Secretary of Health Alex Azar consolidated the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and Title X (the federal program for affordable birth control) under anti-birth control, anti-abortion, pro-abstinence advocate Diane Foley.

The Trump-Pence administration wanted to remove the requirement to base sex education on scientific evidence.

The vast majority (85%) of Americans support keeping funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.

Across party lines, over 93% of parents say comprehensive sex education in schools is extremely important.

Hundreds of studies have shown that school sex education programs can help young people change specific behaviors related to safe sex. Such behaviors include waiting to have sex, and using condoms and contraception when young people do have sex. Any sex education curriculum should assess the specific needs of the students, as well as involve people with different backgrounds in theory, research, and sex and STD/HIV education.

Teenage pregnancy reached an all-time low in 2017, in part thanks to the educational resources provided by programs like the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program — a program that the administration attempted to end.

Scientific evidence shows that abstinence-only-until-marriage programs — which the Trump-Pence administration attempted to rebrand as "sexual risk avoidance" — don’t work, and can actually be harmful.

Young people need accurate information to make healthy decisions about their bodies and their futures — without fear or shame. But abstinence-only programs often blame survivors for their own sexual assaults and ignore the needs of LGBTQ+ teens.

Atempts to cut funds to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program coincided with the administration’s appointment of abstinence-only-until-marriage activist Valerie Huber to the Department of Health and Human Services.