Great news!

We just won our class-action lawsuit to protect funding for the evidence-based $100-million-a-year Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.

The Trump administration had sought to pull grants previously committed to local programs around the country and divert the funds to pay for abstinence-only programs.

We sued on behalf of 62 program grant recipients.

Now the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has held that action to be unlawful, preserving funding for the grant recipients.

This is a big deal.

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program has helped drive a historic decline in teen birth rates.

By contrast, ideologically driven abstinence-only education is a proven failure.

Here’s what Evelyn Delgado, president and CEO of Healthy Futures of Texas — the lead organization in the class action — said about our victory:

With this decision, our youth now have the chance for better health, educational attainment and economic opportunities that will change their lives. The decision enables us to continue making significant progress in reducing teen birth rates in Texas and across the country.

To satisfy ideological extremist demands, the Trump administration was willing to throw that away.

We stopped them.

That's what happens when we come together and fight for accountability, justice, health and equality.

Thanks for all your support, and for all you do.

Onward,

Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen