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Gail Collins is a columnist for The New York Times. Her new book, from which this article was adapted, is As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda.

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Texas’s Sex Problem

<p>The state pushes abstinence sex education yet it has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy. So why is the rest of the country paying half a billion dollars a year to support their teen mothers? An excerpt from Gail Collins’s new book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871404079/thedaibea-20/" target="_blank">As Texas Goes…</a></i></p>

Gail Collins | Published Jun 04, 2012

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