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Latino Teens Becoming Less Sexually Active, Data Shows

VOXXI | Hope Gillette | Posted 02.08.2013 | Latino Voices
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Sexual activity among Latino high school students has dropped by 3.9 percent according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)....

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Katy Hall

5 Awful Reasons For Limiting Access To Birth Control

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics
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Emergency contraception should be made available to teenage girls over the counter, a major pediatric group recommended Monday, just a week after the ...

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Young Women Have Gotten Smarter About Sex

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.04.2012 | Women
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ATLANTA -- More teen girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says. About 60 percent of teen girls who have sex use the ...

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Behind the Sharp Decline in Teen Births

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 02.13.2012 | Healthy Living
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Sharon L. Camp

The recently-reported decline in teen pregnancy can be linked almost exclusively to improvements in teens' contraceptive use, according to new data from a major government study, the CDC's National Survey of Family Growth.

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How Young Is Too Young For Birth Control?

Posted 09.21.2011 | Healthy Living
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Apparently, more and more teen girls are popping pills -- birth control pills, that is. A Thomson Reuters study released this past March reported ...

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