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"This morning on  Good Morning America  I saw a teaser for a  Primetime  show on tonight about a couple of teens who gave their babies up for adoption.  Obviously it&amp;#039;s a hard decision with so many gut-wrenching variables coming into play. I give Primetime and those girls a lot of credit because a couple of years ago it would be pretty shocking for teens to be so open about being pregnant and deciding to give their babies up for adoption. In fact, when I was in high school I remember so vividly a girl who got pregnant and gave her baby up, and almost no one talked about it, as if it were shameful.  I remember one night at a party, about a year after she had given birth, she pulled out pics of her daughter and started talking about the family that adopted her and how great they were and how happy she was that her daughter had parents who could take care of her. I was in awe of her and how open she was when everyone else tried to pretend that it never happened \u2014- that she&amp;#039;d never even been pregnant. But the story on  Primetime  is a bit misleading, I think. Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping for years. In fact there was a study recently that says the rates are the lowest they&amp;#039;ve ever been.  And I&amp;#039;m sure you see it in the girls you know and even recognize it in yourself, you&amp;#039;re much smarter and more open about birth control than teens have ever been (pat yourself on the back, smartie!). Plus, I&amp;#039;ve noticed that teen girls are a lot less likely to have sex until they are older. Do you feel like all your friends are having sex, or are more of them virgins? So while I think it&amp;#039;s amazing to be so open about adoption, the bigger story is that a lot fewer teen girls will have to face the decision of what to do if they have an unplanned pregnancy. And that&amp;#039;s something that should be celebrated and made the focus of a  Primetime  special (Hey Cynthia McFadden, lets talk!). What do you think? Do you know girls who have been pregnant? Do you know girls who have decided not to have sex until they are older? Fill me in. XO A "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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