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Meanwhile … in the real world:

• 42,000 people will contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD)
• 2/3 of them will be under the age of 25.
• About 50% of the entire sexually active single adult population has at least one STD
• STD's accounted for 87% of all cases among the top ten most frequently reported infections in the U.S. during 1997
• About 750,000 unmarried teens will become pregnant
• It is estimated that 20% of all Americans over the age of 11 are infected with genital herpes
• Almost 4,000 abortions will be performed today
  

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All statistics are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Medical Institute, Guttmacher Research Institute, and the National Institutes for Health.