Young people overwhelmingly struggle to access birth control: study

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  • Young people overwhelmingly struggle to access birth control, according to new national survey data from Advocates for Youth. 
  • Fifty-five percent of survey respondents said they experienced so many barriers that they were unable to start taking birth control on their preferred timeline.
  • Of those respondents, 58 percent experienced a pregnancy scare, 20 percent got pregnant when they didn’t wa...