Teenage pregnancy, birth, abortion rates all falling, report says, By Amina Khan, May 5, 2014, Los Angeles Times: “Looks like good news may come in threes. The teenage pregnancy rate, birth rate and abortion rate have all dropped sharply since their respective peaks in the 1990s, according to new research by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on reproductive health. The recent fall in these three rates shows that teen births may be down in part because fewer teens are getting pregnant in the first place, researchers said…”
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