«If [justice] must be accorded to the unborn child, as it must,» the editors write, «it must also be accorded to the mother, and, yes, even to the Catholic politician who tries to balance competing rights and
claims in a pluralistic society.
Writing
in the Baylor Law Review before the Romer decision, David Smolin of Samford University Law School argues that the present Court» rejecting «religiously based»
claims as inherently particularistic» is increasingly dismissing «traditional theists» as too absolutist to join
in public debate
in a
pluralistic society.