Teen Pregnancy Rates Rise in 26 States

Mississippi has displaced Texas as the state with the highest teen pregnancy rate, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

Mississippi has displaced Texas as the state with the highest teen pregnancy rate, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

Two St. Louis-area 9th graders, Tori Shoemaker and Cheyenne Bird, 14, were suspended from their Illinois junior high school for wearing condom-bedecked t-shirts proclaiming "Safe Sex Or No Sex" as a way of protesting their school's abstinence-only education policy. Shoemaker, 15, told a local TV station, "We were…