Mother & Baby: The Circle of Life

It is critical to give teenagers access to quality reproductive health care. America's teen pregnancy rate has been declining steadily, but it is still higher than the rates in Canada or Britain (approximately 275,000 a year) Eighty-seven percent of those teenage births occur among unmarried girls. Not only is this a problem in the Untied States, but it is an even bigger problem in many developing countries. There are currently more than 222 million girls and women who want to delay or avoi...