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Last week was one that pushed Christian and conservative journalists and pro-life leaders to remember biblical injunctions against envy. | The Editors

The prospective $165 billion merger of AOL and Time Warner temporarily left WORLD's editors feeling like they were running the Bailey Brothers building-and-loan in competition with Mr. Potter's bank. Meanwhile, as the 27th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision approached, press accounts were quoting the usual suspects from organizations with grand-sounding names like Planned Parenthood International.

The prospect of many media uniting for destruction was evident in the publicity campaign for The Cider House Rules, a new film based on John Irving's pro-abortion novel of that name. Planned Parenthood praised the supposed serendipity of the film's emerging at anniversary time, and promised free screenings, close dealings with sympathetic film critics, and a broad campaign to let all those who have come of age in the past quarter-century know how bad things were in the days when fetuses were babies.

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