Thursday’s editorial applauds a new initiative to combat teen pregnancy in Horry County:
Over the past decade Horry County, and South Carolina as a whole, has managed to reduce its rate of teenage pregnancy, particularly among younger teens. In 1997, 44.1 out of every 1,000 teenage girls in Horry County became pregnant. By 2007, that rate had dropped to 37.5 out of 1,000.
The rate is still too high, however, and now a new effort has begun to reduce that number even further. Last year, the S.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy received a federal grant of nearly $1.5 million per year for the next five years, which will allow the campaign to expand its efforts in Horry and Spartanburg counties, two counties whose teen birth rates are higher than both the state and national averages.
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