A supposed “pregnancy pact” that drew worldwide attention to eight teenage girls at a Massachusetts high school may be fiction, the city’s school board chairman says. Reporters took notice of the fishing community northeast of Boston last week after reports that 18 girls at Gloucester High School — more than four times last year’s total — learned they were pregnant this spring, and school principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine that eight of those girls had agreed “to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Ray Lamont, editor of the Gloucester Daily Times , says his reporters, who have covered the pregnancy spike since March, did not find any pact. Time reporter Kathleen Kingsbury, who originally wrote that the girls believed to be in the pact “declined to be interviewed,” later told National Public Radio she had spoken to many of the girls and their friends, but all were unwilling to be identified. Gloucester High School, “home of the fighting fishermen,” is now home of an alleged pact between students to get pregnant together in Gloucester, Mass. read more

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