Slate: “Claims about religious conscience are nothing new in debates about reproduction in the United States. Employers cited it in refusing to include contraception in employee insurance plans; anti-abortion doctors relied on conscience when trying to establish standing in a case to shut down access to mifepristone. But a new suit is foregrounding a very different kind of claim: Can doctors invoke religious liberty to provide care when the law bans it?…
A group of physicians have proposed a bolder challenge, arguing not only that the state’s law is too vague for doctors to understand but also that it violates their religious commitments to provide certain forms of care. The five plaintiffs have different faith backgrounds—they include Presbyterian, Jewish, and Lutheran doctors, as well as those with conscience commitments that fit less neatly in any single religious community.”