Gloucester, Massachusetts - Once known for the small Catholic coastal town that lost a commercial fishing boat crew to a perfect storm, Gloucester, Massachusetts, will now forever be known for the birthplace of the pregnancy pact.
Wanting to be the first among their graduating classmates to have swollen feet, stretch marks and a C-section belly scar, seventeen underage girls decided to get pregnant.
Tragically, only fourteen of the girls were successful, forcing the remaining three to adopt.
As the airwaves are abuzz with expert testimony blaming the pregnancy pact phenomena on everything from financial hard times, Hollywood celebrity pregnancies (Jessica Alba, Jamie Lynn Spears, Ashlee Simpson and Nicole Richie), movies like "Juno" and "Knocked Up," or the girls even getting pregnant in order to experience unconditional love simultaneously, all have overlooked the obvious.
"It wasn't my fault. The guy I sleep with tricked me and put on a condom when I wasn't looking," said Deloris McDonald, one of the seventeen girls of the original pregnancy pact that failed to conceive.
"That's why I instruct every student on the proper use of contraception," said Trisha Myers, Gloucester high school nurse.
Myers insists that if McDonald's parents had signed the permission slip allowing their daughter to take her sex education course that McDonald would have known that her lover slipped on a condom and she would be pregnant right now.
"That's true, I guess," said McDonald. "More sex education couldn't have hurt. We all knew how to do it [sexual intercourse], but we were so ignorant on how effective contraception can be when applied properly, stopping even a wanted teen pregnancy."
McDonald says that while she is waiting approval of her adoption application for a newborn baby, or a puppy, she has not giving up.
"I still have summer school," said McDonald, having forged her parents' signature on Mrs. Myers's permission slip. "I bet I could get the girls in her class to make a new pregnancy pact. You'll see by the fall I'll be showing... Unless, the dollar continues to fall against the euro, Hollywood celebrities stop having babies or movies like 'Fast Times at Ridgemount High' about unwanted teenage pregnancies start coming out again."
