"Data released this week from the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that conducts research on sexual and reproductive health, shows that the teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in 2006, the first increase since the late '80s. The institute, a pro-choice organization, says that abstinence-only sex education programs that took root during the Bush administration are to blame for the increase."  The LA Times.Birth Rates for teenagers 15-19 years in the U.S.: 1991, 2000, 2005 and 2006(Read Full Post)