By Judie Brown
It may have taken Margaret Sanger and her allies more than 100 years for the ideas she proposed to establish an acceptable posture in the American political system, but nothing has stopped them from enshrining deadly ideas in everyday thought, word, and deed. It is, after all, the way the devil works.
We see the ripple effects everywhere. Just days ago, California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a measure that will require abortion pills to be offered in community college health centers throughout the state beginning in 2029. According to Pregnancy Help News, “Leandra Wells with the California Family Council opposed the law during a hearing in July, stating that pregnant women need better support and not more pressure to abort their unborn babies.”
Yet Newsom’s latest action is nothing out of the ordinary.
This is evident in a statement by the American Medical Association, which has completely distorted the sanctity of life and turned it into an ugly ideal. According to the AMA, “Protecting the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship is a core priority for the AMA. The AMA is committed to defending the practice of medicine and vigorously opposes legislative efforts to criminalize and restrict reproductive health services, including abortion care and assisted reproductive technology.”
The AMA is committed to aborting children because they do not see them as second patients but as inconveniences to their female patients that must be dealt with and removed. This is the exact opposite of what Hippocrates intended. The original Hippocratic Oath states, “I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.”
Those words have found their way into the dustbin, having been replaced with legal protection for all manner of crimes against the human person, but in our age, it is exactly what one should expect. This is so because the culture in which we reside has become hypnotized with self-absorption. Once that happens, nearly any vile thing we can imagine becomes nothing more than a choice and certainly never a sin.
Writing about the recent public debate about capital punishment, one commentator opined, “Some crimes against life forfeit the life of the criminal, and that forfeiture is a serious, sacred moment, when a soul goes suddenly to the judgment seat of God—and such moments are not fodder for mass consumption.”
He was not talking about punishing the perpetrators of a practice that results in millions of preborn people being executed under cover of law. No, his topic has to do with criminals who have been found guilty of terrible crimes against born people. And while we concur that the public should not be invited in by way of television cameras to watch this type of execution, we have to wonder how anyone can be found guilty of any type of crime when the act of destroying human beings prior to birth is defined not as a crime but as a right!
That is the real tragedy of our time. Americans have permitted the unthinkable to become routine practice.
But nothing happens in a vacuum. Marianna Orlandi writes of young adult women in 2026:
Boomers who bought the lies of movies like “Dirty Dancing,” where premarital sex ends up being the start of a wonderful and powerful love story, thought that sexual liberation and love would be allies. These women’s accounts of sex, however, tell us a different story. Unlike those of their Hollywood counterparts, these women’s first sexual encounters were often mechanical and soulless, deprived of that magic tension, that sense of mystery that belongs in a committed romantic relationship. Based on their accounts, sex is now a mere pursuit of physical pleasure, one more way to avoid boredom, and at times, a mere social expectation.
This view of female expectations underscores the reason why so many preborn human persons are now considered disposable matter. Rather than being filled with wonder, awe, and unbridled innocent expectations at the thought of being chaste until marriage, today’s women prefer, in far too many cases, to be sexually experienced before marriage and to choose death for the babies who happen to result from her dalliances.
Disposable preborn babies is not merely a California problem; this is an America problem.
We do indeed live in a culture where the unthinkable has become routine, and we rue it. That is why we strive every day to change it, and we are grateful for the will to do so.