Grand jury is a legal body empowered to conduct official proceedings and investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may compel the production of documents and compel sworn testimony of witnesses to appear before it.
Among the states, New Mexico had the highest teen pregnancy rate, in 2010, with 80 pregnancies per 1,000 women in the age group, followed by Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.
In 2008, the pregnancy rate for non-Hispanic white teens was 43.3 per 1,000 women 15â19 years of age. The pregnancy rate for Hispanic teens was 106.6. For African-American teens it was 117 (Kost and Henshaw, 2012).â¢ Among teenage pregnancies in 2008, 31 percent resulted in abortion (Kost and Henshaw, 2012).