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Why Condoms Have a Bad (W)Rap
I do not get along well with condoms. Last time I tried to apply a condom I was drunk. After ransacking my drawer as if I was robbing my own bedroom.
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Inside the Gloucester Pregnancy Pact
In 2008, 18 teenage girls upended a quiet Massachusetts town and caused America to let out a collective gasp. But was there really a pact?
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What Gives With Our Girls?
Alarms went off as I read last Friday’s AP report: The principal of the Gloucester (Massachusetts) High School had announced the results of an investigation into the spike in teen pregnancy, seventeen this year as compared to an average of four in other years. It seems that a group of girls made a pact to get pregnant. None of the girls were over sixteen, and in visits to the clinic, they seemed more upset to find that they weren’t pregnant than to find that they were. One teen listed the father of her unborn child as a homeless man. The administrators described them as “girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life.” Meanwhile, we’re worried sick about the child brides and teen mothers on the YFZ Ranch—as well we should be. Some of these FLDS girls are forced to marry and procreate long before they are ready (as clearly established in Elissa Wall’s recent book, Stolen Innocence). But some defiantly embrace the practice of young marriage and youthful pregnancy—in Massachusetts suburbs and throughout the state of Texas, in cities and towns, as well as in isolated fundamentalist communities in Arizona and Utah. What gives with our girls in America?
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My Macho Pregnancy
The last thing tomboy Jennifer Senior expected while expecting? That she'd discover her inner girl.
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Nicole Kidman Tells It Like It Is
Nicole Kidman realized many years ago that being nearsighted was a blessing in disguise.
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Surrogate Mothers: Womb for Rent
Customer service, tech support...these days we outsource everything to India. So why not pregnancy? Here is a report on the growing number of Indian women willing to carry an American child.
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I Was Betrayed by a Pill
The abortion pill was supposed to make termination safe, easy, and discreet. One pro-choice advocate found it anything but.
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They Told me I was Pregnant, But it was Ovarian Cancer
You're bloated. You need to pee all the time. It could be pregnancy—or it could be ovarian cancer, the so-called silent killer. But new research shows you can spot this cancer early. These two survivors reveal how pushing for a diagnosis can save your life.
