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Author: Kelly Percival

Kelly Percival is counsel for the Brennan Center where she fights for a fair and accurate decennial census and equal representation in American democracy. She has long advocated for reproductive justice, including campaigning for contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act and suing the Trump administration over discriminatory rules that denied women access to birth control. She has briefed the Supreme Court on the need to curtail religious exemptions from generally applicable civil rights laws in order to promote religious freedom for all.
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Religion Must Not Substitute Science in the Abortion Debate

Kelly Percival
Religion Must Not Substitute Science in the Abortion Debate

When Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas law S.B.8, he provided an oft-heard reason for why the Lone Star state is effectively banning nearly all abortions: “Our creator endowed us with the right to life.”

Abbott’s religious invocation to justify Texas’s law, of course, begs the question: Whose vision of a creator, exactly?

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