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Rabbi Susan Talve, of the Central Reform Congregation, joins hands with fellow faith leaders who are suing in hopes of overturning Missouri’s abortion restrictions on the basis of separation of church and state on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, during a march to the St. Louis Circuit Court in downtown St. Louis. Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser said it was not up to the court to make a judgment on the soundness of the abortion policy but whether its language violated the constitution. A circuit court judge in St. Louis has sided with the state in ruling that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban does not violate laws establishing freedom of religion. The National Women’s Law Center and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed the lawsuit on behalf of area faith leaders in 2023. In it, lawyers for 14 clergy members argued that the abortion ban, put in place mere minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, violated the state’s constitution with language that stated life begins at conception. Judge Jason Sengheiser of the 22nd Circuit Court on Friday rebutted that claim, stating that although that idea can be a religiously supported belief, it can also be […]