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, As Texas Goes…
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.