The Great Evil of Little Moral Compromises

Abortion became legal in America under the premise that it was to be “safe, legal, and rare”.  It was supposed to only occur in the first trimester.  It was to be an option of last resort for women in desperate situations.  It was a little moral compromise (although some would argue it was not little at all).

But what has it led to?  The debate has shifted to third trimester abortions and even partial birth abortions, where a viable human being is being executed only moments from being born.  Abortion is no longer an unfortunate decision a desperate woman feels compelled to make.  It has become a battle-cry in the culture war.  Some wear it as a badge of honor.  It has become a litmus test for an entire political party – support it in all its forms or there is no place for you.  This party now runs two of the three branches of our federal government.

But beyond this dark culture shift, there are even greater horrors.  The organs and tissues of aborted human beings are being harvested and used in scientific research.  As if this is not macabre enough, these tissues are being combined with animals in some forms of research.
 Scientists Use Scalps From Aborted Babies to Create “Humanized Mice” for Research | LifeNews.com

It is hard to imagine that the vast majority of those supporting abortion when Roe v. Wade was being decided would have supported these outcomes.  Yet we would not be where we are today if each incremental moral decline was not supported by the majority of Americans.  And to clarify, support does not necessarily mean active endorsement.  It can also mean turning a blind eye so as to advance other interests (i.e., supporting radical abortion politicians because you prefer their economic policies, etc.).

This is the problem with little moral compromises.  They often lead to great evil.  First trimester abortions have led to killing fully developed babies.  The innocuous “love is love” campaign redefined marriage and thereby kicked open the door to redefine any and everything.  As a result, society’s embrace of homosexual marriage emboldened the transgender movement which has led to gender confusion and doctor’s mutilating the bodies of children.

Little compromises have led to a descent into madness.  It used to be understood that a woman was carrying a human being in her womb, not some ambiguous “choice”.  We used to understand that individuals born with certain biological attributes were a certain gender (some of us still do).  Now we pretend that there are infinite genders and that they can be interchanged at will, depending on how one chooses to “identify”.

We can see where the little moral compromises of yesterday have led.  When you compromise the definitions of foundational principles such as life, marriage, and gender you begin to unravel the fabric of reality itself.  The question is what further evil awaits from the little moral compromises we are making today?