21.   Instead, he said, a mixture of abstinence education and contraception education would be more effective in cutting down teen pregnancy rates.

22.   Many cities there have double-digit unemployment, high crime rates and higher-than-average illiteracy and teen-age pregnancy rates.

23.   No one knows for sure why the pregnancy rate is so high or why it keeps climbing.

24.   Pregnancy success rates are much lower at every stage.

25.   Pregnancy rates include births, abortions and miscarriages.

26.   Pregnancy rates, birth rates and abortion rates are dropping, and contraceptive use is up.

27.   Rural communities have a higher infant mortality rate, a higher adolescent pregnancy rate and a higher number of people living below poverty, he pointed out.

28.   Sex education about abstinence and contraception has proved more successful in reducing teen pregnancy rates than programs that focus only on abstinence, according to a study released Wednesday.

29.   So the patients shop for the doctors who have the best pregnancy rates.

30.   Sociological barriers to economic progress like a high teen-age pregnancy rate have receded, too.