Jailbait
January, 1997
It takes a statistic.For decades politicians and fundamentalists have railed against teen pregnancy. Births to unwed mothers are epidemic, they charge, the result of promiscuity, our permissive society, sex, drugs and rock and roll.Conservatives stare at the reproductive organs of teenage girls, pencil in hand. In 1993, columnist George Will passed along these figures: "This year 10 million teenagers will engage in 126 million acts of sexual intercourse resulting in more than 1 million preg...
