Red States Have Highest Teen Birth Rates. Blue States Lowest.

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ATLANTA - Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.

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The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have rates at roughly half the national average, which is 42 births per 1,000 teen women.


Look at the graphic in the article. Nine out of the top ten states with the highest teen pregnancy rate are red states. And New England - which I believe doesn't have a single Republican representative in congress - has the lowest.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28538524/

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1. There was an excellent article on this in the New Yorker recently.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/03/081103fa_fact_talbot

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2. But..but..abstinence only programs always work! Chimpy said so!