OK so the big story everyone is talking about is the teenage girls in Gloucester, Mass where these young girls agreed to get pregnant at the same time and help each other raise the babies.  Shocking as this sounds, there are many more women in the US over the age of 18 who do NOT want babies but get pregnant anyway.  Read this new survey and then tell me if you think unwanted pregnancies are on the rise or the decline or are women being more irresponsible during pregnancy in 2008.

HALF OF AMERICAN WOMEN WHO DON’T WANT TO GET PREGNANT WILL HAVE AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY:

–A new study (–by the Guttmacher Institute in New York) found that every year, HALF of American women who would rather not get pregnant will have an unplanned pregnancy.  (!!!)

–Birth control isn’t 100% effective to begin with . . . but some women forget to take the pill . . . or they use contraceptives improperly . . . or they don’t even use a form of birth control.

–That means that every year, about 28 MILLION women are at risk of getting pregnant with a kid they don’t even want.

–We also heard about a different survey in Australia that said that 1 in 3 women drink . . . while pregnant.

–93% percent of those women said they knew alcohol consumption could lead to birth defects . . . but most said they would STILL partake in adult beverages anyway

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