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This article discusses the decision to allow some over-the-counter sales of Emergency Contraception (Plan B) as well as the controversy surrounding current age restrictions. Opponents to this decision feel that greater availability of EC will lead to promiscuity, while supporters feel that age restrictions are a barrier to decreasing the rate of unintended pregnancies.
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With controversy surrounding recent attempts to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for school entry, public health advocates increasingly are turning their attention to other avenues for distributing the vaccine and educating the public about its importance. By virtue of both their expertise and the composition of their clientele, the 7,500 publicly funded family planning clinics located in almost every county in the United States are well positioned to play an important role in this effort, according to a new analysis published in the Guttmacher Policy Review.
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Comprehensive examination of the differing religious responses to promiscuity, sex outside of marriage, birth control, abortion, abstinence education versus sexuality education, emergency contraception, and Plan B. This article also examines how this thinking has changed in recent years and how it has affected state and national legislation.
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Guttmacher Institute report on South Carolina, including information on pregnancies and their outcomes, the need for publicly supported family planning services, service availability, and funding for publicly funded services.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter sales of Emergency Contraception to women 18 and older on August 24, 2006. This article summarizes the history behind this approval, including the reactions of both anti-abortion and abortion rights activists. It also describes how Barr Pharmaceuticals will enforce age restrictions on distribution and provides some information on how EC works to prevent pregnancy.
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This article provides information on HPV, its detection and prevention, and the new vaccine from the perspective of a teen.
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This issue module has been updated to provide access to the latest research and information on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The module summarizes research and data on HPV and cervical cancer and addresses issues related to vaccine provision, such as financing, state-level mandates, and public education.
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Though emergency contraceptives have been approved by the FDA for sale over the counter, there are still barriers in place. Women need to have access to care and those under the age of 18 still have to have a prescription in order to receive EC. There are other hurdles women must face in order to receive EC; for example pharmacies may not be sensitive to a woman's privacy when asking for EC. This article offers recommendations of actions that we can do to ensure better access.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that there are between 5 and 6 million children who are uninsured and eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP. CBO’s assessment is in sharp contrast to estimates released recently by the Bush Administration that indicating there were only 1.1 million eligible but uninsured children.
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This is a Guttmacher Institute statistical report with state by state statistics on minors' access to contraceptive services, state policies, and legislation. Includes links to other sites.
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This is a Guttmacher Institute statistical report with state by state statistics on minors' access to sexually transmitted disease (STD) services, state policies, and legislation. Includes links to other sites.
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This article debunks the myths around ECPs and presents facts and statistics on their benefits as a reliable way to prevent pregnancy and STDs. It also cites statistical information from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Health, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and others.
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This Guttmacher Institute report, analyzed with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found that about half of U.S. women who became unintentionally pregnant (17.4 million) were in need of publicly funded contraceptive services and supplies. This is an increase of one million women since 2000.
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Guttmacher Institute report exploring why unintended pregnancies for women below the poverty line increased by 29% from 1994 to 2001. In 2001, a poor woman was four times as likely to have an unintended pregnancy, five times as likely to have an unintended birth, and more than three times as likely to have an abortion as her higher-income counterpart. Findings were based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth and other sources.
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This is recent research from the Guttmacher Institute on ways public policy can do more to help low-income American women prevent unwanted pregnancies. It discusses expanding Medicaid coverage for contraception so that it matches Medicaid coverage for pregnancy-related care in order to prevent nearly 500,000 unwanted pregnancies annually, including 200,000 abortions, and save $1.5 billion in annual federal and state expenditures.
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This is a comprehensive review of rural health in South Carolina, including definitions of urban, rural, and very rural, information about South Carolina's rural population, including their health status (maternal and infant health, preventable hospitalizations, and health conditions). Access is examined through statistics on the utilization of health services, insurance coverage, and health resources.
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This is a Guttmacher Institute statistical report with state by state statistics on minors’ access to prenatal care, state policies, and legislation. Includes links to other sites.
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Ensuring access to reproductive health care for both immigrants and low-income American citizens should be a priority in the renewed public debate around comprehensive immigration reform. Previous attempts to curtail immigrants’ access to health care had damaging—and largely unintended—effects according to “The Impact of Anti-Immigrant Policy on Publicly Subsidized Reproductive Health Care,” by Adam Sonfield, published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Guttmacher Policy Review.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, 8% of women at risk for unintended pregnancy did not use a contraceptive in the last year, while 15% experienced periods of nonuse of one or more months, even as they remained sexually active.
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State and national statistical tables from Guttmacher Institute, supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on the total number of women in need of contraceptive services and supplies. Tables cite statistics by age, poverty status, and race/ethnicity.
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