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After declining for more than a decade, the teen-pregnancy rate climbed 3% in 2006, with some 750,000 teenagers becoming pregnant, according to a Guttmacher Institute report. Abortions among teens increased 1%. Planned Parenthood blamed abstinence-only sex-education programs for the uptick, but the report notes that demographic changes and shifting attitudes toward pregnancy could also be factors...
...York City and moved to South Carolina for him - willingly, she says. She ran four successful campaigns for him, more or less willingly, for no pay. She spent six years raising their four kids pretty much alone while he was in Washington. At nine-plus months pregnant, she hosted a luncheon for John McCain and a bunch of Republican bigwigs. Somewhere along the way, she believes, Governor Sanford lost the plot. (See how Jenny Sanford is the savviest spurned woman in politics...
...Dumb Is as Dumb Does Re Verbatim [Jan. 11]: Before attacking General Anthony Cucolo in Iraq as "dumb" for dictating that female soldiers who become pregnant - and the male soldiers who impregnate them - be punished, perhaps National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill should have studied military law. It prohibits male and female service members from having sex in a combat zone. Accountability may be a foreign word to O'Neill, but it's not to the vast majority of our brave servicemen and -women. Major Paul Johnson, U.S. Marine Corps Crofton...
...When it comes to abortion, the trend line has been heading downward among whites and Hispanic teens. In 1990, 43.9% of pregnant white teens terminated their pregnancies, according to the Guttmacher report. In 2006, 29.3% did. Among Hispanics, the rate dropped from 28.1% to 22.9% in the same period. But among black teens, the rate has not moved much in 15 years - holding steady at about 41%. (Read "How to Bring an End to the War Over...
...come to an end with the enactment of a new teen pregnancy prevention initiative that ensures that programs will be age-appropriate, medically accurate and, most importantly, based on research demonstrating their effectiveness." Among teens who were not heeding the abstinence advice and were sexually active, about 15% became pregnant, down from a peak...