Religious freedom: The next battleground for US abortion rights?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : She added that while it is difficult to say whether the Florida challenge will be successful, the case should be taken seriously because the US has "incredibly expansive protection for religious liberty at the state level".
52% : The top court's 1973 Roe v Wade decision set out that abortion was protected under "the right of personal privacy", which in turn is outlined in the US Constitution.
50% : "There have been various [legal] claims that there is a religious obligation, either to provide [abortion] counselling and support, or to provide the medical care itself, or a religious right in some of the cases to access abortion for one's self," Platt also told Al Jazeera.
48% : She pointed to the key role faith leaders played in helping women access abortion services before Roe, including the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, a group of Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis that offered abortion counselling and referrals beginning in the late 1960s.
48% : That latter principle is set out in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which bars the government from passing any law "respecting an establishment of religion".
46% : A 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that 55 percent of Muslim respondents said abortion should be legal in most cases in the country - a position shared by 83 percent of Jews, 82 percent of Buddhists, and 68 percent of Hindus, among others.
44% :Florida is one of dozens of US states that have passed abortion restrictions in recent months, as the country readies for a US Supreme Court ruling that is expected to overturn a landmark legal precedent that guarantees the right to abortion nationwide.
43% : But unlike other legal challenges to abortion restrictions in the United States that most often rest on the right to privacy upon which abortion rights have relied for decades, the synagogue is arguing that Florida's abortion law violates religious freedom.
43% :Staunch opposition to abortion has been a unifying point for many Christian nationalist groups in the US, who for decades have sought to overturn Roe.
40% : But that opposition drops among members of other Christian denominations, including Catholics, who have traditionally held conservative views on abortion.
40% : Indeed, other religious communities in the US, including Muslims, and non-religious Americans have raised concerns about the influence that hardline Christians are exerting on people who do not share their strict views on abortion - namely, that life begins at conception.
36% : That's why Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor - "Generation to Generation" in Hebrew - has filed a lawsuit against a new law in the US state that will outlaw abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest.
34% : The leak spurred protests, as well as condemnation and fear among many women, as 26 US states are expected to ban abortion once Roe is likely overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights group.
34% : There are two primary ways to make religious freedom arguments on abortion, Platt said.
31% : Approximately three-quarters - 73 percent - of white evangelical protestants said abortion should be illegal in all or most cases in the US, according to a Pew Research Center survey released in May.

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