What the hell.

[ccharles000]

Why is the media paying so much attention to the pregnancy pact in Massachusetts. I went to a mostly black high school and I remember at one time 25 girls were pregnant and those are the ones I was aware of. When a few white girls get knocked up everybody freaks. I never saw CNN at Smith High when we had many more get pregnant.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I'm thinking who cares about what those chicks did. nt

[Skittles]

2. it's a PACT

that's something new to most Americans, that over a dozen girls would AGREE TO TRY TO GET PREGNANT - it's VERY disturbing, whether the gals are white or black

[stillcool]

5. the word here is that..

there was no pact. A couple of high-school girls interviewed said that 2 girls had said they were going to get pregnant together.

http://wbz.com/pages/2463462.php?contentType=4&contentId=2301220

Mayor rejects notion of 'pact' in Gloucester pregnancies

Gloucester (WBZ Newsroom/AP) -- The mayor of Gloucester made her strongest statement to date on Monday that there is no evidence of a pact among a group of girls in the city's high school to get pregnant together.

And the school superintendent told reporters that the Time magazine reporter who wrote the story told him she did not make a distinction between a pact made between a group of girls before they became pregnant and the possibility that girls who already were pregnant got together to discuss raising their babies together.
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City and school officials in this town of about 30,000 people 30 miles north of Boston have been struggling for months to explain and deal with the pregnancies, where on average only four girls a year at the 1,200-student high school become pregnant.

Just last month, two officials at the high school health center resigned to protest the local hospital's refusal to support a proposal to distribute contraceptives to youngsters at the school without parental consent. The hospital controls the clinic's funding.

The heavily Roman Catholic town, with a large Italian and Portuguese population, has long been supportive of teen mothers. The high school has a day care center for students and employees.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-23-teens-pact_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.wbur.org/news/2008/78193_20080624.asp
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080623/wire/806230361&tc=yahoo

[Skittles]

7. I should have known it's just another tabloid media red herring n/t

[KillCapitalism]

3. It actually is alarming news.

It should tell you that we're quickly becoming the society depicted in the movie Idiocracy.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Distraction from the shredding of the Constitution?

Just a thought...

[AlCzervik]

6. my newspaper had a small item about that, it might be a hoax, waiting for tomorrow's

edition to see if they have anything more.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. If it was a "pact" as it was first presented to the media, then...

it is newsworthy.