I heard about it from her mother. She did everything she could, jumped, ran, and even went to the gym, which she did not need, as she was extremely thin. She wanted to have an abortion and, although clinically there was time, anemia was discovered because the process vetoed her wish. She could not go against medical advice. Therefore, she tried to do it her way. The groom, as young as she was, was there, but he was a shadow.

Not far away, the little blonde girl in the corner was suffering from another trauma. She wanted to have her baby, yet she was convinced that her parents would never support her. She decided to hide the pregnancy as much as possible. The best friend could no longer keep the secret and told them. "Troy burned." Months later a beautiful baby girl was born. Today she is the sunshine of the house and grandparents.

Many stories, from silences or voices, surround the complex issue of teenage pregnancy, an issue that, for me, will only be solved from the conscious responsibility of girls and boys, who today, against all tutelary rigor, educational work, and health talks, bow to desire, invent their castles of passion and have unprotected sex, even knowing the risks and complications.

Statistics show that the phenomenon is expanding and growing. Surveys and studies show the tendency that females are more to blame. I do not think so; rather I would say that they are blamed for emphatic injustice. Males are fully aware of the importance of condom use. In my research surveys, 90 percent of the testimonies collected among young women say that their partners "did not want to use it because it reduces pleasure."

This is a prevailing male chauvinist bias that is not always brought to the dock with the same force with which it is demanded of the girls. In many homes "dad" boasts of a discriminatory inheritance and "mom" remains silent. Very few boys traditionally attend family counseling talks or consultations on sexually transmitted diseases. It seems like a women's issue, so what about them, I wonder.

Even in my observations in the curettage and gynecology wards over the years, I felt the male absence. The mother, a friend, or the mother-in-law are the main companions in those moments of such emotional transcendence and danger. The risks of pregnancy termination are widely known and under no circumstances can this "blind surgery" be assumed as a contraceptive or birth control method. Much less so in this young segment of life.

The signs of the prevalence of untimely pregnancies are increasing and there are many cases in which the mother-to-be is younger than 15 years old. My old idea that the rights of children are also defended before they are born wins me back. Moreover, on my tribulations, I elaborate laws whose demands to those who do not assume their children have such rigor that make them to reflecting and meditate on their acts.

Finally, my will may be a utopia. However, this overflow of young pregnant girls, babies who come into the world without fathers willing to be responsible guardians, and mothers who tire soon or never become mothers because of their adolescence must be stopped in some way.

Now, when a new Family Code moves us from the affections, it may be wise to look through the cracks of this issue and, perhaps, change social strategies that lead to different thoughts about the legitimate authors of the fact.

Making love is not pure pleasure or conquest of puberty. It has lifelong consequences, especially in those innocent cocoons who are "born unwillingly." José Martí showed us that true medicine is the one that prevents. And that is where I feel the path lies.