Abstinence: The Easiest Way To Reduce Teen Abortion

The United States of America is known for many of its outlandish and outrageous statistics in comparison to other countries. Statistics regarding obesity, homicide rates, and political issues have displayed many of the nation?s weak points. However, the amount of teen pregnancy has become so excessive that it is becoming a cry for help and a statistic that is greatly standing out and can no longer be ignored. In 1999 about one million teenagers experienced a pregnancy. This rate was twice the amount in England, Wales, and Canada and nine times greater than that of the Netherlands and Japan. About 78% of these American teenage pregnancies were said to be unplanned.

America has no respect for life even when it comes to human life. Now a day’s unexpected pregnancy is very common in teenagers, and abortions is one of the first choices when a baby is not wanted. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the abortion rate is 13.9 out of 1,000 women aged 15-44.

"Declines in teenage pregnancies can be achieved through two mechanisms--changes in sexual behavior and changes in contraceptive use. Some observers have claimed that the declines are the result of increased abstinence..."(Darooch 2016). The key to a decline in teenage pregnancy and an increase in higher education is through abstinence. Teens need to be exposed to ways to stay free from sexual behaviors and encouraged by peers to stay pure. To keep teens included in family life and sure in their future will encourage them to stay safe and secure their lives. No one can make a teenager choose to stay away from sexual activity except themselves but influences from the outside will determine their answer tithe inevitable question at a party or on a date. Abstinence is not old fashioned, it is current and real and what should be elevated in society. America needs to turn around and look at where they are headed with young people and evaluate whether or not it is what they want to be making the desk ions for the world in years to

Early on in life, our youths would be able to take better care of themselves. Lecturing teenagers on how to effectively use contraception help them prevent early pregnancy and avoid becoming part of a statistic. At an early age, having an abortion can become a health hazard. “Teenage abortion patients are up to twice as likely to experience cervical lacerations during abortion compared to older women”, said Amy R. Sobie and David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Teaching kids about proper health care helps them with the transition from a girl to a women. Being aware with what’s going on with their body and always protecting their self from experiencing harmful situations (like abortions) is a show of maturity. Enhancing our youth knowledge on birth control devices can only help them in the future on being a responsible

According to Clemmit(2010), although there is still a lot of hype surrounding teen pregnancy and birth rates, teens have been less sexually activity, they have been using contraceptive, and getting fewer abortions more recently than they did in earlier decades. This shows that the current generation is using prevention techniques that were previously not being adopted by teens. To illustrate, teen births and pregnancies have been declining in the United States since the late 1950s. Although that might sound like the problem has subsided, the teen birth rates remain much higher in the U.S. than in many other industrialized societies, such as Canada and Western Europe. To illustrate, in 2007, Germany 's rate was about one-quarter the U.S. rate, France 's was one-sixth and the Netherlands ' one-ninth(Cemmit, 2010).

Endersbe, “Almost 500,000 babies are born to teen mothers each year.”(Endersbe,1) but many teen parents do not plan for a child or even consider wanting one. There are more girls getting pregnant now than there was 20 years ago and most schools in the US have a course that can inform them on the precautions in having sex at a young age and that teen pregnancy is something that they can prevent. These courses or programs teach young adults to be safe and hold off on sex. However, schools are enforcing the use of contraceptives if teens do choose to engage in sex. Because Americans encourage safe sex they want to teach young minds to be safe and use protection. With the knowledge that teens developed about safe sex, there are now “78% of teens using contraceptives during sexuual intercourse.” (Endersbe, 6) which is a good

Teenagers today are very sexually active and with the benefit of using condoms it can reduce the risk of the teen becoming pregnant. According to an article by Stanley K. Henshaw, “Teenagers in the United States usually start their sexual activity at the age of seventeen and two thirds have had sex before graduating high school” (Henshaw). The percentage of high school girls becoming pregnant is increasing as the years go on. As soon as one person comes out and says that they have been having sexual intercourse with someone, then others will try and be “cool” and go have sex with whoever they see. With the teenager having sex in high school and other teenagers finding out that their friends are, it will be impossible to tell them to stop having sex.

“Among American adolescent girls who have ever had intercourse, approximately one in six becomes pregnant” (Ventura et al., 2008). Teen pregnancy is an ongoing dilemma that concerns the baby, parents, and other family members. Anyone under the age of eighteen years old is considered to be a child and every year approximately 750,000 women aged fifteen to eighteen become pregnant (Guttmacher Institute, 2006). Also, teen pregnancy represents eleven percent of all births in the United States (Guttmacher Institute, 2006). The underlying cause of teen pregnancy is mainly the lack of education on sexual and reproductive health and not enough being taught about how to use contraceptives. To help educate this knowledge it is dependent on not only

A topic in American society that has proved to be an ongoing, and growing issue is that none other than teen pregnancy. In recent years, teen pregnancy rates have been increasing, which ultimately led to the topics increase of public and media attention. In American society teen pregnancy is often associated with negligence, as well as being irresponsible. In American society sex education for children is underdeveloped and instead society tends to use fear and shame to highlight/combat the dangers of unsafe or underage sex. American society uses fear to instill the idea that if you become pregnant as a teenager you are a burden to society. Along with fear society loves to shame its young women who have unfortunately stumbled upon the

In today’s society teens are faced with many pressures. The effect of these pressures put on them, is the inability to make right decisions when it comes to certain situations. One of the most common situations teens find themselves in is becoming a parent at a young age, a result of pressure to have sex from peers. Over the years, the numbers of teen pregnancy have indeed decreased, but in the United States alone, teen pregnancies are at an all time high. A recent study conducted by Victor C. Strasburger, a doctor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, concluded that of the teen pregnancies, 95% of them are unplanned, and only a third of the pregnancies end with the mother keeping the child. With statistics like these, the

As a teen in this day and age, there's a huge stigma involving sex and pregnancy. It's often viewed as wrong, gross, maybe even sinful. But teen pregnancies happen more often than you think, in fact there’s an estimated 229,715 babies born to mothers aged 15-19, in which the birth rate is 22.3 per 1,000 women in the US. Almost half of these women are then kicked out by their relatives and left alone by their partner, left to fend alone by themselves. They tend to then drop out of high school and work full time doing a minimum-wage job to care for their child, disrupting their social, emotional, and physical well-being.

Teen pregnancy, and abortions is something that is becoming a trending issue in American Society. There are TV shows being made high-lighting teen pregnancy it’s being freely talked about through social media. With this type of promoting it’s making young girls think teen pregnancy it’s cute “Oh I get to be on a show” is the new fun thing to do today. With them being so young, and naïve it is easy to manipulate them. Recently recorded in 2011 the abortion rate in women aged from 15-44 is 13.9 per 1000 women. The ratio is 219 per 1000 live births. Teen pregnancy rate is a little bit more updated in 2015 it was recorded that with 229,715 babies being born from women aged between 15-19 years old. Teen pregnancy, and abortions are influenced by a lot of things. Men nowadays are a lot more mature and know how to manipulate young girls to get them in bed, parents are sometimes absent at home, and schools are no longer talking about the dangers of unprotected sex.

What is Teen Pregnancy? It is the pregnancy of adolescent girls from the ages of 13-20. Teen Pregnancy is one of the most trending things happening in today’s society. Statistics shows that 1,000,000 girls become pregnant every year (Garth). Being that the United States is in the highest percentage of teen pregnancy, 40% will have government assistance (Garth). The teen birth rate from 1990-1995 per 1,000 girls was 64 in the United States from 15 to 19 year olds, 13% in Germany, 9% in France, and 7% . The rate of teen abortion in the United States is higher than Europe with statistics showing that 17% per 1,000 girls, 7.9% in France, 5.2% in Netherlands. Germany is the second highest abortion rate ranking at 8.7% for women ages 15-49.( Sex Education Can Prevent Teen Pregnancy).Because of these statistics, Sex Education and SexualAbstinence should be taught in America to prevent teen pregnancy.

Each year in the US almost 1 million teens become pregnant. While the facts are clear, the issues of teenage pregnancy are complicated. Talk of sex is everywhere in our society and young girls are portrayed as sex objects. Sex is used to sell everything from clothing to news and yet people are shocked at the rising number of teenagers who are sexually active. The concern about the welfare of infants and adolescents is so much that we

“12.3 Live births per 1,000 women aged 15-17 in 2013.” ( Main, 2015, para.1) Going in public, many teens are pregnant or have already had a baby. Teen pregnancy is a very big concern in society. Everyone needs to come together as a whole to find ways to prevent this from happening so often. Teen pregnancy is a reoccurring problem, but there are ways to prevent them such as starting programs or classes in schools so teens understand why they should not have children, using a contraceptive, and watching TV shows so they can understand being a teen mom is not easy.