Meanwhile, two weeks ago, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that the Justice Department will not interfere with Oregon's new doctor-assisted suicide law. Those who believed 25 years ago that abortion would never lead to threats to life this side of the womb were wrong. Once a new right is granted by government, it is difficult to take it away, whether it was formed in bad law or in bad medicine. In the case of abortion, it was preteens impregnated by drunken stepfathers. At the other end of life a seemingly rational elderly person who claims to be in excruciating pain with an advanced malady is put before the cameras as the poster adult for the euthanasia movement.
Trouble is, it never stops at the extremes.
The article, he notes, judged the health of America by its economic indicators and ignored all other signposts that might have pointed in a different direction. For one kind of playboy, the world is one big whorehouse. For another kind, it's one great piggy bank. For both, things are getting better and better. But the cultural indicators clearly show things are getting worse.