A couple of blocks from where I taught at the Margaret Hudson Program (MHP), and a few hundred yards from the Head Start program our students’ children attended was the office of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. It was tucked into the far end of a nondescript strip center, set backContinue reading “Family Planning and a Nation’s Welfare”
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Teen Girls and Contraception
According to the American Society for Positive Care of Children, the chances of a teen girl becoming pregnant is 90 percent within a year of being sexually active, if she’s not using birth control. The Guttmacher Institute in 2021 estimated that figure at 85 percent for all US couples who don’t use birth control. TheContinue reading “Teen Girls and Contraception”
Janice Airhart 