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    1. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 23 May 2019

      I'm glad this line of thinking about the tension between abortion bans and the First Amendment's Establishment Clause is getting aired. I remain astonished that it has not been more fully developed in legal scholarship.https://nyti.ms/2HN3XnO 

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    2. Damon Linker‏Verified account @DamonLinker 23 May 2019
      Replying to @willwilkinson

      There is no necessary connection btwn religion and opposition to abortion. One need only think rights are grounded in innate human dignity (a view held by many secular people, maybe even you) and know enough about modern medicine to realize that a fetus is a (tiny) human being.

      7 replies 15 retweets 147 likes
    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 23 May 2019
      Replying to @DamonLinker

      You can come up with a secular pretext for any bid to impose sectarian religious doctrine. But so what? As a matter of fact, these draconian laws are transparently grounded in a minority religious conviction and injure the liberty, dignity, and welfare of citizens who reject it.

      17 replies 2 retweets 53 likes
    4. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 23 May 2019
      Replying to @willwilkinson @DamonLinker

      It's interesting to reread the First Amendment as a special disability to be imposed on religious people. Whereas, you can impose your metaphysical beliefs trading under any other brand.

      3 replies 8 retweets 151 likes
    5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 23 May 2019
      Replying to @michaelbd @DamonLinker

      It's not a special disability imposed on religious people. The whole point is that people don't agree about religion, so religious people in particular will be harmed if some religious views are allowed to trump the freedom live according to other views.

      7 replies 2 retweets 32 likes
    6. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 23 May 2019
      Replying to @willwilkinson @DamonLinker

      This is just reheated Liberal League propaganda, where Mainstream Protestantism gets legal sanction and statue support, but any thought of sharing citizenship with Catholics in a meaningful way is described as a concession to sectarianism.

      2 replies 3 retweets 53 likes
    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 23 May 2019
      Replying to @michaelbd @willwilkinson @DamonLinker

      "Sharing citizenship" meaning "pass laws that conform to our religious beliefs?" Because as neither a Catholic nor a Protestant, that's what that sure sounded like.

      3 replies 4 retweets 18 likes
    8. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 23 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @willwilkinson @DamonLinker

      It means we get to vote and make our arguments too, just as other people trading under the name “secularists” “liberals” “feminists’ and “egalitarians” do. All of them have metaphysical commitments. Why should theirs be privileged?

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 May 2019
      Replying to @michaelbd @RadioFreeTom and

      Exactly. A normative proposition like "don't kill" doesn't become invalid just because it is supported by religious traditions. Greenhouse's view of the Establishment Clause doesn't get more respect in legal scholarship because it has no basis in the Establishment Clause.

      4 replies 9 retweets 97 likes
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 23 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd and

      Beginning from "don't kill" is already prejudicing the answer in the direction you want. Your opponents don't see it as killing, and saying it in this way just ensures that you look like you're trying to bring your religious belief that it *is* killing through the side door.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @michaelbd and

      1. If you don't have laws against killing humans, you don't have a government. 2. If you have laws against killing people, those laws need to decide who is human or you don't have a law. 3. Must the definition of who is human exclude any definition used by a religion?

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        2. Alane Callahan‏ @AlaneFarmer4 23 May 2019
          Replying to @TUSK100 @baseballcrank and

          In the eyes of evangelicals yes. At least according to the ones I know

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        1. Sauvage Elixir‏ @ChrizPowell 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          1). Bodily autonomy is a thing. There are many cases where killing a human is permissible in law. Self defense seems relevant here. 2&3) Setting that aside, the "line" of humanity cannot be theologically derived. You' need a secular argument for why an embryo is a person.

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        1. Mike  🐻 ⚾️‏ @FuMikechu 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          Re: 1, we already have laws against killing humans AND we have a government. We also have laws FOR killing humans, i.e. death penalty, self-defense, whatever laws corrupt police officers use to get away with killing unarmed people, rules of war, etc...

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        1. SPR‏ @Intrpdtravlr 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          Uhm, that doesn’t answer Tom’s question. “Don’t kill” assumes a packet of cells is personhood. Most of the country disagrees.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @michaelbd and

          Every time you start from "this is killing humans," you've ended the discussion. That means no abortion, never, no exceptions. There's no debate. I respect that consistency, but I don't agree with it.

          8 replies 3 retweets 28 likes
        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 23 May 2019
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and

          This is basically "America should be pre-2019 Ireland," and that, to me, is a religious proposition.

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        1. OUFENIX (D)‏ @oufenix 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          Lol. I have a feeling you support "stand your ground" laws....

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        1. Politically Speaking it's FUBAR‏ @MarthavonRohr 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          So we force women to give birth to children only to see them gunned down in the prime of their lives? Why are we not trying to do gun control on the same level as we try to control abortion for women? Answer not necessary, it wasn't really a question. #SomethingsMissing

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        1. Don Fredrick‏ @Colony14 23 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          There are only 3 options: 1. No one is allowed to kill anyone. 2. Anyone is allowed to kill anyone. 3. Some people are allowed to kill some people. I prefer option #1. That can be supported with logic. Religion is not necessary to argue that killing is wrong.

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