This is the moral flag the modern conservative movement waves at Christians. Maybe they've got racist attitudes, maybe they soak the middle class in favor of the rich, maybe they push guns way to much for comfort, maybe they are hot to jump into foreign wars, maybe they like torture to much, but they defuse all such moral qualms by saying they are against abortion. Their own women can get all the abortions they need . . . they can afford it . . . so its a harmless stand for their party to take.
And its a false moral stand. Many of us realize abortion in the first half of pregnancy does not qualify as the murder of a person . . . the brain power is just not there for that to be the case.
It's going to be interesting to watch the debate over what women should do about infants who, due to the zika virus, are bearing children with microencephalopathy.
Does a child born without a cerebral cortex have a soul?