The concept of “free exercise” of religion is further clarified by the Supreme Court’s interpretation, emphasizing that individuals have the right to act on their religious beliefs, even if they differ from those of the majority. This includes, for example, wearing religious attire, observing holy days, and engaging in religious rituals.
In summary, religious liberty under the US Constitution is defined as the freedom to practice one’s religion, or not, without government interference, and to express and exercise one’s religious beliefs and practices in both public and private spheres. (From a Brave AI search)
The common view, both in civil law and a major segment of the Christian faith in the past is that a human person begins at viability. A large portion of Christians(creationists) believed God created the soul of man in the already formed fetus at viability. This was based on biblical statements, because God determines when personhood begins, not medical science and the so-called heartbeat laws.
God formed man from the ground and then created the soul within that formed body. Gen. 2:7
Zech. 12:1 states that God formed the spirit of man within him.
Gen. 35:18 states that death occurs when the soul departs the body.
Heb. 12:9 teaches that man's body comes from a human father, his spirit from God the Father
Jesus and the Apostles used the Septuagint, and many Christians took their understanding of when a fetus begins as a person, from this -
"And if two men strive and smite a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation. But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." (Exod 21:22-25 LXXE)
Adam Clarke (1762-1832), a British Methodist writes on Ex. 21:22-23:
"And hurt a woman with child — As a posterity among the Jews was among the peculiar promises of their covenant, and as every man had some reason to think that the Messiah should spring from his family, therefore any injury done to a woman with child, by which the fruit of her womb might be destroyed, was considered a very heavy offence; and as the crime was committed principally against the husband, the degree of punishment was left to his discretion. But if mischief followed, that is, if the child had been fully formed, and was killed by this means, or the woman lost her life in consequence, then the punishment was as in other cases of murder - the person was put to death"
Christians, myself included, value life from conception as a private religious matter, but not a matter for civil law forcing that belief upon others. Many Christians in our Protestant history have considered personhood to begin at quickening, and murder only happens to persons. From this, many laws on abortion have been 15-20 week bans, NOT 6 weeks. There is not a heartbeat at 6 weeks, only a flutter and, a heartbeat that can be heard with a stethoscope can only be heard at about the 17-20th weeks. James Wilson, was a founding father and an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. He wrote -
"With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger."
Connecticut was the first state to regulate abortion in 1821, outlawing abortion after quickening (the moment in pregnancy when the pregnant woman starts to feel the fetus’s movement in the uterus).
Because of my belief in America's religious liberty, I hope and pray that the Courts strike down the 6-week laws as unconstitutional, thereby not infringing my religious liberties as well as those with no professed religion at all. Here in Florida, I considered the previous law of a 15-week ban as acceptable, but not this 6-week heartbeat law.
In summary, religious liberty under the US Constitution is defined as the freedom to practice one’s religion, or not, without government interference, and to express and exercise one’s religious beliefs and practices in both public and private spheres. (From a Brave AI search)
The common view, both in civil law and a major segment of the Christian faith in the past is that a human person begins at viability. A large portion of Christians(creationists) believed God created the soul of man in the already formed fetus at viability. This was based on biblical statements, because God determines when personhood begins, not medical science and the so-called heartbeat laws.
God formed man from the ground and then created the soul within that formed body. Gen. 2:7
Zech. 12:1 states that God formed the spirit of man within him.
Gen. 35:18 states that death occurs when the soul departs the body.
Heb. 12:9 teaches that man's body comes from a human father, his spirit from God the Father
Jesus and the Apostles used the Septuagint, and many Christians took their understanding of when a fetus begins as a person, from this -
"And if two men strive and smite a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation. But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." (Exod 21:22-25 LXXE)
Adam Clarke (1762-1832), a British Methodist writes on Ex. 21:22-23:
"And hurt a woman with child — As a posterity among the Jews was among the peculiar promises of their covenant, and as every man had some reason to think that the Messiah should spring from his family, therefore any injury done to a woman with child, by which the fruit of her womb might be destroyed, was considered a very heavy offence; and as the crime was committed principally against the husband, the degree of punishment was left to his discretion. But if mischief followed, that is, if the child had been fully formed, and was killed by this means, or the woman lost her life in consequence, then the punishment was as in other cases of murder - the person was put to death"
Christians, myself included, value life from conception as a private religious matter, but not a matter for civil law forcing that belief upon others. Many Christians in our Protestant history have considered personhood to begin at quickening, and murder only happens to persons. From this, many laws on abortion have been 15-20 week bans, NOT 6 weeks. There is not a heartbeat at 6 weeks, only a flutter and, a heartbeat that can be heard with a stethoscope can only be heard at about the 17-20th weeks. James Wilson, was a founding father and an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. He wrote -
"With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger."
Connecticut was the first state to regulate abortion in 1821, outlawing abortion after quickening (the moment in pregnancy when the pregnant woman starts to feel the fetus’s movement in the uterus).
Because of my belief in America's religious liberty, I hope and pray that the Courts strike down the 6-week laws as unconstitutional, thereby not infringing my religious liberties as well as those with no professed religion at all. Here in Florida, I considered the previous law of a 15-week ban as acceptable, but not this 6-week heartbeat law.
