The New York Daily News used an expression that isn’t seen much these days: “with child”. The reason it isn’t is because we have become a society of casual aborters; we abort for convenience, birth control, greed – we don’t want to pay to raise a child -, selfishness, hedonism and solipsistic self-absorption.

Ideas are formed through language: we are reluctant to use language that might make us question our hell-bent determination to kill our unborn children and abort ourselves into extinction.

Good for the New York Daily News for swimming against the tide:

In recent days, Kate gave no sign of being with child as she kept up a busy schedule of royal appearances.