The U.S. Gets a ‘C’ for Reproductive Rights, Which Seems Generous - Jezabel
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For the third year, the Population Institute, a D.C.-based think tank that promotes access to family planning, has released a report card on the state of reproductive rights in the United States. Depending on where you live, things are bad to mediocre, with the country as a whole getting a ‘C’ grade and 15 states failing outright. Only 15, really?
Robert Walker, the Population Institute’s president, said in a press release that the U.S. has actually made a tiny advancement; last year, the country as a whole received a C- grade. “Nationally, the status of reproductive health and rights improved over the past year,” he’s quoted as saying. “The reported teenage birth rate, while still high, continued to fall, and as a result of the Affordable Care Act more women are able to access affordable reproductive health care. Those advances are largely responsible for the slight improvement that we see in the national grade. At the state level, however, there were several setbacks for reproductive health and rights.”