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Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist in Teen Pregnancy Rates

Posted Gloria Lopez-Henriquez
LaNita Harris of the Oklahoma City County Health Department explains two of the posters the department uses in its Teen Pregnancy Prevention program. Although teen pregnancy and birth rates have dropped the past two decades, states still face the reality that black and Latina teens are more than twice as likely as white teens to become pregnant. (AP)

African-American and Latina girls are more than twice as likely as white girls to become pregnant before they leave adolescence, which continues to confound states.

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