Accused

“I wanted to enjoy my grandchildren.”

Gloria Gray on one of the reasons she sold an abortion center she owned and ran in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Mother Jones reported the facility, West Alabama Women’s Center, performed more than half of all abortions in the state. 

Adapting to the environment

“We didn’t win the Cold War by selling cruise missiles to the Soviets, and we’re not going to beat China by selling semiconductors to the People’s Liberation Army.”

U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., on the importance of new Commerce Department rules limiting the sale of technology to China, Russia, and Venezuela. 

When disaster visits the vulnerable

April 11—Lois Droege on Facebook

If my dad had died this year instead of last year, his daughters and grandchildren would not have been with him at the end. When people are old and frail, there is no moral reason to leave them abandoned to die alone, with or without a virus.

—Kelley Burgess/Anna, Texas

Unsealed

An ill-advised attack