DISQUS

I've said this before, and I'm sure I'll say it again - I DO NOT understand how one person's marriage (or right to marry) can possibly affect anyone else. You don't like gay marriage? Fine, don't have one. Why should it bother you that someone else does. Invalidating someone else's choice because it's different than yours does not validate you. It just makes you ignorant.

This is fabulous news! Like abstinence only sex education doesn't stop teens from having sex, the global gag rule didn't stop anyone from getting a abortion. It's a relief to finally have a president who is intelligent enough to realize this, and cares about representing ALL of us.

You're exactly right. The problem is not the media, it's the lack of education, both in the schools and in the homes. Anyone who has ever been a teenager (that'd be all of us) knows you can't just tell a teen not to do something and expect them not to do it. Abstinence is not, and has never been, the answer to teen pregnancy or STDs and that's not the media's fault or its responsibility. The people pointing the finger at the media may want to take a look a little closer to home.

As for those girls in Gloucester, their situation has nothing whatsoever to do with the lack of or availability of contraceptives. Those girls are missing something essential in their lives that they think can be fulfilled by the "unconditional" love of a baby. And this isn't a new thing, despite the Time magazine article. I remember seeing girls like this on talk shows when I was in high school (back in the dark ages). Sadly, these girls are about to find out that it's hard to feel unconditional love when you're waking up every two hours, wiping poop off someone else's butt or listening to them scream when they (and you) should be sleeping.

The first commenter has wise words - I hope at least some of the teens out there take them to heart.