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An Amazing Bit of Data
The rate of teenage abortions per year is now lower than it was before Roe v Wade. See the chart.
The teen pregnancy rate was lower in 2010 than it was before the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that enshrined abortion rights in the Constitution, according to new findings.
A study by the Guttmacher Institute released Monday found that teen pregnancy has "declined dramatically" since a peak in the early 1990s. The pregnancy rate per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 19 was lower than it was before the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/guttmacher-institute-roe-v-wade-teen-pregnancy
http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2014/05/05/index.html
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)finally figured out where babies come from
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)or is that abstinence
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)aspirin held between the knees.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)K&R
mathematic
(1,439 posts)So this isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
A quick web search gave me this very interesting table about median age of first marriage:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005061.html
For women,
1950: 20.3
1960: 20.3
1970: 20.8
1980: 22.0
1990: 23.9
2010: 26.1
Median means that half the married women got married before those ages. I'm sure there were more shotgun weddings too. So it's a bit of chicken-or-the-egg but still, there's been a cultural shift away from teenage marriages.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)single mothers.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)to join the Episcopalians. It is more important to the bishops to fall in line with Rome regarding contraception than it is to prevent abortions.