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That's one six-year-old's take on the facts of life. ... Frederica, 6: They come from Mummy's tummy. They start like an egg. I'm not sure how the egg gets there to begin with. I think it comes from food. You eat lots of food, very healthy food, and that makes the egg. But you do have to eat very healthy food, even like 18 broccolis a week...

When a pastor says something in a sermon that you do not like, goes the old joke, he has “gone from preaching to meddling.” He has stopped telling pleasant and comforting stories (or enjoyably convicting stories about the sins you don’t commit) and started interfering with your life. Many traditional Christians and cultural conservatives love what the family scholar Allan Carlson has called “the Natural Family” as a theory, because Americans love anything “natural.” It seems more direct, more genuine, more authentic, untainted by commerce and calculation. And it has its political uses: They love to appeal to Nature to...

The day after Pope Benedict XVI departed the U.S..., Blaine Harden of the Washington Post lamented the Catholic Church’s influence in the Philippines, specifically, the government of Philippines "acceding to Catholic doctrine" by "supporting only what it calls ‘natural’ family planning," rejecting "modern contraception" as part of family planning." Throughout his article, titled "Birthrates Help Keep Filipinos in Poverty," Harden painted a bleak picture of "the fastest-growing segment of the Philippine population," which is "very poor people with large families," and sought to blame their poverty and backwardness on their following Catholic teaching, brushing aside corruption and other factors that...

If a Democratic president enters the White House about a year from now, some experts in family planning anticipate a boon for mankind: a greater effort by the United States government to restrain world population growth. As it is, when a baby born today enters kindergarten, the number of people in the world will have grown by more than 300 million. That's on top of the 6.7 billion individuals alive today. That four-year population-growth projection is comparable to the 303 million people now living in the US – the third most populous nation in the world after China and India....

The push is on Planned Parenthood mounts campaign to pressure Gov. Schwarzenegger into signing bill that would provide millions more in state funding for family planning Planned Parenthood affiliates across California have geared up their PR machines once again, this time in an effort to persuade Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign a bill that could result in the state spending another $3.2 million a year on “family planning services.” Planned Parenthood, whose California affiliates typically end each fiscal year with budget surpluses in the millions, want the governor to sign SB-94, sponsored by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Los Angeles. The...

"Pro-Life" Casey Votes Twice to Enable US Funding for Abortion Overseas By Meg Jalsevac WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (Democrat-Pennsylvania) actively contradicted his largely pro-life campaign promises by voting to approve a funding appropriations bill that would provide US funding to foreign organizations that promote and provide abortions.       The funding bill (HR 2764) would effectively overturn the Mexico City Policy, a foreign aid policy which expressly prohibits the funding of overseas agencies involved in abortion.  The policy was first adopted by President Ronald Reagan and continued in the presidency of Bush, Sr. ...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 29, 2007Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A Chinese couple had filed a lawsuit against family planning officials over a forced abortion that has left the couple unable to have children. The suit hasn't been successful so far and it points to the problems associated with the population control policies in China that allow families just one child.Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, hoped he could buy off family planning officials to allow him and his wife to have a baby.But one night just weeks before she was scheduled to give birth, authorities took Yang's wife Jin Yani from...

Poland Abortion Group Says Women Head to Other Nations for Abortions by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor August 28, 2007 Warsaw, Poland (LifeNews.com) -- In an effort to promote abortions in this pro-life nation, pro-abortion advocates in Poland are trying to make the case that abortion should be legalized because so many women travel to other European nations for them. The Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning claims several thousand Poles head abroad every year. Wanda Nowicka, the head of the pro-abortion organization, says “Women from Warsaw most often choose either Britain or the Netherlands." The British Pregnancy Advisory Service,...

Julio Severo Interview - Part 1 Severo tells how he became involved in pro-life and how Brazil has been changed since the late 1980s By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman See introductory story at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082811.html SAO PAULO, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)LifeSiteNews.com: How long have you been involved in pro-life and pro-family work?  How did you get started? Julio Severo: My first contact with the pro-life message was through publications from Last Days Ministries, in 1986. Through them I learned about Americans Against Abortion (a branch of Last Days Ministries). Before, I supported abortion in cases of rape and risk of life. Later,...

Chinese Courts Hear Unprecedented "Family Planning" Lawsuit By Peter J. Smith BEIJING, July 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For the first time China's judicial system has accepted a "family planning" lawsuit from a woman who says that her forced abortion seven years ago has rendered her unable to bear children. Caijing Magazine reports that a Chinese appeals court has agreed to hear the case of Jin Yani and her husband Yang Zhongchen. The couple is suing a local department of China's State Population and Family Planning Commission, which forced Jin to undergo a brutal partial-birth abortion when she was 9 months...

US Mexico City Policy Under Fire in Congress New assault on policy prohibiting federal funds going to abortion-providing organizations is deceptive Editorial by Colin Mason of the Population Research Institute The Mexico City Policy is under fire in Congress . . . again. Last month, the House of Representatives, at the instigation of Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) voted 223-201 to pass a bill seeking to gut the Mexico City Policy. This Reagan-era policy prohibits American tax dollars from going to abortion-performing organizations in other countries. Pro-abortion organizations, which have lost hundreds of millions of dollars on account of this restriction,...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - World famous opponent of South African apartheid, Nelson Mandela, celebrated his 89th birthday last Wednesday by announcing the formation of a Global council of elders, known simply as "The Elders."So far The Elders includes Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Li Zhaoxing, Muhammad Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Graca Machel, and, of course, Nelson Mandela.  The group of high-profile international leaders is intended to be an independent body of "wise" men and women that will use their combined experience to solve any of the host of problems currently...

Thousands of villagers in south-west China have attacked family planning officials, overturned cars and set fire to government buildings in a riot sparked by the state's "one-child" policy. Riot police have been dispatched to at least four townships in the Guanxi autonomous region after a weekend of disturbances that led to multiple injuries and unconfirmed reports of two fatalities, witnesses and Hong Kong media reported today. The unrest comes in the wake of a new crackdown by the Bobai county government against families that break birth control regulations. Financial penalties have increased and parents who fail to pay are being...

BEIJING, Jan. 23 -- Fines imposed on Chinese who violate the country's one-child-only policy may be reduced for the poor, a top family planning official said Tuesday, as authorities stressed a broader approach to population management. The announcement came a day after state media reported that many Chinese believe it is unfair that the wealthy can "buy" a second child by simply paying fines for breaking the one-child-only rule for most urban couples. "Rich people and poor people, they are all equal before the law," Zhang Weiqing, the head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, told reporters in...

A Full Quiver A Growing Movement for Growing Families for God By TED GERSTEIN and JOHN BERMAN January 3, 2007 - In the Carpenter family's nicely decorated living room outside Nashville, Tenn., the "Nightline" team stared at a couch that couldn't possibly fit another human being. The eight kids squished together began shouting out their names, "PEYTON! COLE! OWEN!" The eight Carpenter children at home. Their parents are followers of the "Quiverfull Movement," which opposes birth control and family planning. (ABCNews) Ken and Devon Carpenter are the parents of eight kids, aged 1 to 15. It might sound like...

British scientists have developed a revolutionary pill that men could take as a one-off contraceptive just before a date. The tablet would prevent a man from being able to impregnate a woman, but within a few hours his fertility would return to normal. This would make it much more acceptable to men than other 'male pills' under development, which alter hormone levels and have to be taken over the long term. It is also more likely to be trusted by women as they are not relying on their man having to remember to take his pill every day for it...

WASHINGTON, November 17, 2006 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - President George W. Bush has appointed a physician with close ties to the pro-life movement to supervise federal family-planning programs. The President has named Dr. Eric Keroack to be the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In that post he will supervise the disbursement of $283 million in annual federal grants to family-planning programs. Keroack, a Massachusetts gynecologist, has been a pioneer in the use of ultrasound technology in crisis-pregnancy centers. He has developed a national reputation in the pro-life movement for his work in persuading women not to have...

CHICAGO - Women can maximize their chances of having healthy babies by spacing their pregnancies at least 18 months but no more than five years apart, researchers say. The researchers reached that conclusion after an analysis of 67 international studies involving more than 11 million pregnancies. The analysis found that spacing babies too close together or too far apart raises the risk of such complications as premature births and low birth weight. The findings suggest that millions of infant deaths could be avoided worldwide with better family planning, said one of the authors, Dr. Agustin Conde-Agudelo of Santa Fe de...

The more acrimonious the immigration debate grows, the more we wish that President Bush would talk about America's population shortage. We're all for enforcing the law, but let's skip for a moment the question of whether people got here legally or illegally or are native born. The broader point that needs to be made is that people are good - life is good - for America and for any nation. This point is understood at almost every level by our religious leaders. It has been pressed with particular clarity, though by no means exclusively, by the members of the Council...

It is probably safe to say that the marketing challenges posed by what may be the world's first municipal condom are a bit daunting. But they are challenges that may soon have to be met. The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced plans on Monday to release an official city condom "with unique packaging" in the coming months, the idea being both to promote safe sex and to allow the department to track more easily who uses the million condoms it gives away each month. The specifics of the unique packaging have not yet been worked out. But...

Say goodbye to diaries — those small books with breakable locks that little brothers could easily get their hands on. Today’s women have computer programs that help them track their most cherished secrets. Women practicing Natural Family Planning (NFP) can throw away their paper charts and store that information in their palm pilot. And there is no worry about this sensitive information falling into the wrong hands — with the click of a button, the intimate details of a woman’s life can be protected by a password. Woman Calendar, a program by BEIKS LLC, is a simple program that any...

MEMPHIS - A pregnant teenager went to the grand and imposing county courthouse here early in the summer, saying she wanted an abortion. The circuit court judge refused to hear the case, and he announced that he would recuse himself from any others like it. "Taking the life of an innocent human being is contrary to the moral order," the judge, John R. McCarroll of Shelby County Circuit Court, wrote in June. "I could not in good conscience make a finding that would allow the minor to proceed with the abortion."The teenager was in court because Tennessee, like 18 other...

A panel of 36 distinguished public policy experts and scholars—ranging from Nobel laureate Milton Friedman to Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey—has selected the Internal Revenue Code as the No. 1 item on this year’s Human Events list of the Ten Most Harmful Government Programs. The programs elected by our judges don’t just cost money, they also attack our values and corrode the spirit of liberty that makes America the greatest nation. As in previous years, we initially asked our judges to nominate programs for the list. The judges were then sent ballots listing...

CHICAGO, April 18 - As a fourth-generation pharmacist whose drugstore still sits on the courthouse square of his conservative small town downstate, State Senator Frank Watson knew exactly what side to take when Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich ordered pharmacies to fill prescriptions for women wanting the new "morning after" pill, even if it meant putting aside their employees' personal views. "The governor is trying to make a decision that must be left to the pharmacy," said Senator Watson, whose family business, Watson's Drug Store in Greenville, Ill., does not stock the pill. "It's an infringement on a business decision and...

This is crazy. Does Washington state have no shame? Sec. 222 (13) of the House's budget provides $300,000 for family planning services to individuals who don't qualify for Medicaid; aka ILLEGAL ALIENS. When the House did this in 2004, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation confirmed then that: "A staffer from House Appropriations confirmed that this money could be given to Planned Parenthood to provide the services. The Senate Ways and Means confirmed that the group described as qualifying is essentially exclusively illegal aliens. A call from a Senate staffer indicated that the House D's put this proviso in the budget in...

The Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged Poland to "liberalize its legislation and practice on abortion" in its periodic review of compliance with the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The UN committee based its recommendations on the work of radical feminist and pro-abortion groups led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Polish Federation on Women and Family Planning. Yet the ICCPR not only doesn't mention abortion, it states: "Every human being has the inherent right to life." The New York-based Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute quoted Poland's Ewa Kowalewski, an opponent...

They call for “modern” methods and promote birth control; the Catholic Church is rejecting this latest pressure to introduce the “two-child policy” and laws “which promote abortion”. Mgr Cruz: the increase in poverty is caused by bad governance. Manila (AsiaNews) – The Catholic Church must adopt a more tolerant and humane approach to a state-backed population policy. This issue interests especially large, poor families who make up the majority in the Philippines. This appeal to the church about birth control was made by 17 university economics professors in the Philippines.In a paper entitled “Population and poverty: the real score”, the...

WASHINGTON, November 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Congress allocated its perfunctory annual $34 million contribution to the United Nations Family Planning Fund (UNFPA) -- President Bush is expected, however, to countermand the contribution, as he has done for the previous four years. US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, corroborated evidence unearthed by the Population Research Institute, that the UNFPA actively participated in China's implementation of its one-child policy, including coerced abortion. The UNFPA's involvement in coerced abortion makes any US contribution to their work illegal, based on the Kemp-Kasten law, which prohibits contributions to any agency that "supports or participates in...

The Bush administration has broken new ground in its "faith-based" initiative, this time by offering federal employees a Catholic health plan that specifically excludes payment for contraceptives, abortion, sterilization and artificial insemination. The new plan, announced last week, combines two White House priorities. It is part of a $1 billion project seeking to involve religious organizations in all types of federal social programs. At the same time, the plan is a new form of coverage - a health savings account combined with high-deductible coverage - that is being promoted as a centerpiece of President Bush's health care policy. The plan,...

Code: ZE04072401 Date: 2004-07-24 90 Million Missing Females, and a $45 Trillion Gap The Fruits of Misguided Family Planning NEW YORK, JULY 24, 2004 (Zenit.org).- While the United Nations and family planning groups continue in their efforts to lower birthrates, several recent books have drawn attention to the severe economic and social problems linked to having too few children. One book, "Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population," takes a look at the consequences of an overabundance of young adult males, called "bare branches" in Chinese. Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer observe that China and...

Like Congress and the rest of the American people, women have been focused on the Bush administration's war on terrorism. Meanwhile, another war is being fought below the radar: the president's war on women's rights.

Recently many eager students took time out of their day to "take action" against various evils in the world, specifically violence against women, by writing letters organized through a campaign by Amnesty International as part of their National Week of Student Action. This is a noble cause, one might think; the event, at my school, was advertised with such slogans as Pope Paul VI's quote, "If you want peace, work for justice." But Amnesty International deserves a closer look. As with every activist group, Amnesty International has a clear agenda underlying every action, and they have a stake in every...

The Harvard Salient November 20, 2003 Forced Abortions or Food? UNICEF is hardly something to trick-or-treat for By Adam D. Hilkemann, Staff Writer       Halloween. Candy, costumes, carnivals—it’s a wonderful time of year. But Halloween also has its dark side. Witches, ghosts, blood, and UNICEF are also just as much a part of Halloween. Yes, UNICEF.       Almost everyone knows the cute, orange boxes young supermen, gorillas, ghosts, and cartoon characters carry around collecting money for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). This year even some religious groups on Harvard’s campus were duped into fundraising for them. But what they didn’t...

To: National and International desks Contact: Geoffrey Knox or Roberta Sklar, 212-229-0540 or 917-704-6358 (cell); http://www.catholicsforchoice.org NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nine religious and faith-based organization leaders and ethicists, representing Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant groups, presented a report today to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) proving that the UN agency promotes voluntary, high quality reproductive health care in China. Their report, "The United Nations Population Fund in China: A Catalyst for Change," was presented to UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid just following a decision by the US Congress to restore funding of the UN agency. Upon...

More (and Younger) Doctors Support Natural Family Planning National Catholic Register May18-24, 2003by TIM DRAKE Register CorrespondentCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Nancy Foley knows the value of a good natural family planning-only physician. Her physician, Dr. James Patterson, might very well have saved her life. Foley (not her real name) had charted her signs of fertility for nearly 12 years, but the signs she was experiencing seemed anything but typical. Concerned, she approached her natural family planning-only physician with her symptoms. Patterson’s (not his real name) knowledge, coupled with his patient’s, led to further tests and a final diagnosis of a precancerous...

WASHINGTON - As attention in Iraq begins to shift from war to rebuilding, some Catholic leaders wonder what kind of society the United States and United Nations want to create there. In the past, institutions such as the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.N. Population Fund have promoted family planning, including abortion. Such promotion could result in a backlash among the traditional Christians and Muslims of Iraq, some observers say. "I know that wherever [the U.N. Population Fund] goes, contraception and abortion follow," said Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, an organization that...

Iraqi woman facing catastrophe London, Safar 7/Apr 9 (IINA) – Dr. Thuraya Obaid, head of the UN Population Fund, who is Baghdad-born Saudi woman, told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that the basic needs of the Iraqi woman have been completely ignore in the melee of providing relief aid to the people. The official spokesman for the Fund, William Ryan, has said that the pregnant woman are facing real danger, even without the war, due to the sanctions that were in place even before the war broke out. He that with the war, the situation has become even worse for...

LifeSite Daily News Wednesday October 2, 2002 LOW BIRTH RATE PUTS CANADA ON ROAD TO PERDITION TORONTO, October 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) - A prominent economics reporter with the Globe and Mail is one of the few Canadian opinion-makers to have said anything at all about the failure of Canadians to have children, historically a key sign of a doomed culture. "Canadian couples are not having enough kids even to replace themselves -- and have not for more than three decades now." "So long as we Canadians don't replace ourselves, we put ourselves on a path that's almost impossible to alter,"...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will spend over $400 million on population control over the coming year, much of this in countries where the fertility rate is only slightly above replacement. Women must average 2.1 children for populations to sustain themselves, but in countries ravaged by infectious disease and AIDS, the average number of children must be higher lest numbers fall. Instead of protecting people and saving babies, USAID’s focus continues to be on reducing populations. This makes no demographic sense. USAID needs to graduate countries from population control, not continue signing five-year, multimillion-dollar contracts with organizations...

LONDON, Sep 27, 02 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has forced the British Foreign Office to address for the first time the gross violations of human rights committed under China's one-child policy. Following SPUC-initiated criticism by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and pressure from SPUC's 45,000-strong membership, the Foreign Office has for the first time included a section on the one-child policy in its Human Rights Annual Report. The report expresses "concerns ... such as enforced sterilizations, the abortion of female fetuses, and the abandonment of female children," noting that these "are...

YUSHUI, China -- Under China's one-child policy, couples in this rural county in Jiangxi province once needed a permit to have a baby. Women as a rule were fitted with IUDs after their first child, sterilized after their second. But times have changed. Yushui abolished the permits several years ago and let women make their own decisions about birth control. It stopped setting birth quotas and sterilization targets for family planning workers, too. The only punishment now for having an extra child here is a fine, and even that is only occasionally collected in full.

Back in the late 1990s when Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed the existence of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," she was scoffed at by the Republicans, the press and anyone sore at the Clintons for whatever infraction, real or imagined, they might have committed. The country got a good laugh, and the expression has become almost as much a part of our political lexicon as "What did you know and when did you know it," "I am not a crook" and "Read my lips: No new taxes." However, while Hillary's naysayers were chortling and guffawing, those "thinkers" at the Cato Institute may...

Shrinking population threatens West's culture My View: reader commentary By PATRICIA STEBBINS Do we really swallow everything we read in the paper without knowing anything of the other side of the issue? A column in the Sunday Cape Cod Times urges us to "go Dutch" and follow Holland's lead in family planning. Writer Ans Zwerver rhapsodizes on how well her countrypeople in the Netherlands have mastered birth control and abortion. I suspect those who read the article mindlessly thought "how wonderful of them" and then turned to the sports or entertainment pages. This past year, the United Nations has twice...

KAMPALA, Jul 23, 02 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - Uganda may be on its way to wiping out AIDS by using a strategy based on chastity and fidelity, according to findings in a Harvard University study. The Harvard study credits abstinence education with "significant effectiveness in reducing AIDS in Uganda ... with the HIV infection rate dropping 50 percent between the years 1992 and 2000." Uganda uses billboards, radio announcements, and chastity-based curricula to promote abstinence and faithfulness. The result has been a gradual, steady drop in HIV infection rates. If the report is welcomed honestly and with a real commitment to reduce...

Tuesday, 23 July, 2002, 10:20 GMT 11:20 UK China has denounced the United States for withholding funds from a United Nations agency and has rejected American complaints that the money was used for abortions. The Bush administration announced it was diverting payments away from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because the agency helped China to enforce a one-child policy and encouraged abortions. Chinese officials rejected the accusations of coercing women to terminate pregnancies, saying the fund's resources were used only for education, birth control, check-ups and equipment. UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid has said the loss of the money...

WASHINGTON, July 22 — In a rebuff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the Bush administration said today that it would not contribute to a United Nations agency that it contends provides aid to Chinese government agencies that force women to have abortions. At his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Secretary Powell praised the agency, the United Nations Population Fund, for its "invaluable work." A State Department fact-finding mission in May found no evidence that the program "knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization." But the administration reversed course and...

The head of the U.N. Population Fund warned on Monday that a U.S. decision to withhold $34 million from her agency's budget would cost the lives of tens of thousands of poor women and children. The George W. Bush administration decided to scrap this year's payment to the U.N. agency, known by the acronym UNFPA, after accusing it of indirectly helping China force women to have abortions under Beijing's one-child policy. But UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid insisted her agency did not support or promote abortion anywhere in the world and predicted the loss of $34 million would be "devastating...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration will not pay $34 million it earmarked for U.N. family planning programs overseas, an initiative aimed at controlling population but one that conservative groups charge tolerates abortions and forced sterilizations in China. Critics of the decision said they smelled politics at work. Administration officials, lawmakers and interest groups that monitor the issue said Sunday they have been told the decision is final. One administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an announcement is likely from the State Department on Tuesday, but added the timing could change. White House officials said privately that conservative...

  Couple say Natural Family Planning strengthens marriage 07/19/2002 Ed Langlois In a world accustomed to sex on demand, Rafael and Rosemary Alva live a radical life. The couple, members of St. Rose of Lima Parish in Northeast Portland, practice and promote natural family planning, a Catholic-approved way for couples to choose when to conceive. NFP, as the Alvas proclaim, uses no drugs, devices or any other artificial means. Instead, it requires a couple to pay close attention to the woman’s body and abide by the signs nature gives. Shown to be more effective than condoms and some other...

"I Don't Have a Choice" A story in the New York Times abandons a woman's right to choose in favor of being pro-abortion. by Lee Bockhorn Lee Bockhorn, associate editorLAST SUNDAY, the New York Times Magazine published a remarkably chilling essay entitled "Family Planning." Penned by an anonymous father--let's call him Mr. X--it described his family's efforts to convince his pregnant 15-year-old daughter, against her own better instincts, to have an abortion. Doubtless, the Times published it as a shining example of how families should persuade pregnant teens that abortion is preferable to bringing an "unwanted" child into the world....