Religious states in America have higher teen pregnancy rates.
7 of the top 10 religious states in the US are also in the top 10 of highest teen pregnancy rates, with the remaining 3 states being significantly higher than the US rate.
All five states with the highest teen birth rates have adopted policies requiring that abstinence be stressed when taught as part of sex education, HIV education or both, the group found. Only one of the five states (New Mexico) mandates that sex education be a part of students’ curriculum.

    Of the four states with the lowest teen birth rates, none requires that abstinence be stressed to students, according to Guttmacher.

1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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