“Teenage pregnancy” stigmatizing, prejudicial concept

Well, I’m as guilty as most others who jumped on the band wagon about the so-called pregnancy pact that never was. The amount of uproar over that headline far outweighed any reports that the story wasn’t true. I guess that’s always the way when errors are made in media. After all, look at retractions in newspapers. The original stories may be front-line news, but a retraction would be buried in a sidebar on some page inside.

Here is an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times that discusses how our “increasing obsession with teenage pregnancy over the last three
decades” made it “inevitable that sensational stories such as Gloucester
High School’s mythical pregnancy pact would generate a media frenzy.” Take a look at the opinion piece: The real mistake in ‘teen pregnancy’.

What do you think?