A woman's right to an abortion is enshrined in law.

So why are we still discussing it?

These issues have been shaped by people with nakedly self-serving partisan interests.

The political intensity of it, that's an artifice.

The Republican Party continues to uphold the principle that every human being,

born and unborn, has a fundamental

individual right to life. I'm saying things to you today at 85 that I said at 30, and I, we

get, I shouldn't say we get nowhere. We got Roe v. Wade.

And a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. After the Roe v. Wade. And a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today legalized abortions.

After the Roe v. Wade decision, there was an effort to start blocking poor women from getting abortions.

This is an ultrasound at four weeks.

Listen to the sound of the heart beating.

The life and death issues of abortion after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Hey, how about the GOP tax overhaul?

You know the one I mean.

It's the largest, I always say the most massive,

but it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country.

Did you know that when the GOP tax overhaul was signed into law last month, it very nearly redefined fetuses as children for tax purposes.

That provision was ditched by the Senate just hours before the vote, but it was yet another

reminder of an issue so thorny and so tough, it sprouts perennially in all kinds of weather and in every American

terrain. Abortion. This was a case of enormous political significance. Here you had an undocumented

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