Posted on 09/03/2007 1:15:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York City, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani likes to talk about how he has lowered teen pregnancy rates and abortions by promoting adoption when he was mayor of New York. However, a new report finds teens in the nation's largest city have alarmingly high rates and over half of all teen pregnancies end in abortion.
The city government released the full report "Teen Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use in New York City," which contains a new survey of public high school students.
It finds that 69 percent of sexually active New York City teens use condoms, compared to 63% nationwide.
In 2005, the New York City teen pregnancy rate (including live births, abortions and miscarriages) was 94 per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19. Nationally, the rate was just 76 per 1,000 in 2002 (the most recent year on record).
The vast majority of teen pregnancies (86 percent) are unintended, and more than half (62 percent) end in abortion.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, New York City Health Commissioner, admitted that abstinence education could help lower these rates, but still promoted contraception.
"Postponing sex has many benefits for teens," Frieden said. "It's the only sure way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Teenagers who choose to have sex should know that condoms and long-acting contraceptives are both important."
The survey also asked teenagers about the morning after pill and found only 47 percent had heard of it with 54 percent of girls and 39 percent of boys knowing about Plan B.
Despite the results of the study, the city's health department said it will continue a school condom distribution program. The city also said it would to encourage teens to delay sexual intercourse as well.
He's taking credit for something from 2005? Really?
Rudy benefited from what intelligent statisticians would call "favorable comparisons"....Dinkins was a moral and financial disaster in every way, so Rudy could just have been an average administrator and looked good by comparison.
As someone who's lived here for five decades, I can say Rudy is the gold standard of mayor achievement. If you prefer someone else, that's fine, but don't smear the guy who made Gotham livable again.
Rooty Toot is taking credit for lowering teen pregnancy in NYC.
The press release remains decptive.
Fine, I will grant you that Rooty Toot is the "gold standard" for a northeast liberal. But it's not going to sell in the rest of the country.
For the same reason any and every politician takes credit for things that occur during their watch: they have a gullible constiuency.
Why is this outfit issuing deceptive press releases?
The answer is simple - for the same reason any and every group opposed to a particular politician issues deceptive press releases: They have a gullible constiuency.
So like it or not it had dropped.
So like it or not it had dropped.
Yep, Rooty Toot got the rates down from catastrophic to mere epidemic levels.
Add to that the fact that they were comparing to national numbers from 2002, and it completes the mess.
Left-wing media types begin a story with the conclusion, then fit some sloppy data in to give the appearance of factual support.
At least a half a dozen times, I posted the link to NYC's data from 2000 which shows essentially the same rates as in 2005. And it is statistically implausible that nationwide statistics from 2002 would be out of sync with either one.
Left-wing media types begin a story with the conclusion, then fit some sloppy data in to give the appearance of factual support.
This isn't from a left wing source.
To read......
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