... that about two-thirds of births to teenage girls nationwide are fathered by adult men age 20 or older. The United States at Mid-Decade, CJ DeVita, Population Bulletin 50(4), Population Reference Bureau: Washington DC, March 1996. The Alan Guttmacher Institute reported in 1994 that six of ten girls who had sex before age 15 were coerced by ... Psychotic Reactions, HP David et al, Family Planning Perspectives 13:88, March/April, 1981. Similarly, the failure to take a psychiatric history failed to take into account a Canadian study that found that women with a previous psychiatric history ...

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... women choose to end about 25% of their pregnancies through abortion. This number has been gradually declining since 1979. This is similar to the Canadian figure of 21%, 2 but is much lower than that of the former Soviet Union (60%) and Romania (78%) where contraceptives are ... funding after some groups adopted a policy of harassing abortion providers' homes and those of their neighbors. During the late 1990's, two Canadian pro-life groups lost their charitable status with Revenue Canada. Attendance at abortion protests now fail to attract large numbers of supporters. ... to regulate ab...

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... a whole. By preventing unwanted pregnancies throughout the world, contraception has made the lives of millions much easier. Also, the use of condoms has reduced the amount of dangerous STD cases. Population control by means of birth control is a benefit to the economic system as well. Clearly, birth control was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. Almost all women ... unwanted pregnancy during each menstrual cycle. Approximately 8% a year will fail. That small percentage means that hundreds of thousands of Canadian women will experience an unplanned pregnancy each year. T...

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