Drop In Calif. Teen Births Shows Effectiveness Of State’s ‘Enlightened Approach’ To Pregnancy Prevention, Editorial Says

California governors of the past two decades “deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births,” a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is “bucking a national trend” of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens ages 15 through 19 dropped to 35.2 per 1,000 teens in 2008, down from 37…

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