Chai Ling led student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. She lives here now, and the group she founded, All Girls Allowed – along with allies like Reggie Littlejohn’s Women’s Rights without Frontiers — is shining a light, in the most intimate ways, on the pain and demographic disaster that is the Chinese one-child policy.

It is also hard to read her memoir, A Heart for Freedom, and be unreflective about what abortion does to a culture. What it does to women, men, and children (if they are among the survivors). Where frequently women feel like choice is something they don’t have.