Does somebody have stats of teen pregnancies by states.

[Mass]

After the Gloucester highschool pregnancy story, I entered in a discussion with people on another state, who of course put that on the back of liberal education in MA, and I remembered that teen pregnancy rates are much higher in red state than blue state, but I do not have the numbers. Does anybody have them.

[TayTay]

1. Here is one report with some numbers

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pd">U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics
National and State Trends and
Trends by Race and Ethnicity
Guttmacher Institute
120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
Updated September 2006

This is from the report:

• In 2000, teenage birthrates were highest in Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and
New Mexico. The states with the lowest teenage birthrates were New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, North Dakota and Maine.

• Teenage abortion rates were highest in the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York,
Maryland, Nevada and California.

• Fifty percent or more of teenage pregnancies end in abortion in New Jersey, New York,
Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

• By contrast, teenagers in Utah, Kentucky, South Dakota and North Dakota had the lowest
abortion rates. These states also had fewer than 17% of teenage pregnancies end in
abortion: South Dakota, Utah and Kentucky.

• Nevada had the highest teenage pregnancy rate (113 per 1,000), while North Dakota had
the lowest rate (42 per 1,000).

• Among states with available data, Arkansas had the highest pregnancy rate among non-
Hispanic white teenagers (77 per 1,000). Pregnancy rates among this group were also
high in other Southern states: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and South
Carolina (71–73 per 1,000). Meanwhile, North Dakota had the lowest rate among non-
Hispanic white teenagers (33 per 1,000).

• Among black teenagers aged 15–19, pregnancy rates were highest in New Jersey (209 per
1,000) and in Wisconsin, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Oregon (161–177 per 1,000). They
were lowest in Utah, New Mexico, West Virginia, Rhode Island and Colorado (71–114
per 1,000).

• Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, Colorado and Delaware had the highest pregnancy rates
among Hispanic women aged 15–19 (154–169 per 1,000). In contrast, pregnancy rates
among Hispanic teenagers were lowest in Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota and Ohio
(71–115 per 1,000).

This report concludes with a series of tables that were used to calculate national rates of
pregnancy, birth and abortion in 2002, and state level rates of pregnancy, birth and abortion in
2000, including numbers of teenage pregnancies, births, abortions and miscarriages, as well as
population counts.