Religious Liberty, Racial Justice, Reproductive Rights, Anti-discrimination Center for Gender & Sexuality Law Columbia University Religious Liberty, Racial Justice, Reproductive Rights, Anti-discrimination Center for Gender & Sexuality Law Columbia University

Parading the Horribles: The Risks of Expanding Religious Exemptions

This legal explainer explores how religious exemption measures threaten more than just LGBTQ and reproductive health, and can limit or significantly undermine workers’ rights, public health, environmental welfare, emergency response, religious pluralism, and other crucial interests.

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All Faiths & None: A Guide to Protecting Religious Liberty For Everyone

This report offers policymakers guidance on how to protect freedom of conscience for all, not merely for a favored few. The report is accompanied by a media guide for journalists suggesting ways to think about and hone questions for policymakers and advocates claiming to protect religious liberty.

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Religious Liberty for a Select Few: The Justice Department Is Promoting Discrimination Across the Federal Government

This report outlines the ways in which a guidance document issued by the Trump-era Attorney General interprets and expands religious liberty laws in a way that elevates the right to religious exemptions over other legal and constitutional rights. The guidance has been used to limit access to reproductive health care and threatens to limit enforcement of various health, employment, and anti-discrimination protections.

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Bearing Faith: The Limits of Catholic Health Care for Women of Color

This report presents data showing that in many states, women of color disproportionately give birth in Catholic hospitals that place religious restrictions on care—even during medical emergencies. Such restrictions stand to exacerbate the existing disparities women of color already face in accessing quality reproductive health care.

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Unmarried and Unprotected: How Religious Liberty Bills Harm Pregnant People, Families, and Communities of Color

This report shows how recent legislative efforts to expand religious liberty rights, such as the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), allow religious objectors to violate laws that protect against pregnancy, familial status, and marital status discrimination.

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