No Mercy for Sin Itself, by Anthony Esolen

Tolerance is for persons. It does not apply to principles.

When the Supreme Court overturned its infamous decision that invented a right for a woman to procure an elective abortion—one not necessitated by, for example, an emergency hysterectomy to remove a malignant cancer—many people said that it would not result in fewer abortions. I think that most opponents of abortion understood that, in the short run, the effect would be negligible. The hard work remains, of persuading people that we have gotten the whole range of sexual morality very badly wrong, and that children pay the heaviest penalty for the sins of their parents. Sometimes they pay by loss of innocence. Sometimes they pay by a broken home, or one never properly formed to begin with. Sometimes they pay by blood.

But it was crucially important to get that legal buttress out of the way, lest the evil principle of abortion, the fail-safe for fornication and the foulest form of the lie called “bodily autonomy,” so thoroughly work itself into people’s minds that they could no longer imagine a world without it. ….

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