http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080619/hl_nm/usa_pregnancy_teens_dc_3This news story has been all over TV and print the past week or so and it has lead me to wonder if the world is truly in the turlet? How can 17 girls agree to getting pregnant together? I don't know 17 people who would go to a party with me, let alone agree that getting pregnant is a good decision.
"A Massachusetts city is investigating an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact" that has at least 17 high-school girls expecting babies, four times more than last year, including many aged 16 or younger.
A high school health clinic in the city of Gloucester became suspicious after seeing a surge in girls seeking pregnancy tests. Local officials said on Thursday nearly half of those who became pregnant appear to have entered into a pact to have their babies together over the year.
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Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Gloucester High School principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine, which broke news of the pact on its Web site.
Sullivan was not immediately available to comment. But
local officials said at least some of the men involved in the pregnancies were in their mid-20s, including one man who appeared to be homeless. Others were boys in the school."
