“I am pro-choice not in spite of my faith, but because of my faith,” Rev. Laurie Hafner says. (via The Washington Post)
She is among seven Florida clergy members — two Christians, three Jews, one Unitarian Universalist and a Buddhist — who argue in separate lawsuits filed Monday that their ability to live and practice their religious faith is being violated by the state’s new, post-abortion law. The law, which is one of the strictest in the country, making no exceptions for rape or incest, was, in a Pentecostal church alongside antiabortion lawmakers such as the House speaker, who called life “a gift from God.
law, which went info effect July 1 and bans abortions after 15 weeks, except in cases where the mother could face serious injury or death, or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It also makes it a felony to “participate” in an abortion, which the suits charge could include counseling someone to have one.
The cases are unusual in that they frame major liberal values through the lens of religious-liberty law. For years, religious conservatives have successfully argued in high-profile Supreme Court cases that their beliefs should allow them to open churches during a global pandemic, discriminate against LGBTQ people and decline to give employees contraception, among other cases.by a Florida rabbi, who argued the abortion law violates his practice of Judaism.
At the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has ruled more than 81 percent of the time in favor of “religion,” compared with about 50 percent for all previous eras since 1953, according to
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