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Commentary
The Pediatrician in the post-Roe landscape
Emphasizing the pivotal role of pediatricians in adolescent healthcare, this commentary outlines essential steps these providers must take to advocate for their patients post-Roe and ensure they have access to vital reproductive and sexual health services. Adequately acknowledging the current political climate authors argue, consists of adopting a series of patient-facing practices that both meet an individual’s existing health needs and prepare them for potential legal changes in the legal and clinical landscape.
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Birth Control Access Is Under Threat After Texas Judge's Ruling Against Title X
Confirming experts’ fears that the overturning of Roe v. Wade would result in legal challenges to contraception, this commentary explores the implications of Deanda v. Becerra, a recent federal ruling against young people’s right to contraception. Underscoring the urgent need to enact legal protections to contraception and other essential reproductive healthcare services, authors illustrate the glaring similarities between the precedent set by this case and previous cases that prompted Dobbs v. Jackson.
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A Major Problem for Minors: Post-Roe Access to Abortion
With potential changes to state abortion laws looming after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, this commentary anticipates the disproportionate impact that legislation banning or severely restricting abortion would have on minors. Scrutinizing the legal and logistical challenges minors faced before this ruling, authors argue that without significant legal and financial interventions, young people's access to essential abortion care will be further compromised. The authors state that restricting minors’ access to abortion has widespread implications for their immediate and long-term well-being and undermines their right to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom.
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Measuring Quality STI care among Adolescent Female Primary Care Patients in Philadelphia
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The Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Care when Considering Abortion
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Minors’ Experiences Accessing Confidential Contraception in Texas
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Misinformation around Birth Control Online is a form of Contraception Coercion
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Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills have been Approved. Let’s make them Inexpensive and Easily Available
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Racial Inequities in Adolescent Contraceptive Care Delivery: A Reproductive Justice Issue
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What if we didn’t Shame Teen Moms?
This commentary explores the roles shame, punishment, and systemic racism have played in shaping The United States’ attitudes towards teen pregnancy and parenting. Asking the timely question “What if we didn’t shame teen moms?”, authors use research and anecdotes to reveal what happens when our society demonizes young people instead of giving them the resources they need to thrive.
“Our fear arose from a culture that heaps stigma on teen pregnancy. A culture that tells us again and again how tragic it is and how hard it will be—holding teen mothers up as symbols of failure instead of providing the resources and affirmation they need to actually thrive. The real tragedy is the United States’ attitude toward young motherhood, an especially cruel contradiction in this post-Roe era when many young people’s rights have been restricted and girls are being pushed toward parenthood.”
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Elevating the Needs of Minor Adolescents in a Landscape of Reduced Abortion Access in the United States
This commentary highlights abortion access barriers specific to minor adolescents (those aged <18 years) and proposes strategic responses adolescent healthcare communities can enact. Emphasizing the need to adopt a reproductive justice framework, this commentary identifies changes that can be made at an individual, community, and nationwide level that promote adolescent’s health outcomes and honor their right to bodily autonomy.
“When adolescents do not have access to comprehensive reproductive care, unmet needs lead to negative health and social consequences that may persist across the life course.”
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Forcing Thousands of Teens to Parent in a Post-Roe Nation
Findings from the first nationwide count of abortions following Dobbs v. Jackson led researchers to estimate that at least 7,000 teenagers in the US will be unable to access a legal abortion, and be forced into parenthood, in the year following this Supreme Court decision. In this commentary, authors explore the stark reality of these findings, which they argue will harm young people and exacerbate existing racial and economic inequities nationwide.
“For a teen, being denied an abortion isn’t just a bump in the road; it forces them onto a lifelong path they didn’t choose. Pregnant people who are denied an abortion are more likely to go on to live in poverty with their children and struggle to pay for basic expenses like food and housing.”
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Teen Secure Messaging is Associated With Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in One Health System
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Adolescents, Sensitive Topics, and Appropriate Access to Biomedical Prevention Research
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Trends in Continuation of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Among Adolescents Receiving Medicaid
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