Mary Ann Glendon’s study, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law shows how divorce and abortion can erode marriage. But she is particularly concerned about how the “rights” of the couple take precedence over the interests of the child.
The word “deconstruction” was not in the vocabulary of G. K. Chesterton. When he observed how easier divorce was eroding the bond of matrimony in his time, his language was more poetic. He noted that “the marble had turned to ice, and the ice has melted with most amazing rapidity”. He could have not been more prophetic, for he understood how the wedge of divorce would continue its work and reduce marriage to shreds. ”They ought to know,” he wrote, referring to the advocates of divorce, “that the foe now on the frontiers offers no terms of compromise; but threatens a complete destruction.” “Deconstruction” may be more trendy in today’s world, but “destruction” has retained its accuracy.
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Marriage has continued to unravel since G. K. Chesterton made his stark observation. Contraception separated husband from wife procreatively. Divorce, and ultimately “no-fault” divorce, separated them legally. ”No-responsibility” divorce separated them morally. Abortion separated the married couple from offspring. The so-called “open-marriage” dispensed with fidelity. Same-sex” marriages” meant that the complementarity between husband and wife meant nothing. What is now left of marriage? Has it become virtually obsolete? One Canadian philosopher thinks so by asserting that “Marriage is an archaic institution that has lost its moral force. But if we wish to provide a healthy, loving environment in which to reproduce our species, we’d better think up something quick to replace it.” His disqualification of a loving married couple as providing a suitable environment for raising children may be a bit precipitous.
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