Imagine being a young teenage girl who has to make a serious decision, choosing between having your baby or having an abortion. Imagine having regrets now that you're four months pregnant. Imagine feeling like you stand out in school because your the only teenage girl in the classroom that is pregnant. What if this is your third time being pregnant but you refuse to have another abortion. Imagine this happened to you, what would you do?

In East Side Community High School a young girl named Debbie Rodriguez is four months pregnant. She used to get straight A's but now her grades have dropped. She is failing all of her classes. Now she hardly attends school. Her mother doesnt want anything to do with her. The guy who had gotten her pregnant doesnt even speak to her. So is teenage pregnancy a good or bad idea? Is there a right or wrong answer to this question? Well lets take a look:

Young teenage girls in this world have made plenty of sacrifices. They just couldn't give there baby up. Other teenage girls have been forced to get an abortion just because they were too young.Changing her morals was exactly what Debbie Rodriguez had done. She could not stand the chance or thought of having an abortion. In this case Debbie Rodriguez was pronounced four months pregnant in the beginning of November. She attends school in East Side Community Highschool.

Information Beyond Pregnancy in ESCHS Edit

"Teenage Pregnancy occurs when women under the age of 20 become pregnant. Teenagers may get involved with other teenagers or with adults. Barring medical and physical concerns, problems of teenage pregnancy arise from individual, family, and social factors. These include but are not limited to culture, religion, moral values and beliefs, law, educa565555855605561156teenage pregnancy rate declined by 2% between 1999 and 2000 (from 85.7 to 83.6 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19). From 1986 to 2000, the rate dropped100000

and, more importantly, fell by 28% since peaking in 1990".

In " U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics" ( February 19, 2004) the Alan Guttmacher Institute reported, " Overall, approximately 822,000 pregnancies occured among women aged 15-19 in 2000; roughly two-thirds of these pregnancies were among 18-19 year olds. In general, states with the largest numbers of teenagers also had the greatest number of teenage pregnancies. California reported the highest number of adolescent pregnancies (113,000), followed by Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois (with about 37,000-80,000 each). The smallest numbers of teenage pregnancies were in Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota and Alaska, all of which reported fewer than 2,000 pregnancies among women aged 15-19". its tough at first you will loose ones you love but once your child gets older and you hold that bbaby in your hands for the first time you will be glad you didnt kill that wonderfull creation.

Why hide in east side feel free to speak your mind Edit

Peer Health Exchange is a program that East Side Commuunity High School has to teach students about health issues such as STI's and HIV. East Side Community High School has this program to inform their students about the risks that can happen while having un protected sex. Peer Health Exchange is not only about sex it also teaches teens about being healthy. It's basically a program that tries to keep teenagers safe and healthy. So they can live there life good other than getting stressed put a young age or getting hurt at a young age. Peer health is a very good program and it should take place in every highschool world wide.

In East Side Community High School they allow their students to still attend school even if they are pregnant. They feel it is a easier way to communicate with them. They feel its not right to go against them its much better to go along with them. What if you were in a different school other then East Side Community High School, do you think they still would let you attend school now that your four months pregnant? Do you think that you would be the whole talk around the school? What will happen? In East Side community High School Kids are supposed to feel free and open minded. There are even kids who attend East Side Community High School that aren't afraid to tell anyone that they are gay. East Side Community High School has been this way for already 2 years. There have been pregnant teens from every grade. East Side Community High School is not a special school for Pregnant people it's a school that is based on portfolios and round tables. Principal Mark Federman states, " East Side community High School is a School where students and Teachers should be able to relate to each other, Communication is the key."

Lets take a look: Condoms can be found anywhere. Stores Clinics Homes and Peer health exchanged programs.

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Debbie Rodriguez, She is a 16 year old teen who is pregnant, she is pregnant and she attends school in East side Community Highschool , this happened at the end of the summer time during the month of august, this happened because she was continuously doing and having unprotected sex meaning she knew everything that would happen to her if she did not have safe sex you can get pregnant and you could have a Sexually transmitted disease. and this event is important so that the teens who read this article is aware with what is the consequences that could happen to anyone if you don't have any safe sex. It is very smart and wise to use safe sex and females should always use contraceptives." Why wait to make a decision about pregnancy good or bad when you can just avoid being pregnant?knk i think this is a good way but is hard to let go once you hold this baby alot of the teen moms got in fittes with there parents and boyfreinds all ended terrible the only one who didnt was carly she had given up her baby and is still speakin with her mom they usaully send pictures of her liitle baby and her boyfreind and her are engaged and soon plan on getting married they visit the little baby often and our close to the family this is a great way to lift pressure

I think you Teens should right a essay saying why or why not this is right or not or if you should follow it or not