"If that frightened, unemployed 19-year-old knows that she and her child will have access to medical care whenever it's needed, she's more likely to carry the baby to term. Isn't it obvious?" -- Cardinal Basil Hume to T. R. Reid, as reported in Reid's Washington Post column, "Universal Health Care Tends to Cut the Abortion Rate."

Grant Gallicho joined Commonweal as an intern and was an associate editor for the magazine until 2015. 

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