Crime after crime characterized the last few weeks of 2024. And it would be mental gymnastics to read about the recent chaos without considering America’s anti-life culture.
We see it in the choices that dominate society: People are absorbed by unrealities, such as artificial intelligence and social media, marriage rates are at record lows, and the American mental health crisis continues. Of course, the anti-life character is most evident in abortion laws throughout the country. Public support for abortion is high, and seven states passed pro-abortion amendments this past election.
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What is more, late-term abortions are common and little-restricted. Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump argued over that point during their presidential debate, wherein both Harris and the moderators attempted to fact-check Trump on the reality of late-term abortions. We can say for sure that they do happen, are sought with ease, and are laughed off by abortion providers.
Late-term abortions are not old news, and they are not disconnected from the state of societal disarray into which the U.S. has fallen. Particularly in New York, crime is soaring. A woman burned to death on the subway, a man shoved in front of an oncoming train, and a New Year’s Eve nightclub shooting are only a few wild occurrences that color the city completely unsafe. Similar dangers are surging elsewhere in the country at the same time that homelessness and drug use do the same. And then there are the Islamic terrorist attack in New Orleans and the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas. Just hours after the New Orleans terror attack, pro-Palestine protests were in full swing in New York, with participants calling for revolution and chanting, “We will honor all our martyrs.”
The state of chaos we are seeing is only helped by the anti-life ethos that guides the majority of the country. For one, people are not taught any objective moral code — one that would make the clear-cut case that abortion takes a life, and that taking a life is always the wrong choice.
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Second, anti-life ideology bleeds into the progressive causes that disorder society. The Left wants to lift up the wrong aspects of humanity in the name of equity and, in doing so, rejects all the things that sustain it. Black Lives Matter overlooks fact and reason and is itself racist, transgenderism denies the human person and creation, and the overall emphasis on self-centeredness has broken the family down to either a burden or a luxury.
For somewhere like New York, especially, the chaos asks for more than a crackdown on crime. If the city is not safe and transit is unusable, families will not live there, plain and simple. It is the renewal of the culture that really holds the cure, and the family is both source and endpoint.