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A report shows that sexually active teens are far more likely to be depressed and to attempt suicide than those who hold off until marriage.

More than a quarter (25%) of teen girls who said they were sexually active also said they had been depressed "a lot of the time" or "most or all of the time" in the previous week, compared to 7.7% of girls who said they weren't sexually active.

And, 60.2% of girls who refrained from sex said they were "never or rarely" depressed, compared to just 36.8 percent of sexually active girls who were never or rarely depressed.

 

For boys, 8.3% of those who were sexually active reported problems with depression, compared to just 3.4% for those who weren't.  

Girls who were sexually active were 3 times more likely to say they had attempted suicide than those who weren't. Sexually active boys were nearly 9 times more likely to have attempted suicide.

The majority of teens who had become sexually active admitted they'd started too soon and expressed regret.

[Sex, sadness and suicide, Heritage Fdn., 3Jun03; data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, 1996, for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and 17 other federal agencies. The in-home survey (given with parental permission) interviewed 6,500 people 14-17 years old]

 
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Recently a young woman at San Jose State University received a copy of You Can Stop Injustice-HLA's exciting new campus supplement.

Her response was typical of students who read our materials:

Before I read your papers, I didn't have much against abortion before 3 weeks of pregnancy, but now that I know the procedure, it opened my eyes to the pure evil behind it all... No life is worth less than another, we are all equal and are all sent to earth for a reason. God loves us all... I am 110% against abortion!     A life is a life...

With responses like this, no wonder we have requests to develop new materials to reach other populations.

HLA's second edition of Did You Know? is designed to fill this need for an educational resource that reaches the African American community with the pro-life message.

New articles such as "A Planned Parenthood Insider Speaks Out," "Targeting our Children" and "Abortion & Premature Birth" makes Did You Know? an essential element of your pro-life tool kit.

78% of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in poor and minority neighborhoods.

In fact, Planned Parenthood's latest fact sheet illustrates how their business progressed between 2007 and 2008:

Adoption referrals plummeted dramatically from 4,912 in 2007 to 2,405 in 2008.
Prenatal clients dropped from 10,914 in 2007 to 9,433 in 2008.
Surgical abortions increased from 305,310 in 2007 to 324,008 in 2008.

 
We can see that the United States' largest abortion chain is really about abortion-and nothing else.

We know they target African Americans and other minorities.
[November 11, 2010, www.humanlife.org
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