The teen pregnancy rate in the United States has fallen to historic lows, abortion rates have declined dramatically and more women are having children out of wedlock, a study published Monday said.
The teen pregnancy rate dropped 38 percent from 1990 to 2004, with abortion rates down by half and birth rates down by more than a third, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Study said.
However, pregnancy rates among Hispanic and black teens and young women were more than double that of their white counterparts.
Some 37 percent of pregnancies for black women ended in abortion, compared with 12 percent for white women and 19 percent for Hispanic women.
Total abortion rates, however, were down to 19 percent of pregnancies in 2004 from 24 percent in 1990.
Source: AFP
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Good news for sure, but this news is certainly tempered by the other recent study by the CDC that indicated one in four teen girls has a sexually transmitted disease...
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