Chimes for a Baby
August 9, 2017
I was at a local hospital for about two hours yesterday. While waiting, I heard a lullaby chime played over the p.a. system. I asked what this signified, and was told that whenever a baby is born at the hospital, these chimes are played. I heard them three times in that two-hour period. I should add that the hospital is owned by a church.
I sat there wondering what sounds, if any, might be played on the p.a. system at a Planned Parenthood facility. Once an unborn child is done in, and its organs harvested, might this facility play the sound of a ringing cash-register?
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.

