A Family Crusade Aborted Lieberman's voting record is not characteristic of his faith. Richard Nadler, an orthodox Jew, is the editor of the K.C. Jones Monthly , a midwest journal of politics and opinion. Joseph Lieberman's support of abortion on demand no more characterizes his Orthodox faith than Ted Kennedy's abortion votes represent Catholic doctrine. To Orthodox Jews, abortion is a horror. For Jews, it is also a crime against the Covenant, a punishment for crimes against the Covenant, and a peculiarly noxious form of onanism.
Jewish tradition links abortion to the sexually licentious, who employ it to hide their sins.
But if Lieberman's endorsement of abortion is heterodox, his general approach to law is orthodox. Torah Judaism surrounds sacred law with a hedge of regulations to preserve it from incremental degradation. For instance, the Sabbath laws that Lieberman observes exclude not only work, but the handling objects that might incline one to work. First, the Senator promotes universal complicity, forcing abortion opponents to fund it. Lieberman has voted to include abortion in Medicaid, and in taxpayer-funded Federal employee medical programs.