The biographer once watched, on television, a church group chanting “Hurray!” outside the funeral of a politician’s wife who had used IVF to acquire two children and thereby had summoned (said the church’s press release) her own death by cancer. She and her husband coveted things that were not theirs, they reared up in fury, decided to show God who was boss, and meddled in matters of the womb. The politician’s wife was now a resident of hell. Flee her example.
