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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Ryan Anderson: Legislating Abortion: Is it Really an Establishment of Religion?
Description: Do laws protecting people from the lethal violence of abortion improperly “impose” morality? Do pro-life laws constitute the illicit “establishment” of “religion”? Absolutely not. Laws banning fetal homicide are no more and no less the “establishment” of “religion” than laws banning adult homicide. Laws protecting people from the violence of abortion are no more and no less the “imposition” of “morality” than laws protecting people from other forms of unjust violence. All law is based on morality—either good or bad morality, true or false beliefs about the human person. There’s no escaping it. Pro-life law...