45 women reporting a virgin births - Our Country

Right now as Christians around the world are getting ready to celebrate what happened in Bethlehem, comes a new U.S. report:

45 women report that they have become pregnant without ever having had sex, according Forskning.no.

The latest figures come from a recent study on the health of American teenagers. Nearly 8,000 women were interviewed confidentially and repeatedly, through 14 years. Last time they were between 24 and 32 years old.

not wrong. Of the respondents had been pregnant since 5340. 45 of these women again – 0.8 percent – and also announced they had been virgins at the time they became pregnant. They had not used any form of artificial insemination.

– first we thought we had made a programming error, says Amy Herring, a professor of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina.

But it was not the fault lay with the researchers. When they went through the answers, it appeared that time that these women reported having had sexual intercourse, was so late that it meant that they had given birth to her first child before they had sex.

– We did not ask specifically if they had born a virgin. They answered one series questions about pregnancy and another series of sexual encounters, explains Herring.

Also in Norway. Reports of virgin births in recent times, is not a local U.S. phenomenon. Also in the Norwegian sex surveys tell women that they have become pregnant and have first had sexual intercourse afterwards.

But there are virgin births weeded out of the final results, says Bente Træen. She has worked with sex surveys since 1988, she is now a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo.

– Before we analyze the data, we attack them and find inconsistencies. Because we do not believe in the virgin birth, there is an inconsistency, she says to Forskning.no.