Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline Essay Example

it to be controversial whether a fetus is a human being.

"The question of whether abortion is the termination of a human life is a relatively simple one.... It is impossible to draw a line anywhere after the moment of fertilization and say that before this point the creature is not human but after this point it is. It has all the attributes of a human from the beginning, and those attributes were in the forty-six chromosomes with which it began" (174-175).

He thinks he is sounding an alarm for all Americans. To understand our current plight and the direction in which we are moving.  Bork believes we must look to the sixties, “a decade in which the moral integrity of our nation came under full blown assault”. He says we have never recovered from that attack because the radicals of the Sixties have taken over or heavily modified the cultural institutions they once sought to destroy and that we can accept our fate and try to insulate ourselves and our loved ones from the devastating effects of a degenerating culture or we can choose to halt the beast and oppose modern liberalism in every arena.

Many conservatives have shifted their arguments of earlier themes to that new preoccupation, the culture war, making this for ingredients of a war. For Bork himself, the shift means departing from his earlier role as a leading public spokesman for the case against judicial activism to being in favor of a less obviously suitable role as roving analyst and decrier of American popular culture.