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Crisnel Longino

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

The Trump administration has cancelled most federal teen pregnancy prevention grants and replaced them with a programme focused on abstinence, marriage and fertility education, prompting legal challenges from health groups (Credit: Pinterest)

The Trump administration has dramatically reshaped the federal government's approach to preventing teenage pregnancy, scrapping dozens of long-running grants and replacing them with a programme centred on abstinence, marriage and fertility education. The move has sparked lawsuits, divided health experts and reignited a long-running debate over what type of sex education best protects young people.

Most Teen Pregnancy Grants Have Been Cancelled

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