Vox is there to tell them and motivate them to speak out. In 1998, Planned Parenthood affiliates gathered more than 25,000 signatures for pro-choice petitions to Congress. We look forward to greater successes and year-round outreach next year. Research Roundup Responsible choices are informed choices and more kids are making them. The overall drop in births, abortions, and miscarriages among teens, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute , is due largely to increasingly effective and improved contraceptive practice.
Most teenagers rely on the Pill and the condom.
An increasing number of young women are choosing the new, injectable hormone, Depo-Provera , which became available in the early 1990s. It's a devastating loss, and time is clearly not on our side. In Focus Serving Women Abandoned by Hospital Mergers Family Planning Advocates of New York is a coalition of Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health centers which has established a national Merger Watch to prevent the loss of women's health services through mergers of religious and secular hospitals. The mergers can take place as long as services are preserved. Nationwide, Planned Parenthood and Merger Watch are a winning team.