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From Lydia, an administrator at an abortion clinic: “Patients who have a wanted pregnancy and lose it, or choose abortions because of fetal anomalies, always call it “the baby.” It is a baby to them, developed or not… Some women never “connect” to the pregnancy… For them, it is nothing like a baby. It is just there, and they want it removed. They would hate the word “baby” and do not use it. Our job is to meet the woman where she is and provide her with accurate information. I do not feel it is my job to correct terminology...

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab TV network often described as Osama bin Laden's propaganda outlet, wants to broadcast in the United States but is running into difficulties finding outlets that would allow it to have an English-language channel in America. According to the New York Sun, a planned Al-Jazeera English-language channel due to go on the air in May has yet to find cable or satellite outlets that would allow it to peddle its wares across America. The planned network, staffed largely by veteran Western journalists, was supposed to launch in March, but the target date was recently pushed back, the...