The Week: Kamala Would Nullify Religious-Liberty Protections

• A Senate candidate in Missouri shot a reporter, and we think the pandering has gone far enough.

• In an NBC interview with Hallie Jackson, Kamala Harris was asked about whether she believed in any religious exemptions when it came to national abortion legislation. “I don’t believe we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to control one’s own body,” Harris said. In some ways this should not be surprising. She has called for a repeal of the Hyde amendment, which prevents taxpayer dollars from funding abortions through Medicaid. Harris has promised that under her administration her Department of Justice would review every state-level pro-life law. And she introduced the Do No Harm Act, which narrowed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to nullify religious-liberty protections against abortion mandates. She supported the Equality Act, which would also mandate religious hospitals and doctors to perform abortions, even against their conscience. Harris believes that abortion is a fundamental right, and the First Amendment is just some niggling exception to it that ought to be curtailed.

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• A Senate candidate in Missouri shot a reporter, and we think the pandering has gone far enough.

• In an NBC interview with Hallie Jackson, Kamala Harris was asked about whether she believed in any religious exemptions when it came to national abortion legislation. “I don’t believe we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to control one’s own body,” Harris said. In some ways this should not be surprising. She has called for a repeal of the Hyde amendment, which prevents taxpayer dollars from funding abortions through Medicaid. Harris has promised that under her administration her Department of Justice would review every state-level pro-life law. And she introduced the Do No Harm Act, which narrowed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to nullify religious-liberty protections against abortion mandates. She supported the Equality Act, which would also mandate religious hospitals and doctors to perform abortions, even against their conscience. Harris believes that abortion is a fundamental right, and the First Amendment is just some niggling exception to it that ought to be curtailed.