The dangers of judicial cherry-picking

The dangers of judicial cherry-picking

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This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Cari Jackson is director of spiritual care and activism for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and earned a J.D. and Ph.D. in Christian social ethics.

Throughout my life, I have observed scriptural cherry-picking used as a strategy by Christian religious leaders to control the moral behaviors and lives … Read the rest