What Is the Teen Endangerment Act?
Congress is expected to vote on the Teen Endangerment Act, known by its sponsors as the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, H.R. 748. The bill severely restricts a young woman’s ability to obtain an abortion outside of her home state, with or without her parents’ knowledge. And it creates a confusing maze of requirements designed to isolate some teens and leaves some with no safe options.
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline's "Kiss and Tell" Law goes before Appeals Court
The Tenth Circuit will review the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas’ July 2004 decision, temporarily blocking the reporting of consensual sexual activity between teens by health care providers and counseling professionals to child services. The original challenge against the law was brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of obstetricians and gynecologists, registered nurses, psychologists, social workers, a family practice physician, a sex education teacher, and a perinatologist.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Legal Prohibitions Worldwide What is FGM?
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the collective name given to a number of cultural practices that involve the partial or total cutting of female genitals. FGM can be performed as early as infancy and as late as age thirty. However, most commonly, girls experience FGM between four and twelve years of age. The origins of FGM remain unclear.
>>Read the fact sheet Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Legal Prohibitions Worldwide
Implementing Adolescent Reproductive Rights Through the Convention on the Rights of the Child
One out of five people in the world is an adolescent. Like many other groups, adolescents all over the world have specific concerns and problems. The Convention on the Rights of the Child addresses the human rights of all persons below age 18. Since most people who are considered adolescents are below the age of 18, the Children’s Convention encompasses their human rights.
>>Download the Briefing Paper Implementing Adolescent Reproductive Rights Through the Convention on the Rights of the Child (PDF).
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