Teenage Pregnancy

Abstinence-Only Sex Education Can Reduce Teenage Pregnancy


Iam a ‘20-something’ year old black female, a former 2ndrunner up to Miss Black America, an entertainer, president of a corporation, and a virgin. I’ve had the unique opportunity to be invited by School Districts, Abstinence groups, and even state organizations such as the Department of Health and Human Services and Office of Family Planning in California, to share the message of abstinence. I’ve spoken to nearly a million teenagers of different racial and socio-economic backgrounds in assemblies across America over the past 9 years. My greatest motivation in doing so is to...

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