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Professor Katz Comments on Abortion Lawsuits Connection to RFRA
10/07/2022
In an interview with the Indiana Capital Chronicle, Professor Robert Katz commented on at least two ongoing lawsuits that seek to strike down the state’s near-total abortion ban on the basis that the new abortion law violates Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
“The state’s main challenge will be to provide public reasons for banning abortion, that is, reasons that people of different religions and moral backgrounds could accept,” Katz said. “The ban cannot be sustained based on one or more religious groups’ distinct and controversial theological claims about fetuses and pregnant women.”
Professor Katz is a John S. Grimes Fellow at IU McKinney Law, he is currently writing Antisemitism and the Law, the first casebook of its kind, developing an accompanying course for law schools, and organizing academic conferences on the topic. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Antisemitism Research.
