Teen Pregnancy in the United States

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Did you know that the United State has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world?. Abstaining is the only certain way to prevent teenage pregnancy. Abstaining will help our rates goes down, and stay down. Canada has the highest rate of abortions. I would much rather have higher teen pregnancy rates, than a high abortion rates. At least we are not killing the babies in the United States. Pregnancy rates rose by 1.1% to 28.2% from 2006 to 2010.
Teenagers are not physically and mentally able to be able to take a care of a kid. This is one of the reasons that’s one reason Canada abortions rates are high in number. Over 15,000 Canadian women ages 15-19 have an abortion each year. 30% of Canadian women will have an abortion throughout their life time. Who would most likely have more abortions? Women 19 or younger tend to have more abortions, than older women. The younger the girl is harder it is to take care of the baby.
Taking care of a kid is hard enough no matter how old you are. You need to make sure you are able to provide for your kid. In most cases, not all the father of the baby will leave. The father cannot handle all that reasonability of a kid. That’s sad to say, because it takes two people to make a kid. Life would easy if it only took one person to make a kid and that would be the mom. Your kid would never have to go through being hurt because the father is not in their life.
Girls tend to turn more to abortions because they are not physically able to take care of the kid and they own up to that. Some of the times, mothers will do that because she knows the father will not be in the kid’s life. They would not be able to do that all by their self. Another reason teenager turns to abortions because their parents do no...

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