Teen-Agers Getting Pregnant and Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Offer More Contraceptives in School, Lowell Officials Say

Teen-Agers Getting Pregnant and Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Offer More Contraceptives in School, Lowell Officials Say

School officials want to provide girls at Lowell High School other kinds of contraceptives in addition to the condoms they offer now.

"In this day and age we need to do everything we can to support our students," Lowell School Committee member Connie Martin said during a subcommittee meeting earlier this week, according to the Lowell Sun.

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Pete Buttigieg Campaigns in Provincetown, Turns P-Town Into ‘Pete-Town’

Matthew McDonald

America's first serious openly homosexual candidate for president got a thunderous reception in the most homosexual town in America during a four-hour stop at the tip of Cape Cod.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, drew about 400 people to a speech in Provincetown on Friday, July 5.

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