IDEA ON HOW TO HELP DETER UNWANTED PREGNANCIES: STUDY THE SIX U.S. STATES WITH THE LOWEST TEENAGE PREGNANCY RATES

Based on the above-cited criterion, the leading U.S. states to study are: New Hampshire; Vermont; Minnesota; Massachusetts; Utah; and Wisconsin (see more information, below).

A more complete report on this can be found at the following webpage:
https://www.livescience.com/45355-teen-pregnancy-rates-by-state.html

If you visit that webpage at the "livescience.com" website, you will find an enlightening online article that highlights reported teenage pregnancy rates for each and every U.S. state in the year 2010. The article was written by Tanya Lewis, staff writer for Livescience.com. Ms. Lewis wrote and posted her article on May 5, 2014.

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Ms. Lewis in her online article reported that according to the New York City-based Guttmacher Institute (a globally influential non-profit organization that promotes sexual and reproductive rights through factual research and evidence-based advocacy), the following U.S. states in the year 2010 each had an incidence of teenage pregnancy that year which was fewer than 40 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents in that state.

These statistics are especially noteworthy because 77 percent of all teenage pregnancies that occur each year in the United States are unwanted----either "unplanned" or occurring "too soon", according to online data from the National Center for Health Statistics of the United States Government.

Helping to reduce the unwanted pregnancy rate is one of the leading religious and societal goals of my one-member (myself, only) and non-Christian, pragmatically idealistic and factually-based "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

Women and girls who are able to avoid sustaining ANY unwanted pregnancy, along with their boyfriends or husbands or male dating partners, lead much happier and healthier and more productive and more financially successful lives. And the absence of any "unwanted child" resulting from those women's or girls' and their male sex partners' lives, also helps to reduce the crime rate in the United States. Unwanted children are significantly more likely to later become criminal persons than are children who are wanted and loved from the very start.

The following are the six U.S. states that reportedly had the lowest teenage pregnancy rates in the year 2010:

---New Hampshire (lowest teenage pregnancy rate in the United States, at 28 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 female teenage residents in that state); 

---Vermont (second-lowest in the nation, at 32 per 1,000);

---Minnesota (third-lowest teenage pregnancy rate, at 36 per 1,000 teenage female residents of that state);

---Massachusetts (fourth-lowest teenage pregnancy rate, at 37 per 1,000);

---Utah, with 38 reported teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents;

and

---Wisconsin, with 39 reported teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents.