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Abortion and health-care reform: Explaining Stupak, what's next and more

Washington Post , 11/12/2009 –

NLIRH was quoted as a data resource by someone who commented on the Washington Post article, Abortion and health-care reform: Explaining Stupak, what's next and more.  The Post staff writer, Lori Montgomery doubts that women can't find the money to pay for an abortion.  The commenter corrected Ms. Montgomery using data from NLIRH and the Abortion Access Project. Read more »

Join the National Call-In Day for Women of Color to Demand Health Reform!

Vivir Latino, 10/27/2009 –

Vivir Latino advertising the National Call in Day for Health Care Reform. 

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The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health turns 15!

Feministing.com, 10/25/2009 –

An organization that is near and dear to my heart, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, is turning 15 this year! In honor of this milestone, they're throwing a Quinceañera, a fifteenth anniversary celebration that is a Latino tradition for young girls. It'll be a fun twist on this traditional ceremony.

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Teen pregnancies on the rise for the first time in over a decade

Feministing.com, 10/14/2009 –

Via The Economist, some data about teenage pregnancies in the US:

On one point, however, experts agree: when it comes to teenage births, the United States is backsliding. Between 1991 and 2005 the teenage birth rate declined by 34%, according to the National Centre for Health Statistics. Between 2005 and 2007, the last year for which statistics are available, it crept up 5%.

A quick and easy blame game points to the Bush era abstinence-only policy, which is scientifically proven to fail. Read more »

Teenage Pregnancies: Growing Pains

The Economist, 10/08/2009 –

Executive Director Silvia Henriquez is quoted in this Economist article about the rise in teen pregnancy rates.

Silvia Henriquez, the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, reckons that access is the problem. Latina teenagers are less likely to have health-care coverage for contraceptives, and are more likely to lack transport to the free clinics in their cities.

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