Making life too easy for teenage Moms

Today's society offers medical, educational and childcare aid to young teenage girls who are pregnant. Theses support sysems make having a baby at a young age more socially acceptable and make it easier to for young teenage Moms to take care of their babies.
The year was 1980. All the trees had lost the last of their leaves and it was cold late fall day when I walked into my high school; Tri-West and the whispers were flying through the air. When I reached my group of friends, they were quick to tell me what was going on. One of our classmates was pregnant and the students, teachers, and myself were in shock to hear who it was. Her name was Debbie Douglas. She was a quiet girl, made strait A's, and was on the student coucil. I remember students saying that she had been raped. Teachers said that she was going to probably have an abortion.
Debbie was the first girl in our school who became pregnant or at least the first girl who became pregnant and everyone knew about it. The ...