Towards a Critical Religion Theory
When judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, Evangelical Christian zealot and MAGA acolyte, rationalized his medication abortion opinion citing the dormant 1873 Comstock law earlier this year, he resurrected a vestige of Christian priggishness and bias in our jurisprudence long thought dead. By halting federal approval of mifepristone based on a willful misreading of the law, he defied not only decades of scientific consensus on the safety of the drug but also the long standing belief in the legality of and right to access medication abortion within our modern and increasingly secular society. It's a move, like many of those on the religious right recently, designed to thwart the popular will and force an extremist Christian agenda. often through reviving anachronistic laws. The malleability of our existing legal system should not come as a surprise, for it rests upon ancient, at times sclerotic, foundations. It traces its lineage from the principles of Roman Law through the hallowed English Ma