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.

• • Cross-sex hormones for gender-confused minors without parental notification or consent.

• • 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.”