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65 Girls At Canton, Ohio HS PregnantThe Canton Repository reported recently that 65 of 490 female students at Timken High School are pregnant. The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.

The current debate about so-called partial birth abortion has produced some strange and unfortunate consequences. Among the most disheartening is the widespread impression that the pro-choice movement does not regard abortion as a serious matter, and that women seeking to terminate a pregnancy require a condescending reminder from Congress to understand that the fetus they are carrying is a potential life. Now that the debate has moved from Congress to the courts, the public could benefit from a fuller and franker discussion about abortion policy. The profound nature of the issue must be acknowledged. But it must also be made...