Jane Fonda ‘really proud’ of 30 years helping reduce teen pregnancy in Georgia

ATLANTA – Legendary actress and social activist Jane Fonda lived in Atlanta for the bulk of the 1990s and 2000s during her marriage to Ted Turner.

But she left a genuine legacy for the city and state courtesy of Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, a nonprofit she created in 1995, seeded with $500,000 from her then-husband’s foundation. At the time, Georgia had one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation.

Over the past three decades, teen pregnancy has fallen sharply across the country but even more so in Georgia, where rates today are much closer to the national average…

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