One out of three young women in the U.S. becomes pregnant before they’re 20-years-old.
Today is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and instead of pushing dangerous and ineffective abstinence-only ed programs, pro-choice groups are urging lawmakers to vote on commonsense legislation that will actually work.
NARAL Pro-Choice America is asking Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to allow a vote on Sen. Robert Menendez's (D-NJ) Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act, which includes proposals to help prevent teen pregnancy and protect young women’s health and well-being:
Sen. Menendez stressed the importance of after-school programs and partnerships with community-based organizations."We need to provide opportunity and education for young people to help prevent teen pregnancy in the first place, and my bill will take an important step by increasing access to after-school programs as well as partnerships with faith-based and other community organizations," Sen. Menendez said.
Find out more about the bill: Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility and Opportunity Act (S.2508)
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Read an interesting article on this today, actually...
http://www.slate.com/id/2140985/
Basically, there's a lot of (still inconclusive) research going on that the drop in teen pregnancy rates over the past few decades has more to do with growing infertility due to interference of chemicals and pollution with normal reproduction, than with social programs. Scary stuff!