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Satanic Temple Sues Indiana Over Abortion Ban, Claiming Violation of Their Religious Liberty
LifeSite News ^ | 9/28/22 | Joseph Summers

Posted on 10/03/2022 5:57:20 PM PDT by marshmallow

Indiana’s abortion ban currently faces an injunction as a result of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and abortion providers.

INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) – The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit last week arguing that Indiana’s near total abortion ban violates a constitutional right to the free practice of religion.

The Satanic Temple claims that it filed the suit on behalf of a female member who got pregnant without her consent. While the provisions of Indiana’s abortion ban allow for exceptions for rape or incest, the woman in question holds that the reason for her involuntary pregnancy is the legal inability for a woman to consent to sex, along with the failure of birth control, FOX59 reported.

Both Republican Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita are named defendants in the suit.

The suit further states that two of the tenets of The Satanic Temple are violated by the law, holding that “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone,” and that the baby as fetal tissue is an extension of the mother’s body.

The Satanic Temple stated that members’ “beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world,” disagreeing with language in the law that says an unborn child is a child, holding instead that an unborn baby is fetal tissue and is nothing more than a part of a woman’s body.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Skeptics/Seekers
KEYWORDS: babykillers; satanictemple; satanism
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1 posted on 10/03/2022 5:57:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

beyond stupid.


2 posted on 10/03/2022 6:00:15 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: marshmallow

If they allow prisoners to declare their voodoo rights and then kill and dismember chickens as a religious ritual then anything goes.

Reference made in the first Major League movie (with Charlie Sheen as Wild Thing).


3 posted on 10/03/2022 6:01:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It’s something to think that Satanists are more honest than Democrats....


4 posted on 10/03/2022 6:01:41 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow
"one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone"

In that case, give her what she wants and allow no abortion doctor to touch her.
5 posted on 10/03/2022 6:03:17 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: marshmallow

I could claim to be of the Incan religion, and that I must cut out the hearts of people in my subdivision to satisfy the sun god Huitzilopotchtli, but I don’t think the authorities would buy it.


6 posted on 10/03/2022 6:04:00 PM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: marshmallow
...the woman in question holds that the reason for her involuntary pregnancy is the legal inability for a woman to consent to sex, along with the failure of birth control...

What legal inability? If she or her partner used birth control, how was this not voluntary?

7 posted on 10/03/2022 6:06:26 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: marshmallow
While the provisions of Indiana’s abortion ban allow for exceptions for rape or incest, the woman in question holds that the reason for her involuntary pregnancy is the legal inability for a woman to consent to sex, along with the failure of birth control...

WTH is that supposed to mean??

The Satanic Temple stated that members’ “beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world,” disagreeing with language in the law that says an unborn child is a child, holding instead that an unborn baby is fetal tissue and is nothing more than a part of a woman’s body.

Actually, the best scientific understanding is that that is the unborn child is a human child. That it is "part" of the mother's body (like her arm or her ear) is misinformation for the ignorant.

8 posted on 10/03/2022 6:09:51 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: marshmallow

The pro abortion Cartel is very strong and well funded.


9 posted on 10/03/2022 6:10:14 PM PDT by HChampagne (I am ready to crawl over broken glass to get to the polling place for Nov. 2020.)
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To: marshmallow

Boy that’s just who you want on your side in a court case. Hope the baby killers are happy.


10 posted on 10/03/2022 6:13:37 PM PDT by redangus
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To: marshmallow

I respect their honesty.


11 posted on 10/03/2022 6:16:13 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: marshmallow

They sacrifice children.. babies.

Whoever decides this had better understand what their words mean.


12 posted on 10/03/2022 6:26:09 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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13 posted on 10/03/2022 6:28:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: marshmallow

Once again, it’s everyone’s liberties to the exclusion of the baby’s.


14 posted on 10/03/2022 6:55:36 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: marshmallow
This shouldn’t get very far. See Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)
15 posted on 10/03/2022 7:08:37 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Rurudyne

So true.


16 posted on 10/03/2022 7:31:17 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: marshmallow

Now, suddenly, I feel less skeptical of claims that some abortion providers are aligned with Satanism and covertly offer aborted babies as ritual sacrifices.


17 posted on 10/03/2022 9:28:46 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: marshmallow

This is why the left wants all abortion all the time. Impeding on their most demonic and evil sacrament.


18 posted on 10/03/2022 9:31:57 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: marshmallow

We would like to know if they are swingers or really santanic cultists. My Bro-in-Law and sister ran a cult for years. They had a store where they recruited new members. They were not believers, but they damn sure were swingers. If you were invited to join the cult, there was ceremony in which every member of the coven had sexual relations with each member of the couple.

Screw the santanic cult of death.


19 posted on 10/04/2022 3:20:52 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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Democrats and Satanists on the same side. I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you, shocked.

Do I really need an end sarcasm tag?

20 posted on 10/04/2022 4:27:44 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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