Teen Pregnancy Rates Rising With Alaska Leading The Way: CDC Report

Although 18-year-old Bristol Palin has made headlines in recent months for her pregnancy and the birth of her son, Tripp, she has a lot of company -- in her state and in the rest of the nation.

According to the newest numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, teen births increased by 3 percent nationally in 2006, reversing a 15-year decline of more than a third. And Palin's home state of Alaska -- one of 26 states to see a rise -- led the way, with a 19 percent increase in the teenage birthrate from the previous year.

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Comments

[WIpatriot]

Well, kids will be kids, you betcha.

[Topsailsman]

Abstinence pledges.
Purity rings.
Ignorance of birth control.
Limiting sex education.
Making contraceptive products unavailable.

Is the program working????

Children of teen parents are more likely to be raised in poverty.
Children raised in poverty are less likely to acquire higher education.
Adults without higher education tend to watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Adults who watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh vote for Republicans.
Republicans establish ridiculous programs like abstinence, cycle continues.

It's working.

[Wiserone]

And, thriving home grown meth labs.

[Wiserone]

Don't 'cha know, the kids are just a lookin for that crack in the door and by golly they would just plow right through it to see the light. Praise be!

[noseysniper]

Isn't Alaska leading in rape as well?

[Wiserone]

and drug labs.

[huffyfan2]

You betcha!!!!! I hear they also get to pay for their rape kits too.

[zippy2112]

This is what happens to people who are pro life and punish their teenagers with babys.
When I was young there were no teenagers, you were a child and then you became an adult.

[janinei]

And yet another chapter in that darn Legacy Book Tour for old Bushie!

[isis]

I hope we can get our tax dollars back from the Bush friends who profited from the abstinence only programs. After all, the public schools are health accountable for student failure, why can't Bush's friends be accountable? Maybe the pro-lifers who hate planned parenthood should also be held accountable.

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

Heckuva Job Social Conservatives, Heckuva Job!

Abstinence Only Education (brought to you by the makers of Pampers).

[markinaz]

Dang Libruhls, always comin' up with yer high-falutin surveys and statistiks.

[Wiserone]

I'd prefer to be called an elitist, if you don't mind.

[DeniseD]

Funny! Thanks for the laugh.

[lunchlady]

Yes, we keep irritating the Neocons with logic and science. No wonder they hate us.

[GaiaTerra7]

How very true!

[lisakaz2]

And don't forget that the leading states are all in the south like MS, TX and NM. Way to go abstinence-only ed. I think this was their plan for the ruination of American lives and the creation of a subclass of new soldiers.

[missbulldog]

Please look at the cultural and racial make-up of those southern states. There is your answer.

[GaiaTerra7]

Proof that denial of the fact that humans are sexual creatures does not work. Chalk another defeat up to the "just say NO" crowd.

[missbulldog]

I think beginning in 3rd grade the teacher should put a big old pickle jar on his or her desk full of condoms.

[JakeHanson]

SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE

[gditty]

Say it ain't so....but, they're REAL Americans with C h r i s t a i n values.

[Nan2008]

I wonder what mAnnie Coulter has to say about this UN-WED MOTHER.

[Ivann]

Levi has been busy!

[LogicNow]

LOL!!!

[MNmommy]

This should feature a photo of Sarah, not the kids.