The Satanic Temple, which has taken an activist stance in the pro-choice movement, filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging Missouri's abortion laws mandating "informed consent" and a waiting period, claiming they violate their members' religious beliefs.
A Satanist member identified only as Mary Doe was denied an abortion at a Planned Parenthood office last month because of the restrictions, and the Satanic Temple sued the state last month seeking a religious exemption.
The new lawsuit, which the St. Louis Sun Times reports is aimed at similar abortion rules throughout the United States, claims Missouri’s standards – that life begins at conception and that "a unique human being with a life of its own, separate and apart from the woman whose uterus it occupies"– promote religious beliefs in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
The clause forbids the government from establishing an official religion.
Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves tells Salon.com the "informed consent" materials don’t just require women to comply with certain religious viewpoints, but also — in the case of Satanists — to contradict their own belief that women can decide for themselves.
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2 comments:
Ha ha. Brilliant trolls.
These "satanists" brilliantly taking advantage of what Christians have set up. Way to go Christians, trying to shoehorn your religious system into everything, and opening up the flood gates for not only these trolls, but for more dangerous faith systems...
When will you finally get on the side of liberty and support the ONLY government system that can ensure liberty and protect religious freedom... The secular kind. If you don't, you are only paving the pathway to your own demise.
Hidden dangers of the rainbow is here... research it.. fight ..stomp it out or we are doomed
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