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Teen Pregnancy Impact

By KWGS News/AP

Tulsa, OK – An Oklahoma group says teen pregnancies cost taxpayers in the state $190 million in 2008. The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy says information released yesterday indicates there were more than 75-hundred births to Oklahoma teens in 2008. 21-percent of those births were to teens who were already mothers.