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When Tameca Harris-Jackson was a freshman at Old Dominion University in Virginia, one of her dormitory mates came bursting into her room, crying inconsolably. “She said she was pregnant,” says Harris-Jackson, who teaches social work at UCF. “She didn’t know what she was going to do about it.” As Harris-Jackson listened to the young woman, her tale unfolded. It became…