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Finding ‘quality’ at the end of life | Hobby Lobby victory July 26, 2014 China’s abortion regime and the heroes fighting it— a street-level look MS_HCReformAd1_2014.indd 1 4/28/14 11:37:54 AM 15 CONTENTS.indd 2 7/2/14 4:21 PM Contents , / , 32 China beachhead Pro-life eff orts are growing in the nation with the most abortions. But saving lives in the womb is an enormous challenge—even within the church 38 Far from home Congolese authorities are keeping hundreds of adopted orphans from joining their new families abroad 42 A life worth living 4 News For a decade 14 Quotables my father was 16 Quick Takes unable to walk or communicate, but who is to say 21 Movies & TV he had no good 24 Books quality of life? 26 Q&A 48 Cultivating change 12 28 Music Hope Award: Rural ministry in Michigan earns Midwest regional victory : 55 Lifestyle 57 Technology 58 Science 59 Houses of God 60 Sports 61 Money 21 3 Joel Belz 18 Janie B. 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If you would prefer not to receive these promotions, please call customer service and ask to be placed on our list. 15 JOEL.indd 2 7/8/14 3:21 PM Joel Belz Pitifully taught Most Americans know absolutely nothing about the Hobby Lobby case thousands of respondents, would be any more Demonstrators who do understand the case celebrate the Hobby Lobby decision encouraging. For the record, here’s what I was looking for: e Hobby Lobby decision held basically that the govern- ment cannot require a closely held private business to provide specifi ed aspects of healthcare for its employ- ees if such provision violates the company’s religious conscience, so long as those specifi c aspects of care remain otherwise available to the employees. And the court specifi cally based its decision not on the First Amendment of the Constitution’s “Bill of Rights” but on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of . But the nation’s media provided precious little help to the American public in reaching a clear understanding of the decision. When President I , the fi rst details Obama (through his press secretary), presumed of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Senate on June , that the issues were nuanced Majority Leader Harry Reid all blasted the Hobby >> enough to need some careful explaining. So Lobby decision as an expression of conservatives’ just how confused might the American public be? continuing “War on Women,” most of the networks, And would the mainstream media off er genuine help the newspapers, and the magazines gave such on that front—or would they just make matters worse? spokesmen free rein. No challenging questions, few To fi nd out, I decided to pull out my favorite follow-ups. Here and there, a minor exception—like research tool—a visit to the sidewalk in front of my the liberal Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, local Walmart. My wife reminded me that, with no who cautioned his colleagues that the Hobby Lobby Hobby Lobby store here in Asheville, I might end up decision was “not as radical” as some of them were with a lot of blank stares. Folks simply wouldn’t saying. But Tribe was almost alone in his media know what I was talking about. I hoped for a little quarters, fl ashing such an amber caution light. more civic interest and engagement. Much more typical was the claim, and this assertion My wife, though, was right. Only four of the fi rst was aired in only slightly varied form at least half a people I asked had a clue what I meant when I dozen times on MSNBC and PBS, that “this ruling asked: “What would you say was the main issue in allows bosses to force their personal beliefs on employ- the Hobby Lobby case that the U.S. Supreme Court ees.” Or try the colorful conclusion that after such a ruled on earlier this week?” Of those four, none was decision, we can expect next to see the court carving close to getting things right. Instead, all four out special permission for Amish farmers to sell answered by asking something like: “Was that the unpasteurized milk. Scare language was everywhere. decision where the government said contraceptives All of which is why the random gathering of are illegal?” people in front of Walmart last week tended to be so I’ll admit that asking all these random shoppers tongue-tied. e nation’s media, whose duty it is to for a detailed analysis of a complex court case might provide thoughtful information, had instead served be expecting a bit much. And maybe the sight of a up a steady diet of misinformation. And having been white-haired septuagenarian quizzing ursday so pitifully taught, the people were now quite unpre- morning Walmart shoppers about contraceptives pared to identify something so simple as the main was a little off -putting. issue defi ning the Hobby Lobby case. Sadly, the few But I wasn’t pursuing a carefully researched legal who got close still tended to get it very wrong. MONSIVAIS brief. Just get the topic approximately right, I asked. It’s a pretty rare thing that when teachers get Yet percent of my sample couldn’t even discuss things terribly wrong, their students do any better. MARTINEZ the matter; and the other percent got it all wrong. I’ll try to remember that the next time I head out for PABLO I have no reason to think a national survey, including a Walmart opinion poll. A Email: [email protected] JULY 26, 2014 • WORLD 15 JOEL.indd 3 7/9/14 10:28 AM DispatchesNews > Quotables > Quick Takes 4 WORLD • JULY 26, 2014 15 NEWS OPENER.indd 4 7/9/14 12:01 PM JULY 4: Demonstrators from both sides of the immigration debate confront each other outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, Calif. Demonstrators had gathered where the agency was foiled earlier this week in an attempt to bus in and process some of the immigrants who had flooded the Texas border with Mexico. MARK J. TERRILL/AP 15 NEWS OPENER.indd 5 7/9/14 12:01 PM Dispatches > News Thursday, June Supreme determinations Pro-lifers rejoiced as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Massachusetts law that had established a -foot buff er zone between sidewalk counselors and abortion facilities. Chief Justice John UNION/AP TIMES BUREN/ALBANY VAN LORI HULKA: • 7-ELEVEN GULP: BIG • IMAGES SORIANO/AFP/GETTY JAVIER SOCCER: • IMAGES WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY PRO-LIFERS: • BOWMER/AP RICK UTAH: Roberts, writing for the majority, said buff er zones that bar access to public property like sidewalks do not pass constitutional muster. He did not challenge more fl exible buff er zone laws, however, such as one in Colorado that requires protestors to keep feet away from women entering abortion centers. In a separate ruling, the justices Wednesday, June rebuked President Obama for making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in while Congress was not offi cially in recess. Dictated FIFA bites back Soccer offi cials at FIFA gave change Uruguayan star striker Luis Suárez the harshest World Cup punishment e th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared in history for biting the shoulder of Utah’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban opponent Giorgio Chiellini during unconstitutional, claiming homosexual couples Uruguay’s Tuesday match with Italy.