The World and Everything in It: December 8, 2022

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

The 1980s saw the rise of the pro-life rescue movement—direct action protests that often blocked access to abortion facilities. The approach fell out of favor but some in the pro-life movement are interested in bringing it back.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Also today, a handful of viruses are keeping American healthcare workers busy. We’ll learn what’s being done about it.

Plus, the classic art of swordplay.

And Cal Thomas on gun control.

BROWN: It’s Thursday, December 8th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mynra Brown.

BUTLER: And I’m Paul Butler. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Ukraine/Russia » Russia’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine is taking longer than Vladimir Putin expected.

PUTIN: [RUSSIAN]

Putin heard there acknowledging that a takeover he thought would take only days has turned into an 8-month war that many experts say Russia is losing.

He also suggested that Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons preemptively if his country is under threat.

State Dept spokesman Ned Price responded:

PRICE: Any loose talk of nuclear weapons is absolutely irresponsible. It flies in the face of the very statement that Russia formerly signed onto in January of this year.

Russia previously signed a statement saying there can be no winner in a nuclear war and that such a war must never be fought.

Border agent suicides » At a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, lawmakers announced legislation to address an alarming number of suicides among U.S. Border Patrol Agents.

Republican Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales is part of the bipartisan group. He said the border crisis is taking a toll on agents.

GONZALEZ: What they’ve been exposed to 100% has an impact on you. It reminds me of my time in the military. These war-like situations leave an everlasting impact on you.

Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar said the bill would create a curriculum for employees at the start of their careers, provide resources, and instill the importance of mental health.

He also said it’s important to address the reasons why agents might not reach out for help.

CUELLAR: Might have a law enforcement officer that’s afraid that they might get a low mark on their record because they’re asking for help.

Fourteen agents have committed suicide this year.

Suspected German coup attempt » German police have arrested dozens of people, including a retired paratrooper and a former judge on Wednesday, accusing them of a violent plot to overthrow the government.

FRANK: [German]

German chief federal prosecutor Peter Frank told reporters Wednesday that authorities arrested 25 people in pre-dawn raids in Germany, Austria and Italy.

Authorities said the group planned a violent attack on the German parliament building.

Prosecutors said the group believes in an array of conspiracy theories and are adherents of a movement that rejects Germany’s post-WWII constitution.

China trade shrinks amid virus pressure, interest rate hikes » China’s economy is slowing down as imports and exports shrink. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin explains.

KRISTEN FLAVIN, REPORTER: One big reason for the slowdown is China’s incredibly strict COVID lockdowns, which the communist government is only now beginning to lift.

Global demand is also weakening as central banks in Europe, Asia, and the United States raise interest rates to rein in surging inflation.

Chinese exports in November sank 9% from a year ago to just under $300 billion. And imports fell roughly 11% to $226 billion.

The country’s global trade surplus narrowed by 2.5% from a year earlier to $70 billion.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

NC power station investigation » The state of North Carolina and Duke Energy are offering a reward of up to $75,000 dollars. That’s for anyone who can help authorities identify, arrest, and convict whoever shot up a power substation on Saturday, knocking out electricity to tens of thousands.

Governor Roy Cooper …

COOPER: I know that they are leaving no stone unturned in this investigation to find those who are responsible.

The FBI is assisting with the investigation. Authorities found more than 20 shell casings from a high-powered rifle from the scene of the crime.

More than 40,000 customers lost power, forcing schools and businesses to close. And leaving many without heat. Crews have been able to restore power to most of those customers, but thousands are still in the dark.

Taliban stages first public execution » The Taliban carried out its first public execution since reclaiming power in Afghanistan last year. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: The man executed on Wednesday was convicted of killing another man.

The victim’s father carried out the execution, firing three shots from a rifle as hundreds of spectators looked on.

Separately, footage posted recently to social media reportedly shows a group of men whipping a woman for going shopping without male guardian.

During the previous Taliban rule, pre-9/11, the group regularly carried out public executions, floggings, and stonings.

The recent incidents suggest a continuing return to stifling Islamic Sharia Law.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead: bringing back a pro-life movement from the 80s.

Plus, a historic form of martial arts.

This is The World and Everything in It.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: It’s Thursday the 8th of December, 2022.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. First up: bringing back the pro-life rescue movement.

In the 1980s, police arrested thousands of pro-lifers who physically blocked access to abortion facilities. A 1994 law called the FACE Act largely squelched that movement by increasing the penalties for obstructing entrances.

BUTLER: But some younger pro-lifers want to bring back the pro-life rescue movement. WORLD’s life reporter Leah Savas followed one of these activists to a court hearing as her friend was sentenced for participating in a pro-life rescue.

LEAH SAVAS, REPORTER: It’s 7 a.m. on a Friday morning in November, and 23-year-old Cassidy Schooltz is driving her silver Ford Taurus through a snowstorm.

AUDIO: [Driving through storm]

Schooltz is braving the weather for an hour forty minute drive to Flint, Michigan, where her friend Lauren Handy and three other pro-life activists will get their sentences for entering an abortion facility in 2019. They went in to tell women about their alternatives to abortion and now face up to two years in jail.

In her bright pink coat, Schooltz doesn’t look like someone who spent time in jail. But she did for two days, back when she was interning for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising or PAAU, a pro-life group that Handy helps run.

CASSIDY SCHOOLTZ: I remember how much it meant. I surprised how many pro-life advocates actually came to just sit in the court when I was going to jail.

Schooltz, her friend Lauren Handy, and four other pro-lifers served time in Virginia’s Alexandria Adult Detention Center this summer. Their crime? Entering and refusing to leave an Alexandria abortion facility in November 2021. Pro-lifers call that a “rescue.”

SCHOOLTZ: Of course, the goal of the rescue is to be peaceful. We want to go in and gently offer women other options. Our goal isn't to be intimidating or scary. So we went and we sat in the waiting room, and we, you know, pass out roses and offered the women other options than abortion. And so then I'm pretty sure very quickly, the abortion clinic staff called the police very fast.

Schooltz and Handy, who is 29, are a part of the younger generation of pro-lifers who want to bring the rescue movement back. They look to the example of people like Martin Luther King Junior who used nonviolent direct action to bring attention to racism.

Schooltz is a Christian. Some of her fellow activists are atheist or agnostic. Many—like Handy—are Catholics, but Schooltz is a Protestant and Conservative, and she said that makes her somewhat of an anomaly in her circles. For many, the goal of the rescues is to start a social movement reminiscent of the civil rights era.

SCHOOLTZ: …through rescue, and we say actually, these children are in danger. And it's dangerous enough that we're willing to do something risky to draw attention to their cause.

Not all pro-lifers support the rescue movement. Some think it makes the pro-life movement look belligerent. Others say rescues are not an effective way to save babies—in part because just a couple hours inside of an abortion facility can wind you up in jail for days or months.

Schooltz sees it as a part of being obedient to the Lord.

Schooltz now works for the pro-life organization Protect Life Michigan. She signed an agreement that prevents her from participating in rescues while at this job. But her time with PAAU still changed her life.

AUDIO: [ELEVATOR]

Schooltz arrived at the courthouse about a quarter till nine, just before Lauren Handy’s sentencing.

Handy was taking pictures with a couple of her friends in front of a Christmas tree set up in a hallway before the group walked into Judge David Newblatt’s courtroom.

AUDIO: [CHATTING]

Handy started doing rescues as teenager, when she first saw videos of early pro-life rescues. She used to do them alone.

Since then, she’s racked up arrests—and more pro-lifers have joined her. This summer, she spent 15 days in the Alexandria jail for the rescue she did with Schooltz and four others.

HANDY: My mentors, they just early on prepared me saying, like, Lauren, if you go down this path, then you're going to be in and out of jail the rest of your life. And so from the very beginning, I had to like reconcile that if I go down this path, that would be my future.

In March, the federal government charged her under the FACE act for a 2020 rescue in Washington, D.C. For that, she faces the possibility of 11 years in jail and a three hundred fifty thousand dollar fine. But she thinks even that would be worth it.

HANDY: If we truly believe they are human, fully human, have equal worth and dignity that I had to, I had to seriously reflect, are my actions reflective of that reality? And I believed in the context of nonviolent direct action, that rescue is the way to fully express what it means to believe that they are human.

Before the sentencing hearing in Flint, Handy said she got ready for the possibility of several months in jail. She shared important passwords with her parents and paused monthly subscriptions.

About an hour after walking into the courtroom, Handy and three other fellow pro-lifers received a sentence of 45 days for trespassing, disturbing the peace, and resisting a police officer in the 2019 rescue. They left in handcuffs.

After lunch, Schooltz went to the Genessee County Jail with three other pro-lifers. Most of them had been in jail for rescues before and were going to do some favors for their friends. They gathered around a kiosk in the jail lobby.

MONICA MILLER: We are putting money on our friends commissary so that they can make phone calls and buy Snicker bars.

TERRISA BUKOVINAC: And deodorant and soap and Chapstick.

CAROLINE SMITH: More importantly, make phone calls, and they have to buy the wristbands while they're in there.

TERRISA BUKOVINAC: For me the worst part about being in jail was not having Chapstick.

Once they finished, the foursome pulled out a couple bullhorns and signs and made some noise on the sidewalk outside.

AUDIO: [CHANTING]

These pro-lifers are close friends. It’s clear they enjoy being together and they like making a ruckus. But the reason why they’re there still weighs heavy on their minds. Lauren Handy’s friend and the founder of PAAU Terrisa Bukovinac said they didn’t like being there but that she sees it as necessary.

TERRISA BUKOVINAC: We are like 50 years too late. 60 million, more than 60 million babies have been murdered. And so to come to terms with that it's an enormous burden. And once you do, then generally, you end up acting like these rescuers. And you realize that it's up to you to challenge these institutions to challenge these laws, and to put the babies first to center these victims of this horrific violence and not ourselves.

AUDIO: [CHANTING]

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leah Savas in Flint, Michigan.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Up next: a trifecta of viruses is keeping American healthcare workers busy. RSV is leveling off, but has caused a troubling rise in pediatric hospitalizations this year. COVID cases are ticking back up and the flu season is off to a ferocious start. In fact, Vox reports that the U.S. has never recorded this many positive flu tests in one week.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Right now, the Department of Health and Human Services says more than three quarters of inpatient hospital beds are currently in use.

Joining us now with insight is Dr. Justin Coby. He is the Director of the teaching pharmacy at Cedarville University’s School of Pharmacy in Ohio. Doctor, good morning!

JUSTIN COBY, GUEST: Good morning! Thank you so much, Myrna.

BROWN: Let’s start with RSV. Tell us what that virus is and where the outbreak in the United States stands currently.

COBY: Yeah, it’s a great question. So, RSV is essentially just a respiratory virus that is common. It's been around for some time, but usually it's infants that we see the higher rates. Usually it's children and infants. But this year because the rates are so high, 10 times the rate that we typically see it in the community, we’re even seeing older adults coming down with it and struggling with it. So, as you said, looking at the CDC and the current rates, they are up higher than they've been all year. And it does look like we are plateauing, but to add in all the other viruses, this RSV is really causing some trouble for people.

BROWN: What are the best ways to prevent or treat RSV?

COBY: Yeah, another great question. So, RSV, like any other virus, can be avoided with really good hygiene. It is airborne, so you want to wear a mask if you are ill, but then also, washing hands, making sure not to touch your face with your hands, these sorts of things will help prevent it. Treatment is kind of limited. There's only one monoclonal antibody that will be used in the most severe cases. But beyond that, there is no treatment other than treating the symptoms. So that's why RSV can be kind of scary, especially for those little ones who if they end up hospitalized you only have one treatment available.

BROWN: COVID-19 cases are also ticking up once again — though nothing drastic right now. What strains of COVID are currently circulating and who is at highest risk of severe illness?

COBY: Yeah, well, we don’t know of the most recent mutant variants. Obviously that’s something we can catch up on, but what we have seen is it’s still the omicron variant that we're dealing with. So the new boosters that are out will help provide coverage for those Omicron variants, but that's what we're seeing out there right now.

BROWN: Over the summer, the government approved the Novavax COVID vaccine. That is different from Pfizer and Moderna’s shots in that it uses more traditional technology. It is not an mRNA vaccine. Explain the difference, if you would. And have those leery of mRNA vaccines shown more confidence in the Novavax shots?

COBY: Yeah, so Novavax as you said was created in the more traditional way. Ok, so what’s the more traditional way? Well, what they'll do is they'll get a live virus, they'll kill that virus and then kind of chop it up, though not eloquent to say, but essentially, that's what what they do and so they chop the spike protein from dead virus and then that is what makes up the vaccine that is injected and then your body recognizes this spike protein as something that he needs to create antibodies for and that's how your protection is created with that style of Novavax versus the mRNA. And the mRNA, the difference is that there it's gene coding so that your body creates the spike protein, then leading to antibiotic creation of those spike proteins. I'll be honest in our area, we haven't seen a huge demand for Novavax as it's come on. However, it is a good alternative for those who are concerned about the mRNA vaccine. And just recently, the FDA approved a booster for that Novavax vaccine, so we are seeing some interest in the booster.

BROWN: And last but not least, the flu is hitting hard and fast so far this season. What can you tell us about what we’re seeing this flu season?

COBY: Yeah, like RSV we’re seeing 10 times the hospitalization rates with flu, particularly in this area influenza A. So it is very rapid right now. We're doing our best to vaccinate and that's the best way to get coverage for it. The vaccine has four different variants in it and it has been found to cover what is in the community right now. Of course we get that data from Australia before it comes over here. And Australia had a really bad flu season, so we knew it was going to be bad here. And it has been but luckily the vaccine will cover for the strains that we've seen in the community so far.

BROWN: Okay, we’ve been talking to Dr. Justin Coby with Cedarville University’s School of Pharmacy. Dr. Coby, thanks so much!

COBY: Thank you very much.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Well, working in radio, difficult to pronounce words and names are the bane of our existence. And I must confess, we’ve made our share of pronunciation mistakes over the years. But at least we’re not alone!

The Captioning Group has compiled a list of some of the most commonly mispronounced names. Take the following sentence …

“Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa explained the significance of the Chicxulub impact crater to actor Domhnall Gleeson over a drink of negroni sbagliato in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.”

That’s the kind of sentence that just might tie your tongue up in knots. It contains five examples from this year’s list of the most mispronounced words.

BROWN: Not bad Paul, but boy, I’m glad you said it…

BUTLER: Next time, it’ll be your turn.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 8th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: And I’m Paul Butler. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Sword fighting.

It’s not fencing and it’s not choreographed stunt fighting. It’s an ancient martial art straight from the pages of history. And a few dedicated historians, athletes, and self-proclaimed nerds are bringing it to life. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has our story.

FLYNN CASTELLANOS: We're cutting from below now, the lower right. Cutting up with the long edge, cutting down with the short edge.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: Welcome to the Lake Forest Sword Academy. It’s no medieval castle…the school meets in a suburban CrossFit gym. Firm black mats cover the floor and exercise equipment lines the walls. Eight people stand in two rows: Feet wide, swords out.

AUDIO: Remember to use your hips while you're cutting. Ready, cut!

They’re drilling basic cuts: Slashing up and to the left, then back down again…

AUDIO: Cut! Two…

…and again…

AUDIO: Cut! Three…

…and again.

AUDIO: Cut! Four…

The students are practicing techniques that date back to the 13th century. Medieval combat from the time of the Crusades and the Magna Carta. It’s called Historical European Martial Arts or HEMA for short.

Charles Castellanos is an assistant instructor here at the school. He has a pointed white beard and wears a red bandana tied over his long curly gray hair.

CHUCK CASTELLANOS: What we study is German style, and the German masters. In addition to doing a physical activity, we're also doing a lot of historical research.

The earliest text HEMA fighters have is commonly called “I-33.” That’s its catalog number in the British Museum Library.

CHUCK: The speculation is that it was two monks, one was probably an older person, maybe a former warrior, instructing a younger monk how to fight.

Back in the day, most people practicing HEMA were probably aristocrats. Now, it’s a different demographic.

FLYNN: A bunch of weirdos. [laughs] No, no, in all seriousness, wonderful people…

That’s Chuck’s son, Flynn Castellanos: Tall and lanky, with long dark hair. He says there are usually three types of people who get into HEMA.

FLYNN: They're either scholars, they're very interested in the history of it. There are the You know, the sport minded people that are, I'm just looking for, you know, something, something new, something physical. And then there's the enthusiast, where they just, they might just like, you know, sword fighting, you know, they might be a fan of a popular franchise, you know, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, all sorts of those things. And they're drawn in by that.

HEMA includes multiple fighting styles and weapons. Things like axes and sickles and glaives. But the school mostly focuses on swords.

AUDIO: Okay, dropping back down to middle guard gather with the left foot thrust again…

Students come once a week. They start with an eight-week boot camp on the basics of technique, vocabulary, and safety. If they stick with it, they’ll learn more advanced tactics and have a chance to test them in sparring matches. But first, a less formidable opponent: A wooden post wrapped in rope. It’s called a Pell. The students take turns stabbing it with synthetic training swords.

AUDIO: Also, guys, it’s not necessary to knock the Pell over.

There are four students in class today. Three are young guys. The fourth is Mancy O’Leary: petite, dark-haired…and 70 years old.

O’LEARY: I'm older…I'm short. [laughs] So I'm weak. But I try to keep up with everybody.

O’Leary is new to the world of HEMA. She was looking for an activity to do with a friend.

O’LEARY: But not yoga, not dance.

She likes the sword techniques because she doesn’t have to be the tallest or strongest. But she does have to adapt some tactics.

O’LEARY: I'm just getting a sense of what is natural for me because everyone here is taller than I am. So their stance is wider.

The instructors emphasize strategy over raw power. Exploiting your opponent’s weaknesses and avoiding their strengths.

Adam Ogle is the lead instructor here at the academy. He’s a historian and fencer originally. Ogle calls sword fighting a chess game.

ADAM OGLE: Everything is about the mechanics of the body…like going off to the angles and triangles of the body, I'd be like, this is the ultimate triangle that you want to get between your arms and your legs to offer maximum distance between you and your opponent.

HEMA clubs are few and far between. And many of them vary widely in their styles. That’s because the original source documents can only be so helpful.

Here’s Flynn Castellanos.

FLYNN: In most cases, images were not common…in these documents. So the vast majority of it is just written and again, ever tried to read a textbook and like that's the only thing you're given? like, you know, videos, no images…None of that…

On top of that, Adam Ogle says different swordspeople interpret those documents differently.

ADAM OGLE: One technique that we refer to as the Zorn has, what 10? 15?...different ways of doing it.

According to Ogle, there’s one deciding factor: What works in an actual bout?

AUDIO: [Steel swords striking]

ADAM OGLE: And it actually allows us a realm to test things out to be like, Alright, does this technique actually work? Nope, I just got my head bashed that maybe I did that wrong, I need to rethink it.

AUDIO: [Blades hitting]

The students take turns facing off against each other…or against an instructor. They’re using practice swords instead of steel blades, but they still wear full wire-mesh fencing helmets, padded gloves, and thick jackets or gambesons. The others watch and analyze the tactics.

AUDIO: Right there, he had control the entire time of the opponent's blade as he twisted… [Blades hitting]

The students try to use techniques they’ve learned recently. Sometimes they work. Other times…not quite.

AUDIO: What just happened so there was a little bit of a bait there were this one thing that we practiced earlier that Tom was trying to do where he cuts up high, and then fakes going low. And he pretty much almost had it if he just extended a little bit further—right there! But he forgot to guard his head…

In another bout, Adam Ogle locks blades with a student and presses forward. The student loses his grip on his sword and after a moment of panic, bolts across the room.

AUDIO: [Laughter] That’s exactly what you need to do! Alright, Miles, what did you learn? I learned that…if you lose your sword, run.

That’s why you always carry an extra dagger to a sword fight.

HEMA fighters love the art for its mental and physical exercise. But beyond that, Chuck Castellanos says it has a selling point that other sports don’t.

CHUCK: It's swords, come on! How much cooler is that? [laughter]

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown in Lake Forest, Illinois.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 8th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Commentator Cal Thomas now on gun control and what President Biden could learn from reading Christian author C. S. Lewis.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: We now know at least one of the priorities of the Biden administration during the remaining weeks Democrats control the House of Representatives.

The president says he would try to “get rid of assault weapons.” Speaking to reporters at his Nantucket, Massachusetts, holiday house, Biden said: “The idea [that] we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick. It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.”

His statement followed a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs. The gunman used an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon. He also had a handgun which a hero used to beat and subdue him.

Another shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, involved a handgun. The killer murdered six people and then killed himself. Did laws already on the books deter these men from murdering others? How would more laws achieve compliance?

Then there is the unsolved murder of four college students in Moscow, Idaho, in which a knife was used. No one is calling for knives to be banned. Someone intent on murder will find a way to kill no matter how many laws are passed.

What has been missing in the continuing debate about guns is a focus on the declining value our culture places on life, as well as any notion of personal responsibility and accountability for one’s actions. From the continued advocacy by some for no restrictions on abortion, to states that have passed assisted-suicide legislation, the value on human life “endowed by our Creator” has eroded like sand at the seashore. Perhaps this is in part due to the increasing number of us who no longer listen to the Creator’s voice, choosing instead to live as we please. If we see ourselves only as evolutionary accidents in a meaningless universe, then some will believe they can live with no restraints, even to the point of killing fellow humans.

What difference might it make if instead of imposing the latest fads and trends in our schools and universities, students were taught what matters most – honor, integrity, a moral code that has been accepted by most Americans for generations, along with the previously mentioned personal responsibility and accountability for one’s actions? But don’t people have different views on such things? One might ask how those different views are working out and advise a return to the values that once promoted the general welfare.

C.S. Lewis had it right when he wrote on moral values: “Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. … The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.”

Instead of focusing on passing more gun laws, when those on the books haven’t worked, perhaps President Biden should spend some time reading Lewis.

I’m Cal Thomas.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Tomorrow: Culture Friday with John Stonetreet.

And, Collin Garbarino reviews a holiday movie sequel, but be careful, it might put your eye out.

Plus the music of advent. This time, from the land beneath the Southern Cross.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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