I just recalled him as identifying as Catholic in his confirmation hearings and that being remarked upon in the press at the time, so looked at his Wikipedia page where it still says the same about him and his wife. Maybe your info is more current than that.
Their religious identifications shouldn’t affect their jurisprudence anyway, but so-called conservative minds have historically shown themselves very weak in that regard.
edit: actually I’m gonna amend this and suggest you’re probably mixing up Roberts and Gorsuch. The latter was raised Catholic but attends an episcopal church. No evidence I can find that Roberts is anything but a practicing Catholic. As to Opus Dei, you’d have to ask him.
I agree that having women’s reproductive health shunted off into separate clinics is a bad idea, but I don’t think most abortions need to be performed in hospitals. Most of them are outpatient procedures and should be subject to the same regulations as other outpatient procedures and performed in the same offices.
Yes, that is also true. Hospital are expensive places to receive care though, and there are lots of initiatives to move care into separate clinics and I don’t think women’s reproductive health should be treated any differently than urgent care
Roberts believes strongly in the image of the Court, which is why he had to vote this way…if he hadn’t then the Court would have basically reversed itself in two years on a very political topic. That would have made it much more clear to Americans that the court is a political animal, and that’s something Roberts just doesn’t want to happen. It’s not a surprise how any of the conservatives acted in this instance…and, if the anti-abortion nuts can get the right case to the Court then Roberts will ignore precedent and vote how he wants (which, to be fair, it’s not clear he’d vote to overturn Roe completely, but I think he’d vote for restrictions that would effectively end it in states that wanted that).
We’re going to see more of this, Roberts defending the image of the Court in 5-4 decisions, plus places where he slips in his own beliefs in 4-5 decisions. Everyone voting in 2020 needs to put aside their demands for the perfect Democrat and vote for whoever ends up as the nominee, otherwise the damage to the court system will become really hard to reverse, and we’ll have a far right SC that turns around all of the liberal policies of the last century.
If the legislature had been serious, they could have included language requiring hospitals to expedite the process, or even to do outreach to abortion providers so patient safety and well-being was aggressively protected.
Coulda, shoulda …
“In all fairness, I believe office holders are entirely within their rights to be guided by their religious beliefs”
Is that belief a religious one? If not, you may not have a right to hold it …
In seriousness, I agree up to the point office holders begin “establishing” laws codifying things commensurate with their religious beliefs, or upholding such things.
