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Adolescent sexuality in the United States

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Adolescent sexuality in the United States relates to the sexuality of American adolescents and its place in American society, both in terms of their feelings, behaviors and development and in terms of the response of the government. educators and interested groups.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the year 2007, 35% of US high school students were currently sexually active and 47.8% of US high school students reported having had sexual intercourse. [ 1 ] This percentage has decreased slightly since 1991. [ 2 ] According to a 1994 study, every year an estimated one in four sexually active teens contracts a sexually transmitted infection (STI). [ 3 ] Teenage pregnancy is four times as prevalent in the United States as in the European Union. [ 4 ] However, US teen pregnancy rates have been steadily declining for decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and were at a "record low" as of 2012. [ 5 ]

In 1999, a Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 95% of public secondary schools offered sex education programs. More than half of the schools in the study followed a comprehensive approach that included information about both abstinence and contraception, while approximately one third of schools provided students with abstinence-only sex education. [ 6 ] In 2002, most Americans favored the comprehensive approach. [ 6 ] A 2000 study found that almost all schools included information about HIV. the virus that causes AIDS, in their curricula. [ 6 ] There have been efforts among social conservatives in the US government to limit sex education in public schools to abstinence-only sex education curricula. [ 6 ] The effectiveness of abstinence-only programs has been an issue of controversy. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]

Abortion in the United States

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Abortion in the United States . and abortion-related issues. are the subject of intense public and political debate and discussion in the United States. Various anti-abortion laws have been on every state statute book since at least 1900. Abortion was prohibited in 30 states and legal under certain circumstances (such as pregnancies resulting from rape or incest) in 20 states. The Supreme Court 1973 decision Roe v. Wade invalidated all of these laws, and set guidelines for the availability of abortion.

Roe established that the abortion right "must be considered against important state interests in regulation." [ 1 ] Roe established a "trimester" threshold of state interest in the life of the fetus corresponding to its increasing "viability" (likelihood of survival outside the uterus) over the course of a pregnancy, such that states were prohibited from banning abortion early in pregnancy but allowed to impose increasing restrictions or outright bans later in pregnancy.

That decision was modified by the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey . which upheld the "central holding" in Roe . but replacing the trimester system with the point of fetal viability (whenever it may occur) as defining a state's right to override the woman's autonomy. Casey also lowered the legal standard to which states would be held in justifying restrictions imposed on a woman's rights. Roe had held this to be "strict scrutiny "—the traditional Supreme Court test for impositions upon fundamental Constitutional rights—whereas Casey created a new standard referring to "undue burden ", specifically to balance the state's and the woman's interests in the case of abortion.

Before Roe v. Wade . abortion was legal in several areas of the United States, but that decision imposed a uniform framework for state legislation on the subject, and established a minimal period during which abortion must be legal (under greater or lesser degrees of restriction throughout the pregnancy). That basic framework, modified in Casey . remains nominally in place, although the effective availability of abortion varies significantly from state to state. Abortion remains one of the most controversial issues in United States culture and politics, with the main protagonists most often labelled either as "pro-choice " or "pro-life ", though shades of opinion exist, and most Americans are considered to be somewhere in the middle. [ 2 ]

The pro-choice position was most popular in the early to mid-1990s [ 3 ] and has since declined somewhat to levels slightly above its popularity in the late 1970s and 1980s. [ 3 ]