Nylah Lewis' 19-year-old father, Shaquan Taylor, posted on Facebook last year that he wished his daughter had been aborted.
Teen pregnancy is on the decline.
Teenage pregnancy rates in the United States have reached a historic low. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, pregnancy has declined by 52 percent for 15-17 year-olds and 36 percent for 18-19 year-olds. And for Black teens alone, the rate has fallen 51 percent between the years of 1990 and […]
Emergency contraceptives like the Plan B pill is only available to women over 17 without a prescription. But now things have changed! A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove longstanding age and point of sale restrictions that prevent women from being able to access emergency contraception. The FDA […]
An NYC subway ad featuring a crying child with the caption, “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen,” is attempting to reduce and even stop teen pregnancy. While I do believe emotional ads are effective, I think this one is a bit tasteless and trying too […]
A new study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics reports that the sex rate for young people is dropping. The research indicates that 27% of males and 29% of females aged between 15 and 24 have never had any kind of sexual experience. Predictably, the results show the highest statistics for abstaining are […]
Recently I heard the distressing news that in a school in Memphis, 90 girls were pregnant or had become mothers in the last year. Shelby county, where the school is located, is a very poor area with almost 100% of the students qualifying for federal funding for free school lunches. In this school, a student […]
