Pepperdine Graphic, Law School Hosts Discussion on Abortion and Religious Freedom:
The Nootbaar and Ken Starr Institutes organized and held a lively discussion on abortion restrictions and reproductive rights, particularly on how several ongoing cases across the country relate to constitutional law and religious freedom at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law with around 50 attendees. …
Jessie Hill, … professor of law and associate dean for Research and Faculty Development at Case Western Reserve University, discusses abortion rights and religious freedom. Pepperdine professor Michael Helfand, …, the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion, moderated the discussion at the Caruso School of Law. …
“We generally associate abortion with the liberal left and religion with the conservative right. Now we have a marriage of political ideas,” Hill said, while pointing to partisan policy and politics as a core reason. …
Both political sides of the argument need help to break down what religious freedom is and the scope to which it applies to abortion bans, Hill said. She said that different religious communities do not agree upon when the time of life starts, some argue it’s during conception and others argue at the time of birth.
- Stephanie Barclay (Georgetown) & Richard Garnett (Notre Dame), No, Religious-Freedom Laws Don’t Undermine Abortion Restrictions, City Journal (Sept. 10, 2024)
- Josh Blackman (South Texas), Howard Slugh (Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty) & Tal Fortgang (Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty), Abortion and Religious Liberty, 27 Texas Rev. L. & Pol. 441 (2023)
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- Michael Helfand (Pepperdine), Using Jewish Law: Jewish Religious Liberty Advocacy for the Right to Abortion, 70 Wayne L. Rev. 51 (2024).
- Thomas Jipping, Pro-Life Laws Do Not Threaten Religious Freedom Heritage Foundation (July 31, 2024)
- New York Times, Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to Abortion Bans (July 5, 2023)
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- Micah Schwartzman (Virginia) & Richard Schragger (Virginia), Religious Freedom and Abortion, 108 Iowa L. Rev. 2299 (2023)
- Elizabeth Sepper (Texas), Free Exercise of Abortion, 49 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 177 (2023)
- Symposium, Advancing Pregnant Persons’ Right To Life Symposium, 104 B.U. L. Rev. Online 19-209 (2024)
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