America’s laws, however, were more and more rooted in a new, secular morality that held, as one commentator observed, that men and women “may create their own moral code, that all voluntary sexual activity is morally neutral and legally permissible, that abortion is a woman’s right, that pornography, like beauty, is only in the eye of the beholder, that suicide and euthanasia are, in some circumstances, logical, legitimate and ‘humane,’ and that if a man wishes to distort his mind with drugs, that is his business alone.”
