"Our Western way of life has come to a parting of the ways; time's takeover bid for eternity has reached the point at which irrevocable decisions have to be taken. Either we will go on with the process of shaping our own destiny without reference to any higher being than Man, and deciding ourselves how many children shall be born, when and in what varieties, which lives are worth continuing and which should be put out, from whom spare parts -- kidneys, hearts, genitals, brain boxes even -- shall be taken and to whom allotted.Or we draw back, seeking to understand and fall in with our Creator's purpose for us rather than to pursue our own; in true humility praying, as the founder of our religion and civilization taught us: Thy will be done.
This is what the abortion controversy is about, and what the euthanasia controversy will be about when, as must inevitably happen, it arises."
(Malcolm Muggeridge in a prescient statement from the 1980s)
