While looking for the report itself, I found this interesting page of statistics about US pregnancies and abortions, which indicates that 47% of women aged 15-44 have had more than one abortion.  Perhaps equally shocking is that roughly 50% of all pregnancies in the US are unintended, and about 40% of these unintended pregnancies result in abortion.  50% of US women obtaining abortions are under the age of 25.  

I find the responses to the UK study to be rather fascinating.  A representative of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service seems to feel that the dramatic rise in repeat abortions is a good thing, since it demonstrates that abortions have become more widely accepted as well as more readily available.  While she does admit that fewer teen pregnancies would be a good thing, she seems to dismiss out of hand the idea that perhaps we need to seriously examine our sexual values.  It would seem that for her, and probably BPAS, the issue is not about discouraging sexual activity (even amongst minors), but rather a matter of better education regarding how to have 'safe' sex.  

She seems hopeful about the "extensive" amount of research being put into this topic.  Funny, it seems like we could save an awful lot of time, money, health issues, etc. simply by refusing to sell sexuality to our children, and then pretend that we have no idea why they're having sex.  If we quit glorifying the celebrities who glorify casual sex - I think we would begin to see rather amazing results.  Clearly, the path of continuing to accelerate the selling of sex to younger and younger children (courtesy of such lovely things such as the Bratz dolls) is *not* going to change things, no matter how much time and money we spend trying to teach our children to have 'safe' or 'responsible' sex.