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An average of eight years after their abortions, married women who had aborted were 138 percent more likely to be at high risk of clinical depression compared to similar women who carried their unintended first pregnancies to term.           -- David Reardon, Ph.D., British Medical Journal, 2003
 
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The majority of teenagers in high school are virgins.

Surprised? And the increasingly pro-life views of young people may be due to "refram[ing] the national debate… shifting the emphasis from a woman’s right to the rights of the unborn child. Graphic descriptions of the partial-birth abortion procedure have also impacted young people." [American Family Association Journal, 5/28/03; Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update 4Jun03, www.abstinence.net/library/ind2; Star Tribune, 1Apr03; HLA Action News, Spring03]/

 
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