Posted on 05/01/2015 10:40:54 AM PDT by NRx
Friendly Atheist reports this week on plans by a member of the Satanic Temple to challenge Missouri's requirement for a 72-hour waiting period for abortions by asserting a religious freedom claim. Missouri has a Religious Freedom Restoration Act (MO Rev. Stat Section 1.302.1).
Missouri law (MO Rev. Stat. Section 188.027.1) requires that: "The physician who is to perform or induce the abortion or a qualified professional shall provide the woman with the opportunity to view at least seventy-two hours prior to the abortion an active ultrasound of the unborn child and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child if the heartbeat is audible." Using an exemption form developed by the Satanic Temple, the Missouri native identified as "Mary" claims that her sincerely held Satanic Temple beliefs are that her body is inviolable and subject to her will alone, and that inviolable body includes any fetal tissue so long as it is unable to survive outside her body as an independent human being.
(Excerpt) Read more at religionclause.blogspot.com ...
they may as well be honest about their intentions.....their..uh....spiritual component!
Satan’s Clinic might be a good choice of names!
I have to at least respect Satanists because they are somewhat honest about the evil they wish to bring instead of couching it in terms like social justice and choice...
He knows his time is about to come to an end.
Beat me to it. This is new?
my particular angle was why not Openly associate thier “Family Planning” Business...with the the NAME of the Thief who comes to Steal and Destroy
why use a name like planned parenthood....thats so Old School
Uncle Satans Sacrificial Shrine...might be more appropriate and far more forthright
That’s what I had in mind too. I’ll meet you in Intolerance Camp when they take us there.
Of course they hate Christ, and all social policy that Christians are against they’re for. EVIL people.
Suit should be tossed as soon as it gets before a judge, if we were still a sane country. If she can wait for the lawsuit to work its way through the courts, then she can obviously wait the 72 hours.
The argument is specious. The law doesn’t prevent her from getting an abortion, and therefore doesn’t violate her “religious belief” in her right to do what she wants with her body.
She has not demonstrated that her “religious belief” would be violated by an ultrasound, or by being made to wait for an abortion.
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