Teens: Keep Your Legs Closed!

This is what happens when you push abstinence rather than let your kids get birth control.

A school in Memphis, Tennessee, in the smaller community of Frayser, has...get this...90 girls either pregnant or who recently gave birth!
90!
Nine-Zero!
100 minus 10!

The national average of teen pregnancies is 10% but in this town, its 26%.  More than double the national average.  A 2004 graduate of this school says it isn't a new problem either.  She says they would come back from break and a bunch of girls would be pregnant.

What are these girls thinking?!  MTV made shows like 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom so people can see how hard it is to be a teen mom and the struggles that teens experience with their parents, friends, money, and of course the baby's father.  Do they really think it's going to be a walk in the park?  And they see their friends having babies and seeing what they are going through, but yet they still don't try to prevent it from happening to them.
For those who are scared to ask their parents for birth control or too embarrassed to buy it themselves, Planned Parenthood provides all these things for free (or an optional donation) and anonymously.  It really isn't as hard as teenagers tend to think it is to get birth control.  They are going to let their whole lives change and have to grow up faster than a teen should just because their parents are naive or they are embarrassed.  And yes, they might not be educated enough about sex and its consequences but that is about to change at this particular school because they are rolling out a new initiative to help prevent this epidemic from getting worse.  But this initiative is too late for the ones already pregnant or already moms.  And these kids might have their minds already set so it may be hard to change their thinking.  Hopefully not though.

Kids don't need to be having kids.