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...society that still castigates women and girls for their sexual behavior [July 7]. Nonetheless, she too eagerly embraces the archaic idea that the only proper way to "take responsibility for the consequences" of heterosexual sex is to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term. In the life of a pregnant high school girl, "taking responsibility" may mean walking through the school hallways heavy into her ninth month, case-managing her abortion or giving up a child for adoption without ever seeing it. We can have compassion for all the young women who have found themselves in these situations without passing judgment...
...There are three ways that women and teenagers can take responsibility for a pregnancy: abortion, adoption or parenting. One option is not more responsible than the others. Each is a valid choice, as long as the chosen path is the best for the individual pregnant woman. And that is her decision to make. Kelli Conlin, President, National Institute for Reproductive Health, New York City...
...society that still castigates women and girls for their sexual behavior [July 7]. Yet she too eagerly embraces the archaic idea that the only proper way to "take responsibility for the consequences" of heterosexual sex is to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term. In the life of a pregnant high school girl, "taking responsibility" may mean walking through the school hallways heavy into her ninth month, case-managing her abortion or giving up a child for adoption without ever seeing him. We can have compassion for young women in these situations without passing judgment on their lives and their futures...
Young and Pregnant Kathleen Kingsbury's opinion--clearly one of distaste for teen mothers--should have been left out of your article, especially her assertion that "perhaps [Gloucester High] has done too good a job of embracing unwed mothers" [June 30]. So if they marry, it's O.K.? Unwed teenage mothers need all the support they can get, and they should be integrated with peers so they can stay in school despite the huge responsibility of raising a child. Another reason to be integrated? So that peers who judge them, as Kingsbury seems to, will perhaps gain some empathy...
...self-dubbed "1950s good girl," Fowler had only ever had one partner - her husband. Newly single in her early 50s, she started dating a man she'd known her entire life, and pregnancy was no longer a concern. "If you know for a fact that you can't become pregnant and you don't know anything about sexually transmitted diseases," she says, "why would you use a condom?" Five years later, a routine blood test revealed that she had contracted...