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2020 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Chirot is pertinent to our current divi- DEC. 5, P. 56—BRUCE IPPEL/YORKTOWN, IND. sion of left and right. Without a Your Book of the Year in the Accessible Judeo-Christian worldview, socialism Science category, The Mystery of Life’s (communism) or capitalism (fascism) Origin, champions the case for intel- can end up the same: totalitarianism. ligent design, given that the origin and It makes me thankful for the U.S. Con- marvelous complexity of life was, is, stitution’s checks and balances. and always will be shrouded in mystery—or not. Believers can do the math and infer it must be something godlike SPACE AGE TRADITIONS (think: God) that makes you alive. DEC. 5, P. 25—MOLLY CROCKER/ EVERSON, WASH.

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Column co-pilots Announcing a small change to our column lineup to free up more time this issue. Then Mindy will write another column, and Sophia will jump in for the for international reporting next issue. Mindy, Joel’s sister-in-law, has been with WORLD from the beginning. She ACK IN 2017, I referred to Joel Belz as the Iron Man of WORLD wrote the cover story for our first issue. columnists. He has been a model of consistent faithfulness She was our entire international report- since the beginning, logging nearly 1,300 consecutive columns ing division for many years—we say she in the same number of consecutive issues of WORLD Magazine, put the world in WORLD. She began starting with Issue 1. writing her current column at the same By now, most of you have noticed that his streak ended in time she took on the role of WORLD the issue dated Nov. 21, just a few issues back. We’ve run a few Magazine editor in 2008. B “best of” columns since then. Lord willing, Joel will get right Even with those added responsibil- back in the saddle—modified to accommodate a healing broken femur— ities, she never stopped her impressive and start a new streak shortly. international reporting schedule. Now, With Joel’s streak broken, Marvin Olasky now has a chance to break when the pandemic subsides, she’ll be Joel’s record of consecutive columns. Marvin merely needs to keep able to return to the coverage she knows writing a column in every single issue of WORLD for the next 13 years. and loves best. Piece of cake. (For what it’s worth, I’d need 48 years. I don’t think I could take that, let alone could you, dear reader!) Another, shorter column streak ends in this issue. Mindy Belz has begun sharing her column space with Jamie Dean and Sophia Lee. The three of them will alternate issues going forward, allowing Mindy more time to focus on her international reporting. You’ll see a column by Jamie Dean in the place you would normally find Mindy’s column in EMAIL [email protected]

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Order at Amazon.com and Follow Richard on Facebook Find Richard's podcast Reliable Truth www.richardesimmons3.com & Instagram @thecenterbham on Apple, Google Play & Spotify IN GOD’S PROVIDENCE, I Voices JOEL BELZ GAINED EPIGNOSIS ABOUT HEALTHCARE ISSUES DURING 23 DAYS OF 2020.

Measuring health over the relative benefits of for-profit vs. nonprofit guesses structures was being put to the test—right where I could see it up close. Don’t assume the healthcare Other tensions also were evident. Part of the assign- industry has it all right ment for hospital workers was to promote both healing and comfort for my badly fractured leg. A much more elusive part of their assignment was to keep in HE STAGGERING NUMBERS so typically asso- mind my 7-year-old diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease. ciated these days with the coronavirus are Even highly trained neurology specialists respond to bad indeed. But it’s hard to know how accu- some new problematic issue for a Parkinson’s patient rate all the numbers are. They may be high. with a simple “Sorry, we’re not quite sure just what’s They may be low. But journalists should not going on. We’ll just have to charge that one up to pretend that they’re precise. Parkinson’s for now.” Asheville Pastor Bob Drake used to talk So now I live not only in the state of North Carolina T about the difference between gnosis but in the state of confusion as well. During my fourth (abstract knowledge) and epignosis (specific knowl- week in a hospital bed, I lay there trying to wrap my edge gained through personal experience). In God’s drug-infested brain around some enormous problems. providence, I gained some epignosis about healthcare I hadn’t listened to the national or international news issues during 23 days of the waning 2020 calendar. for three weeks or more, but I was tuned in to hyper- That’s because late one October night, while sleepily local hospital news: bickering, squabbles, tensions of making my way through a dark room of our house, I new ownership. stumbled, fell, and fractured the femur in my left leg. It all makes me wonder. We’re told that something I couldn’t move and had to be taken by ambulance approaching 360,000 Americans died during 2020 to the brand-new emergency room at our regional due to the coronavirus. We’re rarely reminded that hospital—where over the next month I received something more than 3 million Americans died—of prompt, sensitive, and helpful care. all causes—during that same 12-month stretch. Such care is not always predictable. Teaching the Sometimes we’re told “underlying factors” played art of healthcare to a group of 12,000 employees in a a part in coronavirus deaths, but it’s hard to know how dozen hospitals in western North Carolina is no easy large a part that was. Is 360,000 coronavirus deaths assignment. Some will get it. Many won’t. Creating the right number? Too high? Too low? It’s hard to uniformly high standards is especially hard when know. But it is sloppy journalism just to assume that there’s suspense about who will be running the show the number is accurate. Future journalists and histo- and what the standards will be. rians will be debating. Only a few months before I checked in, the hospi- Hospitals show us what we don’t know, but they tal and most of its assets and subsidiaries had been can also concentrate the mind on what we do. In bed sold lock, stock, and barrel to a giant healthcare com- I could not help thinking of a song my father used to pany from Tennessee. The signals of tension I was sing. I wish someone would sing it now. getting from staff from hour to hour were altogether The Great Physician now is near, real. The debate within the healthcare community The sympathizing Jesus. He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, Oh, hear the voice of Jesus!

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A house divided Democrats win the U.S. Senate and a unified government, but the country remains splintered

by Jamie Dean

N THE MORNING Congress prepared to tally Electoral College votes on Capitol Hill, Campaign signs for Democrats in Georgia clinched two Senate runoffs and delivered the Democratic Georgia Party a coveted trifecta: control of the presidency, the U.S. House of Representa- Democratic tives, and the U.S. Senate. candidates The celebration was short-lived: Hours after Democrats captured the Senate, Jon Ossoff and Raphael rioters streamed to Capitol Hill after a larger Donald Trump rally nearby and Warnock captured physical control of the House and Senate floors, halting the Electoral O College tally and plunging Washington, D.C., into stunning chaos. BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES 01.30.21 WORLD 11 DISPATCHES News Analysis

It was the most dramatic breach of the U.S. Capitol since the British set fire to the building in 1814. Two days earlier, President Donald Trump campaigned in Dalton, Ga., just before the Senate runoffs that would determine whether Democrats consol- idated control of the U.S. government. The rally came after weeks of bitter confrontation between Trump and Georgia Republicans unwilling to declare the presidential election invalid despite pressure from the president. Multiple judges in multiple states rebuffed claims the election was stolen. On the eve of the Senate runoffs, Trump spent part of his time in Georgia talking about the Electoral College tally set for two days later. He told the crowd rally, invading the seat of government. he hoped Vice President Mike Pence The melee left five people dead, includ- would “come through for us.” ing a police officer hit in the head with The next day, Georgia voters turned a fire extinguisher. out in record numbers, and Democrats “You’ll never take back our country came through for the challengers: Dem- with weakness,” Trump had told the ocratic candidate Raphael Warnock rally before the riot, after saying he defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler would march to the Capitol with them by 2 percentage points. Democrat Jon (he didn’t). “You have to show strength, Ossoff prevailed over Republican Sen. and you have to be strong.” Later: “The David Perdue by 1.2 points. radical left knows exactly what they The close races mirrored the tight were doing. They are ruthless, and it’s contest between Trump and Presi- time that somebody did something dent-elect Joe Biden in November (Biden IT WAS THE about it. And Mike Pence, I hope you’re won Georgia by less than 12,00 votes) going to stand up for the good of our and raised a question for Republicans MOST DRAMATIC Constitution and for the good of our reeling from the Senate loss: Though BREACH OF THE country.” voter turnout was high on both sides, U.S. CAPITOL SINCE One participant in the chaotic scene did Trump’s weekslong insistence that later at the Capitol told The Wall Street the presidential election was rigged THE BRITISH SET Journal he was shocked by the mayhem cause at least some disgruntled Repub- FIRE TO THE he saw when he followed others into the licans to skip the runoffs? BUILDING IN 1814. building. He said he wanted to share his It’s difficult to know until election views with Congress, and that he officials release more data, but early “checked with the Lord” three times results showed Republican turnout before he entered: “I never heard a ‘No.’” reached 88 percent of November’s elec- Given that the Lord speaks through tion levels in precincts Trump carried. Scripture, Romans 13 and other New For Democratic voters in precincts Biden Testament passages clearly teach that carried, it was 92 percent. Christians should be subject to govern- Republicans had little time for ing authorities. Whatever the grievance, soul-searching about their Senate loss mob action is a most unholy war. on Jan. 6 before a more stunning devel- Earlier that day, Pence told lawmak- opment upended D.C. and the nation: ers he was subject to his oath to “sup- Mobs of rioters descended on the Cap- port and defend the Constitution.” He itol shortly after a larger, nearby Trump said his oath “constrains me from claim-

12 WORLD 01.30.21 JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AP LEFT: Rioters climb the west wall lated legislation through the budget shape the legislative agenda until at least of the the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. RIGHT: Raphael Warnock at a reconciliation process—a process the the midterm elections in 2022—when get-out-the-vote rally. party used to pass substantial chunks control of the chamber will be up for of the Affordable Care Act. grabs again. They’ll also enjoy an easier path to For now, even with a unified govern- confirm Biden’s Cabinet picks and any ment, Democrats will preside over a ing unilateral authority to determine judicial nominations, including Supreme splintered country—or what Abraham which electoral votes should be counted Court justices. Those votes require a Lincoln before his presidency called “a and which should not.” He ended his simple majority. house divided,” as he echoed the Bible’s letter: “So Help Me God.” The party will also control Senate teaching that a house divided against During the riot, Secret Service committees and wield the power to itself will not stand. rushed Pence from the Senate floor to a secure location in the Capitol complex, as a group of rioters outside reportedly chanted threats against him. Pence returned with Congress late in the evening to resume the business of certifying Joe Biden as the next president. Though chaos—including impeach- ment proceedings and calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office—engulfed Washington ahead of Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, lawmakers eventually will look to return to the regular business of running the government. The Democratic wins in Georgia bring the political bal- ance in the U.S. Senate to 50-50. Vice President–elect Kamala Harris would cast any tie-break vote. The narrow margin puts Democrats at a disadvantage for passing any major legislation that would require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. But Democrats could pass some forms of spending-re-

JESSICA MCGOWAN/GETTY IMAGES 01.30.21 WORLD 13 DISPATCHES By the Numbers MISSING CHILDREN 364 The number of abortions for every 1,000 live births among U.S. women in 1984, according to available CDC data. 518 The number of abortions for every 1,000 live births in the District of Columbia in 2018. 40% The percentage of abortions performed chemically (typically in pill form) rather than surgically in the United States in 2018 (see page 44). 58% The percentage of 2018 abortions in CDC data that were THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS for every 1,000 live births among performed on U.S. U.S. women in 2018, according to a recent report from the women in their 20s. 189 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the CDC figures show a 22 percent overall decline in U.S. abortions since 2009, the agency also reported a 120 percent increase in the use of chemical “medication” abortions since 2009, performed on unborn babies of less than 10 weeks of gestation. The agency reported 619,591 abortions in 2018, but that total 85% is a significant undercount, relying on voluntary reporting from states and exclud- The percentage ing California, Maryland, and New Hampshire. (The figure also does not include of U.S. women abortions caused by abortifacients.) receiving abortions who were unmarried.

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DISPATCHES Human Race ARRESTED Hong Kong police on Jan. 6 arrested 55 former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists in an unprecedented crack- down under the new national security law. Most of those targeted had partic- ipated in unofficial election primaries for the territory’s legislature in July. The national security law carries a maximum life sentence. Former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting recorded the moment police showed up at his house, saying he was “suspected of violating the national security law, subverting state power.” Police also arrested Benny Tai, a leader in the 2014 Occupy Central protests, and raided the home of Joshua Wong, an activist currently serving 13½ months in prison for organizing and participat- ing in an unauthorized protest last year.

DIED Hall of Fame baseball manager Tommy Lasorda died of a heart attack at his home in Fullerton, Calif., on Jan. 8. He was 93. Lasorda had a 71-year relationship with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a player, scout, manager, and executive. He had a short career as a major league player in the 1950s but achieved stardom as a manager, leading the Dodgers to World Series titles in 1981 and 1988. The Indonesian navy finds wreckage from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 in the Java Sea. Lasorda was known for his enthusiastic personality and his occasionally obscene language with sports reporters. He also DIED pitched SlimFast weight-loss products in TV commercials. He is survived by his Indonesian plane goes down wife of 70 years, Jo; a daughter; and a granddaughter. Searchers find data recorder but no survivors among 62 people on board PICKED President-elect Joe Biden named U.S. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland as BOEING 737-500 JET CRASHED into the Java Sea after it disappeared his choice for attorney general on Jan. from radar minutes after departing from the Indonesian capital of 7. If confirmed by the Senate, he will Jakarta on Jan. 9. It took off in heavy rain with 62 people on board. head the U.S. Justice Department in that Rescue workers have recovered the flight data recorder, plane parts, role. Senate Republicans refused to hold and human remains, but no survivors from the Sriwijaya Air jet. hearings when President Barack Obama Soerjanto Tjahjono, chairman of Indonesia’s National Transportation nominated Garland for a vacant Safety Committee, said the recorder would help investigators under- Supreme Court seat in 2016. Garland stand what happened. Tjahjono said the debris was mostly concen- serves as a federal appeals court judge A trated in one area, signaling the jet was intact when it hit the water. and previously held senior positions at The United States’ National Transportation Safety Board is aiding the Justice Department. He supervised the investigation. In 2018, 189 people died after a Lion Air Boeing the prosecution of Timothy McVeigh, 737 MAX 8 also plunged into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff. the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, and has served under presidents of both political parties.

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“My first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike the Capitol.” Sen. SUSAN COLLINS, R-Maine, describing in a Bangor Daily News op-ed her reaction on Jan. 6 after security personnel rushed Vice President Mike Pence and two Senate leaders out of the Senate Chamber. Police later explained that violent pro-Trump rioters had forced their way inside the building (see page 38).

“Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone.” Russian opposition leader ALEXEY NAVALNY in a Jan. 9 tweet, commenting on Twitter’s decision to permanently ban President Donald Trump from the social media platform due to what it called “the risk of further incitement of violence.” Navalny nearly died last year after being poisoned with a nerve agent in Russia.

“I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution.” Vice President MIKE PENCE, in a Jan. 12 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rejecting Democratic requests that he invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.

“It’s crazy. … This is my 30th flu season. I never would have expected to see flu activity this low.” LYNNETTE BRAMMER, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s flu surveillance team, on the past year’s dramatic drop in flu cases. Although COVID-19 cases continued to surge in January, health experts believe the social distancing measures taken to suppress the coronavirus have suppressed other viruses as well.

“Amen and awoman.” U.S. Rep. EMANUEL CLEAVER, D-Mo., delivering final words in his House Chamber prayer marking the swearing in of the 117th Congress on Jan. 3. Cleaver prayed for peace “in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and ‘God’ known by many names by many different faiths.”

01.30.21 WORLD 17 DISPATCHES Quick Takes EXPLOSIVE SALE A flea market 2 shopper in North Carolina may have gotten more bang for his buck than expected, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explo- sives. In a Dec. 28 Twitter message, ATF Charlotte announced it was looking for a hand grenade purchased at the Fancy Flea Antique Mall in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., on June 13. Store employees originally thought the grenade to be an inert paperweight. “The grenade … may contain materials that could degrade & explode,” the ATF said. In 2019, thrift store employees found a live grenade inside a donated dresser.

SUBTERRANEAN TROVE Workmen 3 laboring in the sewers of Brussels, Belgium, made a startling discovery on Dec. 22. While trying to clear a blockage that fed to the main sewer line, the workmen caught the gleam of two bars of gold in the sewer. Rather than pocket the bars, valued at just under $119,000, the workers turned the property over to authorities. Police in Brussels have launched an investigation to see if the gold can be tied to any robberies in the city. If the owner of the gold bars cannot be found within six months, the workmen will receive a share of the gold.

SNOW AND FIRE Quick thinking by 4 shop owners in Kansas City, Mo., 1 helped preserve their shopping strip from an unlikely source of destruction—a snow globe. A fire started in the CALIFORNIAN New Dime Store on Dec. 22 after sunlight HAWAIIAN ROLLS shone through a snow globe, which focused the light like a magnifying glass. The resulting heat was enough to ignite A NEW YORK MAN HAS FILED A LAWSUIT against King’s Hawaiian, a blaze in Kimberly Harris’ shop. The maker of popular Hawaiian rolls, because the rolls aren’t actually morning fire occurred before opening made in Hawaii. Yonkers, N.Y., resident Robert Galinsky said he was hours and quickly spread. Next door, surprised to learn in December while reading their packaging that employees of a barbershop phoned King’s Hawaiian rolls are manufactured in Torrance, Calif., as well authorities and filled trash cans with as other locations. “Reasonable consumers understand that the term water to put the fire out. A nearby jew- ‘Hawaiian Rolls’ by itself, does not denote a roll made in Hawaii any elry store owner used a fire extinguisher more than a ‘Moon Pie’ can claim to have been baked on the moon,” to help control the flames. the lawsuit alleged. Even so, Galinsky argued, the words “Hilo, Hawaii” on the front of the package are meant to cause customers NO GOOD DEED UNTAXED Distill- to believe King’s Hawaiian rolls are still made in that town. Galinsky’s 5 ers across the United States that lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and demands that King’s Hawai- pitched in to manufacture hand sanitizer ian change its labeling. after the coronavirus outbreak last year were shocked in December to learn federal bureaucrats in Washington planned

18 WORLD 01.30.21 ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL BEATTY to charge them a $14,060 fee for their Bence, Ivy was born in Tennessee in trouble. Announced in a Dec. 29 notice, 2002 and spent much of his life home- the Food and Drug Administration fee, less or in foster care before being authorized by the CARES Act, collects adopted by a family in Independence, money from companies selling over-the- Mo. Ivy said relatives have told him he counter drug products under looser was born at home and that no birth cer- guidelines. “This incredibly frustrating tificate was ever issued for him. The news comes as a complete shock to the Bences hired a lawyer to force the Mis- more than 800 distilleries across the THIS INCREDIBLY souri Bureau of Vital Records to create country that came to the aid of their FRUSTRATING a birth certificate for Ivy, and in June a local communities and first responders,” NEWS COMES AS Missouri judge ordered the bureau to said Distilled Spirits Council President do so. But as of late December, Ivy was Chris Swonger in response to the notice. A COMPLETE still waiting. A state representative After a public outcry, officials from the SHOCK TO THE pleaded on Ivy’s behalf, and the bureau Department of Health and Human ser- MORE THAN 800 now says it is willing to issue a birth vices directed the FDA not to enforce certificate if it receives a revised court the surprise fee, which would otherwise DISTILLERIES order with additional information. have been due in February. ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT EXOTIC ANIMAL BAN Don’t try to FLYING FANS A ceiling fan manu- 9 bring your emotional support duck, 6 facturer issued a recall on a popular CAME TO THE AID squirrel, or monkey on your next Alaska brand after discovering its fan blades OF THEIR LOCAL Airlines flight. Following newly revised could detach while spinning and cause COMMUNITIES guidelines from the Department of injuries. The Consumer Product Safety Transportation, the airline announced Commission published the recall notice AND FIRST in December it would allow only quali- from manufacturer King of Fans on the RESPONDERS. fied service dogs to sit with their owners Hampton Bay–brand, 54-inch Mara ceil- on board its flights. “This regulatory ing fans on its website on Dec. 23. change is welcome news,” said airline According to the manufacturer, 182,000 spokesman Ray Prentice. Under former of the black fans were sold in the United federal rules, U.S. travelers have States, as well as nearly 9,000 in Can- attempted to bring a variety of “emo- ada. The recall came after 47 reports of tional support” animals on flights, individual blades flying off of the fan including a peacock and 80-pound pig. while the flywheel was spinning. Two consumers were hit by the blades, and four others reported property damage.

VIRUS ON ICE The coronavirus pan- 7 demic finally reached the world’s coldest continent, Antarctica, in Decem- ber. Spanish-language media reported three dozen positive cases of COVID-19 among the staff of a Chilean research facility, the General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme, stationed on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Chilean government evacuated 26 members of the Chilean army and 10 maintenance workers back to Punta Arenas in Chile’s Patagonia region to receive medical care in non-Antarctic isolation.

PROOF OF EXISTENCE He can’t 8 drive, he can’t vote, and he can’t get a job. That’s because 18-year-old Devin Ivy has no birth certificate. According to Ivy’s adoptive mother Christine

01.30.21 WORLD 19 ALL OF US HAVE OUR Voices JANIE B. CHEANEY PRETENSIONS THAT WILL BE STRIPPED AWAY IN THAT GREAT LIGHT.

it with him first: Weren’t we on a limited budget? Fifty years on Weren’t we supposed to discuss everything? Had I made a mistake (I wondered)? Every marriage is Thankfully, he soon began to loosen up. I was good its own story for him in that way, and he was good for my self- discipline and sense of order (without him I don’t know what my house would look like today). We had our SAID YES. faults and weaknesses, which honed the relationship For years afterward, I wondered about my as much as our virtues. While negotiating our disagree- reasons for saying yes to the second most con- ments and recurring sore spots, he learned how to sequential decision of my life. At the time, I lead, however imperfectly, and I to submit for the had not figured out much for myself. Raised Lord’s sake (likewise imperfectly). in the church, I assumed I was a Christian. A successful marriage, in other words, that almost Majoring in Bible at a Christian college (after derailed when he attached himself to a cult. It was a I losing interest in two other majors), I imagined Christian cult, but one that took secondary issues far a ministry of some kind hovering foggily on the hori- enough to hang perilously off the edge of orthodoxy. zon. Actually, my future was waiting for some concrete I didn’t share their extreme view of justification—not force to take charge of it. The force was a young man by grace alone, but by the correct understanding of who had decided he was ready to get married, and grace alone—therefore my testimony was suspect. that I was the one. (Back then, young men were That hurt. It threatened to undo us. But I prayed expected to get married, and obliged when they felt as I had never prayed before, meanwhile searching “ready.” Young women were assumed to be always the Scriptures to see if those things they were saying ready.) were true. They were not true, but my husband stood We met in the fall of 1970, in an overflow Greek firm. He was not tyrannical or mean, just convinced class that consisted of five guys and me. By November of a falsehood—that’s the dark side of Biblical head- we were an item. One afternoon in the student union ship. I came to see him as a victim rather than a per- building I was dissecting the relationship with my petrator of bad teaching, and I prayed, often with an best friend Karen, when it hit me: “Wait a minute—I undertone of hopelessness and resentment, for his can’t marry him! Do you realize what my name would salvation. be?” God graciously gave him Alzheimer’s disease. Karen nearly fell off her chair laughing. Two Forgetting is not always a tragedy; the doctrine months later, on Jan. 10, 1971, she came to our wed- my husband once defended with such vehemence has ding. Our formal engagement had lasted one week. faded to a creed he can’t articulate. He could not enter He was ready, and unlike me he made decisions— the kingdom of heaven as a Scripture-twisting theo- though not always logical or wise ones. At that age, logian, but he can as a little child. All of us, I suspect, decisions are not necessarily decisions, in the sense have our pretensions that will be stripped away in of carefully thought out and counseled and weighed that great light, but my husband is privileged to lose against all factors. We were mutually attracted but his pretensions ahead of time. And as for me, tender- barely knew each other. A few weeks after the wedding ness has—mostly—replaced resentment. This too is I mentioned spending 50 cents on a Dr. Pepper at the grace. local laundromat. He was upset that I hadn’t cleared Every marriage is its own story, and the husband and wife are not the only ones telling it. God also testifies, and His testimony is the final word.

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QUIET IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Charming British series All Creatures Great and Small is a refreshing respite from a world on its head

by Megan Basham

S I SIFTED THROUGH MOVIE REVIEWING OPTIONS after an extreme end to 2020 (and an even more extreme beginning to 2021), the usual dramas with their intrigue and action, and the comedies with their snarky barbs at folks outside the tribe, struck me like hot water on sunburned skin. I felt too raw to engage with any of them. Then PBS’ Masterpiece came to the rescue with a series that was just what the doctor, or in this case, the veterinarian, ordered. It’s a minor miracle that the U.K.’s Channel 5 even decided to remake All Creatures A Great and Small, the hit 1970s series adapted from James Herriot’s best-selling

PLAYGROUND TELEVISION (UK) LTD 01.30.21 WORLD 23 CULTURE Movies & TV comforting and community-minded. All Creatures Great and Small couldn’t offer more warmth and neighborliness if it was a steaming pot of tea next to a plate of shortbread biscuits. Which is not to say there’s no conflict in the show. It’s just that the conflict arises from clashes in personality that give viewers reasons to share a good-na- tured chuckle rather than feel superior. Take young James, for instance. He arrives in the tiny town of Darrowby fresh out of an urban Glasgow veteri- nary school. His tidy tweed suit and carefully laced Oxford shoes are no match for the lush, rolling dales of York- shire, which, beautiful as they may be in a panorama, can get fairly mucky close up. His timid city manners are no match for the earthy, idiosyncratic Brit- ish characters he meets on the local farms—especially his cantankerous employer, senior vet Siegfried Farnon, who chomps at his pipe and barks out orders more fiercely than any of his canine clients. As James makes mistakes and learns his trade, he and the locals argue but still come together at the end of the day for a pint in the pub. There’s no question of anyone in this community excommu- nicating another. James even manages a friendly relationship with his rival for a local farm girl’s affections. When differences do grow more serious, the locals encourage each other to look beneath the surface to find the best in their fellow man. No one here is dismissed as a “garbage person,” to use that odious Twitter term. Funny as the show often is, James, Siegfried, and the other inhabitants of Darrowby left me wishing the majority of Americans still gathered regularly in a place like the pub or, even better, the local church after a hard week. A place memoirs. A collection of homely and charming tales about a Depres- where we’re forced to reconcile our dif- sion-era vet working in a small English village, the show contains ferences and exorcise our animosities no sex, no violence, and only a smattering of minor salty language. face to face. The highest stakes are whether a cow has been misdiagnosed or All Creatures Great and Small whether a racehorse will have to be put down. doesn’t boast the addictive quality “Who did they make this show for?” one mainstream critic, who needed to earn that highest term of found it too mild, asked grumpily. “Me!” I wanted to shout. They honor critics throw around today— made it for people like me, who are weary of being assaulted by all “bingeable.” Rather, it’s more like a that is ugly and crass and contentious, who long for something nourishing soup, seasoned with the wis- dom of 1 Thessalonians 4:11: “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life.”

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JOURNEY Type mismatch IN THE ARCTIC by Bob Brown A self-reliant doctor learns the importance of relationships in The Midnight Sky

They’re a 21st-century odd couple: Drew The Midnight Sky by Marty VanDriel (Thomas Middleditch), an uptight thera- pist separated from his wife, is in renal failure. Party girl Gina (Annaleigh Ash- DR. AUGUSTINE IS A SOLITARY MAN. When a global catastrophe strikes ford) drives a bus for a retirement home and other personnel abandon an Arctic Circle observatory, Augus- and is dodging a loan shark. She moves tine (George Clooney) prefers to remain behind, on his own, content

in with Drew when they learn she’s a com- on Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, where temperatures dipped below zero. with his whiskey and his medicine. But is he truly alone? Relationships patible kidney donor. The relationship is are the theme of The Midnight Sky, an entertaining new Netflix film. platonic thus far. As disaster spreads around planet Earth, the spaceship Aether The new CBS sitcom B Positive comes is returning after two years from K-23, an inhabitable moon orbiting from the mind of Chuck Lorre, creator of Jupiter. Most crew members are eager to get home: Recorded holo- Two and a Half Men and other hit shows. grams of their families and friends can’t replace real relationships. Middleditch and Tony Award winner Ash- Since they left K-23, they’ve been unable to communicate with NASA, ford display keen comic timing, and fellow spaceships, or anyone else back on Earth. scenes regularly set in a dialysis center Soon after the others have evacuated must be a TV first. There, Drew commis- the observatory, Augustine finds a little erates with a dentist, a retired football girl left behind, Iris, who will not—or pro, and a businesswoman. cannot—talk. Desperate to connect with The possible reconciliation of Drew the crew of the Aether, he takes the child TOP-GROSSING and his wife attests to the value of mar- with him on a cold and dangerous jour- riage. But recreational drug use and ney to a weather station he hopes will G-RATED FILMS Gina’s crude conversations with her enable communication to the voyagers. The Lion King (1994): elderly riders (deserving something The travelers in the Arctic narrowly $1.08 billion stronger than the show’s TV-14 rating), escape treacherous ice breakups, bliz- as well as the punctilious gay affirma- zard conditions, and wolf attacks. (The Toy Story 4 (2019): tions, grow wearisome. PG-13 film contains a few frightening $1.07 billion “Do you like any boys in your class, scenes and two instances of blasphemy.) Toy Story 3 (2010): or girls?” Drew quizzes his preteen The Midnight Sky is really more $1.07 billion daughter over coffee. “Or maybe you feel about what makes us human than about Finding Nemo (2003): like you’re the wrong gender?” dazzling adventure. People need rela- $940 million B Positive has a gutsy premise but tionships with family, friends, and fellow Monsters University stomach-turning dialogue (and grue- travelers on their journey through life. (2013): $744 million some opening credits). And unless Drew It’s a lesson even the isolated Dr. Augus- LIFETIME EARNINGS WORLDWIDE, experiences additional organ failure, it’s tine must learn. ACCORDING TO BOX OFFICE MOJO hard to see this show stretching beyond one season.

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26 I CULTURE TEAMED UP News of the World director Paul Greengrass previously worked with Tom Hanks on 2013’s Captain Phillips.

pay a dime a head to gather and listen. He is, in essence, an Old West version of BOX OFFICE a news anchor. Kidd is so good in his role that he TOP 10 manages to persuade a group of bitter Texas isolationists to see themselves in

WEEKEND OF JAN. 8-10, ACCORDING TO the suffering and triumph of some Yan- BOX OFFICE MOJO. QUANTITY OF SEXUAL kee coal miners. He needs every ounce (S), VIOLENT (V), AND FOUL-LANGUAGE (L) CONTENT ON A 0-10 SCALE, WITH 10 HIGH, of his rhetorical and martial skills when FROM KIDS-IN-MIND.COM he agrees to transport an orphaned Ger- man girl, living with the Kiowa tribe S V L so long she’s forgotten her native lan- 1 Wonder Woman guage, to her relatives in California. 1984 PG-13 ...... 4 5 3 As Kidd and little Johanna (Helena 2 The Croods: A New Age PG . . . . 1 3 2 Zengel) make their way across the dusty trails, the film becomes a classic odyssey 3 News of the World* PG-13 . . . . . 1 5 3 story. Each town, each bend in the road,

4 Monster offers some new threat to escape or rid- Hunter PG-13 . . . . not rated dle to solve. Yet within this simple, quiet

5 Fatale R ...... 6 7 7 plot is a world of emotional complexity. 6 Promising Young Hanks has already shown he’s more Woman R...... 6 6 10 than capable of carrying an action-

7 Pinocchio PG-13 . . not rated heavy film, butNews of the World—orig- 8 The War With inally in theaters, then to video on Grandpa PG. . . . . 2 4 4 demand platforms—proves he can suc-

9 Come Play PG-13 . . not rated cessfully channel his inner Eastwood as 10 Alien well. He trades fire and steely barbs with (2020 rerelease) R. . 3 8 5 a pack of outlaws without sacrificing *REVIEWED BY WORLD CIRCUIT any of his innate fatherliness and warmth. (The shootouts, mild for the genre, and a few instances of profanity STORYTELLER earn a PG-13 rating.) News of the World delivers But Kidd’s more important weapon a lesson in empathy for an is empathy. “I hear you. We’re all hurt- embittered world ing,” he tells a mob of angry ex-Confed- erates. It’s hard to recall any other recent by Megan Basham film hero making a connection with characters like this. Other scriptwriters likely would have established Kidd’s NEWS TRENDS THE LATEST TOM HANKS vehicle, News goodness by having him give a blistering of the World, is set in the 1800s: It’s a speech of condemnation. But of course Fox News’ grip on the conser- few years after the Civil War, and the he can’t: He was a Confederate too. vative news market could be greatest argument in our nation’s his- Perhaps that’s why, when confronted slipping: A Newsmax program tory has been settled through the bloody with the horror of how Johanna came beat Fox’s The Story With Mar- clash of state against state, brother to lose her family and live with a Native tha MacCallum in the ratings against brother. But that doesn’t mean tribe—there are whispers of defenseless among viewers ages 25-54 on America has put resentment and divi- throats cut, babies brains dashed out— Dec. 7. Meanwhile, The Daily sion behind it. he’s able to counsel, if not forgiveness, Wire’s livestream reached 4 No one knows this better than Capt. at least a determination not to pursue million on Election Day, rival- Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks). He rides a perpetual enmity. He knows the past ing an average night of Fox’s circuit of Western outposts, synthesizing always provides enough sin to go 9 p.m. juggernaut, Hannity. stories from newspapers all across the around, and the only hope for the future country and retelling them in engaging is for everyone to move forward with — fashion to disconnected townsfolk who grace.

FOX NEWS: LEV RADIN/SIPA USA/AP; NEWS OF THE WORLD: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS 01.30.21 WORLD 27 CULTURE Books and Sherena Arrington (Lexington Books, 2020) shows Bookmarks how Harry Black- mun’s theological lib- Life and eralism influenced his Roe v. Wade decision and William Rehn- leaders quist’s Biblical beliefs influenced his Of infants, judges, dissent. Many Methodist thinkers during and presidents Blackmun’s youth emphasized “evolu- tionary perspectives and the innovations by Marvin Olasky of biblical criticism.” His Harvard Law education reflected the influence of pro- fessor Christopher Langdell, who Randy Alcorn’s Pro-Choice or Pro-Life “translated Darwinism into a new legal (EPM, 2020; Kindle price 99 cents) is my doctrine known as Legal Pragmatism.” new inexpensive go-to book for—here Abraham Lincoln and Charles comes the subtitle—Examining 15 Pro- Darwin were born on the Choice Claims: What Do Facts & Common Anticipation of Presidents Day next same day: Feb. 12, 1809. Sense Tell Us? Among the claims he swats month led me to John Dickerson’s The Lincoln’s words have stood away: The unborn Hardest Job in the World: The Amer- the test of time, while child is not a person, ican Presidency (Random House, Evolution & Intelligent Design has no right to live off 2020). He contrasts campaigning and in a Nutshell (Discovery, the body of another governing: “Voters are judging a foot- 2020) shows why Darwinism person, and should be ball game and then putting the winning and its neo variants fall short. killable when rape, team in charge of syn- Authors Thomas Lo, Paul incest, or disability chronized swimming.” Chien, Eric Anderson, Robert are factors. Alcorn George Washing- Alston, and Robert Waltzer also deals with adoption fears, overpop- ton’s character made explain that life could not ulation concerns, and “personally pro- a huge difference. have emerged from a chemi- life” and “wanted child” excuses. He Thomas Jefferson said cal soup, because it only shows that abortion encourages men to Washington’s “mod- exists via secret ingredient: exploit women and abuse children and eration and virtue … information. Cells are intri- points out that the Bible refers to both prevented this revo- cate machines. Irreducible an unborn and a born child as a yeled. lution from being closed, as most others complexity is an unavoidable have been, by a subversion of that lib- complication. Junk DNA is erty it was intended to establish.” Harry not junk. Our surroundings, Abortion Worldwide Report, edited by Truman channeled Washington by say- and chemical elements them- Thomas Jacobson and William Robert ing appealing to prejudice might be selves, are fine-tuned for life. Johnston (Global Life Campaign, 2018) good election strategy, “but it does a lot Jerry Bergman deserves has the subtitle 1 of harm to the country.” an award for lifetime perse- Century, 100 Sadly, presidential elections now verance: In at least 15 books Nations, 1 Billion emphasize grandiose promises. John he has connected the dots of Babies—and that Kerry’s running mate in 2004, John evolution, atheism, racism, gives a sense of the Edwards, said “when John Kerry is pres- powerful institutions, and scope of this volume. ident, people like Christopher Reeve suppression of dissent. In It includes abortion are going to walk, get up out of that Darwinian Eugenics and the data for 100 nations wheelchair and walk again.” (Reeve died Holocaust (Involgo, 2020) and territories from in October 2004.) Barack Obama in Bergman explains how 1921 through 2015 and lists abortion pol- 2008 called his campaign “the moment Darwinism (via Ernst Haeckel icies of 196 nations and 20 territories. when the rise of the oceans began to and others) connects to slow and our planet began to heal.” Hitler, and how Henry Ford Donald Trump said, “I will give you and IBM helped Nazi Clashing Worldviews in the U.S. everything. I will give you what you’ve Germany. —M.O. Supreme Court: Rehnquist vs. Black- been looking for for 50 years. I’m the mun by James Davids, Erik Gustafson, only one.”

28 WORLD 01.30.21 neurologist urges him to live fully, but already he’s forgetting first names and the Freedom calling ignition code for his car. When his pedia- Four best-selling novels trician wife pushes him to become a volunteer assistant on a military road project, he by Susan Olasky gets roped into a plan to build an expensive tunnel—rather than razing a hill—to save a Palestinian family lacking proper Israeli identity papers. The novel offers a warm and often humorous view of a loving long marriage while exploring the increasing disorientation that comes with dementia. Yehoshua sets this particular story in the context of Israeli society, which seems as confused as Luria.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman: The offbeat protago- nist of this best-selling 2017 novel is a lonely 29-year-old office worker who drinks vodka and watches TV every weekend. She has no friends and has never had anyone over to her house. When she and the IT guy at work rescue an old man who collapses in the street, her life changes. An unreliable narrator, Eleanor has no filter between what she thinks and what she says. She’s judgmental, lacks self-awareness, and is clueless about most things, which makes for humor and pathos. Kindness eventually breaks through the self-protective shell she created to deal with terrible childhood trauma. Reese Witherspoon optioned this 2017 novel for an upcoming feature film, which probably will need an R rating for language.

The Guardians by John Grisham: In his 40th book, Grisham Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia introduces Cullen Post, a lawyer/Episcopal priest who works for Owens: Abandoned by her mother and Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit dedicated to freeing inmates siblings—and finally even her abusive, alco- wrongly convicted of murder. Post throws himself into his latest holic father—Kya grows up in the marshes project: freeing Quincy Miller, a black man incarcerated for 22 years near the North Carolina coast. She ekes out for a murder he didn’t commit. Post has to find evidence that will a living and becomes a keen observer of convince a judge to overturn the conviction, but his investigation birds and other wildlife. Her interactions alarms some dangerous people. Fueled by his religious convictions, with people are more fraught. Shunned by Post works with a relentless focus. Though Grisham writes as an respectable people, she becomes the subject advocate, he doesn’t lose sight of the need to tell a good story, and of gossip. One boy shares her love of nature he continues to write best-selling novels without resorting to the and teaches her to read and grow in her strong language that’s become typical in modern fiction. scientific understanding. Another uses her. The book combines lush nature writing, a murder mystery, and a detailed portrait of The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua: Zvi Luria, a retired Israel Roads small-town life. Since its publication in Authority engineer, learns he has the beginnings of dementia. His 2018, the book has sold millions of copies, and Reese Witherspoon optioned it for a movie as well.

01.30.21 WORLD 29 CULTURE Children’s Books Afterword Delightful discoveries Four recent picture books by Mary Jackson and Kristin Chapman

The Bear and the Moon by Matthew Burgess: A curious little bear spots something “red as a berry and round like the moon” with a long silver string attached to it. The balloon goes everywhere with him, providing quiet company and new excitement, seeming to smile back at him like a friend. But one day, it pops. The bear desperately tries to fix it, to no avail, and sorrow and loneliness set in. Nature has a way of As Valentine’s Day providing comfort, and the bear realizes that all good things approaches, some books are a gift, and loss is not always a result of bad behavior. The book’s soothing tone, will help children contem- soft illustrations, and muted landscapes make it a good bedtime story. (Ages 3-5) plate enduring messages about love. Max Lucado’s The Boy and the Ocean Over and Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner: A child and (Crossway, 2013) follows a an adult companion traverse a Central American rainforest teem- little boy as he looks for, but ing with life. Above them, monkeys, birds, and insects make a does not find, the end of the symphony of sounds. Along the way, the child observes a host of ocean, mountains, and exotic animals on the ground, down in the river, and up in the starry night sky. In each trees. Colorful illustrations and rich sensory details accompany beautifully illustrated scene, each animal discovery, the afternoon rain and snack, and night- his parents are beside him, fall, when the jaguar comes out. Messner’s latest installment in taking in God’s vast creation her ecosystem exploration series lives up to previous titles. Its concluding notes and likening it to His love— give additional info about rainforests and animals featured in the book. (Ages 5-8) always here, always deep and big, never ending, and special. The World Needs Who You Were Made To Be by Joanna Saint Valentine by Gaines: Gaines’ second picture book opens with a racially diverse Robert Sabuda (Aladdin, group of children working to create a fleet of hot air balloons. 1999) tells the story of a As each child tackles his or her project, differences in person- physician and priest in ality abound. Gaines affirms the blessing of these differences ancient Rome who cared for and shows how together the children’s uniqueness creates a and prayed with patients, beautiful outcome. “We may not look or work or think the same, asking for little in return. He but we all have an important part to play. … You’re one of a kind, ultimately lost his life for his and it’s so clear to see: The world needs who you were made to be.” (Ages 4-8) Christian faith, but not before sending a little note to a jailer’s blind daughter. The Song for Everyone by Lucy Morris: A beautiful melody In God Loves Me More drifts down from a small upper window and flows through- Than That by Dandi Daley out the town, searching out “the lonely and lost, the needy Mackall (WaterBrook, and sad.” The music seems to give the townspeople something 2008), an inquisitive boy they have been missing: When they listen, it transforms them tries to grasp the height, from lonely to delighted and from weary to lively. But one depth, and width of the love day the music abruptly ceases, and the town begins to suffer. of God. The book concludes After the people discover the source of the music, they must with the boy sound asleep, work together to restore it. Morris’ soft pencil, watercolor, and crayon drawings resting in the greatness of beautifully illustrate the power of music. (Ages 4-8) the Lord’s love. —M.J.

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CONNIE MARSHNER was executive what do you want to do about this abor- vice president of the Free Congress tion bill?’ ‘Oh, pay it.’” When Roe v. Wade MARVIN Foundation in the 1980s and chair came along, nobody paid much attention OLASKY of Ronald Reagan’s Family Policy to it except for those who were reli- INTERVIEWS Advisory Board. giously oriented. CONNIE MARSHNER In 1972, if you were told one party Were people following the Roe v. Wade would become the pro-life party and oral arguments at the Supreme Court? one party the party of abortion, which Nobody on the right paid much atten- would you have selected? The Democrats would be pro-life. Lots tion to them. of Republicans favored “population control.” What was the initial reaction to the Roe Abortion was a subset of population control? It wasn’t on the con- decision in January 1973? Nellie Gray, a servative radar. At the time the standard joke was, “‘Congressman, liberal feminist civil rights activist who worked for the federal government, took it upon herself to visit senators with

32 WORLD 01.30.21 ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL MORRIS names like Kennedy. She assumed they Two of the three Supreme Court justices the pro-life savior. That didn’t happen. would say, “We’ve got to fix this.” But who came out of the Reagan administra- They dropped out of politics, but they her heroes were not interested. tion were disappointments. Sandra Day didn’t drop out of the pro-life move- O’Connor made it because Reagan said ment. They went back to their commu- She thought Ted Kennedy would see he’d nominate a woman, but why that nities and set up CPCs. For years, when injustice? She assumed he and others particular woman? A young staffer I would travel and meet people who would share her horror about people checked with a few people in Arizona. knew my name because I had been vis- deprived of personhood. She couldn’t He didn’t talk with Carolyn Gerster, an ible, they’d say, “I used to do politics, believe they wouldn’t talk with her. Arizona doctor who was the Right to but now I do this.” Life leader. By the time the pro-life peo- So she organized in 1974 a March for Life. ple in Arizona made contact with us, it Operation Rescue received a lot of atten- In those days that’s what you did if you was too late. The Reagan folks wouldn’t tion in the late 1980s. OR was a PR disas- had a civil rights issue: You organized a withdraw her name. ter for the pro-life movement. We had march. She contacted a couple of guys made a lot of headway at the cultural in New York, the Long Island equivalent How effective was the National Right to person-to-person level on Main Street, of good old boys. They brought a couple Life Committee? NRLC created an but Operation Rescue, combined with of buses down, probably their American ungodly management structure: a board shootings that were happening at the Legion buddies: blue-collar, Catholics, of 50, one member from every state. same time, gave the pro-life movement probably Irish. They came and they Getting all those people to make any such a black eye that many people marched. It was very small. decision was a nightmare. So in 1978 or became afraid to be pro-life. 1979 NRLC hired Judie Brown, an office Nellie found allies among conservatives? manager who had run a Kmart in Seat- OR was playing off frustration.You could To her horror she discovered Republi- tle. She wanted to see pro-life candi- make a case that it was a safety valve, can conservative James Buckley wanted dates elected and took it upon herself giving people a creative outlet for their to introduce a human life amendment. to endorse them. The board says “we anger so they didn’t do something more She hadn’t talked to Republicans and never authorized that, so goodbye”— drastic. had no use for them, certainly not con- and Judie founded the American Life servative ones, but all of a sudden she League. But out of that low point some new strat- found herself with a new set of friends. egies developed. The pro-life trajectory What started out as the Christian Action changed forever when people at our Paul Weyrich, who co-founded the Her- Council became Care Net, which grew a early-1990s pro-life leaders meetings itage Foundation and the Free Congress crisis pregnancy center network. A huge said “Love them both”—the baby and Foundation, cemented the relationship? grassroots movement came in for Rea- the mom—would be our new thing. We Paul would only support a candidate gan because they thought he would be hadn’t been talking about the woman. who agreed to support the Human Life Amendment. He did not want the pro- life issue to be a Republican-only issue. But in 1978 the Republican establish- ment said several elections were unwin- nable—and Paul won them. For example, he had Roger Jepsen in Iowa go into the Democratic precincts with a pro-life flyer, and Jepsen won. The pro-life issue turned out Democratic voters to vote Republican.

They elected Ronald Reagan. But he didn’t deliver. Nancy Reagan was always pro-abortion. He would never do anything for the March for Life. Morton Blackwell at the time of the march in 1984 got him to meet with pro-lifers. This was considered a real accomplishment.

Did anything emerge from that? No, nothing was ever supposed to emerge from that. It was just window-dressing.

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WORLD Counting new hard-copy, digital, or streaming record streaming or digital, hard-copy, new Counting Hewitt didn’t report what people were buying, but but buying, were people what report didn’t Hewitt remain labels record and musicians Classical 1: Level N OCTOBER, JOURNALIST IVAN HEWITT IVAN JOURNALIST OCTOBER, N classical music lacks “diversity.” lacks music classical com 10 most-recorded the Top and compilations, ings marked (2020 Beethoven bottom: to top from were, posers Chopin, Schubert, Mozart, Bach, his 250th birthday), resulting from COVID-19 lockdowns. Downloads and and Downloads lockdowns. COVID-19 from resulting up too. were sales but hard-copy the way, led streaming levels. on two is instructive data companies’ record that warriors by social-justice to complaints indifferent cal-music recordings were enjoying their biggest sales in sales biggest their enjoying were recordings cal-music performances live of scarcity the to largely due years, Music

Aclassical 34 tells us about the music industry the music us about tells Orteza Arsenio by comeback recordings new of a resurgence What

CULTURE I What doesn’t is the country-rock sprez- Encore zatura with which Dawes helps the Tunes for medicine go down. Even if Goldsmith hadn’t used the word “desperado” in “Me Especially,” the Eagles would be day and proud. And maybe jealous. night Blessings by Aled Jones: The Welsh Noteworthy new or tenor Aled Jones has the type of vocal recent releases tone that’s often described as “golden.” by Arsenio Orteza Pure and ductile yet with no aspirations either to pop or to Time Outtakes (Brubeck opera (looking at Editions) is a recently you, Andrea Bocelli discovered collection of Lullabies by Dave Brubeck: Brubeck, and Jim Nabors), alternate takes from the who died in 2012, made this solo-piano it’s why the market- sessions that produced recording 10 years ago. And it lives up ing genre known as “classical cross- Time Out, the 1959 (or down, as the case may be) to its over” exists. It’s also proof that not album by the Paul name. The familiar melodies (“Over the everything labeled as such is a mere Desmond, Gene Wright, Rainbow,” “Danny shadow of something more substantial. Joe Morello iteration of Boy,” “Summer- Every detail of the recording, from the the Dave Brubeck time,” “There’s No track selection and the orchestra to the Quartet that featured the Place Like Home,” guest vocalists (the Priests, Susan smash single “Take “Brahms Lullaby” Boyle, Libera, Sami Yusuf, a recording Five”/“Blue Rondo à la twice), simple of Jones himself as a boy soprano) and Turk” and that even now arrangements, and the guest reciters (Judi Dench, Brian remains one of the best- gentleness—an unexpected quality Blessed, the D-Day veteran Harry selling jazz albums ever. coming from a pianist whose detractors Billinge), contributes to a sense of It accumulated a quarter often derided him for “heavy-handed- benediction. of its sales, however, ness”—makes it ideal drifting-off-to- within the first four years dreamland music, especially for babies of its release, a statistic and toddlers. So what’s in it for adults? Good Luck, Seeker by the Waterboys: that testifies to its gradu- Five Brubeck originals that would’ve To be clear, Mike Scott is not a Chris- ally diminishing appeal made a dandy EP and the gentlest of tian. He not only comes out in the title as less-buttoned-down which (“Going to Sleep,” “Softly, Wil- cut for occultist Dion Fortune but even jazz styles have come to liam, Softly,” “Koto Song”) are well includes the mailing define authenticity and worth staying awake for. address of her “eso- genius. teric” organization In this context, Time in the lyrics (which, Outtakes’ seven tracks Good Luck With Whatever by Dawes: for maximum clar- (eight if you count the To be clear, Taylor Goldsmith is not a ity, he recites rather botched-take montage Christian. “I’m not getting into heaven, than sings). He is, “Band Banter”) feel more and I don’t believe in hell,” he sings in however, open to Christian influence: like footnotes than like a “None of My Business.” And in “Between “The Golden Work” (which, for mini- secret history. “Blue the Zero and the One” he consults the mum clarity, he sings through a Rondo,” for instance, tarot. He is, however, a keen observer vocoder) borrows enough from the although two minutes of both his fellow Arthurian poetry of Charles Williams longer than on Time Out, man and himself, to merit the Inkling a composer credit. sounds pretty much the particularly when it And, musically, Scott’s refusal to dis- same. Still, it’s interest- comes to the temp- criminate yields a bumper crop of ing to hear a “Take Five” tation to outsource catchy surprises. Techno, R&B, folk, in which Brubeck sits out one’s sense of self- pop—plus the best (only?) songs ever the drum solo, allowing worth. Faith heal- about Van Morrison (“The Soul Morello two minutes and ers, fame, cell phones, TV, perpetual Singer”) and Dennis Hopper (“Dennis 40 seconds of long-over- youth—all of them come up wanting. Hopper”). due spotlight. —A.O.

01.30.21 WORLD 35 In 2019, we spent a morning visiting the home where some of Elvin’s family still lives in the hills above Voices JAMIE DEAN downtown. Elvin carefully packed the van with a handful of gifts to share with other children—a soccer ball, candy, and a pair of shoes. When we arrived at a two-room shack perched on a craggy hillside, Elvin asked if he could buy lunch for the group. He and a Micah House social worker disappeared down the hill and returned with plates of fried chicken and french fries. Elvin darted around, making sure everyone got something to eat. Later that day, we stopped at McDonald’s, and Elvin looked more like a kid than a teenager trying to provide for his family. He grinned from ear to ear, laughed at silly jokes, and slurped down a Coke. “This was a “Elvin’s death” good day,” he said. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a swift lockdown Finding hope, even in grief to Honduras. For six months, residents could leave their homes once every two weeks. Miller says most of the boys at Micah House adjusted, but the lockdown hit HREE WEEKS AFTER WORLD featured civil Elvin hard. He crumbled under the dramatic changes. rights leader John Perkins as our 2020 Dan- By April, Elvin sat in a corner knitting—a skill a iel of the Year, I received an email from our staffer had taught him. He skipped meals. He started 2019 pick: St. Louis native Michael Miller sneaking out. Eventually, he asked to return to his founded the Micah Project in Tegucigalpa, home in the hills. In August, Elvin’s mother told Miller Honduras, and the Christian ministry has a gang had kidnapped her son. A month later, she said offered a stable home to street boys for 20 police believed gang members murdered Elvin and T years. buried his body in an unmarked grave. Someone from The subject line of Miller’s email stung: “Elvin’s the neighborhood brought her Elvin’s clothes. death.” The loss wasn’t entirely surprising in a nation with Elvin Meraz was one of the boys I met during my one of the highest child homicide rates in the world, 2019 visit to Micah Project. At age 15, Elvin was learn- but it was heartbreaking for Elvin’s mother, for Miller, ing to read and write after spending years on the and for the boys at Micah House. streets of Tegucigalpa, begging for food and addicted At a memorial service in early December, Miller to yellow shoe glue. wore a thick, orange-and-blue scarf Elvin knitted for It’s a common plight for scores of boys and teen- him. He read from 1 Corinthians 15 and told the group agers forced or drawn into street life in a city plagued about the hope for those who put their faith in Christ: by gangs. After years on the streets, Elvin agreed to “One day we will be resurrected as Jesus was on the live at Micah House. He had kicked his addiction and third day. … To a place where there will be no crying, was adjusting to a stable, healthy life. nor pain, nor sickness, nor pandemics, nor gangs, nor violence, nor injustice.” Elvin’s body may lie in an unmarked grave, but Elvin didn’t live an unmarked life. Miller and other ministry staff members, including warmhearted Hon- durans, spent years loving and caring for Elvin and boys like him. Their grief is a measure of the joy Elvin brought them. And it’s a model for pursuing unsung, sacrificial service, whatever the outcome. That’s a model we could follow at the grief-marked beginning of this new year. Amid our own scenes of gangs and violence, American Christians can lay aside any hope in a political rescue and put our faith wholly in a sure resurrection. We can serve others, and we can lean into Sundays as weekly Easter celebrations that propel us through difficult weeks and remind us the one outcome that matters most is most certain: Christ is risen indeed.

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38 WORLD 01.30.21 THE DAY MOBS OVERRAN THE CAPITOL Chaos ensued inside the halls of Congress on Jan. 6, raising questions and leaving a country even more divided BY HARVEST PRUDE IN WASHINGTON

PHOTO BY SAMUEL CORUM/GETTY IMAGES In the early hours of Jan. 7, Congress certified the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President–elect Kamala Harris. ¶ But first lawmakers withstood evacua- tions, a lockdown, and a stampede of rioters storming the Capitol. So did staff, security forces, and journalists. I was one of those journalists, covering the proceedings from the Press Gallery above the floor of the House of Representatives. Here’s my firsthand account of the events of Jan. 6 and a survey of the national consequences.

MY FIRST INDICATION something was whom he addressed at a rally before the wrong came when an aide passed march on the Capitol—to stand down. through the Press Gallery and told me After minutes of confusion, the offi- to make sure I had everything I needed cer told lawmakers to grab gas masks at my side and to prepare for a lock- secured under their seats. down. Perhaps for hours. Press aides ran around, handing I had arrived at my reserved seat in everyone in the upstairs gallery “escape the upper balcony of the U.S. House of hoods”—essentially gas masks that pull Representatives earlier on Wednesday over your head to your shoulders. ready to cover political theater. The I ripped the heavy gray packaging chamber does not allow bags or back- off mine but kept my eye on the situation packs, so when the aide gave the warn- on the floor. Soon, banging on the doors ing, I scurried to grab my phone and echoed throughout the chamber. The laptop charger from the press room, noise grew outside, and inside the chap- then settled back in my seat. lain for the day began praying aloud. A few minutes later, Capitol Police One lawmaker, Rep. Ruben Gallego, peered around the chairs I hid behind. officers began running to every door in D-Ariz., told members how to operate I had the morbid thought that maybe the House Chamber. They shuttered the their gas masks. Capitol Police began to someone would shoot if he saw exposed glass doors with heavy wooden doors. evacuate members through a side door. faces, but I wanted to see what was hap- About 100 lawmakers were on the House Upstairs, press aides told photographers pening. floor, with about 25 more lawmakers in to stop taking pictures. Some snapped I could see that a small group of law- the upstairs gallery. away anyway. Then police gave the evac- makers and Capitol Police with drawn As a babble of questions broke out, uation order for the gallery. I grabbed guns had barricaded the door with fur- a police officer briefed legislators: Pro- my laptop, chargers, escape hood, and niture. Above the furniture, protesters testers had “breached” the Capitol reporter’s notebook. Almost as soon as had broken holes in the glass of the door. Building and had gotten as close as the I started to move toward the door, police I heard several pops and could smell rotunda, where police had fired tear gas. changed their directions. “Get down!” smoke. Another reporter said he heard The officer told lawmakers to ready someone yelled from behind me. an officer say “shots fired,” though I did themselves to crouch beneath their seats I crouched behind the seats. There not hear that directly. but also be prepared to evacuate if nec- were perhaps three reporters behind Police and lawmakers tried to talk essary. Another burst of frightened me, and the rest in a crowd ahead of me. to the protesters through the glass. “This chatter broke out, and one representa- I heard a bang and thought someone is un-American!” someone yelled. “You tive yelled from the upstairs gallery that had shot into the chamber. My heart was ought to be ashamed of yourself. … This someone should call President Donald pounding. I clutched my gear and an is not the way to do it.” Trump and ask him to tell protesters— uninflated gas hood. My hands shook. I The commotion continued down-

40 WORLD 01.30.21 TOP: Protesters break into the U.S. Capitol. FAR LEFT: People shelter in the House Gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber. LEFT: Capitol Police with guns drawn stand near a barricaded door in the House Chamber.

stairs, but the gallery was told to con- I can’t disclose in the nearby Long- the room, a few staffers began to pass tinue evacuation. “We can’t leave until worth House building. On the way, I out water bottles. you leave,” one exasperated aide told stuffed my reporter’s notebook into my Security initially told reporters we us. To get out, I had to duck below sev- right boot. The time was 2:57 p.m. Once couldn’t be in the room, then said eral banisters because I was too short I got to the room, I placed my unused instead that if we tweeted about our to hop over. escape hood on a table near the door. location, they would take our phones. Aides led us through the Capitol’s As quiet fell, one aide cried quietly Right in front of me, Democratic maze of basement tunnels to a location while another comforted her. Around Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff of

TOP: WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES; BOTTOM: ANDREW HARNIK/AP 01.30.21 WORLD 41 California and Joe Neguse of Colorado day on the morning Metro ride in when LEFT: Pro-Trump rioters are confronted by huddled, discussing the situation quietly I saw a guy with Trump gear on the train Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol. MIDDLE: Protesters enough not to be heard. About an hour carrying a giant wrench. He did not look enter the Capitol’s rotunda. RIGHT: Police and later, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told like he was in town to fix things.” security forces clash with rioters outside the the room that members planned to carry Meanwhile, Hoshiko, who used to be U.S. Capitol Building. on with the Electoral College tally. Law- Rep. Bruce Westerman’s press secretary, makers from both parties clapped and said her former boss spent about two cheered. hours isolated from everyone when pro- I tweeted everything (except our Security forces wouldn’t secure the testers breached the building. Wester- location) and monitored texts from Hill Capitol for several hours. man, R-Ark., had been in House Minority staffers who had to evacuate their Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office when offices, White House staffers who said IT WASN’T JUST LAWMAKERS in the the leader’s security detail hustled security forces were on their way, and House and Senate chambers who evac- McCarthy away. concerned friends and family watching uated. Rebekah Hoshiko, communica- “The last thing [Westerman] had the news. At some point, I began to hear tions director for the House Committee heard on the radio of McCarthy’s detail reports that a woman had been shot in on Natural Resources, said she had to was that shots were fired,” Hoshiko said. the House Speaker’s Lobby by Capitol evacuate twice from an office in the “So he stuck his head out in the hall a Police. Later we learned the woman had Cannon House building. The first evac- bit later and nobody was there.” That’s died. uation came at about 1 p.m. because of when he realized he was in trouble. A At about 5:30 p.m., the sergeant-at- the threat of a pipe bomb nearby at the bit later, Westerman heard rioters arms said law enforcement had secured Republican National Committee head- approaching. the building. It wasn’t until after 7 p.m. quarters. The second came when mobs The lawmaker hid in a bathroom in that Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the overran the Capitol. McCarthy’s office. He locked the door, third-ranking Republican in the House, Hoshiko had previously assumed the turned out the lights, and silenced his told the room that members hoped to day would turn violent but didn’t think phone. Rioters entered the office and get back to the chamber within the next it would happen until that night: “Given tried to open the bathroom door. Wes- hour. all of the protests that happened over terman waited for about 2½ hours until Shortly after 8 p.m.—with press the summer, everything happens after it Capitol Police could extract him. members back at their stations—both gets dark outside.” She rode out the eve- Later that night, Westerman voted chambers of Congress gaveled back into ning in lockdown with a small group of to uphold the election results. session. others in the Longworth House building. In the room where I locked down for In a statement to senators, Vice Pres- Another Hill veteran, Conn Carroll, several hours, COVID-19 social distanc- ident Mike Pence called on lawmakers communications director for Sen. Mike ing protocols fell by the wayside. Staff to “get back to work,” and addressed Lee, R-Utah, told me he also anticipated rubbed shoulders with lawmakers from rioters: “To those who wreaked havoc trouble: “I knew it was going to be a bad both parties. in our Capitol today, you did not win.

42 WORLD 01.30.21 LEFT: MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP; MIDDLE: SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES; RIGHT: JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES In 2018, one of my first WORLD assignments was to cover Brett Kava naugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. One stark memory: the hordes of protesters who attended. Members of the public waited for hours outside the committee room to be let in. Once inside, they created regular disruptions by standing, chanting, waving handmade signs, and later, confronting lawmakers. The Capitol Police arrested more than 200 activists during the three days of the initial hearing. On Jan. 6, Capitol Police arrested six people and confiscated five weapons, according to MPD Police Chief Robert J. Contee (though federal agents made more arrests in the days that followed). One Jan. 6 video showed a steady stream of rioters leaving the Capitol Building, while security officers held the doors open. Many cheered and pumped Violence never wins. Freedom wins. And Capitol Police planned “only for a free their fists in the air as they left. Some this is still the people’s house.” speech demonstration.” Apparently, law hoisted Trump flags or American flags. enforcement’s estimates of potential Someone had scratched a phrase on one NOW AMERICANS MUST sort through still crowd size also varied widely—from of the doors they exited: “Murder the unanswered questions and reckon with 2,000 to 80,000, according to Army Media.” One man yelled off-camera, the attack’s consequences. Secretary Ryan McCarthy. “Next time we come back, we won’t be First, the death toll. Five people died Only one meager barricade—which peaceful!” because of the melee. One, a rioter rioters quickly overran—cordoned the A third result of the riot is COVID-19 named Ashli Babbitt, was the woman Capitol where lawmakers would enter. spread, with social distancing impossi- shot by Capitol Police. Three people died A week later, it was still unclear how ble in the midst of the evacuation and of medical emergencies. Brian Sicknick, many officers were on duty on Jan. 6. subsequent lockdown. Rep. Bonnie Wat- a Capitol Police officer, died on Jan. 7 But the Capitol Police force employs son Coleman, D-N.J., a 75-year-old law- due to injuries after someone in the mob 2,300 officers to protect the 16-acre maker, announced her positive hit him in the head with a fire extin- Capitol complex. Its $460 million bud- diagnosis on Jan. 11. She decided to get guisher. Other rioters attacked police get is bigger than police budgets in tested after receiving a warning memo with metal pipes, flag poles, and other Atlanta, Boston, and Detroit. from the Capitol’s attending physician items. At least 50 officers were injured, Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., reported that the lockdown could have resulted and 15 required hospitalization. parts of a conversation he had with in COVID-19 exposure. Another, a 15-year veteran of the Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy: “Long I also received the same memo Capitol Police, committed suicide on guns, Molotov cocktails, explosive because I had been in a room with many Jan. 9. It’s unclear if Howard Lieben- devices, and zip ties were recovered, lawmakers, and some didn’t wear masks. good’s death was related to the riot, but which suggests a greater disaster was On Jan. 11, I also tested positive for he was on duty at the time. narrowly averted,” Crow said. Federal COVID-19 (my symptoms have been mild Second, the ordeal shows failures in authorities were investigating at least thus far). More lawmakers also tested the Capitol Hill security apparatus. Cap- 25 cases of domestic terrorism days after positive. itol Police Chief Steven Sund, House the attack. More repercussions rolled on: calls Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, and Sen- Gus Papathanasiou, head of the Cap- to impeach Trump and bar him from ate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger itol Police union, said the attack could holding federal office again, tech com- all resigned. Lawmakers have called for have been worse: “We were lucky that panies’ crackdowns on Trump and some inquiries into why security forces were more of those who breached the Capitol conservative voices, and questions about woefully unprepared. The Associated did not have firearms or explosives and evangelical Christians and politics. Press reported that the Capitol Police did not have a more malign intent. The mobs that overran the Capitol turned down the National Guard’s offers Tragic as the deaths are that resulted pinned down Congress only a few hours. for reinforcements a few days before from the attack, we are fortunate the The United States will wrestle with the Jan. 6 and an offer to send FBI agents. casualty toll was not higher.” consequences for years.

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ChemicalSurgical abortions have slowed, but pills and chemicalskiller are reaching more homes—and killing more babies

by MARVIN OLASKY THREE CENTURIES PLUS FIVE YEARS. That’s how long American legislators have tried to stop the use of abortion pills. In 1716 New York City enacted an ordinance requiring midwives to swear they would “not Give any Counsel or Administer any Herb Medicine or Potion, or any other thing to any Woman being with Child whereby She Should Destroy or Miscarry.” The good news is that since 1990 the number of surgical abortions in the United States has probably decreased by two-thirds. The bad news is that the number of chemical abortions has increased, with some abortion pills now delivered directly to homes. As the first article in our 2021 Roe v. Wade special section shows, abortion proponents are pushing for more death by mail. The next two stories take us to abortion discussions in the 1660s and the 1960s and show how Lawrence Lader, the master of abortion public relations 50 years ago, later fought to legalize abortion pills. The fourth article summarizes 2020’s big abortion news. The question harder to report on is whether hearts and minds are changing. Maybe some who put up “I believe in science” yard signs are accepting factual information about the beating hearts of unborn children. Maybe some who say “Black lives matter” recognize that ges- tating while black is particularly dangerous: A black baby is 3.5 times more likely to be aborted than a white one. In 2020 we saw how tragic it was for elderly individuals locked in nursing homes to die alone of COVID-19. In 2021 maybe more Americans will recognize that a young woman should not have to Chemical killer decide on life or death all alone, with her tiny baby dead in the toilet bowl. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID FREELAND (ORIGINAL IMAGE BY GLOBALMOMENTS/ISTOCK) BY IMAGE FREELAND (ORIGINAL DAVID BY ILLUSTRATION PHOTO

01.30.21 WORLD 45 Roe v. Wade ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY

The pill and the pandemic The abortion industry uses COVID-19 to meet a long-term goal: eliminating restrictions on abortion pills. The result: more victims among unborn children, more women at risk

by LEAH HICKMAN

IN SPRING 2020, abortion advocates allowed abortion businesses to conduct medicine doctor for a sinus infection, for went to war. As COVID-19 spread, some the follow-up appointment over the birth control, and for a medication abor- U.S. abortion facilities closed. Others phone instead of in person. In 2020, with tion. That doctor could call the medicine limited in-person procedures. Some many abortion centers closed, propo- in to your pharmacy or have it mailed to governors called abortions nonessential, nents shopped for a judge who would your home—whatever is best for you.” and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Insti- further loosen requirements. Many would Amaon last year launched Just the tute was livid: “Reproductive health care not. But U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Pill, a startup company with an online needs and decisions cannot be put on Chuang did, ruling in July that any bar- platform that allows women to order hold.” Its April press release claimed rier to accessing abortion pills would abortion drugs directly to their Minne- abortion is “as essential to people’s lives cause “irreparable harm.” He lifted the sota addresses and take them at home. as food, shelter and security.” FDA requirements for in-person appoint- Similar startups launched as existing The abortion industry in recent years ments as long as the coronavirus pan- abortion facilities began providing tele- has pushed for more telemedicine abor- demic persists, but on Jan. 12, the medicine and as U.S.-based online phar- tion, which involves sending abor- Supreme Court granted the Trump macies like Honeybee Health started tion-inducing chemicals to women by administration’s request to continue fulfilling abortion pill prescriptions. mail after a phone or video consultation. enforcing FDA restrictions. But Chuang’s Choix, a California startup, seems When the Clinton-era Food and Drug six-month injunction gave a possible pre- particularly lax in pill distribution. While Administration in 2000 approved use view of the abortion pill’s new frontier, other telemedicine abortion providers of abortion pills, it insisted that to keep especially if the Biden administration require a video call or at least a phone women safe only physicians could dis- removes FDA requirements. call with a provider, Choix allows “visits” pense abortion drugs. Doctors needed to take place via text only, although to check for ectopic pregnancies (when ABORTION ENTREPRENEURS saw the phone calls are an option. The patient an embryo attaches outside the uterus) opening and rushed through, throwing provides her medical details through an and determine the baby’s gestational off restraint and creating an abortion online form that includes questions about age. Only a woman at or before seven Wild West. Julie Amaon, formerly a her history with ectopic pregnancies, her weeks of pregnancy could take the pills, Planned Parenthood facility manager in Rh blood type, and a place for her to fill and two pill-dispensing visits were nec- Austin, Texas, was one of them. She out the date of her last menstrual cycle. essary, along with a follow-up exam. started medical school in 2012 with the The provider uses the patient’s Abortion advocates said those rules goal of becoming an abortionist, and by answers to determine if the woman is oppressed women, so the Obama-era the end of her Minnesota residency pro- FDA loosened protections in 2016: It gram was a pill proponent. In a Septem- Abortion-inducing Mifeprex pills, sent in the upped the gestation age limit to 10 weeks, ber 2020 issue of Bustle, Amaon said, “In mail by an abortion telemedicine service, sit on scrapped the second required visit, and a perfect world, you could see a family a Honaunau, Hawaii, resident’s kitchen table.

46 WORLD 01.30.21 MICHELLE MISHINA-KUNZ/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX eligible for the abortion pill. The simple telemedicine abortions. But at street Website for Just the Pill questionnaire is a risky way to assess a level this doesn’t mean only state resi- woman’s fitness for a drug that could dents can get abortion pills. Brief email threaten her life in ectopic pregnancies exchanges with both Just the Pill and states, the program allows women to or pregnancies beyond seven weeks. A Choix revealed that providers require receive pills by mail after a video call lack of knowledge or lack of honesty not an in-state ID but only an in-state from their homes. Before the pandemic, could yield false answers. When I mailing address. the trial required ultrasounds to confirm emailed Choix customer support about The Choix representative told me, the pregnancy, but new protocols safety concerns, the agent responded, “Our providers must be licensed to prac- released at the start of COVID-19’s “It is as safe and quicker than going to tice within any state that we wish to spread recommended skipping the tests your doctor’s office or visiting a clinic.” provide care. … You should see Choix to reduce doctor-patient contact. After Although fully virtual, the sites can’t expanding into more states next year.” Judge Chuang’s ruling, operations like send pills to every state. When I inquired Noting my Ohio location, the Honeybee TelAbortion no longer needed to dis- via email in November, the support staff staffer recommended I visit Plan C, a guise themselves as clinical trials. at Honeybee said the drug required a U.S. website that acts as a database for prescription and that it wasn’t licensed online abortion pill distributors, or DEVELOPMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN, to dispense the drug in Ohio, where I order pills from AidAccess, a Dutch which approved its pandemic-era “pills live. Just the Pill says it can “only serve website that illegally sold the abortion by post program” in late March, may people within Minnesota,” and Choix pill to U.S. women long before the pan- show what the United States has in store says it’s “a fully virtual telehealth com- demic. Now, thanks to the partnership as access to abortion pills expands. In pany,” has no clinic, and is only available of licensed U.S. doctors and Chuang’s May, leaked internal emails from the in California. The Choix agent said its ruling, ordering from AidAccess is legal National Health Service suggested that drugs kill and remove the unborn baby in some states. the new system isn’t safe for women. more than 96 percent of the time, with One group starting in 2016 found a Among the 13 incidents described: Severe complications “highly unlikely.” different loophole. Gynuity Health Proj- bleeding from ectopic pregnancies. Deliv- State-by-state restrictions on the pill ects, a group with connections to the ery of infants whose mothers had still stand, so online abortion pill pro- pro-abortion Population Council, attempted to abort using the pill, even viders will have a harder time operating started a TelAbortion “clinical trial” to though they were past the legal 10-week in the 19 states with existing laws against push the limits even further. Now in 13 limit. Two dead women. Police investi-

48 WORLD 01.30.21 gated the alleged murder of one 28-week sent her pills, even though the first date patient’s form: A patient’s reason for infant reportedly born alive after the she provided would have put her past obtaining the abortion had to fit within mother self-administered the pill. the legal limit for chemical abortions. the law. Usually they shoehorned the The new regime has its critics. Kevin For each persona, volunteers pre- answers into the broad category of Duffy spent six years in Africa and Asia pared responses to the question of why “unable to cope emotionally,” which as a director and consultant with MSI they wanted an abortion, starting with meant the pregnancy posed a risk to the Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie common reasons: the timing was bad, woman’s mental health. Stopes International). He saw what or money was tight. The call operators Some of Duffy’s volunteers tried dar- self-managed abortions look like. MSI asked so they could check a box on the ing scenarios. When asked for the reason distributed pills over the counter at local for her abortion, one volunteer told the pharmacies, and no one assessed women midwife on the phone that she had just to make sure they were eligible for a booked a holiday to the beach and didn’t chemically induced abortion. Duffy saw want to look pregnant. The midwife said more and more women with incomplete that was fine, but she had to fit it within abortions needing emergency treat- THE PILL’S a legal category: “I don’t want to put ments for infections or severe bleeding. words in your mouth. … Any reason Duffy sent a dozen volunteers in Tan- HISTORY other than the sex of the baby is a valid zania to buy abortion pills in local drug Pro-life and pro-abortion groups reason to us, but to attach it to a legal shops. He discovered stores weren’t have fought over chemical abor- reason, it sounds like emotionally it’s giving women the full dosage: To have tions since a French pharmaceu- not the right time.” a complete abortion they needed 12 tical company first invented The staff showed little concern for misoprostol tablets, but the drug shops RU-486 in the 1980s. Also known the emotional effects of expelling a dead only sold them six. No one checked how as mifepristone, the abortive drug baby in the bathroom at home. When far along the women were in their preg- received approval from the French the volunteer callers sounded worried, nancies. government in 1988. Early studies staff members told them they could In April, Duffy contacted pro-life found that mifepristone combined expect to see “blood clots.” One MSI organizations in Great Britain and pro- with a second drug, misoprostol, nurse told a volunteer to “sit on the toi- posed a survey of Great Britain’s “do it was 95 percent effective at killing let seat, and let everything just fall in to yourself” abortion protocols. With spon- and expelling an unborn baby. the toilet … rather than you having that sorship from Christian Concern, Duffy Mifepristone cut off nutrients to in your pad” to make it more “pleasant.” and a volunteer recruited a team of the baby and misoprostol induced The nurse told the caller the bleeding women to spend six weeks calling the uterine contractions, which could last up to two or three weeks, that three primary abortion pill providers: pushed out the baby’s remains. In there was a 1 percent chance of “com- MSI, the British Pregnancy Advisory 1991, Great Britain became the plications or failure,” and that the Service (BPAS), and the National second country to approve chance of “tissue” remaining in the Unplanned Pregnancy Advisory Service RU-486. uterus was more than 3 in 100. (NUPAS). A stalwart pro-life movement Duffy’s team successfully obtained Each pill order required two to three in the United States kept mifepris pills 26 times. The life-ending drugs calls with the provider. The first conver- tone out of the country for some arrived at volunteers’ homes in unassum- sation was usually with call center staff- time, but the drug eventually ing paper or cardboard packages with ers, who took the caller’s general received an FDA-style thumbs-up instructions and phone numbers to call information and the date of her last after a rushed approval process in case of emergency. Christian Concern period. Follow-up calls with a nurse or in 2000. The explicit goal of all used the NHS emails and Duffy’s findings health adviser usually involved a flurry the rules: preserve maternal in a legal challenge against the health of yes-or-no questions about the wom- health. An undiagnosed ectopic secretary’s decision to allow at-home an’s health history and a quick overview pregnancy can kill a mother. If abortions, but the judge dismissed the of what to expect during the chemically done too late in the pregnancy, a evidence. Christian Concern appealed induced abortion. chemically induced abortion can the decision to the U.K. Supreme Court The volunteers adopted fake perso- cause severe infection. If no one and is awaiting an outcome. nas and gave false dates of their last checks with her afterward, no one Meanwhile, the British government menstrual periods during the calls. One can confirm the procedure is moving forward with plans to make volunteer intentionally switched the worked. The implicit result of at-home abortions permanently avail- date of her last menstrual period removing the rules: endangering able. Politicians expect that the law will between the initial calls and the fol- women’s lives in the name of wom- change before the temporary pandemic low-up calls, saying she had remem- en’s health. —L.H. measure expires at the end of its allotted bered incorrectly the first time. two years. The Biden administration will Providers accepted the new date and be watching.

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Historical fiction Pro-abortionists claim abortifacients were legal centuries ago. The historical record proves otherwise by MARVIN OLASKY | illustrations by Stephen Crotts

THE MOVE TOWARD swallowing abortion and see what a forgotten but fascinating pills at home takes us back to an earlier tale shows us about early America’s com- era when abortion-seekers avoided sur- mon law. The site: Charles County, Mary- gical abortion, a risky proposition for land, 35 miles southeast of the Supreme women not only morally but physically, Court building in Washington, D.C. The due to the great risk of infection. Abor- story starts in 1656, when Mary-Land tifacients—potions designed to produce (the original spelling of the colony abortion—included oil of savin, ergot, founded in 1634) had about 8,000 res- rue, tansy oil, and wormwood, all of idents, including an ardently pro-life which caused a horrible shock to the woman, Elizabeth Claxton. entire body of the maternal user. Dosage That year Claxton bravely swore that was key, and effects could range all the SUPREME COURT a landowner, Francis Brooke, beat his way from a slightly upset stomach to JUSTICE HARRY mistress (unnamed in court records) death of child or death of mother and and made her drink wormwood. Brooke child. BLACKMUN had an illustrious last name shared by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry BASED HIS 1973 a former governor of the colony and two Blackmun based his 1973 Roe v. Wade ROE V. WADE centuries later the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision more on erroneous history than chief justice, Roger Brooke Taney, who the Constitution. Blackmun attempted DECISION MORE presided over the Dred Scott case in to show that laws against abortion date ON ERRONEOUS 1857. from the 19th century, which means HISTORY Unawed by Brooke’s influence, Clax- before that men could force women to ton testified that she had approached swallow the potions without facing any THAN THE him and “asked him if he longed to be legal penalty. Blackmun wrote, “It is CONSTITUTION. hanged.” The evidence: Midwife Rose undisputed that, at common law, abor- Smith had delivered from the mistress tion performed before ‘quickening’—the a dead 4-inch unborn child, and testified first recognizable movement of the fetus that he “was a man Child about three in utero, appearing usually from the months old.” It’s strange that Claxton 16th to the 18th week of pregnancy—was would say such killing was a hanging not an indictable offense.” offense if abortion of an unborn child That’s just plain untrue. The secret less than 4-5 months old wasn’t a crime. use of abortifacients was hard to pros- The case had an unusual conclusion: ecute, but difficult is not the same as Brooke’s mistress said she wanted to legal. Let’s go back to the 17th century marry him, despite what he had done

01.30.21 WORLD 51 to her and their child. Maybe she loved of a wolf himself, according to court him, maybe she just wanted his money, cases, of which there were many. He had but she knew from then on that Brooke been financially successful in Portugal was a marked man and would have to and Amsterdam. He was also Jewish. treat her decently—or else suffer social When Lumbrozo gave legal help to isolation and legal punishment. neighbor John Hammond, Hammond Brooke accepted the deal because UNTIL refused to pay what he owed and said he did not want to be hanged: His mis- ABORTION (according to Lumbrozo), Let’s make a tress, once married, would no longer BECAME deal: You can have sex with my wife. testify against him, and midwife Smith Hammond denied that, sued Lumbrozo could not swear that the unborn child’s COMMON, for defamation, and won the case death was not via a natural miscarriage. THE GENERAL against “ye Jew doctor.” Lumbrozo had But word spread in the small Mary-Land PROHIBITION to pay 5,000 pounds of tobacco, worth community: One way to marry a wealthy about $10,000. landowner was to bring a claim of forced ON MURDER It wasn’t unusual for landowners to abortion. SEEMED have sex with servants. In 1663 Lum- That’s important because as the SUFFICIENT. brozo employed Elizabeth Wieles, 22, a Brooke case was being decided, a mid- recently arrived immigrant from dle-aged jack-of-all-trades arrived in England. If her situation was typical, Mary-Land. During the next decade she headed across the Atlantic because Jacob (sometimes called John) Lum- few things had gone right for her at brozo was a doctor, lawyer, planter, home. She was probably destitute and innkeeper, wolf-hunter, and somewhat without parents or siblings who wanted her around. In one sense Mary-Land was a patri- archy, but Monica Witkowski threw new light on social relationships in her 2010 Marquette University dissertation, “‘Jus- tice Without Partiality’: Women and the Law in Colonial Maryland, 1648-1715.” Witkowski wrote that the women she studied exhibited “a sophisticated understanding of the legal workings of the colony. Many colonial women also understood how to manipulate the legal system to procure a more favorable outcome.”

IN THAT LIGHT I STUDIED Maryland archival records about what a neighbor of Wieles, George Harris, told a Charles County jury on June 29, 1663: He said Wieles had told him two weeks earlier that Lumbrozo “tooke her to bed and had layne with her whether shee woold or no, whearof before shee coold Con- sent to ly with him hee tooke a booke in his hand and swor many bitter oaths that hee woold marry me.” The book he allegedly swore on was probably a Bible. Premarital sex was not unusual in many of the colonies. One advice manual for young women did not say “no sex before marriage.” It said do so if you wish, but only if you have a signed statement from the man pledging marriage. Wieles gave in before getting Lumbro-

52 WORLD 01.30.21 zo’s word in writing. Then he backed for hee left mee no such things which I Lumbrozo noted in his will, “I away. The dispute may not have ended reported.” That she “was with Child by bequeath my soul to God.” He also up well for Wieles—but, having proba- the doctor and lay with him every bequeathed his story to historians will- bly learned about the Brooke precedent, night”: False. That Lumbrozo gave her ing to pay attention. The common law, she played an ace, telling fellow servants an abortifacient: False. unwritten but understood, declared and others she had become pregnant The jurors were startled. They ques- abortion even before quickening to be and Lumbrozo had pushed her to abort. tioned a friend of Wieles, one Margaret murder. Wieles supplied no evidence of that. Oles: What happened? Oles testified that During the decades since 1973, many While purportedly pregnant she told no Wieles had asked her advice on how to law professors from a variety of persua- one about it. No one ever saw an aborted testify: “whether it was best for her to sions have decried Justice Blackmun’s child. In any event the child had not clear [Lumbrozo] or no.” Thus advised, legal reasoning, yet left alone his faulty quickened: She told several people that Wieles pleaded with the jury that Lum- history. The importance of that history after Lumbrozo gave her an abortifa- brozo “bee Cleare from the scandal that is evident in the way The New York Times cient she expelled a blood clot. On June I rise upon him for what it was spoken repeatedly revisits it. Georgia State his- 27, even though no law specifically I did Rise of mee owne head and further torian Lauren Thompson declared in a declared abortion to be an offense, say not.” December 2019 column: “In the 17th and Charles County jurors indicted Lum- Jurors could have indicted Wieles 18th centuries, abortion was legal under brozo for a felony based on his servant’s for perjury, but they preferred a happy common law before ‘quickening.’ … “publick Confession tht she was with ending. We know Lumbrozo married Abortion in the early stages of a preg- Child by Lumbrozo and that hee did her within five months of the trial, nancy was common and generally not give her phisick to destroy it.” because a bill of sale dated Nov. 16, 1663, considered immoral or murderous.” So much for the Justice Blackmun identified her as Elizabeth Lumbrozo. Similarly, Times columnist Nicholas supposition that common law allowed The provincial court dropped the case. Kristof stated in October 2020, “Abor- abortion and that, at least before quick- We still do not know if that abortion tion was legal in the United States up to ening, it was not an indictable offense. ever happened. the point of quickening (the fetal move- But let’s also bury the notion that the The good news is that the Lumbrozos ments felt in the second trimester) until law was inhumane toward women. must have gotten along, because Lum- the 19th century.” He evidently does not Wieles still wanted what Lumbrozo had brozo’s will dated Sept. 24, 1665, left understand that Americans knew a baby promised, marriage. She wanted it so almost everything (including thousands in the womb is human life, so until abor- badly that she apparently made a deal of pounds of “well-conditioned tobacco”) tion became common, the general pro- with her employer: She would say she to Elizabeth Lumbrozo, “my Dearly hibition on murder seemed sufficient. had lied, and he would marry her. beloved wife,” and made her his execu- Kristof and others should read the She then told the jury: “What I have trix. The following year Mrs. Lumbrozo Archives of Maryland and the records said Concerning Lumbrozo it is false, gave birth to a son. of other colonies.

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Abortion’s street fighter How Lawrence Lader led the abortion legalization drive— and later promoted the “abortion pill” by SUSAN OLASKY | illustration by Krieg Barrie

IN 2002 THE HARVARD CLUB on 44th up in an affluent, nonreligious family in radio. While stationed in the South Street in Manhattan planned to erect a New York City. His grandfather was a Pacific, he wrote and published his first glass-walled addition to the classic prominent tax attorney who once served piece in The New Yorker. When the war building. Many alums were angry. At as the assistant corporation counsel for ended, Lader returned to New York and one meeting, Lawrence Lader, 82, got the city. Lader attended the progressive worked for radical U.S. Congressman so worked up the governing board shut Horace Mann prep school and enrolled Vito Marcantonio. He took a job at off his mic. He was still a frenzied orator, at Harvard in 1937. That same year his Esquire and Coronet magazines, whose just as he’d been as a student in the father died of cancer. offices “overflowed with seduction. … I 1930s and a self-described “street Lader inherited from his father the moved from affair to affair.” Despite his fighter” who led the movement to abol- clothes—“white tie and tails, a black promiscuity, Lader denied that any of ish America’s abortion laws in the 1960s. derby, and a black Chesterfield with his girlfriends or wives ever had an Lader’s name isn’t much remem- velvet collar”—that opened doors at unwanted pregnancy. bered today, but in the 1960s he was the Harvard. He made lifelong friends and Lader had bylines in Collier’s, The historian, strategist, and publicist of developed a network of crucial allies in Saturday Evening Post, Look, and abortion on demand. National Organi- his later abortion crusade. Lader wrote Parade. He became president of the zation for Women (NOW) founder Betty for The Crimson (Harvard’s newspaper) Society of Magazine Writers. But he Friedan dubbed him the “father of abor- and served as program director for an wanted more: to write a book about “a tion rights,” and Justice Harry Blackmun independent campus radio station. new type of woman, one who would cited Lader’s seminal book, Abortion, After graduation Lader married a break out of all the prejudices and molds eight times in the Roe v. Wade decision. Vassar College graduate, Jean MacInnis, of the past.” He settled on Planned Par- Lader co-founded NARAL, inspired the who “inducted me into the radicalism enthood founder Margaret Sanger: “an Clergy Consultation Service on Abor- of her college circle.” He moved further extraordinary example of the ‘New tion, and fought to make abortion drug left: “With all Stalin’s sins, the revolution Woman.’ Her vision was earthshaking. RU-486 legal in the United States. stood as an island of socialist hope in a Her ability to turn an idea into a social Lader fought for abortion until his disintegrating world.” The marriage movement was unique. … Best of all she death. One of his last acts, according to lasted only four years, but MacInnis also was alive and still organizing.” his wife, was to pay for an ad in a Sioux introduced him to Friedan, who became Lader spent three years on his Sanger Falls, S.D., newspaper to protest a pro- a lifelong friend and abortion-move- biography. He overcame her hesitancy life law. But why was abortion such a ment collaborator. by promising she’d have final say over big deal to him? And how did a well- After Harvard, Lader worked in the finished book. Correspondence to-do writer launch a movement that radio and then joined the Army. He between Lader and Sanger shows the within seven years overturned the coun- snagged a position with Armed Forces extent of his intellectual infatuation with try’s abortion laws? Here’s his story. Radio and wrote scripts for the Voice of her “radiance” and “inexhaustible flame.” Born in 1919, Lawrence Lader grew the Army program that aired on NBC Sanger may have been less enamored of

54 WORLD 01.30.21 ORIGINAL PHOTO OF LADER: BOB STRONG/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES him: “Lader was like a dog with a bone, digging and digging into the past.” Sanger wasn’t happy with the man- uscript and used her “final say” to demand changes before the book’s 1955 publication. Despite being a Book of the Month club selection, it wasn’t a best- seller, partially because Sanger with- drew her support. But she influenced him greatly. The relationship was non- sexual (Sanger was 40 years older than Lader), but he claimed their friendship bore “a vague resemblance to court- ships. … I was obviously flattered by an intimate link to this heroic figure.”

MORE IMPORTANT THAN the personal connection were the lessons Lader drew from Sanger’s contraception crusade: He became convinced that “contraception alone could never handle the problem of unwanted pregnancies.” He wanted to write about abortion, but publishers discouraged it as “too thorny.” So he wrote about the abolition of slavery, then returned to abortion, but magazine editors still hesitated— until two things happened. The first was Sherri Finkbine. She Margaret Sanger at New York’s Waldorf with books. On the tour Lader followed was a Romper Room television teacher Astoria hotel in 1961 Sanger’s blueprint: “generate a new kind in Phoenix who discovered she’d taken of excitement.” thalidomide while pregnant with her Famous Americans biography series for Sanger had generated excitement fifth child. Finkbine sought an abortion. children. with arrests and publicity stunts. Lader Heavy publicity made U.S. hospitals Before the book came out, Lader did the same. At every stop, desperate leery, so she traveled to Sweden to have landed an article in The New York Times women showed up wanting a referral the abortion. Journalists sympathized Magazine. “The Scandal of Abortion to an abortionist. Lader was happy to with Finkbine and covered every twist Laws” laid out the arguments he made help. He made referrals publicly, dared and turn in her case. They wanted a new in his book, Abortion, which came out prosecutors to arrest him (good public- word to describe her abortion sympa- in 1966. Lader argued that legislators ity), and drew more women into his thetically, so they began routinely using enacted existing pro-life laws to protect movement. One journalist called him “a “fetus” rather than “unborn baby.” maternal health (not the baby), that brazen conductor on the underground The second was German measles. An abortion was safer than childbirth, and railroad of abortion.” epidemic swept the United States in that current laws were vague: They sup- Lader understood the importance of 1964, sickening 2 million women of posedly kept good doctors from per- flipping abortion from crime story to childbearing age, including thousands forming abortions and forced women civil rights story. He understood also in the first trimester when German mea- into the hands of untrained and unfit that making referrals was a powerful sles is most damaging to babies in the abortionists. symbol of resistance. But he thought the womb. Lader claimed 15,000 to 20,000 The book received positive reviews. symbol would have more moral weight babies were born with birth defects, and An excerpt appeared in Reader’s Digest if ministers got involved, so Lader legal abortion could have prevented and reached millions of ordinary Amer- approached fellow progressive Howard those births. icans with Lader’s pro-abortion inter- Moody, pastor of Judson Memorial Suddenly, publishers were willing to pretation of history. Reader’s Digest Church in Greenwich Village. consider a book on abortion, even one promoted Lader because publisher Moody recruited others. For six that challenged “all laws that restricted DeWitt Wallace was a longtime advocate months the clergy met and hashed out a woman’s right to abortion.” Lader got of Margaret Sanger and population con- plans for a referral service. But Lader a contract from Bobbs-Merrill, publisher trol. He paid for Lader’s book tour, grew impatient, so he leaked news of of Joy of Cooking and the Childhood of which pushed abortion law repeal along the referral service to The New York

56 WORLD 01.30.21 ASSOCIATED PRESS the day and made Lader chairman of olic Bishops for allegedly violating its the new organization. tax-exempt status. NARAL spent time and money mobi- Even though ARM eventually lost at lizing politically, but Lader doubted that the Supreme Court, Lader considered radical change would come through it a victory because it put the Catholic state legislatures. So Lader turned his Church on the defensive and scared attention to the courts, advancing a legal pastors from speaking out on abortion. strategy built upon the Supreme Court’s Next, he took up the cause of RU-486— “HER VISION WAS 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision. the abortion pill—borrowing again from In his book, Lader speculated that the Margaret Sanger playbook. In 1936 EARTHSHAKING. Justice William O. Douglas’ newly estab- she had arranged for a Japanese doctor HER ABILITY TO lished “right to privacy” could extend to mail contraceptives to her medical TURN AN IDEA to abortion. He and lawyer allies—Cyril director in New York City, telling U.S. Means and Harriet Pilpel—began look- customs officials so they would seize the INTO A SOCIAL ing for the right test case. They found package and provoke a court case. MOVEMENT it in Milan Vuitch, a Washington, D.C., Lader revised the plan to fit new cir- WAS UNIQUE.” OB-GYN who had performed abortions cumstances: “Why not have a pregnant since the 1950s. Lader had referred American woman go to France or Britain many women to him and urged him to and secure one dose of RU 486, which document the reasons for every abor- she would carry to New York to be admin- tion he performed. When authorities istered by ARM’s doctor? … The author- arrested Vuitch for breaking the law, his ities would be notified when the woman lawyers were ready. They claimed the took the pills, setting up a test case.” D.C. abortion statute was too vague. The plan worked. “A mob of televi- What exactly did the word “health” sion cameras and reporters” met Lader mean? and the woman, Leona Benten, at the In November 1969, U.S. District Court airport, where customs agents confis- Judge Gerhard Gesell agreed, declaring cated both the RU-486 and a single dose Times, which ran an article about it and the D.C. law unconstitutional and of prostaglandin, the necessary com- forced the ministers’ hands. extending the right of privacy to “fam- panion drug. The story made national Lader also wanted bodies marching ily, marriage, and sex matters.” Lader television news programs and major in the street, so he turned to his old exulted: “Any licensed physician could newspapers. At trial, the judge ruled in friend Betty Friedan, a relative late- now perform abortion legally in a Wash- Benten’s favor and ordered the RU-486 comer to abortion. Lader convinced her ington hospital or clinic.” A path to returned to her, but the government that no woman could be free unless she abortion on demand had opened, and appealed that order and the circuit had absolute control over her fertility. lawyers across the country took it. court reversed the trial court. The case That meant making abortion the cen- In Texas, lawyers representing Jane went all the way up to the Supreme terpiece of feminism. Roe used the same arguments to chal- Court, which decided against Benten. Once convinced, Friedan sold NOW lenge state law. Within three years that She ended up having a surgical abor- on abortion advocacy, and then joined case made its way to the U.S. Supreme tion, but Lader considered the episode with Lader and others to form the Court. Suddenly abortion was main- a victory because RU-486 was now part National Association for the Repeal of stream. NARAL became flush with of the public debate: “The press was Abortion Laws (NARAL). With $3,500 money—but street fighter Lader found entranced by the spectacle of one frail scraped together from wealthy abortion himself out of step with the movement’s woman in a battle with the government.” supporters like Hugh Moore, former new respectability. He and ARM continued fighting for president of the Dixie Cup Co., Lader RU-486 until the federal government organized a national conference. TO SOME FORMER ALLIES, Lader became reversed its ban on the drug. The conference—on Valentine’s Day, “an embarrassment … because he’s so Lader, the street fighter, wasn’t 1969—drew 360 delegates from 50 orga- uncompromising. Where other groups happy when journalists sometimes nizations. Debate broke out between have compromised politically, he’s too described him as avuncular. His final reformers and repealers, with the pure.” He split with NARAL and started book came out in 2003, three years reformers arguing the country was not “a small, hard-hitting militant group to before his death. By then he was largely ready for repeal. Lader and his allies do things others were scared to do or forgotten by the new generation of tele- thought anything less than total repeal didn’t have time to do.” The new group, genic abortion activists. In one of his of all abortion laws was worthless. Since Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM), last interviews Lader said, “I think I can they’d stacked the conference with like- carried on a bruising nine-year fight lick the abortion thing. But how to age minded people, the repealers carried against the National Conference of Cath- gracefully, that’s another problem.”

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Roe v. Wade ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY

The unseen faces of abortion The events of 2020 expose contradictions in the pro-abortion message

by LEAH HICKMAN

LAST YEAR’S COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS in and found 42 percent of them reported wrote another woman. “But at the back the United States sparked fights between an increase in patients interested in of my mind all I kept thinking is how state governments and abortion groups abortion, likely due to COVID-19. By the would I have managed financially. … I over whether abortion is essential or end of March, the pro-life Human Coa- had to do this.” elective. State governments in March lition’s pregnancy help line was taking In a year when pro-abortion groups and April halted nonessential medical 500-700 calls a day. Many women mis- saw victories in medical technology, procedures to conserve medical sup- takenly called to ask about abortion. legal fights, and abortion-as-discrimi- plies. Governors in states including Relational issues, housing, or finances— nation, faces like these—of women look- Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Virginia not the pregnancy itself—pushed most ing for better choices—often went carved out exceptions for abortion facil- of those callers toward abortion. “The unseen. ities, while 11 other states deemed abor- main concern that we’re seeing across tion procedures elective. the board is that they’re concerned MANY WOMEN WHO RESPONDED to the Some abortion facilities in these about being able to pay for their existing BPAS survey aborted their babies states, including Ohio, flouted the orders children,” Lori Szala, national director through Great Britain’s new “pills by and insisted abortions are essential of client services for the Human Coali- post” program. Although implemented despite decades of calling them a matter tion, said in March. One woman wanted in the name of women’s health to help of choice. State officials responded with to have an abortion because she had lost protect against the spread of COVID-19 cease-and-desist notices, but the cases her job and health insurance. Once the at abortion facilities, the program lim- landed in court. Judges ultimately Human Coalition helped her find its in-facility assessments, which puts blocked most of the orders, and states employment at Amazon, she continued women at risk of taking the pill under lifted their restrictions by May, allowing the pregnancy. “We need to remember dangerous conditions. Leaked May abortions to continue despite the pan- that there are families in crisis that need emails from the country’s health system demic. our help,” Szala said. “They need to showed that at least two women died Pro-life pregnancy centers and other know they’re not alone.” from complications caused by their groups got to talk with some of the Abortion group British Pregnancy at-home abortions, and others hemor- women pursuing abortion during the Advisory Service (BPAS) found in a sur- rhaged or suffered from infections. pandemic. The National Institute of Fam- vey that some women who pursued In January, before the coronavirus ily and Life Advocates polled 473 affiliate abortions in Great Britain during the reached pandemic status, Doctors With- pregnancy centers in an April webinar pandemic weren’t finding that kind of out Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) help. One respondent said she felt announced its partnership with the How “forced into a corner” because she had to Use Abortion Pill website. The site little means to support the child from offers an online course on the pills sup- Activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, during oral argu- her unplanned pregnancy. “I did some- posedly intended to teach health pro- ments for June Medical Services v. Russo. thing I never imagined I would ever do,” fessionals in humanitarian aid settings,

JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY/SIPA USA/ALAMY 01.30.21 WORLD 59 but it gives specific directives to preg- LEFT: Protesters march against the Consti- and decided while Justice Ruth Bader nant women. tutional Court ruling in Krakow, Poland. Ginsburg still anchored the liberal wing RIGHT: Pro-abortion activists in Buenos Portions of the website encourage Aires watch live video of Argentine law- of the court. After her death, the addi- women in countries with protections makers debating an abortion bill. tion of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in late for the unborn to ignore the law and lie 2020 gave pro-lifers hope the court will about their abortions if they need med- hand down rulings more protective of ical assistance after taking the pill. But nurse Paige Coulter saw the removal of pregnant women and babies. women in the poor countries where MSF the ultrasound requirement as a threat operates may not get that help. Not only to women’s health: “My biggest fear as THE SAME MONTH the Supreme Court do some women have to travel long dis- a nurse is that women would be expe- handed down its June Medical decision, tances for medical care, but staff and riencing complications, and without 300 employees of Planned Parenthood equipment shortages often leave doctors that ultrasound component, they’re not of Greater New York said it paid black unable to treat a woman’s complications being fully assessed.” She sees abortion- staff members less than white ones and even if she arrives in time. ists as the beneficiaries: They profit from offered them little upward mobility. The U.S.-based online abortion pill start- rushing women into permanent deci- employees said “Planned Parenthood ups also began sending pills to women’s sions that they’ll later regret. was founded by a racist, white woman” homes and ignoring the medical issues Five months later, the Supreme and “has a history and a present steeped that could arise without a proper con- Court handed down a decision in the in white supremacy.” (Planned Parent- sultation (see story, p. 46). The method controversial abortion case June Medi- hood founder Margaret Sanger pro- makes it difficult to track complications, cal Services v. Russo. The court sided moted limiting the reproduction of but the providers insist it’s safe and with groups that prioritize abortion minorities and the disabled.) effective. access over women’s health. Their attor- The New York affiliate removed neys argued the laws requiring Louisi- Sanger’s name from its Manhattan facil- THE U.S. ABORTION INDUSTRY muffled ana abortionists to have hospital ity. In a similar move, U.K.-based abor- other voices concerned about women’s admitting privileges would close down tion provider Marie Stopes International health in 2020. In January, both houses abortion facilities. Pro-life groups said changed its name to MSI Reproductive of the Virginia Legislature passed bills letting abortionists evade common med- Choices in November to distance itself rescinding state laws requiring women ical standards will put the lives and from its eugenicist founder and its his- to obtain an ultrasound and wait 24 health of women at risk. tory of pushing abortions and contra- hours before having an abortion. Pro-life The June Medical case was argued ceptives on certain populations. Former

60 WORLD 01.30.21 POLAND: OMAR MARQUES/GETTY IMAGES; ARGENTINA: NATACHA PISARENKO/AP tions of Down syndrome babies. Even without the new technique, 90 percent of parents of Down syndrome babies in the U.K. already abort their babies. Sim- ilar testing methods in Denmark have led parents to abort 95 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with chromo- somal abnormalities. Parents in Iceland abort almost 100 percent of Down syndrome–diagnosed babies. In October, conservative Poland’s highest court ruled that aborting a baby because of congenital defects is unconstitutional, effectively eliminating legal abortion in the country. The next day, women turned out in the streets of Pol- ish cities by the thousands to protest. Wearing masks and dark clothing, they bore the red lightning bolt—a symbol of women’s rights—and defied tear gas and the threat of spreading COVID-19. “I think, I feel, I decide,” some chanted. Others yelled, “Freedom, equality, women’s rights.” Some Polish women have stripped naked in front of governmental buildings in protest. In Argentina in December, thousands Planned Parenthood manager Abby of women and young people wearing Johnson remembers employees talking green bandannas in support of abortion about Sanger’s racist worldview when spent a Thursday night in front of the Johnson worked at a Texas facility in capitol in Buenos Aires. The Chamber the early 2000s. But, looking back, she of Deputies was debating a bill to legal- said most of the comments were dismis- ize abortion in the majority Catholic sive, along the lines of Everybody was country. The bill passed 131 to 117. Later racist at the time. that month the Senate concurred, 38-29, and President Alberto Fernández signed “MY BIGGEST FEAR THE ABORTION INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE the bill into law. AS A NURSE IS THAT is still racist. German researcher Adrian Meanwhile, pro-lifers in the U.S. and Zenz exposed the forced abortions and elsewhere looked forward to a COVID- WOMEN WOULD BE sterilizations of Uighur Muslims and 19 vaccine but discussed the ethics of EXPERIENCING other ethnic minorities in China. Offi- benefiting from a cell line that began COMPLICATIONS, cials imprison parents who have more with the kidney cells of a baby girl than two children. They detained for aborted in the Netherlands in the 1970s. AND WITHOUT months a Kazakh woman pregnant with The Charlotte Lozier Institute showed THAT ULTRASOUND her third child, then forcibly aborted that the AstraZeneca vaccine and at COMPONENT, the baby. Radio Free Asia reported on least five others used HEK293, the Uighur infanticide. James Leibold, a baby’s cell line, to grow the coronavirus THEY’RE NOT BEING specialist in Chinese ethnic policy, and create inactive versions to use in FULLY ASSESSED.” linked such killing to “China’s long his- the vaccines. Companies Altimmune tory of dabbling in eugenics.” and Janssen Research and Development The dabbling continued in England, used the PER.C6 cell line, also taken where the Conservative Party govern- from an aborted baby. ment rolled out a new prenatal screen- The new mRNA technology used in ing method that will allow mothers to Moderna’s and Pfizer’s vaccines did not determine if their unborn babies have require cells in the design or production Down syndrome. Pro-lifers there fear stages, although developers used the the new testing will lead to more abor- HEK293 cells to test the vaccines.

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JOHN CAVANAUGH-O’KEEFE co-founded in 1977 the Pro-Life Nonviolent Action PRO-LIFE Project and was arrested more than 20 times at sit-ins. In recent years he’s con- PROGRESSION centrated on supporting immigrants Q&As with pro-life leaders: The politically and opposing racism. My questions and diverse pro-life movement in the 1970s, Cavanaugh-O’Keefe’s answers follow. Did the pro-life movement make a and the racially and ethnically mistake by concentrating on reversing diverse movement now Roe v. Wade? Great idea, but that’s not the end game. Reverse it, the question by Leah Hickman goes back to the states, and while

HANDOUT 01.30.21 WORLD 63 NOTEBOOK Lifestyle PAT GOLTZ CO-FOUNDED Feminists for Life in 1972. Any indications of feminist leanings many states ban abortion within their during your childhood? I resented the state promptly, 15 states or so will fact that my parents tried to keep me expand abortion. Any woman who wants from doing certain things because I was an abortion will still be able to get one. female. My mother forbade me from She’ll just have to travel more. I’M TROUBLED BY taking chemistry and told me I had to So the Supreme Court is not our sav- THE DIVISIVENESS take home economics or study hall. ior? In the entire recorded history of the Whenever I did something I thought world, it has never ever happened that IN THE NATION they might forbid me to do, I didn’t tell a nation ended a massive, deeply THAT THE PRO-LIFE them I was doing it. In high school, my entrenched evil by changing the law. MOVEMENT IS NOW future husband made me a code oscil- That just doesn’t happen. You can vote lator so I could practice Morse code and in Hitler, you can vote in evil, but you A PART OF, BECAUSE get an amateur radio license. He liked can’t vote it out. To get it out, you have IF YOU GIVE UP ON to build electronics from old parts, and to do something other than vote, and THE DEMOCRATIC we’d put equipment together whenever history offers only two ways to change we weren’t at the movies for a date. I hid a massively entrenched evil in society: PARTY, YOU HAVE the oscillator from my parents and only war and martyrdom. We need to study GIVEN UP ON used it when they weren’t around. Basi- other campaigns of nonviolence and ENDING ABORTION cally I became a feminist because people build on them. The pro-life movement discriminated against me for being started doing that but then got badly IN AMERICA. interested in science. sidetracked. Now we’re back to this When and how did you first become effort of changing the law without pro-life? My parents were pro-life, and changing society first. I was always pro-life. When I was in high How can we end abortion in the school, I learned what abortion was and United States? You need to reach out to was horrified. I am aware that we are people from all backgrounds and build made in the image of God and God alone a national consensus. If you work with has the right to decide when a person one party, you cannot change a nation. I’m troubled by the divisiveness in the nation that the pro-life movement is Pat Goltz now a part of, because if you give up on the Democratic Party, you have given up on ending abortion in America. What common ground can there be with the Democratic Party? The movement that calls itself pro-choice always has been and still is a coalition of two different groups: pro-choice feminists and population control eugenicists. The abortion movement came out of the eugenics movement, which is not a thing of the past: The eugenics movement has worked hard to drive down global population, particularly of people of color. Democrats are still aware of that and concerned about it. Nancy Pelosi opposes coercive abortion and led the fight against coercive abortion years and years ago in the 1980s. Obviously, Pelosi is not someone we want to work with to end abortion in America, but if we push back against coercive abortion globally, it’s still possible to find common ground.

64 WORLD 01.30.21 JOANNE WEST How did the Columbus chapter of the National Organization for Women react in 1974? The so-called “feminist” movement wanted nothing to do with us. The Columbus board invited me to speak in my defense at a board meeting. I declined, but when the leadership brought it before the general membership, I used my 15 minutes to talk about why abortion was bad for women. After a long discussion, the vote was over- whelmingly in favor of expulsion: The chapter had over 100 members, and only three voted to keep me. National NOW declined to expel me. I got a letter from a chapter in Washington state decrying the action of the Columbus chapter. You were president of Feminists for Life for five years before you retired. Then what did you do? I had two biological children and two adopted children Savannah Lopez by the time I retired from leadership. My husband and I had three more children after that. At first I was too busy home- lives or dies. Science tells us that an 1972. She and I met in a judo club: She schooling and taking care of other fam- unborn child is a human being and that had a brown belt at the time and a Ph.D. ily matters. But once I got on the internet, life begins at the moment of fertilization. in linguistics and was writing a dictio- I found various ways to contribute I was 28 and had been married for nary for the Lake Miwok Indians of Cal- through online groups. I talked to more almost eight years before the Supreme ifornia. We became friends, and she than 1,000 women online and may have Court handed down the Roe v. Wade joined NOW because of me. She thought saved a few lives. You never know. decision. I remember my reaction: I had because she could get a Ph.D. that the to stop listening to music for over a year. feminist movement wasn’t necessary. I was a student of piano for years, but But I told her that not everyone had the THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT has become after Roe, every time I heard music, I opportunities she had—that many racially and ethnically diverse. Our Dec. started to cry because I would think women were held back because of their 26 issue had a Q&A with Care Net head about all the babies who would never gender. She realized I was right. She was Roland Warren. Here’s an interview with get to hear music. also pro-life and did not like the fact Savannah Lopez, client services man- How did Feminists for Life begin? I that feminists were supporting abortion. ager at Pregnancy & Fatherhood Solu- joined the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of We kept it simple. We felt that taking up tions in El Paso, Texas. the National Organization for Women other issues would be divisive—partly What was your exposure to the issue (NOW) in 1970. I made myself useful: because about the only things we agreed of abortion growing up? I grew up in El drove to Dayton to pick up an order on were pro-life feminism and judo. She Paso’s Hispanic community. It’s primar- because everyone else was at work, did was a political liberal, and I’m not. ily Roman Catholic and very pro-life. I child care for a conference rather than How did other pro-lifers react? Not grew up knowing I was pro-life without attending myself. I also made them long after forming the group, Cathy and ever seeing the compassion for the uncomfortable by taking my youngest I attended an Ohio Right to Life board women who do choose abortion. child to meetings and breastfeeding meeting. The attendees thought we were What percentage of your clients at there. I hoped to get them to turn against spies at first, until they talked with us. the pregnancy center are Hispanic—and abortion, and I did persuade them to let After that, they decided to help us start what differences do you notice between a pro-life speaker come once, but it our group. They gave us names of peo- the first-generation immigrants and didn’t make any difference. That was ple who were feminist or leaning in that those with families who have been when I realized we wouldn’t be able to direction. That was how we got our first around longer? Probably 75 percent. reform the feminist movement from members. We attended the monthly Most of our clients are U.S. citizens, prob- within: We needed a new organization. meetings for a while and always gave a ably second-generation families. We When did you start it? I started Fem- report on what we had been doing with have had clients who say they just came inists for Life with Cathy Callaghan in Feminists for Life. to the country. Most of those are

HANDOUT 01.30.21 WORLD 65 usually further along in their pregnan- NOTEBOOK Law cies, and they’re just looking for help with getting connected to medical care or continuing the pregnancy. They’re usually not planning to abort. Most are Sam & Gloria Lee single and don’t have other children. They live with their parents and are fully dependent on them. Tell me about one of your Hispanic clients whose situation reflects what many of your clients go through. I had a client recently who was considering abortion. She was unmarried, in college, between 18 and 20, and in shock and denial when she first came in—which is also common among the young women we see. She hadn’t told her family, but one parent was more on the pro-life side, and she believed the other parent would be a lot more understanding if she did go through with an abortion because she was so young. What happened? After going through our coronavirus screening process, she gave a urine sample for the pregnancy test. The test came back positive, and we went over all her options with her. This client in particular needed to vent about her denial and her frustration with the timing of the pregnancy. We went over the facts about abortion. She agreed to come back for an ultrasound with her partner. She didn’t come out and say she chose life, but she said she had a lot more to think about. We last saw her a couple of weeks ago. How often are you able to talk your SIT-INS AND abortion-minded clients out of abortions? We don’t talk them out of it. We STATUTES can’t do that. But we do present the Closed doors on early pro-life efforts led facts. A lot of men and women have no knowledge of what an abortion entails, activist Sam Lee to craft legislation that thinking it’s just a Band-Aid–type fix. supports women in crisis pregnancies Many aren’t really well-educated on how a fetus develops in the womb. Ultra- by Leah Hickman sounds help give them a visual on the pregnancy, and other information helps their decision-making process. AM LEE WAS SITTING in a doorway when he met Roberta, What are typical results? A good per- a white girl in her early 20s with glasses and long brown centage of women who come in consid- hair. She couldn’t get past him, and that was his goal. It ering abortion walk out of here either was around 1980, and in those early years of the pro-life wanting to come back for an ultrasound sit-in movement, Lee was experienced in using his body later to make a final decision or leaving to barricade abortion facility entrances. He was 23 and here ultimately choosing life for their had been doing it since 1978. baby. About 80 percent of our clients who He probably got in the way of a lot of women, but Lee receive an ultrasound and go through S options counseling choose life.

66 WORLD 01.30.21 PORTRAIT INNOVATIONS remembers Roberta in part because of arrests gave him a natural segue into what she said to him. “You don’t under- writing pro-life bills. His initial goal was stand,” she pleaded. “If I don’t have this to protect pro-lifers in court. He abortion, I’ll be kicked out of my boy- designed one of his first bills to make friend’s apartment.” She wasn’t angry, the “necessity” appeal easier for pro-lif- Lee said later: “I think she was desper- ers charged with trespassing. (The argu- ate, and I was in the way.” ment said the evil of abortion Not for much longer. Police soon outweighed the evil of trespassing, com- arrived, arrested him and his friends, pelling pro-lifers to sit in front of abor- and put them in paddy wagons. “She tion facility doors.) But that bill never went in and, as far as I know, she had passed. His focus expanded to restrict- the abortion. Never really did find out,” ing abortion facilities and establishing Lee says. But he points to that interac- legal protections for babies. He helped tion and others like it as events that write the Missouri bill the U.S. Supreme would inform his pro-life work for the Court upheld in the 1989 case Webster next four decades. When faced with v. Reproductive Health Services, along other dead ends in his activist efforts, with the state’s heartbeat bill protecting Lee worked to build and support agen- unborn babies with beating hearts. cies that help women in crisis pregnan- Some legislation he worked on helped cies—and he’s seen the fruits. close abortion clinics, bringing the “How do you answer that? You can’t THERE’S A statewide number down from 29 in 1982 answer with just platitudes … like, ‘Oh, to one in 2020. honey, it’ll be OK,’” Lee muses, remem- DIRECT CAUSE But he says some of the most reward- bering the effect Roberta’s words had AND EFFECT ing work he’s done has involved legis- on him. In the back of the paddy wagon, BETWEEN THE lation that supports agencies like Our he talked about it with his friends. They Lady’s Inn. all agreed they had to do something to SUPPORT FOR … In 1992, Missouri elected its first help women like Roberta. At first, a cou- THESE AGENCIES pro-abortion governor since Roe v. ple of the female pro-lifers opened their AND THE Wade. Gov. Mel Carnahan served two apartment to homeless pregnant terms. “We had a real dry spell,” said women. But the long-term plan was to WOMEN’S LIVES Lee. “It was very difficult to get things start a maternity home. WHO ARE passed.” So he took a different approach: By 1982, Lee and his friends acquired IMPROVED Instead of pushing bills to regulate abor- an old convent and opened Our Lady’s tion, he’d introduce legislation that Inn. The home’s first live-in house parent AND THE BABIES could help pro-life agencies. was Gloria Fahey, the woman Lee would WHO HAVE He crafted tax credit legislation to eventually marry after meeting her on BEEN SAVED. incentivize donations to maternity a blind date. Meanwhile, Lee continued homes. That bill allowed maternity his involvement with sit-ins: blocking home supporters to get a reduction in facility entrances until police arrived, their tax bill of up to 50 percent of what getting thrown into paddy wagons, they gave to the agency—government being processed at police stations, some- support without the strings that come times showing up in court. Police attached to direct funding. arrested him about 50 times in the six It failed in 1995 and again in 1996. In or seven years between 1978 and his last 1997, Lee attached it to one of Gov. Car- sit-in. nahan’s priority bills, a sales tax reduc- A month after his wedding to Gloria tion on groceries promised while on the in May 1983, Lee began serving 314 days campaign trail. Despite pushback from in a Chesterfield, Mo., correctional insti- pro-abortion legislators, Lee’s pro-life tution for visiting abortion facilities in allies in the Senate persisted. The bill violation of court orders. By the time he with the provision for the tax credit got out, he realized spending years in passed unanimously in the Senate on jail for joining sit-ins wouldn’t do much the last day of the session, and Carnahan good for the pro-life movement or his signed it into law. new family. So he turned to legislation. Gloria Lee, now the chief programs His experience crafting a defense for officer at Our Lady’s Inn, says the tax himself and his friends after their sit-in credit helped the organization raise

01.30.21 WORLD 67 enough money to move into a larger NOTEBOOK Technology building, then open a second location to house more women. It’s been able to expand services and hire more staff, including trained counselors and nurses. Sam Lee believes the tax credit and similar pro-life legislation have set Mis- EYES ON souri apart as a pro-life haven in the country, and he’s probably right. EDUCATION According to data from Heartbeat Inter- Facial recognition technology offers national’s worldwide directory, the potential safety benefits, but most number of maternity homes in Missouri rivals that of states like New York and U.S. schools remain wary

Pennsylvania, even though Missouri’s by Juliana Chan Erikson population is around 6 million, less than half the size of those states. For maternity homes per capita, Missouri is neck and neck for first place with Maine, whose population is under 1.5 million. Another bill, a pregnancy center tax credit, took seven years to become law, passing in 2006. Since then, the number of pregnancy centers in the tax credit program has grown from 43 to 75. By now, Lee has been a full-time lob- byist for 35 years. He’s split between two homes, in St. Louis and Jefferson City: From January to May, while the Legis- lature is in session, Lee lives in his Jef- ferson City apartment, meeting with state legislators, researching old law, and drafting new bills—sometimes staying up until 2 a.m. to finish a project. His apartment floor is piled with books and papers. Three bookcases line the wall and more than a dozen stacks of books surround a table he hasn’t used since his grandchildren came for a visit in 2019. It’s not a visually appealing living space, he says, but it’s functional: He’s made a path between the books so St. Therese he can walk around and open and close Catholic the door. He doesn’t mind the mess or Academy lack of decorations on the walls: “What’s important to me is that there’s order in my writing … in the presentation in the ATTHEW DEBOER NEVER INTENDED to be a spokesper- law.” son for facial recognition. Back in 2018, the principal Lee has written and lobbied for of St. Therese Catholic Academy, a K-8 school in Seat- plenty of legislation that went nowhere. tle, was looking to upgrade the academy’s aging secu- But he’s optimistic about his work, rity system when he heard about an offer from tech believing his legislation has helped save firm RealNetworks to pilot test its facial recognition lives: “In my mind there’s a direct cause technology. and effect between the support for … With support from parents and staff, DeBoer signed these agencies and the women’s lives M up and installed facial recognition by the school’s who are improved and the babies who external doors. have been saved. There’s just no doubt in my mind.”

68 WORLD 01.30.21 JULIA DE BOER Now, to get inside St. Therese, par- “I’m in favor of watching for danger- ents and staff stare at an external cam- ous activities,” he said. “Facial recogni- era and smile. If the system recognizes tion ain’t going to help you [with that].” the person’s face, the front doors auto- Much of the argument against facial matically open. DeBoer says the system recognition in school concerns student has helped staffers match faces with privacy, consent, and racial bias. One names and expedited routine visits from parent from the Lockport district told parents and delivery workers. The New York Times he feared the sys- “I wasn’t sold on it right away,” he tem would have “turned our kids into said. “But when I thought it through, lab rats in a high-tech experiment in this technology reminded me of my I WASN’T SOLD ON privacy invasion.” mantra, ‘How can we make the world IT RIGHT AWAY. Others say facial recognition is too smaller?’” BUT WHEN I inaccurate to be useful and could lead With a handful of exceptions, to misidentification and wrongful disci- though, U.S. schools are still not sold on THOUGHT IT plinary action against people of color. A facial recognition. THROUGH, THIS National Institute of Standards and Tech- An October 2019 Wired magazine TECHNOLOGY nology study found that facial recogni- investigation found that of the more tion systems misidentified minorities up than 13,000 public school districts in REMINDED ME to 100 times more often than white men. the United States, only eight had OF MY MANTRA, Back in Seattle, DeBoer says that installed facial recognition systems in ‘HOW CAN WE although 86 percent of St. Therese Cath- the previous year. olic Academy students identify as per- Of those, at least one has walked MAKE THE WORLD sons of color, he’s found the rate of back its policy. The Lockport school SMALLER?’ misidentification consistent across all district in New York state was among skin colors. His school resolves privacy the first in the country to adopt facial issues by restricting the systems to recognition in all its K-12 buildings. But external entrances, keeping cameras after the New York Legislature issued a out of classrooms, and never using facial statewide moratorium on facial recog- recognition on students. nition and other forms of biometrics in The school also made the system schools until 2022, Lockport had to shut voluntary, so skeptical parents can still down its system. check in the old-fashioned way—by Some U.S. cities aren’t sold on it walking into the main office. either. Portland, San Francisco, and a few other smaller cities in California and Massachusetts now prohibit facial recognition in public and local government spaces. While schools are not specifically mentioned, the bans have made introducing facial recognition there a nonstarter. Proponents of facial recognition say it’s a powerful crime deterrent that could have prevented school shootings like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in 2018 that left 17 people dead. Since the alleged shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was an expelled former student, some say school admin- istrators could have added him to a facial recognition system, which would have denied him entrance to the school. But Carl Chinn, an expert on church security, says facial recognition won’t identify suspicious behavior, the chief factor a security team should look for when protecting children.

01.30.21 WORLD 69 WOULDN’T THE GUY Voices ANDRÉE SEU PETERSON WHO’S GOOD FATHER MATERIAL ALSO BE GOOD HUSBAND MATERIAL?

child’s co-parent uses adjectives like “kind,” “gallant,” “flexible,” and “brave.” What’s not to fall in love with? I know, I know, to each his own. It’s like Woody Allen said when challenged about the choice of his stepdaughter for a lover: “The heart wants what it The wide gate wants.” Good luck with that. But evidently, for many, when it comes to mate choices, “fun” and “naughty” The path to destruction trump those prosaic aforementioned virtues. is a twisted form of Here’s my other question: If the purpose of this the path to life new approach is to find the most principled and high- minded parent for your child, how is that accomplished by birthing him into an out-of-wedlock, noncommit- INCE TIME MAGAZINE announced God was tal union? And an instantly broken family, where he dead in 1966, people have done their best to will be schlepped back and forth between Mom’s and manage without Him, notably in relation- Dad’s crib for 18 years? It’s bad enough we have ships. God’s narrow way of one man and one unplanned broken families without creating planned woman monogamously raising offspring has ones. been paved over with multilane beltways, Did anybody consider the likely complications of bypasses, and loops that must look sort of two people sleeping together while agreeing not to S messy from angel altitude. get emotionally attached? As the Apostle Paul writes, These include elective single motherhood (“A “Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”) and becomes one body with her? … ‘The two will become joint homosexual parenting. But the latest offshoot is one flesh’” (1 Corinthians 6:16). Or as C.S. Lewis put it “platonic co-parenting,” an option generating lucrative in The Screwtape Letters, “The truth is that wherever business for matchmaking services like the Los Ange- a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it les–based Modamily and the U.K.’s PollenTree and or not, a transcendental relation is set up between CoParents. them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally The idea is that your biological clock is running endured.” out because you waited till your late 30s to think about “God made man upright, but they have sought out having a baby. There’s no time for the niceties of find- many schemes” (Ecclesiastes 7:29). Manifestly. When ing a “true love,” getting married, and having kids the human hubris tries to fix what ain’t broken, we end old-fashioned way. So the shortcut (to stick to the road up with the “cobra effect.” (In an attempt to solve a metaphor) is an algorithm-driven online search for a cobra problem in the city of Delhi, the British offered person who embodies your wish list for a good par- a bounty to anyone turning in the venomous snakes. ent—though not necessarily for a romantic partner. Enterprising Indians not only delivered snakes they In other words, you want your child to have a father caught but bred more of them.) like Ward Cleaver while you hold out for a hunk like The irony is how “platonic co-parenting” is a back- the Sundance Kid. So you and Mr.-Right-for-a-father- door acknowledgment of the superiority of God’s but-not-for-a-heartthrob will agree to create a baby design. It tacitly admits that children thrive better together ASAP (some use a sperm bank but why not with parents who exhibit qualities such as love, nur- do it the free way?) and share his upbringing. It buys turing, faithfulness, and commitment, which is the you time. Bible’s own teaching. The devil can never create an The question it raises for me right off the bat: original, but only twist what God has created. Wouldn’t the guy who’s good father material also be “For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads good husband material? One woman describing her to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Matthew 7:13-14).

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WW-FP Jan21.indd 1 1/8/21 3:19 PM funds to purchase the freedom of slaves in the District of Columbia. Voices MARVIN OLASKY Historian James Oakes described that fallback strategy this way: “The federal government would surround the South with free states, free territories, and free waters, building what they called a ‘cordon of freedom’ around slavery, hemming it in until the system’s own internal weaknesses forced the slave states one by one to abandon slavery.” Jump to 1970 when the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, in the city that had years before been an abolitionist stronghold, declared in Our Bodies, Ourselves that unborn children were essentially the property of their mothers, to be disposed of as they saw fit. Three years later Justice Harry Blackmun Containing declared in Roe that the government has an interest in the survival of an unborn child only when he or she abortion becomes two-thirds of a person. Blackmun apparently thought he was offering a Property in men, moderate compromise in recognizing a child’s human- property in babies ity in the last trimester of development. Some editorial writers after Roe wiped off their crystal balls and predicted an end to “emotion-charged hearings” on AN. 22 IS THE 48TH ANNIVERSARY of the abortion (Des Moines Register) and the “distractive Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. Ten issue [for] politicians and policemen and judges” days later, Black History Month begins. We (Milwaukee Journal). The New York Times praised should think about the connection. Blackmun for providing “a sound foundation for final In 1855 Frederick Douglass titled his great and reasonable resolution [of the] emotional and divi- autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. sive public argument” concerning abortion. They were Ten years later, Abraham Lincoln gave his as accurate as Sen. Stephen Douglas and some South- J second inaugural address, which he could ern journalists were when they said the Kansas- have titled “Our Bondage and Our Freedom.” Nebraska Act in 1854, which allowed for slavery Lincoln spoke of the deaths on both sides in what expansion, would quiet the debate over treating per- had become a war to end not Southern slavery but sons as property. “American slavery”: Both North and South had cul- Jump to 2021, when more states with conservative pability. Northern shipowners had profited from slav- majorities are likely to join those that already have ery. Northern states had acquiesced in constitutional heartbeat laws that protect unborn children starting compromises by which a human being could be seen at six weeks of gestation—if the Supreme Court will both as property—owners had the right to recapture allow those laws. Abortion strongholds like New York, future slaves and return them to a hellish existence— Illinois, and California could be hemmed in by life-af- and as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of firming states until liberalism’s internal contradic- giving white Southerners more representation in tions—standing for the weak and vulnerable but Congress. killing the most vulnerable—eventually kill the abor- Even Virginian James Madison, “the father of the tion regime. Constitution,” had said as he was drafting the docu- But abortion advocates are already pushing their ment in 1787 that it was “wrong to admit in the Con- new Kansas-Nebraska Act to break out of containment: stitution the idea that there could be property in Mail-order abortions, with home-delivered baby-kill- men”—but he established that wrong as a right. How ing chemicals: see page 46. The first line of defense to get rid of it became a 75-year debate in which abo- against that is the Food and Drug Administration; but litionists gained insufficient traction until war gave pro-abortion judges have already circumvented it, and them a bloody win. When abolition wasn’t politically a Biden FDA is likely to open wide the gates. Ultrasound possible, the fallback position was a policy of contain- pictures of their unborn babies give women (and men) ment rather than abolition: Congressman Abraham much to think about, but the pro-abortion response Lincoln from 1847 to 1849 voted to keep slavery from is Don’t see! Don’t think! Just do it! expanding into Western territories and to appropriate The pro-life movement will need creativity in responding. This year WORLD will report on several new initiatives.

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