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“One cannot teach abstinence and chastity to the youth and then hand out a condom or put the child on birth control and expect the abstinence message to be taken seriously.  Instead, as medical providers, we need to speak of the beauty of chastity and waiting for sex within marriage which is the most sound advice for their overall psychological, spiritual and medical well-being.  What the teens then do with the information affords them some responsibility for their own actions.” --  Maria Meyers, M.D.

 
Teen Pregnancy, Birth, Abortion Rates (CDC, 2003) PDF Print E-mail
Since 1990, pregnancy rates have declined substantially for teenagers aged 15--17 years.
From 1990 to 2000, the pregnancy rate decreased 33%, from 80.3 per 1,000 females to 53.5, a record low.
The birth rate declined 42%, from its peak at 38.6 in 1991 to 22.4 in 2003.
The induced abortion rate peaked in 1983 at 30.7 and decreased by more than half to 14.5 by 2000.
SOURCES: Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw S. Estimated pregnancy rates for the United States, 1990--2000: an update; and Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Sutton PD. Births: preliminary data for 2003. These reports and additional information are available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm.
MMWR, Weekly February 4, 2005 / 54(04);100 "QuickStats: Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates* for Teenagers Aged 15--17 Years --- United States, 1976--2003"
 
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