Is there no bottom to our moral decline?
A woman has written a memoir telling how she got pregnant on purpose fifteen times, and then aborted the babies. This isn’t a matter of law. It is an illustration of the hedonism of our times. It is a matter of basic morality and the casting aside of willing self restraint, without which, society will eventually implode.
October 13th, 2009 | 11:20 pm
There can still be grace…
Having not read the book it may be she ends up in a state of grace.
October 14th, 2009 | 12:14 am
Peter: No doubt. I think this is a morality play of our times, though.
October 14th, 2009 | 9:27 am
I haven’t read the book either but fifteen abortions in sixteen years? Shouldn’t we be a bit skeptical, given the evidence that even one abortion decreases the likelihood of conception? It doesn’t help that she’s a “literary agent.”
October 14th, 2009 | 12:11 pm
Bill: I hope you are right. But if it is a hoax, it is a believable hoax because I think it reflects the zeitgeist of our times. Think Octomom.
October 14th, 2009 | 2:02 pm
Society will “eventually” implode?
Wesley, alas, you are more of an optimist than I…
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