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COMMENTARY: Several cases this term have the potential to further safeguard religious freedom and protect the unborn and their mothers.
As we edge closer to summer, it’s time to pay even more attention to the Supreme Court. The Court will release important decisions as it wraps up its current term. Although religious liberty is not directly at issue in any case before the Court, several decisions have the potential to further safeguard religious freedom, including the court hearing oral argument on Wednesday about a crucial case that impacts mothers, babies, and doctors. Let’s take a quick look at this year’s docket:
The Court’s brief order narrowed a nationwide preliminary injunction against the law imposed by the district court so that it permitted only the plaintiffs, two children and their parents, to continue to receive puberty blockers and estrogen. Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, added in a concurring opinion that “lower courts would be wise to take heed” of the Court’s decision narrowing a universal injunction.
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As we edge closer to summer, it’s time to pay even more attention to the Supreme Court. The Court will release important decisions as it wraps up its current term. Although religious liberty is not directly at issue in any case before the Court, several decisions have the potential to further safeguard religious freedom, including the court hearing oral argument on Wednesday about a crucial case that impacts mothers, babies, and doctors. Let’s take a quick look at this year’s docket:
Already Issued
Earlier this month, the Court allowed an Idaho law banning medical interventions for minors with gender dysphoria to go broadly into effect while a challenge to the law works its way through the courts. Health-care professionals in the state can face up to 10 years in prison for providing “treatments” such as puberty blockers, hormones and mastectomies for children supposedly suffering gender dysphoria. The law does not prohibit such treatments for other conditions such as early puberty or genetic disorders of sexual development, if it is consistent with a minor’s biological sex.The Court’s brief order narrowed a nationwide preliminary injunction against the law imposed by the district court so that it permitted only the plaintiffs, two children and their parents, to continue to receive puberty blockers and estrogen. Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, added in a concurring opinion that “lower courts would be wise to take heed” of the Court’s decision narrowing a universal injunction.
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Abortion, Social Media, Guns: Supreme Court Poised to Impact Religious Freedom
COMMENTARY: Several cases this term have the potential to further safeguard religious freedom and protect the unborn and their mothers.
