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A Massachusetts city is investigating an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact" that has at least 17 high-school girls expecting babies, four times more than last year, including many aged 16 or younger. A high school health clinic in the city of Gloucester became suspicious after seeing a surge in girls seeking pregnancy tests. Local officials said on Thursday nearly half of those who became pregnant appear to have entered into a pact to have their babies together over the year. "Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Gloucester High School principal Joseph Sullivan told Time...

WASHINGTON, August 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Congress works today to pass HR 3162, a bill which includes opening abstinence funding to states that want to teach contraception to teens, a new analysis of government data shows that increases in abstinence education funding coincide with decreasing teen birth rates. Young, African-American unmarried teens (ages 10-14) had the most drastic decrease, with their birth rates being the lowest in recorded history. The birth rates for all teens ages 10-14 are the lowest in 40 years. In addition, the birth rates for all teens ages 15-19 are the lowest in 20 years. Specifically,...

PONTIAC, Michigan (AP) -- Shantaya McDaniel and Victor Reyes, teenagers who are refreshingly sensible for their age, now know what contributes to the high death rate of infants in their city and steps they can take to help keep babies alive. Credit a six-week class called Crib Notes offered at their Lincoln Middle School for helping them apply lessons on healthy and proper eating, sleeping and living. It was more than an academic exercise. Shantaya, 14, is helping her cousin and stepsister with their babies. Victor, 15, is using his newfound knowledge to help raise his 3-month-old son, Giovonni.

Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- Canada has seen a drop in the number of abortions and teenage pregnancies as both numbers are declining to their lowest levels in some time. The teen pregnancy rate is at its lowest mark but the abortion rate has increased even though the number of abortions has declined.Those figures come from a new report from the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada. Alex McKay, research co-ordinator and author of the study, told the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper that the numbers are down because of an increased use of birth control rather than an increase...

65 Girls At Canton, Ohio HS PregnantThe Canton Repository reported recently that 65 of 490 female students at Timken High School are pregnant. The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.

With the large turn-out I've had on my analysis of the Waxman hit-piece on abstinence education, I thought I'd take some time discussing what a real sex-ed program should be: That's right, nothing. I don't believe schools should be touching sex-ed at all. I think it's a shame we have to ear-mark funding to talk to kids about the fact it might just be a good idea to not have sex instead of teaching them sexual technique and pleasuring in high school. (No joke, the public school where I grew up gave time to how to get your girl to...

Devaluing the Black Family by Anthony B. Bradley Forty-three percent of black pregnancies end in abortion, according to a recent study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and advocacy organization promoting sex education. Nearly 70 percent of all black children are born out-of-wedlock. These two facts taken together should be perceived by everyone as clear evidence of a marriage and family crisis in black America. But don’t count on it. During the upcoming presidential campaign, while we can expect to hear a lot about affirmative action and racial injustice, we’ll likely hear nothing about this crisis. For...

LONDON (Reuters) - British school children are to be controversially asked to consider oral sex instead of intercourse as part of a drive to cut the country's high teenage pregnancy rate. Sex education teachers are being trained to discuss with youngsters various "stopping points" on the road to full sex in a bid to reduce the number of teen pregnancies, the government said on Friday. The idea is to encourage pupils to discover "levels of intimacy," including oral sex, which stop short of full sexual intercourse. But the plan has been criticized as unworkable by family groups. "The courses for...