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References

Abortion

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Sexual Health & STDs

  • Nationally Representative CDC Study Finds 1 in 4 Teenage Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease, 2008 National STD Prevention Conference, Press Release, March 11, 2008.

  • STD Facts - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention. May 2023. https://www.cdc.gov/std/pid/stdfact-pid.htm 

  • Time From First Intercourse to First Sexually Transmitted Infection Diagnosis Among Adolescent Women, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Vol. 163, No. 12, December 2009, pp. 1106-1111

  • Our Voices, Our Lives, Our Futures: Youth and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, School of Journalism and Mass Communication (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), February 2004, pp. 1-25.

  • Oral Sex Among Teens - STDs and Pregnancy, National Center for Health Statistics, MedPage Today, September 16, 2005, pp. 1-4

  • Genus B human papillomaviruses and incidence of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of skin: population-based case-control study, The British Medical Journal, 2010.

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