[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 105 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 105

Expressing the sense of Congress that the Nation should take additional 
    steps to ensure the prevention of teen pregnancy by engaging in 
  measures to educate teenagers as to why they should stop and think 
  about the negative consequences before engaging in premature sexual 
                               activity.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 2, 2002

   Mr. Lieberman (for himself and Ms. Snowe) submitted the following 
 concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the Nation should take additional 
    steps to ensure the prevention of teen pregnancy by engaging in 
  measures to educate teenagers as to why they should stop and think 
  about the negative consequences before engaging in premature sexual 
                               activity.

Whereas 4 in 10 girls in the United States will become pregnant before the age 
        of 20;
Whereas childbearing by teenagers costs taxpayers at least $7,000,000,000 each 
        year in direct costs associated with health care, foster care, criminal 
        justice, and public assistance;
Whereas the United States has the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and birth 
        in the industrialized world;
Whereas more than half of all mothers on welfare had their first child as a 
        teenager;
Whereas 80 percent of births to teenagers are to unmarried teenagers, and 
        teenage mothers have more children, on average, than women who delay 
        childbearing, which makes it more difficult for them and their children 
        to escape a life of poverty;
Whereas teenagers who give birth are less likely to complete high school and to 
        go on to college, thereby reducing their potential for economic self-
        sufficiency; and
Whereas the children of teenage mothers are more likely to be born prematurely 
        and at low birth-weight, and suffer from higher rates of abuse and 
        neglect than other children: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the Nation should take additional 
steps to ensure the prevention of teen pregnancy by engaging in 
measures to educate teenagers as to why they should stop and think 
about the negative consequences before engaging in premature sexual 
activity; and
    That the Congress designate May 8, 2002, as ``National Teen 
Pregnancy Prevention Day''.
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