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Defining “Religion”: Demonstrating Religious Belief in Federal Litigation
This report distills the factors courts consider, and do not consider, when assessing whether beliefs and practices are religious.
A Religious Right to Abortion: Legal History and Analysis
This memo provides a brief overview of religious liberty laws, details the history of legal claims using a religious liberty right to abortion, and explores how such claims might be made today.
The Southern Hospitals Report: Faith, Culture, and Abortion Bans in the U.S. South
This report presents new research that hospitals across the region strictly regulate the provision of abortion, leading to delays and denials of care for patients facing severe pregnancy complications.
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.
We The People (of Faith): The Supremacy of Religious Rights in the Shadow of a Pandemic
This report shows that the Supreme Court’s COVID-era opinions have created a hierarchy of constitutional rights, with religious rights at the top.
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.
Whose Faith Matters? The Fight for Religious Liberty Beyond the Christian Right
A comprehensive report documenting the many contexts in which people of faith engaged in humanitarian and social justice work have fought for the right to exercise their religion.
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.
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.
Dignity Denied: Religious Exemptions and LGBT Elder Services
The report details the increased risks LGBT older adults face as a result of recent religious exemption laws and policies.
Church, State & The Trump Administration
This resource addresses the way the Trump Administration and the rhetoric of "Religious Liberty" engaged by Trump during his campaign may impact the relationship between the Church and the State during Trump's Presidency.
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.