This summer we published one of the most important stories a WORLD reporter has ever produced. Some writers have given us the view of China’s abortion regime from 35,000 feet, but June Cheng went into a dingy abortion facility in southwest China and saw where the operations are performed. She met and wrote about compassionate men and women who are growing an indigenous Chinese pro-life movement.
Americans have concentrated on the evil of China’s official one-child policy, but June’s article made it clear that the issue is not just people vs. government. “If only it were all so simple!” wrote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” Similarly, the front line of the battle to...