Here’s a fact for you: One in every eight births in Talladega County, Alabama is to a teen mother, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

You might be thinking what that has to do with censorship and banned books. Well, not much- unless you happen to live in Alabama.

A recent study by journalism students at the University of Alabama, in partnership with The Anniston Star, sought to find out which books were most frequently banned in the state by collecting challenge forms from the past five years from each of the state’s public school districts.

A library in Talladega decided to remove “The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth,” by Shelia Kitzinger, from shelves after a B.B Comer High School parent protested the reference material’s presence because it showed “explicit drawings of how to make love while pregnant” and “pornographic pictures that should not be viewed by children.”

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