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Young and Restless at the United Nations, Youth Fight For Their Rights

It was a youth takeover at the United Nations last week, for the 45th annual Commission on Population and Development, a global meeting to examine whether and how we are protecting the sexual rights and health of our youngest generation.

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California Allows Young People to Access the HPV Vaccine Without Parental Consent

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On Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law which allows minors to access STD-prevention services, including the now highly political HPV vaccine, without parental consent.

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Parental Involvement Laws Have No Effect on Abortion Rates

Antiabortion activists claim that state laws requiring parental involvement for minors have been a major contributing factor to declining abortion rates in the United States. Studies prove them wrong.

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McCain, Obama Worlds Apart on Safe Abortion Access

On access to safe, legal abortion, John McCain and Barack Obama could hardly be more different.

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