Religious diversity on abortion is particularly important to keep in mind as the Supreme Court considers whether Mississippi’s abortion restrictions are constitutional. The imminent threat to Roe v. Wade elicited significant concern from many religious communities, and an amicus brief to the Supreme Court signed onto by Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Unitarian, Sikh and other groups reflects a challenge to the dominant narrative that religions are anti-abortion.
The brief states that many religious traditions “recognize and support the moral right of each woman to make her own decisions about her pregnancy” and that allowing the Mississippi law to stay in place would be contrary to the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion “by imposing the view of certain faiths upon all women.” Indeed, many religions view the beginning of human life and the termination of pregnancies in ways that are at odds with the state’s ban.
The time is long overdue for the American public to recognize the diversity of religious positions in the abortion debate in this country, for our media to portray that diversity and for our courts to honor it.
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