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Thursday, December 19th, 2013

Researchers: One in Every 200 U.S. Women Experienced a ‘Virgin Pregnancy’

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Source:     Agence France-Presse (France)/The Raw Story
Publication Date:     Tuesday, December 17, 2013 20:40 EST
 Link: Researchers: One in Every 200 U.S. Women Experienced a ‘Virgin Pregnancy’
Stephan:   This amazing report, in my view, misses the story here, but I publish it because of the documented information it contains. To me the real story here is that 30 years of militant Theocratic Rightist abstinence only sex ed, has produced a generation of children (note the correlation with religious belief) who lack even the most fundamental knowledge of human sexuality. It is also worth noting the Red Value states have a much higher incidence of teen pregnancy than Blue value states.

One in every 200 young American women says she became pregnant while still a virgin.

That is the eye-popping figure reported on Tuesday by US researchers who trawled through a long-term study into reproductive health among young Americans.

Out of 7,870 women who took part in the confidential research, 45 – 0.5 percent – said they had conceived yet had not had vaginal intercourse.

None said they had used in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to become pregnant, according to the paper, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Out of the 45, ‘there were some miscarriages and other pregnancy losses,

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