They are not really separable here. Public sentiment against abortion is steeped in moralistic appeals that heavily imply a religious origin. They conveniently ignore the multitude of ways in which their case is not consistent with the foundational text of their own religion, and this is by design: It allows the Republican leaders and voters to act and feel Christian by shifting all of the weight of the faith onto a cherry-picked set of issues while pursuing a politics that actively antagonizes all the other teachings that should define that same faith.
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