Submitted by Lorna Shaban, Dec 26, 2006 13:53

"We're happy to have women and men decide for themselves when to have children." The 13-year old mother of Billie Holliday, the 16-year old mother of Eric Clapton, the 17-year old mother of Lance Armstrong and the 16-year old mother of LeBron James were not men and women. They were children. They also were not born in New York.

"There seems to be a view that teenage births are somehow a bad thing." Well, aren't they? I don't understand the point of this editorial. Instead of lamenting over the drop in teenage pregnancies, you should be commending the NYC school system and Department of Health for getting the anti-pregnancy message through to schoolchildren and to the kids for overcoming the pervasive attitude of the inner city subculture.

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