Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Teen Pregnancies, Abortions Drop from 1990 to 2004: CDC

14 April, 2008, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, retrieved 22 April 2008
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=88653

This article explains mostly about the declination of teen pregnancies fron 1990-2004. It states that 38% of the pregnancies in 2004 were women under the age of 25. It went 43% down since 1990. Teenage births dropped 15% in 1990 and 12% in 2004. The abortions also fell 24% since that time. Two years after 2004 the number of teens having babies rose, but no one knows if the rise is just temporary or a start of a turning point. An average American womanis expected to have 3.2 pregnancies in a lifetime. Of all teen pregnancies 51% end up giving life birth, 35% get abortion and 13% are due to fetal loss.

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