sarah brown

It was recently revealed that 17 girls at a Gloucester, Massachusetts, high school became pregnant during the last school year -- four times the normal amount. All of the girls are 16 or under, and nearly all of them are sophomores.

"If I got pregnant,"my 17-year-old asked casually the other night while she and a friend were talking about a girl they knew who'd gotten knocked up, "would you want me to keep it or get rid of it?"

"We'd want you to keep it," I said. "I mean, having a baby and giving it up for adoption would be extremely traumatizing. But I think abortion as a teen would haunt you more later in life, especially since you live in a family that could deal with a pregnancy."

She nodded, still look

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