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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. more ›

We hate to keep ragging on Gloucester, but they just make it so damn easy. In the wake of media coverage of its teen pregnancy crisis, Gloucester has decided that secret meetings with no media are the best way to continue not dealing with teen pregnancy. That's the spirit, Gloucester--make kids feel like sex, contraception, and pregnancy are such taboo topics that they need to be discussed in private! Pile on even more shame! What a way to open up dialogue. more ›