Maranda Corely, 19, with her children in Ellisville, Miss. As of 2019, the teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. was 16.7 per 1,000 girls, ages 15-19. Experts predict at least 7,000 more teens in the U.S. will be forced into parenthood because they were not able to obtain a legal abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. (Lynsey Addario / Getty Images Reportage) |
BY JULIE MASLOWSKY, LAURA LINDBERG and TRACEY WILKINSON | Over the next year, at least 7,000 U.S. teenagers will likely be forced into parenthood because they were not able to obtain a desired legal abortion.
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