She Wasn’t Able to Get an Abortion. Now She’s a Mom. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade. BY CHARLOTTE ALTER/CLARKSDALE, MISS. AUGUST 14, 2023 6:00 AM EDT Ashley just had a baby. She’s sitting on the couch in a relative’s apartment in Clarksdale, Miss., wearing camo print leggings and fiddling with the plastic hospital bracelets still on…
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Inside the Christian Shelter Where No Girl Is Too Young to Have a Baby
December 15, 2022, 7:30am By Nathaniel Janowitz ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay—Gabriela was 17, pregnant, and out of options. In her hometown in rural Paraguay, Gabriela found a local doctor who offered to give her a clandestine procedure for 3 million guaraníes, or roughly $400. For a senior in high school whose family didn’t know she was pregnant in…
