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Imagine this: You have just decided to become sexually active. You are confronting fears about unwanted pregnancies, STIs and internalized stigmas about sex and your own body.

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Mariah Furtek: UCLA must apply Senate Bill 493, educate students about contraceptives

By Mariah Furtek

April 17, 2017 10:14 p.m.