Since the focus of World Population Day 2013 is adolescent pregnancy, this inspiring story about one woman’s heroic effort to do something about this problem she saw reducing opportunities and quality of life for young women not ready to be mothers. What if every community had a program like this?

My compliments to Claudia Haltom and the members of her community who got behind what became A-Step-Ahead Foundation, which makes long-term, reversible birth control available to the women who need it most. The foundation works on much more than accessibility, however, as this story reveals. This is a great effort and a positive story, AND it’s about efforts in the U.S. Yes, teen pregnancy is a huge problem in the U.S., not just for the individual lives impacted and the costs to society, but for its contribution to U.S. overpopulation. Overpopulation is not just happening in developing nations.