A civilisation-defining decision. This is how moral collapse happens

 

From the earliest days of Christianity teaching was unmistakably clear. We have the Fifth Commandment and later the most primitive Christian teaching, The Didache states: “You shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.” This is not a later doctrinal development but part of the Church’s foundational moral witness. Which makes our present moment all the more revealing: we now have leaders of Christian Churches who do not oppose abortion in principle, but merely argue that certain forms of it “go too far.” That may pretend to be nuance but it is not. It is clearly a huge rupture. You cannot claim the moral authority of the Church while abandoning the principles that gave that authority meaning. And this failure is not abstract. Law teaches. When legislation expands abortion, it teaches that some lives are negotiable; when Church leaders fail to oppose it clearly, they reinforce that lesson. What we are witnessing is the pedagogy of the law in action, a feedback loop between weakened theology and permissive legislation. This moment did not come out of nowhere. It was prepared. And when even those who accept abortion in principle begin to say “this goes too far,” it is not a correction, it is the consequence of a line that was already conceded.

My full analysis here which includes Dame Sarah Mullally's self-condemning speech in the Lords!