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Sexuality and Family Rights

During the past decade, Legal Momentum drew attention to federal policies that were having a particularly negative impact on women and girls.  Among these policies which received federal funding during the Bush Administration were abstinence–only education (which limited young women’s access to accurate reproductive health information), marriage promotion (advanced as a cure-all for wide-scale women’s poverty, while taking away valuable resources from women for job-force training and other proven measures), and opposition to same-sex marriage (which relied heavily on gender stereotypes).