Teen denies high school pregnancy pact

GLOUCESTER, Mass., June 24 (UPI) -- A New England teenager is denying headline-grabbing statements that there had been a pact among she and her classmates to get pregnant.

Mother-to-be Lindsey Oliver told ABC's "Good Morning, America" Tuesday that the so-called pact was actually made after the girls became pregnant and involved only a vow to mutually support one another as they started their families and finished high school.

"(It was) not, 'Let's get pregnant … as a group," said Oliver, 17.

Oliver attended a high school in Gloucester, Mass., where a spike in student pregnancies spun into national headlines last week when the principal told Time magazine that a group of girls had decided to try to become pregnant.

WCVB-TV in Boston said Oliver claimed the opposite was true and that she had been using birth-control measures when she became pregnant.

She also dismissed the contention that school-provided contraceptives led to an increase in sex among students.

"There are 17 pregnant girls," she pointed out. "I mean, they're not going to stop it by not giving them anything. They're only going to make matters worse."