A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams
A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women\u2019s Clinic\u2014the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision had just come down, and the clinic was scrambling to move across state lines, to the adjacent city of Moorhead, Minnesota. This spring, Witt returned to talk with Tammi Kromenaker, the clinic\u2019s director. Kromenaker says the clinic\u2019s new home has had some notable upsides\u2014a parking lot that shields patients from protestors, for example\u2014but North Dakota patients are increasingly fearful as they reach out for care, afraid even to cross the state line for an abortion. Plus, The New Yorker\u2019s Alex Ross discusses John Williams, who has written scores for generations of blockbusters, including \u201cJaws,\u201d \u201cStar Wars,\u201d \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d and many films of Steven Spielberg. Ross considers him the last practitioner of Hollywood\u2019s grand orchestral tradition, and his retirement will mark the end of an era in music: at ninety-one years old, Williams has said that his score for \u201cIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\u201d may be his last.