Remember that "pregnancy pact" we told you about last week that was reportedly sealed by eight pregnant teens at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Massachusetts? The story, broken by Time magazine, made international news and brought the topic of teen pregnancy into sharp focus during the same week that 17-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to her first child.
Now, after the world's attention was focused on the small, predominantly Catholic fishing town, school officials are casting doubt on the claim made by the school's principal that the girls banded together and planned to get pregnant and raise the babies together. School Committee Chairman Greg Verga told the Boston Herald on Monday (June 26) that Principal Joseph Sullivan is the only person who has made the claims that half the expectant teens at Gloucester High planned to get pregnant.
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