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To: jbe who wrote (9551)10/15/1998 10:06:00 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 67261
 
OT - the boy weighs in on the Teen Pregnancy topic:

WSJ - Notable and Quotable:
President Clinton in a June 13, 1996, speech endorsing a national effort against teen pregnancy, as quoted in U.S. News and World Report:

"The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of. . . older men who prey on underage women. . . . There are consequences to decisions and. . . one way or another, people always wind up being held accountable."



To: jbe who wrote (9551)10/15/1998 10:31:00 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
 
>The teen pregnancy rate, which peaked in 1990 at 117 pregnancies per
>1,000 girls aged 15 to 19, declined to 101 in 1995, the most recent
>figures available.

Teen pregnancy dropped less than 2%. It dropped from 11.7% of the population to 10.1% of the population. The article also doesn't make a comparison of the total population size so for all one can tell, there could be more teen pregnancies now.


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