While Americans remain focused on the mounting death toll precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic, the 1.8 million worldwide deaths caused by it in 2020 pale in comparison to the leading cause of death last year. As the statistic-compiling Worldometer website reveals, a record-setting 42.7 million preborn babies were aborted over the same time period.
In 1993, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the term âdefining deviancy downâ to aptly describe Americaâs increasing acceptance of previously unacceptable behavior. He was late to the party. The devolution of American society began in earnest in the 1960s, when the cultural revolution engendered by the Left made radical secularism the centerpiece of its cancerous agenda. In short order, assertions such as âGod is deadâ and all morality is ârelativeâ began resonating, especially among younger Americans yearning to âdo their own thing.â