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A new era for birth control

Explain It to Me

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The Stagnation of Young People Having Sex

I think perhaps in my head, I am dichotomizing like adults having sex versus young people having sex. There absolutely is demonization involved around teenage pregnancy and young parenthood. People still do conceptualize teen pregnancy as a social problem that we need to fix. So it's not necessarily the pregnancy that marginalizes them, but rather the conditions in which they're existing before their pregnancy that marginalized them.

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