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SVMc · Mar 27, 2005, 02:51 pm

I can never understand why it is that in the states there is such a paradox between teen pregnancy and teen abortion. On one hand people get really passionate about making abortions illegal, but as soon as the issue of prevention is brought up no one wants to talk.

http://www.agi-usa.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf

The above is the same study quoted at the begining.

The us has double the teen pregnancy rate of any other industralized nation, yet at the same time it has the lowest abortion rate of any industralized nation. Meaning while there are numerically more abortions occuring in the US this in not an issue of a large percentage of pregnancies being aborted, but a large number of teenagers getting pregnant.

So the question for the US really is how to prevent teen preganacy and in doing so the amount of abortions will drop significantly since 54% of abortions in the US are women under 20 years of age.

The answer is also provided in this study as well as many others. Teens in the US do not have more or even more frequent sex than teens in Canada, Australia, Sweeden or any other industralized nation, however teens in the US receive far less sex education than teens in other industralized nation. The majority of teens who requested abortions said they were using birth control -- evidently they need some education in this area. It is shown again and again in that providing teens with sex education does not promote more sex it promotes safe sex and good choices.

So it seems really ironic to me that the same people in the US who will picket an abortion clinic are also the ones lobbying for abstinance only sex education.

Mar 27, 2005, 02:51 pm	#12 (permalink) (top)
SVMc Lazy Sniper Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 513	I can never understand why it is that in the states there is such a paradox between teen pregnancy and teen abortion. On one hand people get really passionate about making abortions illegal, but as soon as the issue of prevention is brought up no one wants to talk. http://www.agi-usa.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf The above is the same study quoted at the begining. The us has double the teen pregnancy rate of any other industralized nation, yet at the same time it has the lowest abortion rate of any industralized nation. Meaning while there are numerically more abortions occuring in the US this in not an issue of a large percentage of pregnancies being aborted, but a large number of teenagers getting pregnant. So the question for the US really is how to prevent teen preganacy and in doing so the amount of abortions will drop significantly since 54% of abortions in the US are women under 20 years of age. The answer is also provided in this study as well as many others. Teens in the US do not have more or even more frequent sex than teens in Canada, Australia, Sweeden or any other industralized nation, however teens in the US receive far less sex education than teens in other industralized nation. The majority of teens who requested abortions said they were using birth control -- evidently they need some education in this area. It is shown again and again in that providing teens with sex education does not promote more sex it promotes safe sex and good choices. So it seems really ironic to me that the same people in the US who will picket an abortion clinic are also the ones lobbying for abstinance only sex education. Capitalism is: Man exploiting man. Socialism is the other way around.