“A jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now ‘available’, not having [a] sexual partner,” the judge said. “If this was the 1950s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which is what you’d invariably have, they would say it’s unnatural for a man to be interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have gone.”

The judge went on to say that by the time the sister had turned 18, they were both mature adults, and since she had been sexually involved with two other men, she had been “sexually awoken.” And since sex outside marriage and homosexuality have now both become socially acceptable, so can incest.

This isn’t the first time that the legality and acceptance of abortion has led to the idea that other illegal and immoral acts should become acceptable. We saw it with the idea of after-birth abortion, or infanticide.

The Journal of Medical Ethics published an article that stated that babies are not “actual persons” and therefore have no “moral right to life,” therefore after-birth abortion should be legal. In some countries it is legal now to kill disabled newborns, and in 2013, Planned Parenthood lobbyist Alisa LaPolt Snow spoke in support of the choice to deny medical care to babies born alive as a result of a botched abortion:

How many longstanding laws based on our moral code will soon be struck down thanks to the legality of abortion?

“A jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now ‘available’, not having [a] sexual partner,” the judge said. “If this was the 1950s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which is what you’d invariably have, they would say it’s unnatural for a man to be interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have gone.”

The judge went on to say that by the time the sister had turned 18, they were both mature adults, and since she had been sexually involved with two other men, she had been “sexually awoken.” And since sex outside marriage and homosexuality have now both become socially acceptable, so can incest.

This isn’t the first time that the legality and acceptance of abortion has led to the idea that other illegal and immoral acts should become acceptable. We saw it with the idea of after-birth abortion, or infanticide.

The Journal of Medical Ethics published an article that stated that babies are not “actual persons” and therefore have no “moral right to life,” therefore after-birth abortion should be legal. In some countries it is legal now to kill disabled newborns, and in 2013, Planned Parenthood lobbyist Alisa LaPolt Snow spoke in support of the choice to deny medical care to babies born alive as a result of a botched abortion:

How many longstanding laws based on our moral code will soon be struck down thanks to the legality of abortion?