Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

The prophet Isaiah Warren, woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

Modern example, as Dr. Al Moeller recently described on his briefing podcast, is the moral

incoherence of both believing that life is sacred and valuable,

while also rejecting any consequences for those who take it.

Recently, the state of Georgia charged a woman with the murder of her 22 to 24-week-old baby

who died within an hour of birth after her mother took abortion pills at home to terminate the pregnancy.

This is the first murder charge in the state related to its six-week abortion ban.

The Washington Post article that covered the story concluded by citing a 2022 economist UGov poll.

According to the poll, 19% of respondents thought that a woman who has an abortion that violates

state laws should be charged with murder, while 54% thinks she should not be charged, 26% unsure.

And a more recent 2025 Pew Research Report described the moral confusion about life and even

starker terms. Entitled, what do Americans consider immoral,

the study asked about different behaviors ranging from eating meat to abortion. According to their

data, 47% of Americans say having an abortion is morally wrong, while about half say an abortion is

either not a moral issue or is even morally acceptable.

An interesting parallel now exists between the abortion issue and the other great moral

evil in American history, slavery.

Americans made many compromises in the decades leading up to the Civil War and attempts to

address slavery, most notably the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. That law sanctioned what was

known as popular sovereignty, the idea that federal territories should decide by a simple majority

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