Is "Pregnancy Pact" fact, or fiction?
By NECN
(NECN: Greg Wayland, Gloucester, Mass.) - For many, it was a black eye on the community. Now, a recent spike in teenage pregnancies in Gloucester is back in the news. A made for TV movie has reopened the debate over whether there was a pregnancy pact among high school students. This weekend the controversial TV drama, "Pregnancy Pact", purported to be based on real events in an unnamed town, aired on Lifetime. Also, a documentary called "The Gloucester 18" was made by the producer/director team of Kristen Grieco and John Michael Williams. Grieco was a reporter at the Gloucester Daily Times who covered the 2008 pregnancy spike, that a Time Magazine story ignited a national firestorm of media coverage, commentary and late night comedy. A barrage that drove families into hiding. They say they wanted to cut through the rumors to the truth about an alleged "pact" by girls 15 to 18 to get pregnant and raise their children together. Williams: “Every girl's story is different. I don't know that the answer will ever be told.” Grieco: Everything wasn't as it is every other year in Gloucester. I'm less convinced that they were in communication with one another than being influenced by one another. Grieco and Williams won the trust of a dozen of the families, and got the girl's stories first-hand. Gloucester has grown weary of the controversy over the Lifetime TV drama. Grieco and Williams will screen their documentary March 4th at the Kendall Theatre in Cambridge. They say the Lifetime producers had seen their footage, knew the true story and claim they falsified it. In the end they say this story is too complex and too important to be left to a prime time TV movie and that, in this case, the truth is more interesting than fiction.
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