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No.
I was also thinking of teen-age pregnancies too, within the context of that question.
Yes, I was looking at some statistics on teen-age pregnancy, which recently have been coming out, and the United States has the highest percentage of teen-age pregnancy of any of the nations.
Actually that even includes white teen-age pregnancies, doesn't it? Higher than Sweden and--
That's right. And if you exclude blacks and leave only the white teen-age pregnancies, it's substantially higher than the other. Okay. You asked me is this a sign of deterioration? Yes.
This is part of this condition that you were talking about.
Absolutely. That is remedial and is not being remedied. And maybe one of the reasons it's not being remedied is because it's perceived to be just all racial.
Now you made reference to Ted Kennedy's remarks in quite a recent speech.
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