"Q: Abortion is a very emotional issue and a religious issue for a lot of people. As an attorney, you had to argue using very specific language about constitutional rights. Do you think thatâs hard for people to understand? Sometimes I think it is, because some people just say, âMy faith is opposed to abortion.â But we live in a country where we can have many faiths, and we donât impose the law of one faith on everybody. And so we go back to the constitution. What was the view of our founders? And it was that there are many parts of life which are so personal â the word privacy is not in the constitution but certainly the concept is â and so the founders basically were saying, âWe really believe that the government should not make our most important decisions.â When I was arguing Roe vs. Wade, there were a lot of religious groups that were saying, what the anti-abortion laws do to women in terms of their health, physical and psychological, isnât right. Weâve got to change it. So the United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist Alliance, and the Jewish groups, a whole variety of religious groups filed in our favor."
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