Washington - It’s instructive that Alabama has handed the anti-abortion movement a great victory by passing a law banning it across the board -- and Republican politicians who regularly tout themselves as pro-life don’t like it.
Abortion is cast by its opponents as a "non-negotiable" question. Yet it turns out to be very negotiable and, indeed, a matter of "personal belief."
Thus did House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., say he opposes the Alabama law because it "goes further than I believe" by failing to include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest or if a mother's life were endangered.