COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Teen pregnancy rates are increasing in
South Carolina after declining for more than a decade.

Figures released Monday by state health officials show more than
10,000 girls between ages 10 and 19 got pregnant in South Carolina
in 2006. That's 3.6 percent of all girls that age. The rate reached
a low of 3.3 percent three years earlier.

More than a quarter of the girls had been pregnant before.

The South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Pregnancy says people
have become complacent about keeping teens from getting pregnant.
The group wants schools and teen groups to get back to teaching
abstinence and age appropriate information about contraception.

The counties with the highest teen pregnancy rates were
Allendale and Chester.