What the Supreme Court s examination of Mississippi s abortion case could mean
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CHICAGO â Nearly 50 years after the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court announced this week that it would look at a major abortion case from Mississippi.
After losing an appeal in the lower courts, the state of Mississippi is looking to the Supreme Court to allow a ban on most abortions beginning at the 15
th week of pregnancy.
âSupreme Court made clear in Roe v. Wade that the state could not flat out prohibit abortion before the point of viability. That is the point at which the fetus could survive outside the woman,â said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone, an expert on abortion law and womenâs rights.
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What the Supreme Court s examination of Mississippi s abortion case could mean
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Summary: Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical interest, has important implications for how we conceive of the role of religion in the American republic. Mark David Hall begins by considering two popular answers to the query “Of course not!” and “Absolutely!” both of which distort the Founders’ views. After showing that Christian ideas were one of the important intellectual influences on the Founders, he discusses three major areas of agreement with respect to religious liberty and church–state relations at the time of the Founding: Religious liberty is a right and must be protected; the national government should not create an established church, and states should have them only if they encourage and assist Christianity; and religion belongs in the public square. In short, while America did not have a Christian Founding in the sense of creating a theocracy, its Founding was deeply shaped by Christian moral truths.