This article about a spike in teen pregnancies in Gloucester, MA is very troubling.

It says that the girls wanted to get pregnant and planned to raise their babies together.  It also mentions how there wasn’t sex education or contraception made available to them, coupled with a cut in after-school and other programs. Ad to that a very Catholic backdrop and a bad economy and you have a recipe for disaster. I don’t claim to know what the answer is, but- surely we could start with education and access to information. Ugh.