>>The problem though, is that those stats say nothing in relation to a correlation between teen pregnancies and states with or without abstinence-only laws. It may be nothing more than that since sex education has become more freely available, the pregnancy rate overall has decreased.
Agreed- it may be all sorts of things and there are no prizes for selecting one explanation and insisting on it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
