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W.Va. Sees Spike in Number of Pregnancy for Girls 15-17
http://www.wowktv.com/story/16070023/west-virginia-sees-spike-in-number-of-pregnancy-for-girls-15-to-17 ^ | 11/18/2011 | Nicky Walters/WOWK-TV

Posted on 11/18/2011 5:33:40 AM PST by Morgana

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To: Morgana
Probably the subliminal messaging in their T-shirts...


21 posted on 11/18/2011 6:06:23 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: TSgt

Ugh! That was absolutely disgusting, but like a car wreck I couldn’t stop looking it.


22 posted on 11/18/2011 6:06:56 AM PST by whatshotandwhatsnot (Islam wants you dead.)
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To: Morgana

I didn’t realize that Bill Clinton has been spending time in West Virginia.


23 posted on 11/18/2011 6:08:24 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Morgana

Some antibiotics will reduce the efficacy of the pill. I know a couple of women who have become pregnant while taking the pill and on an antibiotic regimen, even though the pill was normally effective. Was there an outbreak of some in-school-transmitted or community acquired disease that required antibiotic treatment that may have led to an uptick in pregnancy?


24 posted on 11/18/2011 6:08:58 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Morgana

We do thank God and ask His protection for the Pro-Life community. How our country has degenerated to the point where US Marshalls are used to protect abortionist is beyond me. But not beyond my study of Scripture.


25 posted on 11/18/2011 6:12:14 AM PST by JakeS (I have never had a flu shot and I have never had the flu.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Actually a lot of meds reduce the affects of the pill. I take medication right now that has stickers on that that read “may reduce the affects of the pill”. This is why a woman must tell her doctor every med she is on. Do you think teens do this? NO! Don’t want mommy and daddy to know they are taking the pill. So they get pregnant and wonder why.


26 posted on 11/18/2011 6:18:13 AM PST by Morgana (This space for rent.........cheap)
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To: Morgana

I guess the girls have been watching that TV program with the Duggar family in it and the re-runs!


27 posted on 11/18/2011 6:18:55 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Morgana
I don't think this is really anything new in West Virginia, when I was a teen in the state back in the 80's there was a running joke that went something like

Q. Why do so many teens get pregnant in West Virginia?

A. What ELSE is there to do on a Friday night?

28 posted on 11/18/2011 6:46:35 AM PST by apillar
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To: Morgana

At least the wording in the story isn’t what they typically use in UK stories about such matters... you know, when they talk about so and so ‘fell pregnant’.....


29 posted on 11/18/2011 6:52:37 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Morgana

This reminds me of a totally UN-PC joke (with all apologies to WV Freepers as it’s just a joke).

What’s the most frequently heard phrase coming out of the bedroom window of a mobile home in West Virginia?

“Git off me Daddy! Yer crushin’ my cigarettes!”


30 posted on 11/18/2011 7:07:34 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Mittt Romney - he lacks the courage of his absence of convictions .)
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To: Morgana

In some areas there are real financial incentives for girls to have babies, and the more the better. I know girls who were able to move out of their parents’ modest apartment, get their own more luxurious place in a good school district, and enjoy a life free of the need to work, all because of the generous local/county/state assistance programs for mothers and children. Especially in times of economic hardship when an uneducated girl is not going to be able to find work, this looks like an attractive possibility even with the 2 a.m. feedings.


31 posted on 11/18/2011 7:35:22 AM PST by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: Morgana

The answer is found in welfare. WV has been a welfare state since LBJ’s great society experiment. It ain’t working.


32 posted on 11/18/2011 1:21:59 PM PST by WVNan (!)
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To: ottbmare

You hit it right on ott. In WV, times have always been tough. The people are rugged and clannish. For generations the role of women has been to have babies. Used to be they were expected to also raise a garden,wash and iron clothes and can enough food for the winter. When welfare came along it freed the women from such mundane labor. That only leaves babies. I mean it does get boring if you live in isolated places. As the jokester said, “it’s something to do on Friday night.” A few of the girls are making it out of the welfare trap, but most of them never do.


33 posted on 11/18/2011 1:32:35 PM PST by WVNan (!)
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To: TSgt

I saw that show last week. I couldn’t stop laughing. Tears were running down my face! I think the best part of it was when the girl took out the woman to party before she had to go to rehab. It was just crazy!


34 posted on 11/18/2011 2:49:04 PM PST by momtothree
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