Posted on 12/18/2013 2:56:35 PM PST by thetallguy24
Nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins, according to a report in the Christmas edition of Britain's BMJ medical journal.
The authors of "Like a virgin (mother)" - whose prose is devoid of irony - say such scientifically impossible claims show researchers must use care in interpreting self-reported behavior. Fallible memory, beliefs and wishes can cause people to err in what they tell scientists.
Based on interviews with 7,870 women and girls ages 15 to 28, 45 of the 5,340 pregnancies in this group through the years - 0.8 percent - occurred in women who reported that they conceived independent of men. The figure does not include pregnancies that result from in vitro fertilization or other assisted reproductive technology.
Each year, the BMJ Christmas edition publishes untraditional science papers. In addition to the report on virgin pregnancies, the latest BMJ includes papers on whether there is a local baby boom nine months after home sports teams triumph (only a small one, but statistically significant) and whether an apple a day would keep the British doctor away (yes, saving about 8,500 lives in the United Kingdom each year, about as many as would expanding the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs to everyone over 50).
For the study of putative virgin pregnancies, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed data from the thousands of teenage girls and young women who took part in the long-running National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
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Sam Kinnison did a great routine on Joseph & Mary!
Joseph: I’m not saying you’re lying or anything, but he better be the ONLY son of God!
The term “Immaculate Conception” refers to the conception of the Virgin Mary without Original Sin. It does not refer to the conception of Jesus without a human father.
I can see that occurring. Lewinskys, fingers, and out of control passionate frenzy means that flying spermatozoa just might end up in places where the two participants never intended it to be.
Thank you Buzz Killington
Ever heard of Norm Crosby?????
He was great in “The Bells of Saint Mary’s”!
LOL!
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