There are certain occasions in history which defined themselves as before and after moments. The Kennedy assassination was one, the terrorist attack of 9/11 was another.
Arguably the week in which Parliament voted to decriminalise abortion until birth on one day and legitimise assisted suicide on another was also one of those occasions which will remain as a searing of the communal memory, for English Catholics at least.
To the historically aware, one of the ways in which Christianity most clearly defines itself as being different from both pagan and atheist alternatives is its passionate and profound belief in the sanctity of life.
