Last year, I had created a library of images for Planned Parenthood Global, which works in rural and urban areas of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Ethiopia, and Kenya. In all of these countries, rates of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortions remain very...
Teenage Pregnancy in Guatemala
In Guatemala, half of all young women marry before the age of 20. Only five percent of them use an effective method of birth control. Forty-four percent of women become mothers before they reach 20; the proportion of young mothers is even higher among women without...