//facts.js //add new facts in the same format - surrounded by double quotes, and followed by a comma EXCEPT the last one does not have a comma. //add up to 31 //to assure that a particular fact is displayed, it should be the only one included //always doublecheck that the site works after making changes facts = new Array( "Texas ranks 45th in the number of women receiving prenatal care.", "Over 1/3 of all births in Texas are paid for by Medicaid, at an expenditure of over $6,300 each in delivery and newborn care costs.", "Four in ten Texas women age 50 and over have not received a mammogram and breast exam in the last two years.", "49% of all pregnancies in the U.S. were unintended in 1994.", "One in four Texas women age 50 and over have not received a mammogram or breast exam in the last two years.", "Almost 20% of Texas women with intact cervixes have not had a pap smear for the detection of cervical cancer in the last three years.", "Low-income, post-menopausal women in Texas do not have access to hormone replacement therapy, which could improve their quality of life and prevent heart disease.", "There are approximately 1.5 million uninsured women in Texas, and approximately 1 million of those are of child-bearing age (18-44).", "The average cost of providing the full range of family planning services is less than $200 per client per year.", "For every $1 spent on family planning, $3.30 is saved in the first year alone in Medicaid payments for delivery, support services and new-born care costs.", "Almost 20% of the births in Texas are to teen mothers.", "Texas ranks 49th in the U.S. in teen birth rates, with only Mississippi having a higher rate.", "Less than a third of the women in Texas who are eligible for subsidized family planning are receiving those services.", "The leading cause of welfare dependency in Texas is birth to low-income women who keep their babies.", "A Scripps Howard Texas Poll found that 67% of Texans favored increased funding for family planning services.", "13% of all U.S. births are to teenagers. - AGI 1999", "Every year about 3 million U.S. teens - 1 in 4 sexually active teens - acquire an STD. - AGI 1999", "Over 1/2 of U.S. women age 13-44 are in need of contraceptive services and supplies.", "A woman who wants only two children will need to practice contraception for at least 20 years of her life.", "Women using a method of contraception are only 15% as likely as women using no method to have an abortion.", "Family planning agencies are the single largest screening mechanism for breast and cervical cancer in Texas.", "More than 3 million unintended pregnancies occur every year in the U.S. - AGI 2000.", "Almost half of the 6.3 million pregnancies every year in the U.S. are unintended. - AGI 2000.", "43% of all abortion facilities provide services only through the 12th week of pregnancy. - AGI 2000.", "88% of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. - AGI 2000.", "Without publicly funded family planning services, an estimated 1.3 million additional unplanned pregnancies would occur annually. - AGI 2000.", "The risk of death associated with childbirth is about ten times as high as that associated with abortion. - AGI 2000.", "The number of abortion providers declined 14% between 1992 and 1996. - AGI 2000.", "The birthrate for 15-17 year olds in the U.S. is 34 per 1000, the second highest in the world after Georgia. - AGI 2001.", "A sexually active teenager who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant in one year. - AGI 1999.", "One third of pregnant teens receive inadequate prenatal care. - AGI 1999." ); months = new Array( "January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"); today = new Date(); curMonthNo = today.getMonth(); curDate = today.getDate(); curYear = today.getYear(); document.write("Family planning fact of the day for " + months[curMonthNo] + " " + curDate + ", " + curYear + ": "); //select daily fact. facts display each day of the month in order, then recycle numFacts = facts.length; whichFact = curDate % numFacts; document.write(""); document.write(facts[whichFact]); document.write("");