The latest data released by the Guttmacher Institute tells a grim tale–70,000 women a year die from unsafe abortions world-wide. An important revelation, to be sure. But the yahoo! news story I read drops the ball in a BIG WAY! They spend several paragraphs reassuring everyone that lives in a country with legal abortion that [...]
Times are tough, and birth control is expensive. Still, unintended pregnancy would be a catastrophe for most women in this economy. A recent study by The Guttmacher Institute found that one in four women were having difficulty paying for gynecologist visits and more frightening, skimping on birth control – cutting pills in half, skipping a [...]
According to a new fact sheet fro the Guttmacher Institute, American teens are getting it on, whether adults want to believe it or not. The fact sheet also shows that accurate information about contraceptive use and STI’s can help teens delay the onset of sexual activity and decrease the rates of teen pregnancy . . [...]
