Teen Pregnancy

I found this (Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High) first at Perezhilton. I laughed at the caption: "Blame Jamie Lynn and Juno".. It's only funny at first but when you read the article, you'll want to smack some sense into those teens.

Says there it was a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Where did they get the idea that raising children is easy and fun? Haven't we seen movies and news articles that dealt with the hardships of being a single parent?

They are excited to have babies so they can have someone who'll love them unconditionally. Jeez, did nobody teach these kids? How can you enjoy having a kid when you're busy studying, working and planning a future for you and your kid? Children deserve more than just being born into this world.

But by May, after nurse practitioner Kim Daly had administered some 150 pregnancy tests at Gloucester High's student clinic, she and the clinic's medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, a local pediatrician, began to advocate prescribing contraceptives regardless of parental consent, a practice at about 15 public high schools in Massachusetts. Currently Gloucester teens must travel about 20 miles (30 km) to reach the nearest women's health clinic; younger girls have to get a ride or take the train and walk. But the notion of a school handing out birth control pills has met with hostility. Says Mayor Carolyn Kirk: "Dr. Orr and Ms. Daly have no right to decide this for our children." The pair resigned in protest on May 30.
Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future
Gloucester isn't sure it wants to provide easier access to birth control.

Huh?? I'm always amazed at people and government officials who think that they are helping teens by not giving them contraceptives. I hate when they put their religious beliefs first and ignore reality. The issues goes much more deeper than that. It always does. Whatever it is (economics, family or religious issue) isn't it right to educate everyone so there wont be any more of this? It isn't fair.. to everyone concerned..