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This report contains the most current and comprehensive statistics available—for 2008—on rates of teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion, and numbers of teenage pregnancies, births, abortions and miscarriages, all by state. It also includes population counts and trends in each state’s teenage pregnancy and abortion rates for 1988–2008 and trends in birth rates for 1988–2010. The report concludes with a discussion of the methodology and sources used to obtain the estimates.