"About one-third of girls in the United States get pregnant before age 20."

More than 80% of births in this group "were unintended, meaning they occurred sooner than desired or were not wanted at any time", the CDC said.

So does abstinence work? Nope.

A recent study of four abstinence education programs, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., finds that the programs had no effect on the sexual abstinence of youth.

So if abstinence doesn't work, and teens get pregnant, and you don't support them (policy-wise) before or after, what's that called?

Compassionate conservatism.

Daily Kos, 9-3-08