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1、Accommodating a Pregnancy 选择生孩子 Xiaomin never thought abortion（流产） was a big deal . As he became acquainted with American politics, however, he realized he has to work hard to keep abreast of changing Values to truly understand how absurdly controversial this issue has become. He found out from his American friends that opinions are in abundance of how to teach people to be accountable for their actions, how to make people abide by Family Planning laws , and even how to teach people just to abstain from sex . The significance of this issue became abruptly clear when Xiaomin’s best friend, Jeff, got his girlfriend pregnant. Jeff was an acclaimed graduate student who was living an abnormal life from other Americans just by attending a Chinese university to get his Ph.D.(Ph.D.is an abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy, the highest degree available in a university). Jeff was also an ace soccer player and acoustic guitar player. There was also always an abundance of women around him, This is how he met Sarah. When Sarah became pregnant with Jeff, his friends suddenly treated him as if he was an accessory to murder . Jeff also felt as if he and his accomplice, Sarah, would keep the baby . According to Jeff and Sarah, the life of their child was more important than their career. Xiaomin was amazed. Keeping the child wound abolish any chance of a successful career for an abortion with a visit to the doctor even though there might be lines, there people abreast. But Jeff and Sarah were firm in their decision and Xiaomin had to abide his friends’ decision. Life abounded in surprises. Now Jeff and Sarah were leaving school and United States. They wound do everything they could to accommodate themselves to their new situation. 小民从来没想过流产是个大事。但是，当他了解美国政治之后，他认识到得下很大的功夫才一直了解不断变化着的价值观念，真正理解关于这个问题的争论是多么地荒唐可笑。他从美国朋友身上发现人们遵守计划生育的法律规定，甚至如何教人们节制性生活。小民最要好的朋友杰夫使女朋友怀孕了，这件事情使上述问题的重要性突然变得清楚了。 杰夫是位颇受赞扬的研究生，他的生活与其他美国人相比是有些反常，因为他在一所中国大学读博士学位（Ph.D.是Doctor of Philosophy的缩写，是大学里能够获得的最高学位）。