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why are there more teenage pregnancies down South than NYC area?

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  • why are there more teenage pregnancies down South than NYC area?

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    • in the south no one will swallow

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      07.14.09, 12:19 PM Flag
    • From where do you get your statistics? Not that I would find it surprising. A few guesses would include (a) boredom, (b) still prevailing mentality in much of South that worth depends on attracting male and (c) fewer terminated teen pregnancies

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      07.14.09, 12:23 PM Flag
    • pregnancies that go full term, or just pregnancies that happen?

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      07.14.09, 12:28 PM Flag
    • i think teenagers are a lot smarter about birth control and sex here. in the south, a lot of religious kids feel like using birth control means you are planning to have sex, which means that you've thought about it and it's not a mistake. bad kids use birth control. good kids might have sex because they slip up now and then, but it's not a regular thing they plan on doing. that approach is not very good for preventing pregnancy!

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      07.14.09, 12:40 PM Flag
      • Kids in the south have abortions when the get knocked up so they can hide their "mistakes" from their religious families. I know women in their mid-30s who have abortions because they don't want to let their "Christian" parents down. Also, there are a lot of "born-again virgins" in the South because of religion. Ick. In NYC people are just more educated and don't have as much religious ridiculousness to deal w/ so they make better choices.

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        07.14.09, 12:43 PM Flag
        • I think your hypothesis on this is mis-guided.

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          07.14.09, 12:45 PM Flag
          • Which part? The education level of NY'ers or the adverse effects of too much Jeebus juice?

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            07.14.09, 12:48 PM Flag
    • More liberal abortion policies. Fifty percent or more of teenage pregnancies end in abortion in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. • By contrast, teenagers in Utah, Kentucky, South Dakota and North Dakota had the lowest abortion rates. These states also had fewer than 17% of teenage pregnancies end in abortion: South Dakota, Utah and Kentucky.

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      07.14.09, 12:44 PM Flag
      • ^^from a report by Guttmacher Inst.

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        07.14.09, 12:44 PM Flag
    • less access to abortion

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      07.14.09, 12:44 PM Flag
    • abstinence education, negative attitudes towards bc for teens, anti-abortion beliefs

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      07.14.09, 12:48 PM Flag
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