Title: New Data: Teen Pregnancy on the Rise, Abortions Too
The pregnancy rate began dropping in the years 1990, but then took an upturn in 2006. There were 71.5 pregnancies for ever 1,000 women under the age of 20. When it comes to abortions the rates have been going down for whites and Hispanic teens. Two-thirds of single mothers are poor. Less than half finish high school.
Reflection-
This is a lot of information that i never knew. 71.5 pregnancies is way to much. The good thing is that the abortion rates for whites and Hispanics have been going lower. What does make me think a lot is that less than half of them finish high school.
Evidence-
* 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%.
*But even in 2006, the most recent year for which figures are available, the rate was 39% lower than 1990's peak of 117 pregnancies for every 1,000 teen girls.
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