Statistics on teenage sexual activity, including having unprotected intercourse, demonstrate that
a. Both the abortion rate and the birth rate among adolescents are continuing to increase.
b. By age 18 to 19, the majority of adolescents have had sexual experience.
c. Teenage pregnancy in the United States was at its highest in decade between 2000 and 2010.
d. Teenage pregnancy in the United States is lower than that in at least four other industrialized nations.
ANS: B
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