teenage_pregnancy twiggie i know of too many people who've had abortions and babies before they were 18. 001228 ... silentbob one of the girls i asked out later was rumored to be pregnant. it somehow got out that they were going to have an abortion. and i remember the day that both her and her boyfriend were gone from school, "To see a doctor." other than that, i know of one girl in my class who got pregnant, and she had it and gave it up for adoption. it takes different strokes to move the world. 001228 ... twiggie it just seems so strange to me...i don't know if i didn't see everything happening in CT because i was young and naive or what. but all of a sudden everyone is in rehab, everyone is pregnant, there is something wrong with every person i knew there... i talk to my best friend from CT maybe a couple times a month on average. every month she has something else to tell about a new pregnancy or things similar. it's like something blew up over there while i was gone. i don't know. 001228 ... Glory Box It seems strange that such a small, small person can do such big, big damage. Pregnancy is the biggest derailer. It shoves you off the tracks, down into the scrubby bushes, relegated to a life of breeding, eating and barely scraping by. It's the ultimate mistake, except, of course, for the child. 001229 ... j_blue my high school had a nursery, it has had a nursery since the sixties. me, and all my friends were products of teenage pregnancy. in my town, parents smoke weed with their kids on the backyard porch. my sister got pregnant when she was 19, a good age to make babies, she would be a high school graduate by the time the baby was born. my mom was proud of her sons, we had never gotten caught with drugs, and none of us had had to deal with pregnancy while she was raising us. when i went to college, i made friends who ended up having abortions before they obtained their degrees. hm 001229 ... jil abortion is bad 010630 ... the spork i knew a kid when i was a teenager who would have better off as an abortion his mother didn't seem to give a rat's ass about him unless he was in trouble, his dad rarely had anything to to do with him and his stepdad was a like a less (much, MUCH less) amusing version of those guys on that old SNL sketch about chicago sports fans (Da Bearssssss) i wasn't very high up the food cain at my school, but even i had sufficient social standing to rag the guy it wasn't his fault he was an asshole (i know how utterly shallow that sounds but in the beginning i had been one of his only friends, and even we who were the class misfits couldn't put up with how annoying he could be...sad but true) and yes he had been the result of a teenage_pregancy on the other hand, i think i would have made a better father when i was 18 than i would now that i'm just past thirty good thing i shoot blanks 010630 ... Casey I know a guy in my grade who accepted responsibility for what happened. He works twice as hard to support his so to be kid. And even though I don't know him that well, I respect him 010630 ... baby satan i highly recommend it. 010701 ... Dafremen Did this really have to happen? Dumb stupid f*cking shit kiddo...just dumb sh*t...damnit! 010701 ... Dafremen : ( 010701 ... yummyC hooray, I'm not pregnant!! not that I was thinking I was. Anyways...yeah the thought of getting pregnant scares the shit out of me. It keeps wandering across my mind, I mean what would I do? I don't think I'd get an abortion...but I amSO not fit to be a mom, especially at 14. And I don't want to give up a kid for adoption. so what do I do? just don't get pregnant. but nothing is 100% safe except abstinence... The hardest part would be telling my parents. My mom especially. maaaan...i do not want to even think about it so this topic is gone. 010709 ... User24 My fiancee got pregnant 1 week after we were engaged, in fact, 1 week after we'd first made love.. she had an abortion which was very stressful for both of us. but we're still together and pretty happy, it's gonna hit us both hard someday (probally when we decide to have kids) but for the moment we're both glad of the decision we made. she was 16 i was 17, by the way. In case anyone cares... 010709 ... tears of the sky the most stupidest thing in the world 010709 ... Glory Box I knew a girl who had one. I'm negotiating my own as we speak. 020707 ... Arwyn why is it that girls who don't want a baby get pregnant by their boyfriends, only to end up breaking up after college starts, and I can't get pregnant at all by my loving fiance? 020707 ... daxle because over population by humans is ruining the earth, and secretly your uterus knows this 020708 ... Arwyn I know you said this like a year ago, but you know something daxle... that thought has had me thinking for the last 2 days.... all i can say is thanks... it's about time I found something that really made me think. 030811 ... x i'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but i stand behind what i said, despite its insensitive nature. overpopulation is a serious problem. however, i think that the mentality of the existing population is the real problem. 030811 ... paranoid martyr [i used to have an opinion about this.] when i was in junior high, i used to hang out with my bunch of girls. we were all so naive, even though they were two years ahead of me. one of us got lost in the way, the one we always criticized about the hair, about the skirts, the position of the legs that actually made her look as a pseudo-whore, although we knew she wasn't. she was actually sweet. she acted like my big sister and we were physically similar too. she graduated from junior high and reached a different high school. a year later in a sleepover, we found out she got pregnant from one of her thousands of boyfriends and had an abortion. her mother and sister helped. we cried. for her. for it. for us. in a moment of weakness, i told my friends i could end up like her. well, been over 4 years since that. i'm here with nothing to worry. i do think from time to time why i wasn't with her to praise her, to hate her, to love her, to beat her up, to react at all for what she did, and still had the guts to drop one tear or ten, just because. 030811 ... Arwyn actually dax, I was being sincere... I was afraid you'd take it that I was being sarcastic, but hoped for the best nonetheless. Sorry if I upset you. 030812 ... x no, not upset at all. just confused. what exactly did it make you think? 030812 ... Arwyn I don't know... I've been contemplating it for the last few days and all I know is that it makes sense. I just really want to know why it makes sense. and in a wierd way, it makes me feel good.... 030812 what's it to you? who go blather from