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...prevent more unwanted pregnancies. Some go so far as to send a social worker to the hospital shortly after the girl has given birth in order to present gifts of condoms and contraceptive foam, along with something for the baby. Increasingly, programs like the Door in New York and Crittenton Center in Los Angeles have extended their contraceptive-counseling programs to teens who have not yet become pregnant. Crittenton purposely holds discussion groups that mix young mothers with other adolescents to reinforce the lessons on birth control. "When they see how hard it is to be a mother," says Executive...
These efforts are aimed at what may be the true root of the teenage pregnancy problem: not simply lack of sex education or access to birth control but a sense of worthlessness and despair. Recounts Watson of Crittenton Center: "The girls tell me, 'Before I was pregnant, I was nothing. Now I am somebody. I'm a mother.' " As long as adolescents look in the mirror and see nobody there, they are likely to seek identity by becoming--ready or not--somebody's mother. --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Cathy Booth/New York, Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles and Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago
Then, on Oct. 5, Massachusetts Citizens For Life objected that Marshall had served on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a group that performs abortions. They initiated a campaign to telephone councilors asking them to vote against...
...Harvard regulation that professors not use University stationery to put forth personal political opinions. And now that the Cardinal has publicly withdrawn his opposition, Massachusetts' largest pro-life organization, Citizens for Life, is protesting Marshall's nomination on the grounds that she once sat on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a home for unwed mothers that provides abortions. Marshall's position on abortion shouldn't be an issue (nevermind that abortion is still legal in this country); her ability to judge cases fairly should be. And by all accounts, her judicial record is unblemished, even stellar. Its an instance...
...only subsidizes abortions administered at Planned Parenthood/Preterm, Women's Health Services and Crittenton House facilities...