Concern Over Unborn Babies and Crack

Krauthammer: Concern over unborn babies and crack fed nicely into the Christian extremist movement that had gotten Reagan elected. Time Magazine argued that maternity wards around the country were ringing, quote, with the high-pitched cat cries of crack babies who may face lifelong handicaps as a result of their mother's drug use. In 1990, Time magazine embraced far-fetched ideas like the one advanced by doctors who believed they could discern babies who had been exposed in the womb by the tone of their cries. And right as they're really getting the anti-abortion movement churning up, there's all this concern over unborn babies which really gels great.