Well, it depends on how you feel about teen pregnancy. Are you for it? Against it? Why? Start with your strongest feeling about teen pregnancy, then back it up with the facts. (BTW, you can also show your strongest feeling is wrong, if you like.)
I'm in your situation too. This is how I'm going to handle it. I'll read through the story, and write down each scene (just a brief description is OK) on a note card. Then, I'll lay all the note cards out in order, and decide what scenes are trash, what scenes need adjusted (and note adjustments...
Good things in small amounts. The fries, as long as they are oven baked in Olive Oil, should be just fine to enjoy (be sure you only have one serving size though -- which would be 15 to 20 fries, I think). Same with ice cream -- keep it small, but make it as sweet and rich as you like.
Keep...