A pregnant Scottish twelve-year-old said she wanted to keep her child, but that she was financially destitute, so the Catholic Church offered to pay the cost of rearing the child. Coming weeks after the British government launched a program to cut the number of teenage births, the offer provoked furious accusations of bribery. Sarah Colborn, head of the National Abortion Campaign, said: "We are talking of money being offered to a child to keep a baby, which removes choice."

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