‘Adoption feels further away than ever’

Adoption was always a complex legal process. But in late 2011 it became more confusing and more expensive. Now some would-be parents are simply giving up


Abortion ‘is never, ever a casual decision’

‘I thought the days of assassinating abortion providers were over,’ says Dr Shelley Sella, one of four remaining doctors in the US willing to terminate third-trimester pregnancies





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