New Rankings Reveal Teen Pregnancy Rates In Each State

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New Rankings Reveal Teen Pregnancy Rates In Each State

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/teen-pregnancy-rate_n_5269203.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/udhDxQ9HCPVuneUbsyVlkw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Huffington%20Post/New_Rankings_Reveal_Teen_Pregnancy-afc88f8034caeb5aebb7e458a95328d8" width="130" height="86" alt="New Rankings Reveal Teen Pregnancy Rates In Each State" align="left" title="New Rankings Reveal Teen Pregnancy Rates In Each State" border="0" /></a>By: Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer Published: 05/05/2014 03:26 PM EDT on LiveScience The rates of teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion have plummeted in every state and among all racial and ethnic groups, a new report finds. There were 614,000 pregnancies among 15- to 19-year-old women in the United States in 2010, or about 57 pregnancies per 1,000 women in that age group, according to a new study by the Guttmacher Institute. That's a 51 percent decline from the peak rate in 1990, and a 15 percent decline from the 2008 rate, when there were about 68 pregnancies per 1,000 women</p><br clear="all"/>

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