They are legal here as well and the rate is pretty steady and has even declined - so I fail to see how making it any more legal would make it rise
Also, the problem with America is the far religious right cannot abide any sex ed. anywhere at anytime other than abstinence which is ineffective. A significant number of younger people simply do not know the avenues of birth control out there and that results in some 14 year old getting knocked up in the back seat of a car, which is relatively easy to prevent.
I mean how many people here never had intercourse much less other sex acts prior to marriage. I suggest that number is very small. So, until America gets over its judgemental attitude towards sex, unwanted prenancies will happen more than they should. For the life of me, I will never understand why anyone give's a rat's a$$ if I want to take home girls and screw all night or some other wild sex act. It is my business and mine alone. Yet, the coffers of the Church's would not be filled if no hate was preached
