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Kara Loewentheil

Kara Loewentheil is the Director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project and a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. She has held academic and litigation fellowships at Yale Law School and the Center for Reproductive Rights, and from 2008 to 2010 she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She regularly writes and speaks about religious accommodations and sexual and reproductive rights across the country.

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Religion Dispatches

Will SCOTUS Call the "Bluff" of Religious Liberty Activists?

If the announcement that the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement (CCR) makes you feel like you’re experiencing deja vu, you…
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It's Not the Thought that Counts: Tragic Case Highlights Flaws in "Religious Liberty" Debate

We hear a lot about the ways that religious exemptions impact the divisive cultural issues of our day—like abortion, marriage equality, and increasingly basic vaccinations. But the resistance to…
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We Shouldn't Be Surprised Francis Met with Kim Davis

When Pope Francis came to New York last week traffic came to a standstill. But traffic on social media was brisk, with many of my friends from the social justice world celebrating the Pope’s “liberal”…
Kara Loewentheil
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