Press Releases

Teen Birth Rate Rises for the First Time in Fourteen Years

December 6, 2007

HARRISBURG - The Center for Disease Control release of the 2006 teen birth rate statistics confirmed what reproductive health care advocates know: the United States is facing a teen pregnancy health care crisis, and the national and state policy of abstinence-only programs just isn't working. According to newly released CDC data the rate of teen births nationally rose by 3% overall – the first increase in the teen birth rate since 1991 and identical to the rate of increase in the...Read More >

World AIDS Day Highlights Importance of Prevention

November 30, 2007

[30 November 2007] —- As the global community marks World AIDS Day on December 1, 2007, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates called on Congress to halt funding for harmful abstinence-only programs that deny teenagers lifesaving information about preventing infections like HIV/AIDS. "World AIDS Day is a powerful reminder of the importance of prevention — and of the fact that young people in the U.S., and right here in Pennsylvania, are being denied the information they need to protect...Read More >