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...every 1,000 women under the age of 20. That's 3% more than in 2005. The increase was concentrated among 18- and 19-year-olds - pregnancies among those 17 or younger rose only marginally - and occurred in a year when the number of abortions among teens rose 1%. (Read "Teen Pregnancy: An Epidemic in Foster Care...
...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...
...since 1988, received almost no federal abstinence-education funding in 2006. But neither did Wyoming, a state that has not lowered its teen pregnancy rates much. Texas, Florida and New York, the states that received the most federal abstinence funding, fell somewhere in the middle in terms of improvement. (Read "Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late...
...Read "Sex on TV Increases Teen Pregnancy, Says Report...
...Read "The Grass-Roots Abortion...