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The Side-Effects of Abstinence-Only Education
One in three teenage girls in the US becomes pregnant. Recent media hype and movies like Juno give teen pregnancy a certain kind of treatment.
ANP went to one health center in the Northeast of Washington, DC to explore the real thing.
Tagged as: congress, health, abstinence, birth control, sex education, dc, washington, infant mortality, teen pregnancy, maternal mortality, child birth, pact, post-natal, pre-natal
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