…the decision shows how, in the decade since the Hobby Lobby decision, there's been a backlash against the Christian right's efforts to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else…
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Indiana appeals court finds exception to abortion ban in Hobby Lobby ruling
The plaintiffs argued that their religious doctrine teaches that a fetus is part of a woman's body, not an independent being with its own rights. The abortion ban, then, violates their religious freedom to decide whether to have an abortion. This argument, which undergirds similar religious freedom lawsuits across the country, including in Kentucky, Missouri and Florida, is a profound pushback against the Christian right's attempts to assert their position, that life begins at conception and that a fetus is a person, as the only genuine religious belief…
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