First Links—3.11.15

Why Poor Women with Unintended Pregnancies Are Less Likely to Get Abortions
Amber Lapp, Family Studies

Flannery O’Connor to Betty Hester
The American Reader

Footfall
Julie Maclean, The Poetry Foundation

Danse Macabre
Andrew Nagorski, The Weekly Standard

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