The anti-abortion side has monopolized arguments based on religion. But some say their faith supports the right to choose
“You don’t have to be a member of an organized religion,” said Katherine Franke, a professor of law at Columbia University and the faculty director of the Law, Rights, andProject. “Your religious beliefs could be your own idiosyncratic beliefs. They have to just be religious to you.”
“A Muslim woman living in Texas, or living in Alabama, who has a sincerely and genuinely held religious belief that in her tradition, she can terminate her pregnancy and it is not a violation of her religious requirements or theology up to, is going to be prevented from exercising her religious right to control her reproductive health,” Awad continued.
Legal challenges on the basis of religious liberty could be “the next stage of reproductive rights”, Awad said, and the National Council of Jewish Women is exploring the possibility of such a challenge, Ruttenberg said. Scott Warren, a humanitarian aid worker for No More Deaths, successfully argued that his work helping migrants crossing the US-Mexico border was in line with his religious beliefs about helping others, and he was acquitted of federal charges in 2019.
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