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Launch: Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Filipino WomenUpdated about 7 months ago
Guttmacher Institute FACT: 52% of young American men talked w/a parent about STIs; and only 33% talked w/a parent about birth control. http://ow.ly/E4k8
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The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
Guttmacher Institute FACT: About 1/2 of young Malawians who drop out of school cite inability to pay fees/lack of school materials as main reason. http://ow.ly/CPiy
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Guttmacher Institute FACT: 45% of recent births to adolescent Nicaraguan women were unplanned. http://ow.ly/CPgu
Guttmacher Institute FACT: 98% of American women who have ever had sex have used contraception. http://ow.ly/CPe4
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The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
Guttmacher Institute Sec. of State Clinton: “I believe strongly that family planning is an important aspect of development.” http://ow.ly/CQ4Y
Clinton: Family planning a 'positive' choice for society - Nation - GMANews.TV - Official Website of
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In her first visit to the Philippines as US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that her government respects the anti-contraceptive stance of various influential sectors in the Philippines, even though it contradicts the US’ foreign policy on reproductive rights.
Guttmacher Institute FACT: In 2008, an estimated 56% of pregnancies in Uganda were unintended. http://ow.ly/COle
Guttmacher Institute A new report by Guttmacher and Ugandan partners documents the dramatic health, social and financial benefits Uganda would see with increased investments in family planning services. http://ow.ly/CM6g
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Seven in 10 Ugandan women who want to avoid pregnancy either do not practice contraception or rely on methods with high failure rates. Women who use no method at all account for 88% of Uganda's more than one million unintended pregnancies, while women using modern contraceptives account for only 5%....
Guttmacher Institute FACT: 60% of teens younger than 18 who use a clinic for sexual health services say their parents know they are there. http://ow.ly/AQV2
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The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
Guttmacher Institute Our policy expert Adam Sonfield explains the nuances of the Stupak Amendment and health care reform for NPR’s Radio Times. http://ow.ly/BIxc
Guttmacher Institute FACT: About 70% of young Ugandan women & 50% of young men worry about unintended pregnancy. http://ow.ly/AQTN
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Guttmacher Institute “Health-insurance reform was supposed to end the sort of hideous cruelties our system inflicts on patients, not create them.” http://ow.ly/Brrs
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Guttmacher Institute FACT: Publicly funded contraception in the U.S. helps prevent 810,000 abortions each year. http://ow.ly/AQSE
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The Guttmacher Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
Guttmacher Institute Misuse of a Guttmacher Institute statistic on insurance coverage of abortion http://ow.ly/BoqS
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Among the many arguments being made in the debate over health care reform is the claim that because very few women use private insurance coverage to pay for abortion services, loss of this coverage would have minimal impact. ...
Guttmacher Institute The New York Times weighs in on abortion and health care reform in their editorial, “The Ban on Abortion Coverage” http://ow.ly/B7Wh
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The House health care reform bill passed with a steep price. The Senate should work to preserve a woman’s right to abortion services.
Guttmacher Institute The Price of Health Reform: Abortion Rights? A good article on abortion and health care reform, quoting Guttmacher’s Adam Sonfield http://ow.ly/B4u9
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Why Bart Stupak's last-minute amendment to the health care bill is even more radical than you think.
