Teen pregnancy

Morgan ranked Utah's healthiest county -- again

MORGAN — For the third year in a row, Morgan County is the healthiest county in the state, according to a national report.

The County Health Rankings report, conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, compares counties in a number of categories, including healthy behavior, clinical care and social and economic factors.

Teen moms face tough decisions, some rewards

You feel a tight ball of anxiety in your stomach just before you take off the lid of the little pink wand. There's only one red line; you let out a sigh of relief -- you're not pregnant.

If that has happened to you, then you know what a pregnancy scare is like. Many girls have at least one in their teen years.

Sex ed bill goes against philosophy of Utah code: Be prepared

Be prepared. While this motto works for Scouts, the law enforces preparedness by requiring classes and education that must take place in order to access various legal remedies and privileges.

House Bill 363, which is awaiting Gov. Gary Herbert’s signature (or veto), would prohibit local school boards from educating our students on the full spectrum of reproductive health, harshly limiting the discussion of sex to abstinence and within marriage. (Note: Herbert vetoed the sex ed bill late Friday night, after this column was written and posted.)

Herbert needs to veto sex ed bill; two great leaders retire

There’s a Facebook campaign urging Gov. Gary Herbert to veto House Bill 363, the state’s latest attempt to get Utah children to quit having sex by not telling them anything about sex except not to do it.

Don’t do what? Can’t say.

Teen pregnancy rates in the United States have fallen in recent years, but the country still has a higher rate than any other developed country.

U.S. teen pregnancy rate remains highest in developed world

Teen pregnancy rates in the United States have fallen in recent years, but the country still has a higher rate than any other developed country, according to data released Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Cassie Cox teaches English class at Two Rivers High School in Ogden on Wednesday. A high school dropout herself, she teaches at the alternative high school and tries to help students reach their full potential.

Teacher uses experience as dropout to help at-risk students

OGDEN -- When Cassie Cox dropped out of high school in 1992, all she saw were dead ends. Now, 19 years later, she inspires the at-risk students at Two Rivers High School to reach for the stars. She credits her life change to one major thing: education.

Cox remembers well the feeling of hopelessness she felt when she became pregnant at the age of 17.

Baby delivered after pregnant teen mom dies from gunshot

CHICAGO -- A teenager six months pregnant was shot and killed on Chicago's South Side, but doctors were able to deliver her son, authorities said.

(ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner) BMX rider Jonesy Fedderson, of Riverton, leaps his bike at the Gatorade Free Flow Tour amateur series Saturday at the 12th Street Jumps bike park in Ogden.

BMXtreme fun in Ogden

OGDEN -- They came from as far away as Australia to showcase their BMX skills during a Gatorade Free Flow Tour competition Saturday.

Experts: Cover contraceptives more

WASHINGTON -- An independent panel of doctors and health experts Tuesday recommended that health plans cover contraceptives for women without co-pays, setting the stage for another debate over the effect of the healthcare overhaul President Barack Obama signed last year.

Adolescent birth rates, injury deaths declining

LOS ANGELES -- The rate of births among teenagers, preterm births, injury deaths for teens and binge drinking are all declining, and that's good news for America's children, according to a new government report issued Thursday. But more young teens are using illicit drugs, more are likely to be living in poverty and fewer have parents who are working full time, according to the report, "America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2011."

Teen childbearing cost taxpayers $10.9 Billion

WASHINGTON --  Teen childbearing in the United States cost taxpayers at least $10.9 billion in 2008, according to an updated analysis released by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

State costs in 2008 ranged from $16 million in North Dakota to $1.2 billion in Texas. These public sector costs would have been even higher had it not been for the one-third decline in the U.S. teen birth rate between 1991 and 2008.

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