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Sounds like we need more birth control, abortion and sexual education in schools.
I went to a prep school for high school where students lived in dorms and lots of them were having sex. Nobody got pregnant because we had a health center that provided multiple forms of birth control to all the students free of charge. They even provided the Morning-After-Pill.
You obviously missed my post on working in a state run abortion/birth control clinic, where the majority of our patients were poor minorities. Availability of birth control does NOT translate into "no one got pregnant." In your prep school, girls didn't get pregnant because they had the foresight to use birth control, most likely because, as another poster said, getting pregnant would put a spanner in their plans.
You know, you can lead a horse to water, but . . .
Everything is black and white for you. Nothing else. It is always "Liberal this or that" or "hussein Obama that" or discriminating against other faiths except your own.
You want to bet there are teenage pregnancies in red states as well?
Wanna bet that those teenage pregnancies in red states come mostly out of the same community that produced this wonderful high school in chicago?
Wanna bet that those teenage pregnancies in red states come mostly out of the same community that produced this wonderful high school in chicago?
Wanna bet that you're way off-target?
Welcome to Connersville, Indiana (last election notwithstanding, a diehard Red state), pop. around 15,000. Overwhelmingly white, Republican, Evangelical Christian, blue-collar. Incredible unemployment figures.
My daughter's high school averages 15 - 20 pregnant girls every year.
Is there a Planned Parenthood in town? No, and none within this county.
Is sex ed taught in schools? No, abstinence-only.
The problem appears to be a combination of factors: boredom, immaturity, envy/copycat behavior, and knowing that the community will always support the pregnancy once it begins (ie, no shame involved).
Change the consequences of the behavior, and the behavior will change.
Welcome to Connersville, Indiana (last election notwithstanding, a diehard Red state), pop. around 15,000. Overwhelmingly white, Republican, Evangelical Christian, blue-collar. Incredible unemployment figures.
My daughter's high school averages 15 - 20 pregnant girls every year.
Is there a Planned Parenthood in town? No, and none within this county.
Is sex ed taught in schools? No, abstinence-only.
The problem appears to be a combination of factors: boredom, immaturity, envy/copycat behavior, and knowing that the community will always support the pregnancy once it begins (ie, no shame involved).
Change the consequences of the behavior, and the behavior will change.
One town of 15,000 in a country of 300 million doesn't help your argument in any way.
Fact is (yes, FACT) that teenage pregnancy and out of wedlock pregnancy rates in the black and latino communities DWARFS that of white communities.
One town of 15,000 in a country of 300 million doesn't help your argument in any way.
Fact is (yes, FACT) that teenage pregnancy and out of wedlock pregnancy rates in the black and latino communities DWARFS that of white communities.
Got facts?
Facts? How about working with Labor & Delivery cases from over 9 states in the last 11 years?
I am seeing no substantial difference in the urban/rural setting with regard to teenage pregnancies....but overwhelmingly I have seen more teen pregnancies occurring in white teenagers.
The only area where this did not occur was in Dallas, where instead I saw the majority of births--teen and adult--coming from patients not possessing Social Security numbers.
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