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IFI Joins Friends of the Court in Rutledge v. Little Rock Family Planning Services
On January 22, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist and Bryon White rightly identified in their dissents that Roe v. Wade was a bad (to put it mildly) decision:
“The decision here ... partakes more of judicial legislation than it does of a determination of the intent of the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
“The decision here ... partakes more of judicial legislation than it does of a determination of the intent of the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Tagged American Center for Law & Justice, Americans United for Life, Bryon White, Down Syndrome, Down Syndrome Discrimination by Abortion Prohibition Act, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Roe v. Wade, Rutledge v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, the Jerome Lejeune Foundation, William Rehnquist
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Pew Research Reveals Stark Differences On Abortion Among Religious Groups
A majority of Americans including many mainline Christians support legal abortion, but many religious conservatives say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, according to the Pew Research Center.
Those religious conservatives are now hoping that Roe v. Wade will be overturned in light of President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a practicing Catholic, to the U.S. Supreme Court. They’re optimistic that having a fifth conservative on the bench could lead to a reversal of the 1973 landmark case that made abortion a constitutional right. Kavanaugh gave a speech last year in which he praised former …
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Tagged Abortion, Brett Kavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register, Donald Trump, Episcopalians, fetal heartbeat bill, Kim Reynolds, Pew Research Center, Planned Parenthood, Religious Landscape Study, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholic Church, SCOTUS, Southern Baptist Convention, U.S. Supreme Court, Unitarian Universalists, William Rehnquist
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