An Orthodox Jewish group condemned a judge’s decision to overturn a government ban on late-term abortions. “To use the Constitution to protect the termination of potential human life — perhaps even what amounts to infanticide — is to turn the document on its head, and undermines the very values and rights it is intended to embody,” Abba Cohen, the Washington director of Agudath Israel of America, said Wednesday.
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