There was no pact
WCVB: Pregnant Teen: There Was No Pact
All of a sudden the principal of Gloucester High School has a fuzzy memory, now that the national spotlight is on him, a week after Time magazine published an interview with him in which he said more than a dozen teens at his school formed some sort of "pregnancy pact." Turns out that the story is total horseshit.
A girl at the school who's pregnant was recently interviewed, and she confirmed that there was no such pact in place. She told WCVB that the school not handing out contraceptives is a bigger problem, as teens are having sex anyway.
I think it's awful that 16 or 17 teenage girls in Gloucester are having babies before they're even finished with high school, but I think it's more ridiculous that this has turned into a bloody national circus because of some incompetent town bureaucrats and administrators who don't know when to shut the hell up.
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What is even more interesting is that the girl admits she was on the pill--this was a contraceptive failure. Unfortunately, giving teen girls the pill does NOT work. If you can't remember you homework, can you be expected to remember your pills?
There is no easy solution.
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June 24, 2008 12:21 PM
Unfortunately, it didn't work for us either -- Bonnie was prescribed an antibiotic that she was told wouldn't interfere with her birth control pill, and it did...thus Emme was born...
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June 24, 2008 12:27 PM
Our son was conceived when the doctors swore I could not get pregnant. However, not everything is decided here on earth! I cannot imagine our lives without our son! He might have been unplanned, but he is no accident!
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June 25, 2008 08:33 AM