Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have
come under increasing
scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become
increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).
There's lip service, certainly, but only that; the efforts go the other way, as can be seen from the fact that some of the more comically unfair alimony laws in the USA are
coming under feminist
scrutiny now that women are
increasingly becoming the payors.