Doesn't this directly contradict his statement two pages earlier? “These are middle-class girls whose children would have been kept from starvation by the girl's parents or any of thousands of eager adoptive couples,” Pinker says (197). She later writes, after describing the emotions and their connection to the story, “She will give birth in particularly unpromising circumstances for a human mother: alone” (Pinker 197). How lonely is the young mother if she lives in a middle-class family, supported by her parents? What better conditions could it potentially allude to... a prince with a white horse, or avoiding humiliation from peers in connection with a teenage pregnancy? Does this give anyone the right to kill a human being? According to Pinker, it