The Human Stories Behind the Abortion Headlines — A Conversation with Joshua Prager
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of “Thinking in Public,” Dr. Mohler speaks with Joshua Prager, former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, a Nieman fellow at Harvard, and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University about the human stories behind the Roe v. Wade decision.
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:10.0 | front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Albert Mowa, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:19.0 | Joshua Prager is an award-winning journalist, former senior writer for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:24.4 | He served as a Neiman fellow at Harvard University and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at |
| 0:28.7 | Hebrew University. |
| 0:30.2 | He is the author of several books including The Echoing Green, which won the Washington Post Best Book of the Year. |
| 0:35.2 | His most recent work, The Family Row, tells the story behind the 1973 Supreme Court case, Row v. Wade. |
| 0:41.9 | And that is the topic of our conversation today. |
| 0:45.2 | Joshua Prager, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you for having me Dr. Mueller. You know there are a few subjects about which more has been written in American life than abortion and yet you've taken on a more than 600 page work which I want to say is I think that from now on indispensable about understanding, |
| 1:05.5 | Rovi Wade, Norma Carvey and how the story came together. How did you get onto this story? |
| 1:12.0 | Why this book? Why you? Well, first of all, thank you for the kind words. |
| 1:16.7 | I was not a person who would have been pegged to write this book. What I mean by that is I knew little about Rolvie Wade. I hadn't given it much thought. But as a feature writer and an investigative reporter at the Wall Street Journal, I'd written several times about people whose lives were connected to history and |
| 1:34.8 | people whose lives centered on secrets. To give just one example, there was only |
| 1:38.9 | one anonymous winner in the history of the Pulitzer Prizes, a person who took a photograph of an execution, |
| 1:45.0 | and that picture was an indictment of the Islamic Revolution. |
| 1:49.0 | I went to Iran and I found that man. |
| 1:50.0 | So I was interested in secrets, and it suddenly occurred to me when I read an article |
| 1:55.3 | that Norma McCorvey, Jane Rowe, though her case had brought about the legalization of abortion, |
| 2:02.2 | it had been decided too late for her to get the abortion. |
| 2:05.6 | And so somewhere there was a baby whose conception had led to Roby Waite. |
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