Liberating ourselves to death

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.  C S Lewis.

What happens when you reach a point where what has been deemed 'right' by power can only continue at great cost to others?

There's a great British classic film you can watch on You tube, called the Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). It imagines a scenario where the world is literally shifted by the folly of the super-powers, seen through the eyes of the staff of a London newspaper.
Towards the end of the film, as doomsday approaches, the general populace of London go on a rampage, similar to that witnessed in New York the night of the great power failure in 1977. 
Fiction is reflected in reality.

Towards the end of the second world war, the troops of the Soviet Union (a country which had killed around 20 million of its own people in this conflict) liberated many of the Nazi concentration camps in Poland. A few weeks later, as these same troops captured large parts of Germany, they proceeded to rape some 150,000 defenseless German women. Thousands of the women committed suicide.

Why the history lesson?
Because history so often repeats itself.

This month in parts of America, under the guise of rights and democracy, attempts have begun to legislate to allow the termination of full term pregnancies - babies, no less, on the slightest of pretexts in respect to a women's health. The declaration of such aims was met with revelry in New York, and the possibility of terminating a child's life after the birth is also being examined.

We have lived with the horror of sanctioned abortions in the West for several decades, but we are about to open a doorway that will leave us on par with the deeds of the purges of communist Russia or China or the death camps of Nazi Germany.

How can the 'democratic' world even be considering such an awful thing? How far have we departed from the sanctity and value of human life at a time when marriage and raising families has also become seriously threatened.

No doubt some will reply I'm on some religious soap box here - that I take this view because I'm seeking to push what my faith states, but when you consider the issue honestly, there's much more to say than just that - take a look at this argument.

What deeply troubles me is where this road is taking us - where will our culture be in a couple of decades if we legislate such acceptance of the right to terminate a child?

Is this healthy... for anyone?