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Final Summer 2013 Cover the HUMAN LIFE REVIEW SUMMER 2013 Featured in this issue: William Murchison on . Life: Staring Us in the Face Eric Metaxas on . The War on the Unborn Anne Conlon on . HLR’s Unparalleled Archive Laura Echevarria on . Planned Parenthood Kills “Choice” BOOKNOTES Mark S. Latkovic on Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, MD Daniel J. Blackman on Modern Moral Problems by Msgr William Smith Ellen Wilson Fielding on . The Loss of Childhood Innocence Caitlin Smith Gilson on . Abortion’s Denial of Contingency John Burger on . Pope Benedict’s Pro-life Legacy Leslie Fain on . The Business of Engaging in Sex William F. Buckley Jr. on . Letter from a Friend (1980) Also in this issue: Richard Hurzeler • Donald DeMarco • James Mumford George Weigel • Kevin D. Williamson • Wesley J. Smith Published by: The Human Life Foundation, Inc. New York, New York Vol. XXXIX No. 3 $8.00 a copy ABOUT THIS ISSUE . we don’t edit the Review in a thematic fashion, but as I read the final proofs for this issue, it struck me that playing through its pages was a recurrent theme of childhood betrayal. Abortion, of course, is the primal betrayal, snuffing out not only individual lives but family trees, and even, in a sense, as Caitlin Smith Gilson argues in her debut essay here, the author of life himself. “[A]bortion’s pogrom against contingency,” she writes, “has in praxis destroyed man’s access to the divine . .” (“The Grand Refusal: Abortion’s Pogrom Against Contingency,” p. 48). Hers is an intellectually challenging argument with rich rewards for the attentive reader; we are pleased to welcome Dr. Gilson, who chairs the philosophy department at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, to these pages. Our senior editor Ellen Wilson Fielding has the snuffing out of childhood inno- cence on her mind (“Seeking Sanctuary” p. 39), and free-lance writer Leslie Fain, in her first original article for us, reports on how this loss of innocence is affecting the mating behavior of young women (“Why Do It for Free?”, page 67). Another senior editor, William Murchison, focuses on the images of little ones, insisting that the preciousness of every human life can be apprehended by serious engagement with photographs of children (“Life: Staring Us in the Face,” page 7). Mr. Murchison has a new book coming out in September, The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson—who has been described as “the most underrated of all the Founders” (ISI Books). Other contributors to this issue also have books either recently out or soon to be published. Eric Metaxas (“The War on the Unborn,” page 13)—who shares our Great Defender of Life award this year with his wife Susanne—is the author of 7 Men and the Secrets of Their Greatness (Thomas Nelson). What’s a Person to Do: Everyday Decisions That Matter by Mark S. Latkovic (“Booknotes,” page 81) will be published September 1 (Our Sunday Visitor). And Dr. Gilson’s The Philosophical Question of Christ (Bloomsbury Academic) will appear early next year. Clarke D. Forsythe, who has contributed much work to the Review over the years (but not to this issue) also has a new book out, Abuse of Discretion: The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade (Encounter Books), which we plan to review in our Fall issue. As always, thanks are in order: to Standpoint magazine for permission to reprint James Mumford’s “The Flawed Logic of Our Abortion Laws” (page 99); to the Denver Catholic Register for George Weigel’s “Tribulation Compounded by Blas- phemy” (page 103); and to National Review, for Kevin D. Williamson’s “Abortion After Texas” (page 105). And special thanks to William Murchison and Richard Hurzeler (“Drop by Drop,” page 95), for sharing their delight in their grandchildren with Review readers. ANNE CONLON MANAGING EDITOR the HUMAN LIFE REVIEW Summer 2013 Vol. XXXIX, No. 3 Editor Maria McFadden Maffucci Senior Editors Introduction . 2 Ellen Wilson Fielding Maria McFadden Maffucci Mary Meehan William Murchison Letters to the Editor . 5 Managing Editor Life: Staring Us in the Face . 7 Anne Conlon William Murchison Consulting Editor, Europe The War on the Unborn . 13 Mary Kenny, London Eric Metaxas Contributors Lynette Burrows An Unparalleled Archive . 20 James Hitchcock Anne Conlon Rita L. Marker From “Pro-choice” to…? . 27 William McGurn Laura Echevarria George McKenna Seeking Sanctuary: David Quinn The Loss of Childhood Innocence . 39 Wesley J. Smith Ellen Wilson Fielding Business Manager Rose Flynn DeMaio The Grand Refusal: Production Manager Abortion’s Pogrom Against Contingency . 48 Christina Angelopoulos Caitlin Smith Gilson Publishing Consultant The Pro-life Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI . 59 Edward A. Capano John Burger Founding Editors J.P. McFadden Why Do It for Free?. 67 Faith Abbott McFadden Leslie Fain Published by THE H UMAN LIFE FOUNDATION, BOOKNOTES INC. Editorial Office, 353 Lexington Av- Mark S. Latkovic . 81 enue, Suite 802, New York, N.Y. 10016. Phone: (212) 685-5210. The editors will Daniel J. Blackman . 85 consider all manuscripts submitted, but as- Letter from a Friend (1980) . 90 sume no responsibility for unsolicited ma- terial. Editorial and subscription inquiries, William F. Buckley Jr. (From the Archives) and requests for reprint permission should be sent directly to our editorial office. Sub- Appendices . 95 scription price: $30 per year; Canada and Richard Hurzeler George Weigel other foreign countries: $40 (U.S. cur- rency). ISSN 0097-9783. Donald DeMarco Kevin D. Williamson James Mumford William Murchison ©2013 by THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION, INC. New York, N.Y. Printed in the U.S.A. Wesley J. Smith SUMMER 2013/1 INTRODUCTION “How could a country founded on, at the very least, a rhetorical commitment to the ‘certain unalienable rights’ of its people (a commitment enhanced and augmented by the subsequent abolition of slavery) produce Kermit Gosnell?” asks senior editor William Murchison as we open this issue. It’s a question that, by and large, the American public avoids answering. It is remarkable how quickly the horrors of “Dr.” Gosnell (who was sentenced to life in prison in May) have receded in the public sphere; we remarked on a similar arc during and after the Supreme Court case on partial-birth abortion. At first, many people were horrified—we don’t do that here do we?—but soon enough the awakened awareness of the violence of infanticide and “partial-birth” abortion became buried under the dulled acceptance of the predominant cultural message: Abortion is a necessary “choice” for women. And people, I think, avert their eyes because they are afraid of the implications of the truth. As Murchison writes, while “what captivated and duly horrified the public was, shall we say, Gosnell’s devotion to the task of completing an abortion,” (emphasis mine) what happened at the clinic “over and over; life and death a constant blur,” was really the “abortion dispensation” carried to its “logical conclusion.” Exactly. Even NARAL made statements about Gosnell’s “atrocities,” and yet only seconds, only inches, separate the breathing babies butchered by him and the millions of children aborted in the womb. Murchison offers his own opinion as to why, despite Gosnell, America’s view of abortion remains steady. But, as you will read in “Life: Staring Us in the Face,” he has a suggestion, a beautiful one, for healing our abortion blindness: really looking at our children. Our next article is a first-time contribution from one of this year’s Great Defender of Life awardees: Eric Metaxas. The author of the bestselling books Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace, Eric shares the honor with his wife Susanne, who heads the Midtown Pregnancy Support Center in New York. Metaxas gives us a thoughtful report from the front of “The War on the Unborn,” alerting us to the realities we need to fight (such as that “for the black community, abortion verges on genocide”) and also exhorting us to remember to “love the sinner while hating the sin.” Pro- abortion people, he writes “hear our condemnation of abortion as a condemnation of themselves. That’s why our love for them cannot be an afterthought . .” By the end of 2013, we will have completed 39 years of continual publishing. As our faithful readers know, we have amassed quite a valuable archive, and it is from that archive that our managing editor, Anne Conlon, has produced two excellent volumes: The Debate Since Roe: Making the Case Against Abortion (2010) and our more recent title, The Reach of Roe: Eugenics, Euthanasia, and other Assaults 2/SUMMER2013 THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW on the Dignity of Human Life (2012). Last May, Ms. Conlon and Professor George McKenna, whose articles are featured in both volumes, gave a book-talk and signing at the offices at First Things. We reprint here Ms. Conlon’s remarks in full; “An Unparalleled Archive” is an engaging and informative look at the history of the Human Life Review, from its founding by my late father James P. McFadden. J.P. founded HLR as an “anti-abortion” journal, but, as Laura Echevarria reports in “From ‘Pro-Choice’ to ...?” on page 27, the movement began organizing under the “pro-life” name after 1973. The pro-abortion side’s response was to create the “pro-choice” term—but now, she writes, abortion-giant Planned Parenthood is “attempting to cast a wider net” by abandoning “pro-choice” altogether. Echevarria, formerly director of media relations and a spokesperson for National Right to Life, has a keen understanding of how Planned Parenthood has been able to frame their message to manipulate the so-called “mushy middle” on abortion. And she urges pro-lifers to step up to the plate: “We have truth on our side, and the pro-abortion movement continues to ignore facts in favor of sensationalism and lies.” Although the major media often give “the pro-abortion movement a pass .
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