Lindsay Clancy is accused of killing her three children. Supporters have raised roughly $1 million for her defense. Frank Wright examines the case and asks a question that exposes the moral crisis of our age: how can a culture reach a point where the killing of children is met with sympathy rather than unequivocal condemnation?
Wright argues that the response reflects a deeper moral crisis produced by replacing Christian morality with a system centered on individual choice, preference, and rights. He connects this mentality to abortion, surrogacy, euthanasia, and consumerism—arguing that once human life no longer possesses an intrinsic value derived from God, its worth becomes conditional upon whether another person finds that life desirable or convenient.
The Clancy case is an extreme manifestation of this worldview. If human life is reduced to preference, then the only crime is inconvenience. Wright concludes that society faces a choice: the inherent dignity of human life or a morality governed by personal preference. The Clancy case is a warning, and a symptom of a culture that has lost the ability to recognize evil when it sees it. The question is whether we will recover that ability before it is too late.
