lacked standing to sue over the administration's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program because it chose not to apply for the program's grants.
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Furthermore, teenagers who are not adequately informed about pregnancy prevention, or are told only about abstinence, are more likely to become pregnant than those told about birth control options, including emergency contraception, and how to get them.
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Ever since President Obama's 2010 budget eliminated all federal funding for Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) education to create the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program, advocates assured that curricula on the TPP approved curricula list were proven effective.
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In June 21625, the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) was awarded an $2900 million grant to implement comprehensive, evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education in all of the City's more than 220006 middle schools and high schools.
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What new leadership may look like As health commissioner in Baltimore, Wen was outspoken about reproductive health issues affecting the city, especially last year, when the Trump administration cut some teen pregnancy prevention funding across the country.
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About 21996 miles away in Irvine, also part of Orange County, the district adopted Teen Talk, a research-based curriculum for students of all genders that covers anatomy, STIs, pregnancy prevention, and body image, among other topics.
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The CDC did not credit these programs directly for the observed trend in first sex, but does mention "innovations in and federal resources" for HIV, STI, and pregnancy prevention among young people as a possible contributing factor.
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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grants were awarded by the Obama administration to support "the implementation of evidence-based programs and the development and evaluation of new and innovative approaches to prevent teen pregnancy," the program's website says.
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"Clearly, evidence-based programs play an important role in reducing teen pregnancy," she said, adding that since the first round of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants were awarded in 2010, the teen birth rate has continued to fall.
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Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee in Washington state, ruled Tuesday afternoon that the administration unlawfully ended grants two years early for the King County Health Department in Seattle, which participated in the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program.
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You can also engage with Fitbit's enormous user community to ask questions about fertility or pregnancy prevention, or access content written by Fitbit advisors like Dr. Katherine White, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University.
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"Teens today get much more information about sexually transmitted diseases in school health ed classes than they do about pregnancy prevention," according to Dr. Philippa Gordon, a pediatrician in Brooklyn, N.Y., who treats many adolescent girls and boys.
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After welfare reform in 240 many states started putting more TANF money towards programmes other than cash welfare, but Texas has been particularly zealous, diverting most such funds to pre-kindergarten, child-welfare services, pregnancy-prevention efforts and more.
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The judges on Thursday said the new criteria the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services adopted in April that shifted how it would award grants through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program was contrary to the law governing it.
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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in its report Monday that halting the funding would impact pregnancy prevention services, and would have the biggest impact in low-income areas or locations where there are few other medical options.
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So far, more than 80 teen pregnancy prevention programs funded by the federal government have been informed that their grants will end within the next year, with some having their funding yanked abruptly without any time to wind down.
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"This ruling means that Baltimore City students will continue to receive evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education delivered by teachers specially trained to teach these important curricula," Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen said in a statement Thursday.
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In the last few months, we've seen multiple attempts to rollback the Affordable Care Act, failed replacements, and notable cuts to public health programs including teen pregnancy prevention initiatives, and the slashing of funds allocated for ACA enrollment promotion.
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Trump's fiscal year 18 budget proposed eliminating the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program completely, and the both the House proposed healthcare bill (AHCA) and the Senate proposed health care bill (BCRA) would slash Medicaid funding to women's health providers like Planned Parenthood.
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HHS in May changed its criteria for awarding grants under the teen pregnancy prevention program, which Planned Parenthood said has since its 2010 creation served more than 1 million young people and helped lower the teen birth rate by 41 percent.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health recently notified 81 grantees that it would be discontinuing Obama-era funding under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program (TPP) — which helps educate teenagers on how to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
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Plus in July, the Trump administration cut more than $213 million in funding from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and one Colorado program that received $750,000 a year from the government said it would close at the end of this year.
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The Office of Adolescent Health's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program currently funds 84 grants to reduce teen pregnancy across clinics, schools and communities, by implementing and evaluating prevention programs and supporting technology- and program-based approaches, according to the office's website.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Sanofi drug for epilepsy and bipolar disorder linked to thousands of birth defects has been banned in Britain for use in women or girls of child-bearing age, unless they are on a special pregnancy prevention program.
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With her newly gained power, Huber announced her plans to shift the goals of TPPP in April, when the department issued two Funding Opportunity Announcements that boasted of funding more Teen Pregnancy Prevention programs than it did in its previous iteration.
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Last summer, the Health and Human Services Department told the 81 organizations that were receiving a total of $89 million a year from the agency that their five-year pregnancy prevention grants would end in June 2018, two years early.
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Under the direction of two secretaries recommended by Pence, the Department of Health and Human Services has moved to slash funds from teen pregnancy-prevention programs, curb abortion both in the United States and abroad and strip civil protections for transgender patients.
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A form of 'whiplash' In 2010, under President Barack Obama, the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health launched the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program to funnel grant money to programs and innovations proven to help reduce teen pregnancies.
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In a letter to Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price, 28503 Democrats on Tuesday warned of a harmful "ripple effect across communities" if the administration axes HHS's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), an Obama-era initiative intended to curb unintended teen pregnancies.
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"Parents don't seem to realize that jumping from menstruation straight to pregnancy prevention means they are skipping over a lot of important information such as how menstruation works, why it happens, and how to predict when your period will come," Herbert said.
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That drive includes the administration's weakening of the contraceptive coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act, efforts by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to bar unaccompanied minors from getting abortions, new rules privileging teen pregnancy prevention programs that promote abstinence, and more.
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Currently, the Trump administration is pursuing or supporting legislation to weaken the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act, eliminate a teen pregnancy prevention program, and cut Medicaid funding to women's health service providers like Planned Parenthood that offer abortion, among their other services.
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Looking ahead to later this year and into 2019, appeals are already being briefed on the administration's decision to terminate federal funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs, Trump's decision to end DACA, and the AT&T–Time Warner merger, which the Justice Department opposed.
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All Planned Parenthood press releases about her appointment made sure to emphasize that she successfully sued the Trump administration for cutting funds from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and that she has fought changes the Trump administration attempted to make to federal family planning funding.
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If you're hoping to have one of these conversations, remember that any reason you choose to use birth control — from pregnancy prevention to treating endometriosis — is completely valid and you owe no one a detailed explanation as to why contraception is important to you specifically.
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Looming layoffs The nation's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program was established in 2010 with a congressional mandate to fund not only youth-focused programs but also independent evaluation studies that contribute to the field's understanding of where, when and with whom programs are most effective.
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It also noted that the program, which includes support for original research projects, could in fact be ended midway because the same thing had been done to abstinence grantees back in 2010, when Congress passed the legislation that created the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.
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However, as we celebrate recent legal victories that reinstated the TPPP grants and prepare for challenges ahead, we should reconsider how we frame the value of comprehensive sexuality education and whether pregnancy prevention is actually the best justification for teaching kids about sexuality and reproduction.
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The same individuals who are making these eugenics claims are often the ones who want to deprive our communities of evidence-based education like teen-pregnancy prevention programs, which were cut across the country last year, and a full range of reproductive-health services.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, fifty-eight percent of all women who use the pill rely on it, at least in part, for something other than pregnancy prevention, like endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, fibroids (which are prevalent among women of color) and managing painful periods.
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Considering all this accumulating evidence, it was an unexpected setback when the Trump administration recently canceled funding for 81 projects that are part of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, saying grants would end in June 2018, two years early — a decision made without consulting Congress.
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"The scope of the study was really just to look at whether we could use young men's report in conducting evaluations of teen pregnancy prevention programs, or other research studies that rely on young men's report," lead author Samantha Garbers told Reuters Health in an email.
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But for those who are engaging in sexual activity, the CDC says, the birth rate drop is linked to two things: more teen pregnancy prevention programs and the increasing use of what experts consider effective contraception methods, such as birth control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs).
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In the Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said the termination of grants to pregnancy prevention programs in Texas and North and South Carolina, "without any explanation whatsoever," was arbitrary and capricious, flouted the agency's own regulations and violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
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Editorial With flimsy justification, and in small type buried in routine documents, the Trump administration has informed 81 local governments and health groups that it will end grants they have received to run teen pregnancy prevention programs, two years before the grants are scheduled to end.
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The pill is the most popular form of non-permanent birth control, with more than 9 million currently choosing it for pregnancy prevention, helping to regulate their periods and for other health benefits (did you know that it can help to prevent certain cancers like ovarian cancer).
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We agree with the National Prevention Science Coalition in calling for the Senate to adopt a bipartisan approach to teen pregnancy prevention policy that can diminish the severe social, physical, and economical consequences of teen pregnancy, provide accountability by using proven interventions and monitoring their effectiveness.
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She has been a vocal opponent of President Trump's family planning policies, and in March Wen joined a winning lawsuit against the Trump administration for their rollback of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which resulted in the restoration of $5 million worth of funds to two Baltimore clinics.
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In fact, a survey that from Seventeen magazine and Power To Decide (the campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy) found that 57% of girls ages 15-18 (and a whopping 77% of the 15- to 16-year-olds) were primarily using birth control for reasons other than pregnancy prevention.
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No one should have to explain why they're opting for a specific type of medical treatment, but with so many birth control myths floating around, it's important to clarify that contraception isn't just used for pregnancy prevention — though there's nothing wrong or shameful about using it for that reason.
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New York's education department spends an estimated $10 million a year on day care alone for the children of its teen parents, the health department an additional $1.87 million on school-based pregnancy-prevention programs, and yet neither of those initiatives reached Rodriguez despite her obvious need of them.
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While Eaton says several factors likely played a role in the initial decrease, including more teens opting for long-acting reversible contraception like an IUD, she believes reaching them with sex ed that included information about pregnancy prevention, STI and HIV risk, contraception, limit setting, and abstinence skills made a difference.
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"We were holding pregnancy prevention hostage to cancer screening," obstetrician Nancy Stanwood, chairwoman of the board of Physicians for Reproductive Health, told the Times, adding that a study of women in Texas who got their contraception over the counter in Mexico were still visiting their Ob/Gyn for Pap smears.
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The administration has laid out a plan to dramatically remake the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program by requiring grantees to push ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage (which the administration labels "sexual risk avoidance") approaches into every program that gets funding, instead of effective programs that have been proven to reduce unintended pregnancy.
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TPPP, a federal program established in 2010, under the Obama administration, targets adolescents by funding grants for groups like Planned Parenthood, local boys' and girls' clubs, and public research institutes across the country that bring evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention initiatives to their communities and investigate which approaches are most effective.
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After some gains by the Obama administration to promote more comprehensive sex ed, which includes pregnancy prevention, discussions of anatomy, birth control, disease prevention, abstinence and healthy relationships, the Trump administration did not include the program in its proposed 2018 budget; it also has requested increased funding for abstinence education.
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Projects sponsored by the South Carolina organization, like most of those begun under the Obama administration's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, teach about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases in addition to abstinence, and at least one of the South Carolina programs received federal permission to supply condoms in places like a bowling alley and barbershops.
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The CDC authors, for their part, note that the U.S. has experienced profound shifts in technology, the use of social media by kids, and how sex ed and teen pregnancy prevention programs have been run and funded since 2005 (for example, the decline of Bush-era abstinence programs, which actually led to more kids having sex).
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While the HHS has argued that the rule would have no impact on "99.9% of women" in the U.S., it based that figure on the total number of U.S. women (around 165 million), rather than the number that matters: that of women of childbearing age who rely on birth control for pregnancy prevention or other health concerns.
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In a popular (and powerful) BuzzFeed story from 2014, "We Asked 22 Women Why They Take Birth Control And These Are Their Answers," seven of the women, or a third of those featured, named cramps, acne, PCOS, pain, endometriosis, or unruly hormones without mentioning pregnancy — all (perfectly legitimate and important) health care needs other than pregnancy prevention.
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Three Planned Parenthood affiliates — including Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland — filed suit challenging the Trump-Pence administration's early termination of federal grants that fund comprehensive, evidence-based sex ed, known as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP).
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Instead, the Trump administration and some Republican-controlled state governments have worked to direct money to programs including teenage pregnancy prevention programs that emphasize sexual abstinence and so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which offer medical services including ultrasounds, prenatal care, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, while steering women away from abortion and hormonal birth control.
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In addition, he promises to take a number of executive actions to protect reproductive rights, including ending the domestic and global gag rules, reversing the Trump administration's guidelines prioritizing abstinence-based programs for federal teen pregnancy prevention funding, and undoing the administration's rules allowing health care providers to refuse to perform abortions on the basis of their "conscience" or religion.
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Not surprisingly, then, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released the findings of the Obama-era Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program, it revealed that despite spending nearly one billion dollars, more than 80 percent of teens in the program fared either worse or no better than their peers who were not a part of the program.
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Since taking office, the Trump-Pence administration has pushed policy after policy meant to strip us of our basic health and rights, including attacks on the Affordable Care Act, gutting the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, letting bosses deny women birth control, and just recently a gag rule on providers in the Title X program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care.
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Documents released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate that three political appointees directed the changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program: Valerie Huber, who prior to joining HHS headed a national abstinence education advocacy group; Teresa Manning, a former anti-abortion rights lobbyist who has since left HHS; and Steven Valentine, who previously worked for Rep.
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While the University of Oregon could certainly be a model for the country on what comprehensive and progressive sex education and STI prevention looks like, it is certainly not in line with the approach of the Trump administration, which in June 2017 quietly cut more than $200 million from an Obama-era Health and Human Services program that funded teen-pregnancy prevention initiatives and sex education.
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A federal judge in Baltimore ordered the Trump administration to resume funding two entities receiving grants through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) on Wednesday afternoon, days after two similar rulings were issued in federal courts in Washington state and Washington, DC. Trump's Department of Health and Human Services abruptly cut funding for TPPP in August — two years before the original grants were supposed to end.
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While the study offers a few ways doctors can help reduce the burdens that come with pregnancy prevention—including pushing more LARC, such as IUDs, or offering a one-year supply of birth control so women don't have to carve out time in their busy schedules for yet another doctor's appointment—Kimport says individual women and men can also be proactive in shifting these expectations.
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The administration is shifting the focus of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) more toward abstinence education, and groups will have to get onboard if they want to continue receiving financial support from the federal government For some grantees, these requirements could clash with laws in their states, and with the approaches they have decided are best suited to addressing teen pregnancy rates in their communities.
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In the suit, Planned Parenthood attorneys argue that both Huber's and HHS Secretary Alex Azar's radical remaking of the country's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) to prioritize an "abstinence-only-until-marriage" and "sexual risk avoidance" curriculum takes too dramatic a turn from what the program was meant to do in the first place: use scientifically-supported and evidence-based approaches to curb teen pregnancy.
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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program not only aimed to provide American teenagers with comprehensive sex ed, which can include information about safe sex and abstinence, but also sought to give researchers better insight into what types of sex ed truly help cut down on unintended pregnancies, particularly among students of color and LGBTQ students, Guttmacher Institute's Senior Policy Manager Jesseca "Jesse" Boyer told VICE News prior to the ruling.
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In addition to eliminating a $10 million per year grant program for abstinence-only education, the final budget of the president's administration maintains funding for the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health, increases funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and seeks to extend the Personal Responsibility Education Program by five years, according to a statement released by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. (SIECUS).
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It shouldn't come as a surprise that the administration, famous for pushing back against reproductive rights and women's healthcare, would prioritize abstinence-only education: Trump's 218 budget proposal called for a a $21990 million investment to "extend abstinence education and personal responsibility education program" between 2018 and 2024, he appointed longtime abstinence-only advocate Valerie Huber to the HHS, and in the summer the administration cut the funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research.
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The Trump administration's attack on birth control is only the latest in a series, including a gag rule and other changes to Title X, the nation's only program for affordable birth control and other reproductive health care; changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which we fought in Baltimore (and won); and efforts to block people who rely on Medicaid from coming to Planned Parenthood for preventive health care, including birth control.
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As women in the US face a reality in which they have fewer and fewer reproductive choices, in which teen pregnancy prevention programs are cut, birth control is not covered by insurance, and abortion is technically legal but not available in many areas due to the closure of clinics -- the situation in El Salvador provides an example of what we could look forward to if Republicans achieve their long-held goal of reversing Roe v. Wade.
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Baltimore City joined a lawsuit brought by Healthy Teen Network against President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, challenging a decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to cut funding from evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education.
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I have released an entire plan to advance reproductive rights through executive action that includes: Creating a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom; Ending the "domestic gag rule" and expanding and modernizing the Title X family planning program; Guaranteeing access to employer-covered contraceptive care; Undoing Trump's refusal rules that allow people to be denied the health care they need; Restoring evidence-based guidelines for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program; and, Ending the global gag rule and restoring funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Although Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood via legislation have failed repeatedly, the Trump Administration has issued multiple rules or executive orders that undermine women's rights: This includes the reversal of the birth control insurance coverage mandate that came down in October of last year (which was blocked by a judge in December and is tied up in the courts); the blockage or reversal of many teen pregnancy prevention grants (which was blocked by a Federal judge last month); the multiple attempts by director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Scott Lloyd to block detained migrant women from abortion care; the stacking of federal court benches with virulent anti-choice, anti-women's rights judges; and of course this also includes the Global Gag Rule, which Trump reinstated as one of his first acts in office.
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