One Nation Under God!
The Mexico City policy is a United States government policy that blocks U.S. federal funding for non-governmental organizations that provide abortion counselling or referrals, advocate to decriminalize abortion or expand abortion services.
The policy requires non-governmental organizations to "agree as a condition of their receipt of [U.S.] federal funds" that they would "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations".
The policy has exceptions for abortions done in response to rape, incest, or life-threatening conditions.
Four Times the Declaration of Independence Mentions God
1. The Laws of Nature and Nature's God...
The very opening of the Declaration features a reference to God (emphasis added):
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
2. Endowed by their Creator...
The second reference to God is perhaps better known:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
3. The Supreme Judge of the world...
The Declaration further emphasizes the Creator's authority:
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;
4. The protection of divine Providence...
Finally, the Declaration declares the least deist idea ever:
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Bill of Rights
* Amendment I [Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition (1791)]
* Amendment II [Right to Bear Arms (1791)]
* Amendment III [Quartering of Troops (1791)]
* Amendment IV [Search and Seizure (1791)]
* Amendment V [Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process (1791)]
* Amendment VI [Criminal Prosecutions - Jury Trial, Right to Confront and to Counsel (1791)]
* Amendment VII [Common Law Suits - Jury Trial (1791)]
* Amendment VIII [Excess Bail or Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment (1791)]
* Amendment IX [Non-Enumerated Rights (1791)]
* Amendment X [Rights Reserved to States or People (1791)]