Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Posted on 09/29/2005 10:52:49 PM PDT by atari
WASHINGTON - U.S. teen pregnancy and birth rates have plummeted to all-time lows as more teenagers delay sex, abstain from it, use contraception and use it more effectively. Abortions also are down.
The decline, to the lowest teen birth rates since national tallies began in 1940, is a remarkable personal health reform, sharper than U.S. declines in smoking or increases in seat-belt use
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That said, the decline in pregnancy among American teenagers is impressive: In 1990, 116 teens out of every thousand aged 15 to 19 got pregnant, according to the CDC. By 2000, just 85 did. More recent estimates of teen births suggest that the decline continues.
The trend reflects a country that's "grown more conservative sexually and socially," Santelli said.
Abortions among teens dropped 44 percent from the late `80s to 2000, according to the CDC's latest figures.
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It's Bush's fault!
Dang! You beat me!
Whatever the MSM may be squawking about today, this is becoming a more conservative, much better, nation.
The MSM hates saying that.
Well past time to turn them off.
That's because Clinton's out of office. Been preoccupied with his pseudo UN gig. Better check Zimbabwe though.
"Since 1993, rape/sexual assault has fallen by over 65%." [compared with 2003]
Don't forget welfare reform. It doesn't pay to pop out babies anymore.
I think this is due to kids engaging more in oral sex...thanks exclusively to the grand tutoring by the ex-Philanderer-in-Chief, Komrade Klinton.
About 55% of U.S. boys ages 15 to 19 and 54% of girls the same ages have engaged in oral sex, while 49% of teenage boys and 53% of teenage girls have engaged in sexual intercourse, according to a survey released last week by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
"[W]e can't afford to ignore" the fact that teenagers are "still playing with fire" by engaging in oral sex instead of intercourse to prevent pregnancy, a Capital-Journal editorial says. For young people "who absolutely can't be convinced abstinence is the only safe alternative, education on the need to use condoms, even for oral sex, would help reduce the risk" of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, the editorial sayshttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=31156
The decline is great. But it's still almost 1 in 10.
But there is another problem -- adults are not having enough children!
Seriously. We are going to end up being a nation of old-timers.
"I think this is due to kids engaging more in oral sex...thanks exclusively to the grand tutoring by the ex-Philanderer-in-Chief, Komrade Klinton."
Don't forget Jocelyn Elders.
Aww geez! I was trying to forget that...creature...
Now I'm gonna have nightmares for a month! Nyack!
Ya Think?
Either that or teaching abstinance works.
Hah, that couldn't be it. Hillery said it would never work. She wouldn't lie...
I still wonder if those numbers are as low as being reported, about pregnancies and abortions for teenagers between 15 & 18? I wonder how many doctors, hospitals, and especially Planned Parenthood clinics/locations, are not reporting underage girls/women, for the fear that they will get involved in "statutory rape" cases. Or be criminally or civilly held LIABLE!!!
County Prosecutor Gets Involved In Planned Parenthood Case
Planned Parenthood Sued for Violating Abortion Parental Notification Laws
Example of destroying pregnancy tests by Planned Parenthood in IOWA:
Planned Parenthood Keeping Mum... from CNSNews.com (article could be Extreme for some readers)
I don't know about that. I think the latest statistic I read about out of wedlock births to blacks was like 68%. If that is lower, what was it before?
Perhaps the era of "Just Say No" caught on?
ditto. - if they are finding ways to get around the biggest problem and "not have sex" they have it figured out. I recently heard that some sorieties have oral sex as part of their pledge week. so the data may be flawed.
Please. Teenagers were engaging in oral sex long before Clinton. I graduated from high school in 1990, and even then, that was considered the way to go, so to speak.
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