I dont really agreed there. You can't go murder someone and get away with it because of "religious freedom". So there IS a line "religious freedom" can cross into being illegal regardless. Edit: I...
I dont really agreed there. You can't go murder someone and get away with it because of "religious freedom". So there IS a line "religious freedom" can cross into being illegal regardless.
Edit: I guess that kind of is a bit of gymnastics... but some conservatives literally view abortion as baby murder. Those conservatives may push for abortion to be considered murder.
Seems to me from a cursory reading that there's a bit of a monkey's paw here -- a state could sidestep this by not allowing exemptions for rape and incest.
There is no way to argue that an exemption to permit a religiously motivated abortion is “more dangerous” to the government’s asserted interest in fetal life than exemptions for pregnancies that pose a risk to the health of the pregnant person or that are the result of rape or incest.
Seems to me from a cursory reading that there's a bit of a monkey's paw here -- a state could sidestep this by not allowing exemptions for rape and incest.
We'll see how that goes with the Arizona case, where the state supreme court upheld the "only to save a pregnant woman's life" abortion law from the 1860s. Then there's the Idaho case, where the...
We'll see how that goes with the Arizona case, where the state supreme court upheld the "only to save a pregnant woman's life" abortion law from the 1860s.
Then there's the Idaho case, where the Supreme Court has a law where the only exceptions are life of the mother, molar or ectopic pregnancies, rape or incest.
This was a court of appeal decision. If I understand correctly, the state supreme Court can reverse the decision.
I think it would take some real mental gymnastics for SCOTUS to reverse it
Honestly they've been really flexible, I don't see them struggling with this one.
It's a state court case, Indiana only
I dont really agreed there. You can't go murder someone and get away with it because of "religious freedom". So there IS a line "religious freedom" can cross into being illegal regardless.
Edit: I guess that kind of is a bit of gymnastics... but some conservatives literally view abortion as baby murder. Those conservatives may push for abortion to be considered murder.
Seems to me from a cursory reading that there's a bit of a monkey's paw here -- a state could sidestep this by not allowing exemptions for rape and incest.
We'll see how that goes with the Arizona case, where the state supreme court upheld the "only to save a pregnant woman's life" abortion law from the 1860s.
Then there's the Idaho case, where the Supreme Court has a law where the only exceptions are life of the mother, molar or ectopic pregnancies, rape or incest.