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By Jessica Heslam Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Added 5m ago GLOUCESTER - More than a month after a Time magazine report about an alleged pregnancy pact thrust this seaside city into the worldwide spotlight, Gloucester school officials last night turned to a host of teen pregnancy experts for help on the issue. School Committee member Val Gilman recalled her own tough conversation about safe sex with her now 20-year-old daughter when she was 12. She made an appeal to the parents of middle school children watching at home on cable TV. “If you have children in middle school right now,” Gilman said, “talk to them now.” Dr. Karen Hacker of the Institute for Community Health in Cambridge made a presentation that included the benefits - and risks - of contraception, including birth control pills, the birth control patch and other... [read full story]
