Does Dobbs violate the establishment clause?

[BidenPresident]

“How is your interest anything but a religious view?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked the lawyer for the state of Mississippi during oral arguments in the case that would later eliminate the constitutional right to abortion.

Whatever its ultimate resolution, the Missouri lawsuit highlights the religious tensions unavoidable in the post-Dobbs debate. Yes, other religious and moral views are written into civil law — “Thou shalt not kill.” But abortion is uniquely grounded on metaphysical and, ultimately, religious convictions about when life begins.

“How is your interest anything but a religious view?” I still haven’t heard a convincing answer to Sotomayor’s vexing question.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/20/abortion-dobbs-establishment-clause-sotomayor/

Agree. Abortion is nothing but a religious issue. Nothing to do with health or medicine.

 

[BidenPresident]

The outcome in Missouri courts could be different, though its abortion law — passed in 2019 with a near-complete ban on abortion in anticipation of Roe v. Wade being overturned — is explicitly grounded on religion. It states that the legislature is acting to regulate abortion “in recognition that Almighty God is the author of life.”

Lawmakers urging its passage were not coy about their religious motivation. “As a Catholic, I do believe life begins at conception and that is built into our legislative findings,” said state then-Rep. Nick Schroer, the lead sponsor. Said then-Rep. Holly Thompson Rehder, “God doesn’t give us a choice in this area. He is the creator of life. And I, being made in His image and likeness, don’t get to choose to take that away, no matter how that child came to be. To me, life begins at conception, and my God doesn’t give that option.”