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The Northeast has excelled in lowering teen birth rates because states here have taken measures to create some of the best sex education curriculums in the country and school-based health centers in urban settings allow staff to directly interact and advise young people.

In some parts of the South and West, where religious and social norms make candid discussion about sex taboo, the teenage birth rates are significantly higher.

Obviously I have lots of work to do in my state, but at least there are good models to follow in other areas of the country.

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