Slate's health care columnist Darshak Sanghavi writes an article on July 31st about why the pregnancy rates among teens have dropped. Sanghavi captures the readers attention by emphasizing that the change in teen sex rate, don't explain the drop in teen pregnancy. He continues his article with a shocker announcement that teens who use birth control don't need to rely on condoms every time which persuaded many doctors to encouraged their patients to use pills. Sanghavi emphasizes another big problem with that view, by saying that many people believe on the lie; "99% effective when used correctly," and end up pregnant. He goes on to say that when many of those who chose IUDs that were made free the california adoption doubled, even so there was a dramatic result of the Peipert's study that showed that the risk of failure was 22 times higher with the pill then when used IDUs in adult women. Peipert suspects that if the IDUs are made free then the adoption rate will drop by half, which can be very persuasive for those who do not want unwanted pregnancies. He also explains that if there was a magical treatment that made abortions unnecessary, why would anybody be opposed?
Sanghavi's purpose in this article is to inform the audience that the rate of pregnancies since 1990 is an evidence that when people's reproductive health is treated like a medical science, many changes can occur. This is evident when he says straight forward "-by discarding problematic treatments and aggressively promoting effective ones."
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