On the success of a program in Scotland

MORE than 2,000 babies have been ‘saved’ from abortion by a controversial scheme set up by the late Cardinal Thomas Winning to persuade women to keep their child.

The Pro-Life Initiative, which marks its 10th anniversary next March, has revealed that it has dealt with a total of 2,102 mothers, each of whom has received prams, clothes, toys and cots totalling hundreds of pounds in exchange for carrying on with their pregnancy.

Please note that "scheme" does not have a perjorative implication. In US English it implies something rather sneaky – it doesn’t seem to have that in British English, merely meaning "plan."

Putting saved in scare quotes…well, that would probably work on both sides of the Pond, I’d imagine.

God bless everyone involved in pro-life work, of any kind…are you? Even by your prayers?