Venezuelan baby crisis

[Fretful_Porpentine]

@iiandyiiii

I expect usage of birth control/prophylactics has some variation, based on things like quality of sex education, availablility of cheap/easy to acquire condoms, proximity of orgs like Planned Parenthood, etc.

Yes. Also, a lot of young women from highly religious backgrounds have been indoctrinated to think that PLANNING for sex makes you a bad, bad person, while getting carried away in the heat of the moment is more forgivable.

[Shodan]

@Alessan

Bingo. Teenagers being the same everywhere, I bet most American high schools, rich or poor, north or south, have essentially the same conception rate; the only difference is how many pregnancies are brought to term.

I don’t think you meant “conception rate”. The rate at which they are having sex - maybe, but probably not. But the notion that every middle-class high school is conceiving at the same rate as some inner city school and just aborting them - no, that’s not factual.

Regards,
Shodan