soap opera blues

How might we help re-direct the current news focus on organism-centric "soap" (e.g. "who said what about who") rather than on process goals that we all share? Sooner or later I'm hoping that folks (i.e. the market) will develop an interest in making our institutions better than any one of us, in spite of our paleolithic attraction to narratives about bad-guys and fear.

fewer unwished kids

Pro-choice is not the same as pro-abortion. In fact anti-abortion laws are relatively pro-abortion, because such laws force folks who get pregnant with unwanted children to reproduce while pro-choice lets that trait be reduced by natural selection. Might encouraging and/or helping folks to avoid getting pregnant with unwished kids therefore work better, at least in the long run?