Gloucester schools OK contraceptives

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: Boston Herald

Gloucester school officials eager to limit their much-publicized pregnancy problem voted last night to allow contraceptives in the high school.

The North Shore fishing port’s school committee last night voted unanimously to allow Gloucester High School’s health clinic to distribute condoms and birth control pills with parental consent to students, ending a nearly year-long debate that prompted two people to resign and dovetailed with a national media frenzy over an alleged pact by girls at the school last year to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Seventeen high school girls got pregnant.

School Committee chairman Gary Verga said he supported the measure, was pleased it passed and hoped the school committee could return to businesses away from a national spotlight.

“It was interesting,” Verga said. “There were four or five television cameras in there. I looked up after the vote and they were gone. I thought, ‘I hope this is a sign that they’ve moved on to the next topic.’ ”



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[Matariki]

1. The parental consent part is stupid

It just means that children of parents like Sarah Palin will be the ones with unintended teen pregnancies.