Welcome to Reads of Reason, a weekly compilation of news-clippings that relate to our work advocating for the equal rights of nonreligious Americans and the separation of religion and government.
 

News We Care About
(Good to know for protecting the Wall of Separation)

From Religion Dispatches, there are already large hospital systems where a committee, not your doctor, decides when an abortion is necessary. Read what healthcare could be like in a post-Roe world not just for abortion but in other areas as well. 

From OnlySky, the secular defense of reproductive rights.  
https://onlysky.media/pzuckerman/the-secular-defense-of-reproductive-rights/
 

Who We Are
(Who are we? What are we up to?)

Will American religion someday mirror Norwegian godlessness? 


Commentary
(Everyone has an opinion...)


From Andrew Seidel, The End of Roe and School Prayer: America is not ready to be a Christian Nation.
https://religiondispatches.org/the-end-of-roe-and-school-prayer-america-is-not-ready-to-be-a-christian-nation/

Usually the courts assume a religious belief is sincere and move on to other legal issues. One Supreme Court justice might question that. 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/supreme-court-sincere-religious-belief-coach-kennedy/629737/


How evangelicalism's twin seeds of Biblical literalism and constitutional originalism spelled the end of Roe.

What the Christian Right wants on abortion isn't in the author's Torah.
https://religionnews.com/2022/05/03/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-what-the-christian-right-wants-isnt-in-my-torah/
 

Opposing Views
(Always good to know what others are saying)

Tagline: The Court's job is not to determine which rights we should possess but which rights we do possess. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/alito-roe-opinion-abortion-states-rights-constitution/629755/

National Journal: Pro-lifers aren't imposing their religious views.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/pro-lifers-arent-imposing-their-religious-views/


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