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(AP) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Teen pregnancy rates are increasing in South Carolina after declining for more than a decade.
Figures released Monday by state health officials show more than 10,000 girls between ages 10 and 19 got pregnant in South Carolina in 2006. That's 3.6 percent of all girls that age.
The rate reached a low of 3.3 percent three years earlier.
More than a quarter of the girls had been pregnant before. The South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Pregnancy says people have become complacent about keeping teens from getting pregnant.
The group wants schools and teen groups to get back to teaching abstinence and age appropriate information about contraception.
The counties with the highest teen pregnancy rates were Allendale and Chester.
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