Why don’t we teach kids math instead of how to get pregnant?
In 2012 Swain reported 30 teen pregnancies among 15- to 19-year-olds, down from 33 in 2011. The rate per 1,000 was 63 percent. The rate is calculated by adding up the number of abortions, fetal deaths after 20 weeks and total births and dividing that sum by the county’s population, said APPCNC spokesperson Elizabeth Finley.
Redefinition of the term “percent” is not the story. 12,535 teen pregnancies were reported in the state last year. That’s great because wise women are doing what they want with their bodies and the bodies of the next generation, mocking the idiots who think life is sacred; and stud muffins are exercising their right to abandon that which they help create. What matters is not that we try to live in a society where people bear some responsibility for their actions, but that we can encourage children from a young age to watch dirty programs, party, get drunk, and in the words of that great moral philosopher Katy Perry, “do it all again.” The old fogeys can mop up.
