Hey, remember that pregnancy pact at Gloucester High School? You know, where everyone thought some Gloucester teens made a pact to get pregnant, but really they just all got pregnant at the same time (one of them by a homeless man!) and made a pact to raise the babies together? And Time magazine said it happened because of opposition to abortion, and others said it was because Gloucester is crumbling, and it was a big uproar for a while but has now disappeared except presumably there are still babies being raised by teens as a result? Anyway, Lifetime made a movie about the whole mess, and it premieres Saturday night, starring Thora Birch and Camryn Manheim. If this wasn't a sign of the apocalypse, this movie surely is. Even the poster does a good job of summarizing some of what was wrong with the situation, like the boys who impregnated the girls playing no role and just sort of sitting in the background looking dumb, and adults either being totally absent in the sea of pregnant girls or completely missing the important point: that kids really don't need to get pregnant and have children while they're still in high school. Let's just hope that the moral of the Lifetime movie isn't that everyone should be a Teen Mom.
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Much like a baby, it just won't shut up. The Gloucester pregnancy pact debate is as persistent as baby puke stains. Gloucester is clearly not Europe; it's apparent that pregnancies are on the rise there. But now Time has backed away from its pregnancy pact theory and is now suggesting that anti-abortion sentiment is the reason for the baby season. Nancy Gibbs writes:
Seventeen students (out of 1200) at Gloucester High are pregnant; that's more than four times the number of pregnancies reported last year. The health center administered a staggering 150 pregnancy tests over the past school year. Assuming half the students in the school are girls, that figure represents a quarter of the school's female population.
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