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|name=Magda
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|comment= Probably bit on a tangent, but still:
I really think somebody should start churning out moralising books in which a character (or his girlfriend) has an abortion and then lives happily ever after - as millions of women (and teenagers) do, rather than either becoming traumatised or deciding to have the baby and finding a surprising/difficult/hard but still worth it fulfillment in that.
Especially as the much lower take up of abortion in so called lower socioeconomic classes is one of the reasons for the British high teenage pregnancy rate.
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|name=Sue
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|comment= It's the 'and then lives happily ever after' that might cause the problem, Magda. I don't think it sells that many books, unfortunately.
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|name=Keith
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|comment= Reading it, I did find myself thinking the characters would be better off if they had an abortion. It is touched upon in the book, and they did make the point in passing that much of the moralising about abortion is from American fundamentalists.
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