Third place winner
Wilbraham, MA
I participated in the essay contest because the separation of church and state is very important to me and, as an aspiring author, I wanted to use one of our most powerful tools, rhetoric, to share my thoughts on it.
Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.
