We are surrounded from every side, it seems, by arguments (and increasingly lawsuits) of various groups over claims to rights they wish to have. The problem is, it is impossible for everyone to possess all of the rights they desire, for the granting of some rights to some groups requires the explicit infringement on the rights of other groups. This, in particular, has been the concern of religious groups in connection with the demands for such rights as access to abortion—and the requirement for, say, such groups as the Catholic order of nuns, Little Sisters of the Poor, to offer abortion and contraception coverage for their employees or pay astronomical fines. For judges who have ruled against the Little Sisters, obviously abortion rights supersede religious rights.
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Nadya Williams
Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.
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