What of pregnancy and abortion in teenagers?
Early on, it was thought that pregnancy in young teenagers was more risky than in older women. But recent studies have shown that teenage mothers have no more risks during pregnancy and labor, and their babies fare just as well as their more mature sisters babies, if they have had good prenatal care. “We have found that teenage mothers, given proper care, have the least complications in childbirth. The younger the mother, the better the birth. If there are more problems, society makes it so, not biology.” B. Sutton-Smith, Jour. of Youth and Adolescence As reported in the New York Times, April 24, 1979 “No relationship between mother s physical growth and maturation and adverse pregnancy course or outcome was demonstrated. Sukanich et al., “Physical Maturity and Pregnancy Outcome Under 16 Years,” Pediatrics, vol. 78, no. 1, July 1986, p. 31 Dr. Jerome Johnson of John Hopkins University, and Dr. Felix Heald, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Maryland, agree that the fact that teenag
