The reasons for the decline include increased motivation of youth to achieve higher levels of education, the availability of comprehensive sexuality education in schools, leading to young people's knowledge about contraception, more effective contraceptive use, and improved ability to negotiate contraceptive practice; and greater social support for services related to both pregnancy and disease prevention among adolescents.

Although teenage pregnancy rates in the United States are declining, a significant number of American teens have unintended, often unwanted, pregnancies each year, yielding negative outcomes for teenage parents, their children, and society in general. For example, teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school and live in poverty, and their children frequently experience

Although some people choose to have abortions others choose to have a baby. Deveny Chambers, 19 with a very strong Catholic background is pro-life and could never see herself in Pachiana’s shoes. “I love my baby to death, and I realize I was young when I had him, but it was no mistake. My family and my fiance stood by me and helped me get through it. I am very lucky because many people don’t have their parents for support.” She did have plans of going to The Art Institute of Atlanta last fall, and she had to

Jesy Pachiana a senior at Georgia College & State University has a very strong opinion on abortion. Pachiana says, “It’s not something you think you will ever have to go through.” One night at a drunken fraternity party, Pachiana found herself having sex with her ex-boyfriend. The details were quite foggy. When Pachiana discovered she was pregnant, she had an abortion and never told a soul, except her boyfriend and best friend. Pachiana said, “The abortion was the hardest t

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