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Apologizing to the Babies

Joan Frawley Desmond

Japan has been called “abortion heaven.” The Ministry of Health and Welfare reported 364,350 abortions in 1994, though that figure does not include abortions by the private physicians whose...

The Need for Moral Memory

Joan Frawley Desmond

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan By Ian Buruma Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 330 pages, $25 Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and...

Baptism and Development

Joan Frawley Desmond

In the north Indian state of Bihar, there are indigenous peoples who never converted to the Hinduism of the Aryan people that conquered and settled India long ago. Some...