Thursday, June 10, 2010

United States has highest pregnancy rate in industrialized world!

The United States has the highest pregnancy rate of any western industrialized country. Teen girls in this country have a 34% chance of becoming pregnant by the time they are 20, or about 745,000 pregnancies anually. Two thirds of these pregnancies occur with 18-19 year old girls. The countries pregnancy rate has been declining, but still remains the highest.

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