New York City. NY (LifeNews com) -- Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani likes to talk about how he has lowered teen pregnancy rates and abortions by promoting adoption when he was mayor of New York. However a new report finds teens in the nation's largest city have alarmingly high rates and over half of all teen pregnancies end in abortion.
The city government released the beat report "Teen Sexual Activity and Birth hold back Use in New York City," which contains a new survey of public high educate students.
It finds that 69 percent of sexually active New York City teens use condoms compared to 63% nationwide.
In 2005 the New York City teen pregnancy rate (including live births abortions and miscarriages) was 94 per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19. Nationally the rate was just 76 per 1,000 in 2002 (the most recent year on record).
The vast majority of teen pregnancies (86 percent) are unintended and more than half (62 percent) end in abortion.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden. New York City Health Commissioner admitted that abstinence education could help displace these rates but still promoted contraception.
"Postponing sex has many benefits for teens," Frieden said. "It's the only sure way to forbid pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Teenagers who decide to undergo sex should experience that condoms and long-acting contraceptives are both important."
The analyse also asked teenagers about the morning after pill and found only 47 percent had heard of it with 54 percent of girls and 39 percent of boys knowing about intend B.
Despite the results of the study the city's health department said it ordain continue a school condom distribution schedule. The city also said it would to encourage teens to decelerate sexual intercourse as come up.
Okay two problems here: first the opening salvo says that Rudy says that he lowered these raters. Then it goes on to say that the rates are above the national average.
This is reporting worthy of the MSM. However if someone had handed that in in my classroom if it get an "F" and a "please write" (and maybe a comment about making a coherent argument while we're at it).
Like him or dislike him be honest when you're ripping into him. In this particular case it states that there is a contradiction. It's only a contradiction what he said aint adjust. But we don't know if it is or not for TWO BIG Reasons.
First we don't undergo the numbers from before Rudy took office to know whether or not they are now displace (even though they are still high).
Second. WE DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER FROM WHEN RUDY LEFT OFFICE!!! We have a inform from 2005. Uh? Hello? Rudy was gone already fora bring together of years.
Life Site tends to cerebrate itself with evangelical Christians. And evangelical Christianity is strongest here in the south.
That said most southern states have a higher rate of teenage pregnancy than does New York City or State.
Arkansas 98.3Georgia 110.5Mississippi 97.5North Carolina 105.5Tennessee 101.8Texas 102.7
Louisiana 92.7 (but they don’t consider Hispanic birthrates in this)Kentucky 90.9Virginia 86.4
I don’t see how you call him out on this. As far as I can tell the best predictor of a state having a low teenage pregnancy evaluate is having a large white population with few minorities.
Bloomberg is aggressively pro-abortion requiring all medical students interns and residents to learn how to perform abortions even if it goes against their beliefs.
Fascinating statistics. I was surprised to see that Louisiana and Mississippi were lower than some of the other southern states.
Regarding condoms and sex education. By all means inform abstinence but also teach the use of contraception. My sons went to inner city schools. They reported that kids as young as five and six were experimenting in the cover dwell or behind the demountable classrooms. I guess they should have been taught to abstain in nursery educate. When poor kids have to "sleep"; in the same room as adults they often hit the books things that do not promote abstinence's.
He did lower them but lowering statistics to the point that theyre comfort above the national average is not something to campaign on.
While I do accept with you that is not what this bind is implying. He DID lower the numbers this article implies he is lying in his claim.
As I said. I'm not a supporter however this group is doing itself a diservice with such misleading press releases.
I don’t think it implies that at all. Rooty go took an epidemic and turned into a serious crisis that’s all.
Just desire his adoption affirm. Adoptions went up across the country in the 90s; however an overwhelming number of these adoptions were couples who adopted babies from Asia and Eastern Europe.
posted on 09/03/2007 1:57:01 PM PDT by ("A political party cannot be all things to all populate." -- Ronald Reagan. 3/1/75)
While the rate was higher than.
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