Trump Administration Cancels Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grants, Citing Promotion of Premarital Sex
The Trump administration has canceled 53 out of 67 federal grants totaling $68 million for teen pregnancy prevention programs, affecting organizations in over two dozen states. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health stated the funding did not align with priorities that prohibit content 'encouraging, normalizing or promoting sexual activity for minors.' The administration specifically accused South Carolina nonprofit Fact Forward of including lessons on condom use and normalizing pornography, which the organization's director, Rena Dixon, denied. Other program directors also claimed the government distorted their materials, noting that grants required using federally approved, age-appropriate curricula. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, established in 2010, had been credited with accelerating declines in teen birth rates. This mirrors Trump's 2017 attempt to cancel similar grants, which was overturned in court by then-District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who ruled HHS violated its own regulations. The legal viability of the current cancellations remains uncertain.
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