Youth Guest Blog: The Stigma of Sex Ed
“Have you ever heard of sex ed? It sounds like something dirty. Why would they teach about the word that is whispered only behind closed doors in our schools?” “And surely, surely no child – but especially mine – would ever do such a thing, good heavens...
Youth Guest Blog: Young people deserve access to abortion
The first time I heard the word ‘abortion,’ I didn’t know what to think. I was around kids at my school, discussing the pregnancy of a classmate, and the debate turned to her hypothetically getting an abortion. The language they used was just them mimicking their...
Youth Guest Blog: We need to increase access to birth control and comprehensive sex ed
Amidst current acts of infringement upon reproductive welfare (considering SCOTUS’s overturning of Roe v Wade), the contemporary issues within adolescent reproductive care have likewise been increasingly susceptible to the conservative hands which persist upon the...
Youth Guest Blog: I helped initiate the take down of the “pro-life” whistleblower website
They say that you don’t remember the pain of childbirth, just the memory of becoming a parent. I’ve never given birth, and according to the doctor who diagnosed me with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome at age 12–I likely never will. And although I’ve never been pregnant,...From the Blog
June 2025 Impact and UpdatesJuly 31, 2025Here’s what we accomplished in June: Answered 554 calls and texts to our helplines …
JDP Executive Director Lucie Arvallo testifies in front of the US Senate about the right to contraceptive accessJuly 16, 2025On July 16, 2025, our Executive Director, Lucie Arvallo, was invited to testify before the …
Impact Report 2024June 9, 2025Letter from our Executive Director The past year brought challenges to our work for young …