Planned Parenthood advocates against:

• Mandatory reporting laws when sexual abuse of minors is suspected.

• Parental consent laws regarding (1) abortion for minors, (2) contraception, (3) instruction in sexual education. They consider these to be barriers to “reproductive rights.”

• Laws requiring HIV-positive youth to inform their sexual partners they are infected with HIV.

• Safety and health requirements for abortion clinics.

• Any restrictions on abortion.

• Laws defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.

• Abstinence-based sex-education policies.

• Age of consent laws for minors.

• Laws restricting consensual sex of any kind.

• Conscience clauses that allow doctors and pharmacists to refuse to prescribe or dispense abortafacient drugs or to perform abortions against their beliefs.

 Planned Parenthood advocates for:

• Abolishing any restrictions on abortion including on partial birth abortion.

• Mandatory comprehensive sexuality education for minors without parental consent.

• Sexual rights that include unrestricted sexual freedom for all at any age.

• The right of both children and adults to experience sexual pleasure.

• The liberalization of all gender and sexual norms in society.

• The legalization of same-sex marriage.

• Gay, lesbian, transsexual, and bisexual rights.

• Bans on therapy to help minors with unwanted same-sex attraction.

• The liberalization of pornography laws.

• Peer-to-peer sexuality education.

• Instructing children on masturbation.

• Lowering of age of consent laws.

• The legalization of prostitution.

• Destigmatization of “men who have sex with men.”