It is really tough to have a baby as a teenager. It is almost impossible to hold a full-time job and care for a new baby too. Teenage pregnancy is a horrendous social and personal problem, in contrast to the sentimental anti-abortion TV ads that explicitly say unplanned pregnancies are wonderful. It is a preventable trauma. Of course, but the two major movements have gotten so absorbed in a futile argument over whether abortion is murder or a woman's right, the run-away accidental production of unwanted children is neglected .
People are politically afraid to advocate birth control.
Because of opposition from religious conservatives. To be effective in preventing pregnancy, these pills must be taken within 72 hours of having intercourse. That means you and the physician must act quickly. Moreover, as young women today wait until they are 28 or 30 to get married and have several sexual partners between puberty and marriage, more go on the pill and, consequently, are less likely to use condoms. 12 million of us are infected by a STD every year.