In PEERS Project, kids teach kids to abstain By Kerry Barmann, 15, Christine Beyer, 14E ven though the U.S. teen pregnancy rate has dropped in the past decade, more than 2,700 teenage girls still get pregnant every day, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization specializing in reproductive health research. The PEERS Project hopes to further reduce those numbers. Locally founded in 1994, the project, which stands for Peers Educating and Encouraging Respons