Comment by ryandrake

> After school specials since the 80s have made pregnancy a horror to avoid instead of a joy to grasp.

Pregnancy can be employment-disrupting, and a horror if you're not financially ready to raise a child. Teen pregnancy can end one's future, one's educational and career prospects, before it even begins. The steady and nearly-uninterrupted decline in teen pregnancy from its peak in the early 90s is an absolute miracle of sex education.

The birth rate for women 20-24 was cut in half from 2005 to 2023, and the birth rate for teens under 20 dropped by 2/3s[1], which is frankly amazing progress.

1: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-us-fertility-and-birt...