The sky looks like it is falling with the new report about increased teen pregnancies and abortions until you dissect the actual numbers.
The 36% decrease in teen pregnancies (1991-2006) equate to the years that abstinence education started receiving federal funding.
The slight increase in pregnancies started the same year that more states refused to take abstinence funding because of the negative press.
Two-thirds of the increase in teen pregnancies are to girls ages 18 and 19 when they are experiencing no support for abstinence on college campus and in the work force.
Many of them still get married and start families, but the statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, include those pregnancies with the unwed teen pregnancies, which makes them increase....
The sky is falling, so the comprehensive sex education crowd can take back the hearts and minds of our teenagers who have rejected their '60s "free love" philosophy for a healthier lifestyle that allows them to achieve their goals and dreams without the emotional, physical and social baggage that sexual promiscuity causes.
~Pam Mullarkey, founder and CEO of Project SOS, as quoted in an opinion letter to the Florida Times-Union, February 4