Several of the girls involved and Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk are denying the rumors of a pregnancy pact.

After a meeting with local city and school officials, Carolyn Kirk stated, “any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant-there is absolutely no evidence.”  And one of the pregnant teens involved, 17 year old Lindsey Oliver, told Good Morning America that,

There is definitely no pact.  There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together.  I think it was just a coincidence.

However, fellow high school students and resident of Gloucester are having a hard time believing that the denial is true.  Annette Dion, a 45 year old resident, said, “I don’t think we heard the truth today.  This is a tragedy, very upsetting, and when the mayor won’t answer questions it infuriates us even more.”

High school student Nick Francis, who is in the same class as three of the pregnant teens, said that the pregnancy pact was common knowledge.  And 15 year old Nicole Mitchell made a statement regarding two of the girls saying, “They were best friends.  They wanted to raise their kids together so they could be best friends too.”

Just because they talked about raising their kids together doesn’t mean they made a pregnancy pact.  I know when I was in high school my girlfriends and I always talked about how we would be neighbors and raise our kids together.  Although 17 pregnant teens is a little to many to be coincidental.

When I think of high school, things such as tests, homecomings, and football games come to mind… not 17 pregnant girls parading down the halls. Yes, I said 17! The city of Gloucester Massachusetts is investigating an apparent “pregnancy pact” made by 17 high school girls all under the age of 16.

The girls all planned to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Now, I’m only a few years out of high school but I don’t remember ever telling my friends: “hey ya’ll lets get pregnant and raise all our babies together ok?! It’ll be fun!”

But wait! It gets crazier! At least one of the babies was fathered by a 24 year old homeless man. Sure, there are hundreds of teenage boys in a high school perfectly capable of doing the deed, but no, this girl had to go find a homeless man to be her babydaddy.

One can’t help but think where are these girls getting the idea that teen pregnancy is cool? Do last years hit movie Juno, and new mom Jamie Lynn Spears have a bigger effect on teens than we thought?