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......

Beverly's offensive Horribles parade float that made fun of Gloucester's recent spate of teen pregnancy may have been sour grapes. It turns out that the much wealthier Beverly only lags 25 teen pregnancies behind its Cape Ann neighbor for the title of Preggers City, MA. Meanwhile, despite recent headlines, Gloucester's teen pregnancy rate has actually declined 45% over the past decade. [Herald]......

Some people in Beverly Farms who think they are funny decided to make fun of the abundance of pregnant teenagers in Gloucester during their "Horribles" parade. Horrible, indeed. The parade includes women with pillows stuffed onto their tummies mocking the teenagers in Gloucester who got pregnant. Now, that could be considered satire, and mild satire at that. If they stopped there, no one would have written a word. But whoever designed and planned the......

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: I wonder if some soft message has taken hold when the data......

Baby photo tagged Bostonist by hmmlargerart on FlickrIt turns out that the pregnancy club that such illustrious sources as ourselves (and some magazine called Time) reported on last week wasn't a pregnancy club at all! It was just a baby-raising club, which makes things so much better. After all, teenagers are far more suited for raising the children who'll create America's future than for having sex! Good Morning America has the scoop: "There was definitely......

Photo tagged Bostonist by Flickr user hmmlargeart You know something's serious when Time takes notice. Apparently the lack of jobs, hope, and birth control in Gloucester has driven some teens at Gloucester High School to create pregnancy pacts in which they all agree to become pregnant and raise their babies together. The school seems to be embracing the trend by providing free day care for students and forcing the resignation of health center staff......

--A doctor and a nurse at Gloucester High School would like to give contraceptives confidentially to students, but Addison Gilbert Hospital refused, so the doctor and the nurse have quit in protest. They should do something, as the high school has had 17 teen pregnancies this year. [Boston Herald, WBZ] --Former Red Sox pitcher Geremi Gonzalez, who pitched for many, many MLB teams and was recently pitching in Japan, was struck by a bolt......