Reverence Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 and grew up in Long Island. The book that had the greatest impact on him was Les Miserables. It taught him that Christianity and revolution are two seemingly irreconcilable things. After going to Columbia University he went to England, where he joined the Communist party. There, he became the chief editor of the Daily Worker. In 1938, he broke with the Communist party. In the Communist party children were viewed as only a distraction that would hamper his more important work. Therefore, abortions were commonplace in party life. Chambers looked upon abortion with "physical horror". His wife got pregnant a....

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