And the state with the largest increase in teen pregnancy is ...

HuckleB

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Sat Feb-06-10 11:30 PM
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And the state with the largest increase in teen pregnancy is ...

http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-state-with-largest-increase-in-teen.html

"Surprise! It's Alaska, home of that stalwart supporter of abstinence only education, Sarah Palin, and her daughter Bristol, a teen who became pregnant outside of marriage. That startling bit of information is was included in CDC statistics that formed the basis for a new review calling attention to a worrisome development. After years of dropping steadily, the teen pregnancy rate has plateaued and begun to rise.

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The data suggest that teen pregnancy is not a matter of sex education, but rather a lifestyle choice. In that sense, it does reflect the abject failure of abstinence only education. Abstinence only education has had no impact on rates of teen sexual activity, and now rates of both unintended and intended teen pregnancy are rising once again.

But fact based sex education does not appear to be the answer, either. Teens are choosing to get pregnant and choosing to carry pregnancies to term, putting in doubt one of the fundamental assumptions of fact based sex education, that teens who know more will take more precautions to avoid pregnancy.

If we intend to decrease the rate of teen pregnancy, the answer will not lie in either type of sex education alone."

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Bwahahahahahhahahahahahaha! Sarah Palin. But, still, the good doctor does bring up the reality that we have not found a great way to deal with the issue to date.

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BrklynLiberal

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Sat Feb-06-10 11:32 PM
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1. What a shock.......

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Flying Dream Blues

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Sat Feb-06-10 11:33 PM
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2. Not at all surprising, but very sad. nt

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msongs

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Sat Feb-06-10 11:46 PM
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3. stupid teen boys have been doing this since......the crack of dawn lol nt

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Sun Feb-07-10 12:27 AM
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4. Dawn should

keep her crack covered up if she doesn't want to get pregnant.

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progressoid

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Sun Feb-07-10 12:59 AM
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5. The un-reccers are up late tonight!

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dbt

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Sun Feb-07-10 01:03 AM
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6. They never sleep, the poor things.

And their dreams are as empty as their pointed little heads.

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HuckleB

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Sun Feb-07-10 09:06 AM
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7. That really is a sad state of affairs.

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