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Decline in Bexar County teen pregnancy rate

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Published: 5/02/2012 7:02 pm

Updated: 5/02/2012 7:05 pm

SAN ANTONIO -- Teen pregnancy is declining in Bexar County, but the teen birth rates continue to be 47% higher than the national average.
Project Worth released the latest teen pregnancy data Wednesday, which is also the 11th annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
In 2011, 2,952 teenagers gave birth in Bexar County. That number is down 9.8% since 2010, when 3,276 teens gave birth in Bexar County.
Project Worth and the city's Metro Health department credit education for the decline.
For an educational quiz on teen pregnancy, click here http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/national/.

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BACKTOYOU - 5/3/2012 8:33 AM

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All the northside parents are shipping their daughters out of town to stay with relatives.

fjm1061 - 5/3/2012 7:51 AM

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Come to Ingram Park Mall any weekday.

akhenaten - 5/3/2012 6:28 AM

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That's because just about every teen around here who wants to get pregnant already is or has been. This doesn't prove that there's less teen sex.

CommonSense77 - 5/3/2012 5:42 AM

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"Teenagers" is a pretty large grouping. While I think they are all too young to have babies, there's a difference if we're talking about 13 or 14-year olds or 18 and 19-year olds. Ignorance does not create abstinence, but information can prevent pregnancy. There should not be one kid in the schools that reaches the age of potential sexual activity (which nowadays is 11 or 12, or even younger, it seems) that does not understand in detail how the human body works.

wilsoncl - 5/2/2012 9:38 PM

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I demand a recount!! I know that this is a load of bull.

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