May 1, 1998

America must adopt a multi-pronged approach to remedy the adolescent reproductive health crisis. That policy should:

• Address and improve the underlying conditions that foster teen pregnancy.

• Provide age and developmentally appropriate comprehensive health and sexuality education programs that include abstinence.

• Improve and expand access to programs that provide contraceptive care.

• Prevent diversion of funding from effective programs to abstinence-only education.

• Discontinue abstinence-only curricula.