# Starving Artist Has Issues With Long Hair

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**Created:** [July 12, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-has-issues-with-long-hair/502775 "2009-07-12T18:49:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-has-issues-with-long-hair/502775/207 "2009-07-13T21:47:32Z")

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> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> The birth rate went down because they are all getting abortions now, duh.

I know you’re posting tongue in cheek, but the year-old post by **FinnAgain** would seem to cover that:

> [@Amsterdam Pro Gay-Idiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amsterdam-pro-gay-idiots/478336/184):
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> And, no, [you are wrong.](http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/05/1/gr050107.html) In fact, you have it exactly backwards. From a preliminary report that actually overestimated the data for 2000:
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> “The rate of teen childbearing in the United States has fallen steeply since the late 1950s, from an all time high of 96 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 in 1957 to an all time low of 49 in 2000”  
> And before you object: “Among teens in the United States, at least in recent years, declining birthrates are not the result of more pregnant teens opting to have an abortion.”.

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