Back when abortion was first "legalized," many of us were ridiculed for saying that we believed the value of human life would be downgraded. If tiny, innocent babies could be discarded, why couldn't X or Y be discarded. It's been a long, slow progression to the bottom. There have been a lot of other factors that have played a part of our decline -- drugs, Johnson's "war on poverty," Madalyn Murray O'Hair's successful campaign to remove prayer from school, the lowering of moral standards (fornication, acceptance of gender bending perversions, NAMBLA), coddling of kids, etc. These have contributed to the perfect storm that has led us to this place. None of us has any idea if this is rock bottom. What we do know is that we're only mildly shocked by things that were unimaginable within our lifetimes.