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Federal Judge Rebukes RFK Jr.'s Health Agency for Using AI-Generated Studies To Slash Teen Pregnancy Grants

A federal judge has paused the Trump administration's abstinence-only teen pregnancy programme, citing unreliable AI-generated references. The ruling does not restore the £49.1m in cancelled grants.

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Federal Grant Cuts End Funding for Dozens of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

HHS canceled 53 Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants worth about $68 million, two years early, and rewrote the criteria for replacements.

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Trump Administration Cancels Teen Pregnancy Grants Nationwide Over Claims Programs Encourage Premarital Sex

The Trump administration has restructured teen pregnancy prevention funding, prioritising abstinence and fertility education, sparking lawsuits and debate over effective sex education methods.

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Trump team is pulling funds from sex ed groups that don’t teach abstinence and the value of marriage

RFK Jr’s agency is changing the rules for teen pregnancy prevention programs in an ideologically driven effort to gut sex ed, reproductive health groups say

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Who Is Stephen Miller's Wife? Katie's Ethnicity and Parents Details Explained After Teen Pregnancy Comments Spark Backlash

Katie Miller's controversial comments on teen pregnancy and contraception ignite debate on reproductive rights and population policy in the US.

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Sierra Leone’s harsh new laws to protect women and girls are causing harm in the wrong places

In the decades after Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2002), there was pressure on the west African country to demonstrate progress on gender equality. Laws were passed to fight domestic violence, rape and teen pregnancy. But drawing on colonial legal models, the reforms don’t always match social realities and in many…

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Amanda Bynes Denies Rumour Of Teen Pregnancy With Nickelodeon Producer Dan Schneider

Bynes described the speculation about her and the disgraced producer as “clickbait lies”.

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EastEnders Turns Up the Heat: Oscar Branning's Comedic Return Meets Avani's Shocking Teen Pregnancy Drama

EastEnders fans have something to look forward to as Oscar Branning returns in the storyline. Plus, Avani discovers she's pregnant at the worst time.

International Business Times UK

Popular influencer Nara Smith accused of ‘glamorizing’ teen pregnancy

Smith recently celebrated her fifth Mother’s Day

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“She Had 20 Years to Heal”: Taylor Swift’s Alleged Classmate Sparks Fury with Bullying Claims

“One, we went to high school together, and two, I was the only pregnant girl when we started the school year in 2004." The post “She Had 20 Years to Heal”: Taylor Swift’s Alleged Classmate Sparks Fury with Bullying Claims first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Teen pregnancies rise in Texas

The assault on reproductive rights in Texas has implications for other states as well

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Breaking the cycle of teen pregnancy

A 17-year-old mother called Nim made headlines in early March after she allegedly dumped her infant's corpse into a river, causing public outrage.

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Sierra Leone’s pregnant teens matched with mentors to save their lives

Around the world, 130 million girls are out of school. And following the Covid pandemic, it’s estimated that a further 11 million girls may not return to the classroom. With barriers like early marriage, pregnancy, violence and harassment and period poverty, millions of girls are fighting to learn. Let Girls…

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It's a bleak 'Day of the Girl' because of the pandemic. But no one's giving up hope

The United Nations established the Day of the Girl a decade ago to address issues that affect girls' rights: education, teen pregnancy, child marriage. Steady progress has been made. Then came COVID.

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Texas, battling teen pregnancy, recasts sex education standards

DALLAS — J.R. Chester got pregnant the summer before her senior year of high school. A bright student with good grades, she gave birth, graduated, and was pregnant again when she arrived at college that fall.

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Facing higher teen pregnancy and maternal mortality rates, Black women will largely bear the brunt of abortion limits

About 40% of women who get abortions in the U.S. are Black, and advocates say abortion bans like Texas’ will increase their health and financial risks.

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