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One of their projects has taken
teen moms into local high schools
to talk about their experiences.
Not everyone is interested,

Hendricks is blunt about her
frustration with people who work
daily wilh twenagers yel respond
like the principal of a North Shore
high school who told her, ‘That
isn’t an issue here.’

Her frusteation was highlighted
by the three phone calls she had
received from students ar that
school who were pregnant, scared
and wanting to know ebaut abor-
tions.

Many of the teen mems do not
linish high school, a faci tha: will
contribute to a continuing live of
poverty. Some try but the dif-
ficuldes include a lack af accessi-

es adoption difficult

ble daycare.

Muriel Kerr is a spokesman for
the Vancouver Committee of the
B.C. Alliance Concerned with
Early Pregnancy and Parenthood,
a provincial umbrella group of 30
organizations consisting of teach-
urs, social workers and health of-
ficials,

According tu Kerr, of the 5,000
B.C. teenitgers pregnant in 1989,
the split was 50-50 between
choosing abortion or carrying che
baby to term,

On the North Shore, there were
31 teenaye mothers in 1989 and 32
in 1990, Gut statistics for teenage
abortions are hard to find because
many girls use Vancouver hospi-
tals and health clinics or zo out of
province.

Hendricks estimated that about

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5%-to 10% of the teens choose
adoption,

Rousseau agreed with that fig-
ure, saying even if the girls had
considered adoption while (hey
were pregnant, once the baby is
born the maternal bond develops

quickly and they decide to keep

their child,

Rousseau’ wishes there was in-
creased community awareness
about pregnant and parenting
youth, while Hendricks would like
people to show mare under.
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