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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of people who become pregnant are girls, actually.

Thank you for mentioning that. WHO says that nearly 800,000 girls under age 15 give birth each year in developing countries. Another 21 million girls and young women aged 15-19 get pregnant each year, and 12 million end up giving birth. Which is why complications of pregnancy, abortion and childbirth are the leading cause of death for teenage girls globally.

One of youngest girls known to have become pregnant and given birth in recorded history is Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado of Peru, who is now 87. When she gave birth in 1939, she was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old.