RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (LifeSiteNews) – Recent Brazilian statistics indicate a 19 percent increase in the birthrate for girls aged 15 through 19 from 1993 to 1998. The Washington Post reports that the “birthrate among girls aged 10 to 14 leaped 31 percent during the same period.” Liberal sages are puzzled by the stats. The Post calls the soaring pregnancy rate “a mystifying development given the unprecedented efforts of the past decade here to provide more information about, and access to, contraceptives.”

That’s exactly why the birthrate has soared, argue sex-ed critics, who have found the same results in repeated studies throughout North America. Critics note that graphic sex-ed and the promotion of contraception rather than abstinence always lead to greater promiscuity and hence more, rather than less, teenage pregnancy. Some even argue that sex-ed advocates are aware of this data, but that, in view of the lucrative nature of abortion, the economic incentives encourage them to continue pushing an agenda that will increase the pregnancy rate. Groups like Planned Parenthood, which face a conflict of interest in this regard in the U.S., obviously deny such allegations, yet they have been made fully aware of the destructive impact of the kind of sex education they advocate for young people in the schools.

Predictably, Brazilian officials are calling for more sex-ed, not less, in the face of these new statistics. The Post reports that Brazil’s “Health Ministry is to make prevention of teen pregnancy a top priority.” It “plans, among other things, to train 640,000 teachers and health professionals – including gynecologists to psychologists – to provide more and better information to teenagers.”

See the Washington Post story.