The point being that mass murder can be made legal. The Nazis made mass murder legal during the Holocaust, and the U.S. Supreme Court made mass murder legal in Roe vs. Wade. In fact, they both used the same logic by depriving those earmarked for death of personhood. To say something is legal is to say only that it has the stamp of approval of the current government in power. It is not to say that it is morally right, humane or good.
Governments can make evil legal and do it all the time.
It gives one great pause to reflect that the difference between being a non person with no right to life, marked by law for death, and being a human being with the right to life boiled down to a few birth contractions and a trip of a few inches down the birth canal. It's as if the law, in its great politicized wisdom, said it's OK to kill your children if you do it before they can get out of the nursery, but once they crawl across the threshold into another room, you can't kill them. It seems to me that legalized killing of children, commonly called abortion, is only one of the parallels between post-modern America and the Germany that gave birth to Nazism. We have the same decadence, the same militant defense of decadence by so - called intellectuals, the same trend toward authoritarianism, the same disregard of human life, the same unwillingness to make moral judgments. Oswald Spengler, in his book, Decline of the West, projected that the 1990s would mark the transition between the Age of Money, marked by the dominance of great cities and greed, to the Age of Caesars, a return to dictatorships.