(Part two of two)  Elected officials Politicians are capable of working out the differences between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice.  Let them do their work for “The Lord hears the cry of the poor” (Psalm 34:7a).  “I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears” (Psalm 34:5) including those beneath the level of consciousness.  “whoever lives the truth comes to the light (political transparency), so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God” (John 3:21).  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 269, Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter I

There is a book review of Zubin Mistry, Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500-900.  Sara Ritchey, the reviewer reports that “abortion most often offended not because it was considered murder.”  The American Historical Review, Vol. 122, No. 21 (April 2017) 566.