U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate Continues to Fall

<p>WEDNESDAY, Jun 20 (HealthDay News) The teen pregnancy rate in
the United States dipped to a lowest accessible turn given 1976, a new
government news shows.
Teen pregnancy rates fell 40 percent from 1990 to 2008, a latest year
for that finish information are available, according to a U.S. National
Center for Health Statistics.
The report, that sum pregnancy rates for 2006 to 2008 for U.S.
women aged 15 to 44, also found pregnancy rates were disappearing among
women in their 20s and augmenting among women in their 30s and 40s.
Overall, there was a sum of 4,248,000 live births, 1,212,000 induced
abortions and 1,118,000 fetal waste in 2008. The estimated pregnancy rate
for 2008 was 105.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, that is
about 9 percent next a 1990 peak, a new news showed.
The U.S. teen pregnancy rate declined invariably during this time
period, solely for a brief upswing from 2005 to 2006. This decrease was more
pronounced in younger teens. The pregnancy rate f...