Amazing Bit of Data: The rate of teenage abortions per year-NOW LOWER-than it was before Roe v Wade

[kpete]

An Amazing Bit of Data
The rate of teenage abortions per year is now lower than it was before Roe v Wade. See the chart.

The teen pregnancy rate was lower in 2010 than it was before the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that enshrined abortion rights in the Constitution, according to new findings.

A study by the Guttmacher Institute released Monday found that teen pregnancy has "declined dramatically" since a peak in the early 1990s. The pregnancy rate per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 19 was lower than it was before the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/guttmacher-institute-roe-v-wade-teen-pregnancy
http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2014/05/05/index.html

[Blue_Tires]

1. In light of the old joke, I think a lot more teens these days

finally figured out where babies come from

[winter is coming]

2. It's a lot easier to get contraceptives now than it was pre-Roe.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I also remember a time when only married women could get birth control pills.

[winter is coming]

8. +1. And even that could be a hassle. n/t

[TexasProgresive]

3. Sex ed works

or is that abstinence

[Jackpine Radical]

5. It probly isn'd due to

aspirin held between the knees.

[RainDog]

4. k&r n/t

[redqueen]

7. Excellent news.

K&R

[mathematic]

9. More 18 and 19 year olds were intentionally starting families back then

So this isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.

A quick web search gave me this very interesting table about median age of first marriage:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005061.html

For women,
1950: 20.3
1960: 20.3
1970: 20.8
1980: 22.0
1990: 23.9
2010: 26.1

Median means that half the married women got married before those ages. I'm sure there were more shotgun weddings too. So it's a bit of chicken-or-the-egg but still, there's been a cultural shift away from teenage marriages.

[hedgehog]

10. The shift from teenage marriages may also reflect the drop in shot gun weddings and rise in

single mothers.

[hedgehog]

11. It's statistics like these that made me look at the Catholic bishops and walk over

to join the Episcopalians. It is more important to the bishops to fall in line with Rome regarding contraception than it is to prevent abortions.