Religious freedom is not an argument for abortion

Published August 19, 2022 12:00am ET



Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the abortion debate back to the states, pro-abortion zealots have been in total free fall. One desperate attempt to undermine the court’s Dobbs decision is to weaponize religious freedom in the service of the cult of abortion.

For example, take a recent lawsuit filed against the state of Florida. Rabbi Barry Silver, a former civil rights lawyer and Democratic state representative, sued the state over a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks, arguing that it infringes on religious liberty. Silver claims that the new law “establishes as the law of the State of Florida, a particular religious view about abortion and when life begins, which is contrary to the views of Plaintiff, its members, congregants, and supporters as well as many other Floridians.”

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