Editing Reproductive rights (section)

===United States===
{{See also|Birth control in the United States}}
Among sexually experienced teenagers, 78% of teenage females and 85% of teenage males used contraception the first time they had sex; 86% and 93% of these same females and males, respectively, reported using contraception the last time they had sex.<ref name="Fact Sheet Guttmacher">{{cite web|title=Fact Sheet: Contraceptive Use in the United States|url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html|publisher=Guttmacher Institute|access-date=24 April 2013|date=4 August 2004|archive-date=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004232616/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contr_use.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The male [[condom]] is the most commonly used method during first sex, although 54% of young women in the United States rely upon the [[Combined oral contraceptive pill|pill]].<ref name="Fact Sheet Guttmacher" />

Young people in the U.S. are no more sexually active than individuals in other developed countries, but they are significantly less knowledgeable about contraception and safe sex practices.<ref name=Knudson /> As of 2006, only twenty states required [[sex education]] in schools – of these, only ten required information about contraception.<ref name=Knudson />  On the whole, less than 10% of American students receive sex education that includes topical coverage of [[abortion]], [[homosexuality]], [[Intimate relationships|relationships]], [[pregnancy]], and STI prevention.<ref name=Knudson /> [[Abstinence-only education]] was used throughout much of the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s.<ref name=Knudson />  Based upon the moral principle that sex outside of marriage is unacceptable, the programs often misled students about their rights to have sex, the consequences, and prevention of pregnancy and STIs.<ref name=Knudson />

[[Abortion in the United States]] was a [[constitutional right]] since the [[United States Supreme Court]] decision ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' which decriminalised abortion nationwide in 1973, and established a minimal period during which abortion is legal (with more or fewer restrictions throughout the pregnancy) until this decision was overturned in June 2022 by the decision ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]''. Abortion rights are now decided at the state level with only [[Abortion in California|California]], [[Abortion in Michigan|Michigan]], [[Abortion in Ohio|Ohio]], and [[Abortion in Vermont|Vermont]] conferring explicit rights to abortions. The state constitutions of [[Abortion in Alabama|Alabama]], [[Abortion in Louisiana|Louisiana]], [[Abortion in Tennessee|Tennessee]], and [[Abortion in West Virginia|West Virginia]] explicitly contain no right to an abortion.