I don't know if there's been a shift further to the right among the right wing of the Republican Party, but I wouldn't be surprised. The same is true of the left, though. Nearly every democrat in congress voted against the recent bill that would've banned partial birth abortions.

I do remember one of my professors in college who was a rabbi told us that in the Hebrew Bible, maybe the Torah (I don't remember), the life of the mother takes precedence over nascent life, making it permissible to abort the fetus to protect the life of the mother.

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Paul S.

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