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'teen pregnancy'

Arkansas children suffer more than almost any in the country, per new report

“Lack of political will and lack of targeted investments in our children keeps Arkansas near the bottom of the states," Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Executive Director Rich Huddleston said. "While Arkansas’s lawmakers this week begin debating giving generous tax cuts to the wealthiest Arkansans, we’ve got more children living in poverty, more students lacking proficiency in reading and math, and more teens giving birth than in most other states.”
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House passes bill to allow pharmacists to dispense birth control without prescription

In a vote that split the Republican majority Tuesday afternoon, the Arkansas House of Representatives approved a measure that would 
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Surprise! Free birth control program leads to lower teen pregnancy and abortion rates

Headline from Vox says it all: "St. Louis gave teens free birth control, and they now have very low abortion rates." A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that a program to give away free birth control to teens in St. Louis led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy and abortion rates.

Surprise! Birth control pills prevent pregnancy

NY Times blog rounds up reporting on a decline in the teen pregnancy rate and observations that the rate, by state, tends to track sex education and family planning practices.
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News summary: A odor at the state Board of Election Commissioners; a booming teen birth rate; illegal alligators

Abstinence-only sex education is a flop

This is by no means the first report with similar findings, but it never hurts to attempt to penetrate Arkansas legislative skulls with facts that challenge their wishful thinking: From researchers at the University of Georgia: States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University of Georgia have determined.
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