Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?
…of reproductive rights. In her dissenting opinion, Iowa’s Chief Justice Susan Christensen pointed to the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and highlighted a recent Indiana case where the Court of Appeals held that a similar abortion law violated the religious freedom of those whose beliefs compel them to end a pregnancy. This legal theory isn’t particularly novel; applying RFRA to abortions motivated by religious beliefs is str…
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