Posted on 10/13/2022 8:43:45 PM PDT by Morgana
Kentucky is the latest state to face a religious freedom challenge to its pro-life laws.
Recently, Jewish and Satanic groups also sued Idaho, Indiana and Florida, alleging that protecting unborn babies from abortion violates their religious beliefs.
On Thursday, three Jewish women from Louisville filed a lawsuit that argues the Kentucky abortion ban, which is saving thousands of unborn babies, would prohibit them from exercising their religious beliefs, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
“In Judaism, reproductive health of a mother is between the mother, her rabbi and her doctor — not the attorney general,” their attorney Aaron Kemper said.
However, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron responded by promising to protect unborn babies’ right to life, which the law now protects.
“Although we have not received the complaint, I am committed to defending Kentucky’s pro-life laws,” Cameron said in a statement. “The General Assembly has made it clear that Kentucky will protect unborn life and these laws are an important part of the Commonwealth.”
The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court, claims state laws that ban abortions (except if the mother’s life is at risk) favor Christian beliefs about when life begins and violate those of Jews who believe life does not begin at conception, according to the report. It claims the abortion ban violates the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The suit argues that the protections for unborn babies have “little to no relationship with scientific understanding of fetal development” and are “internally contradictory, vague and unintelligible.”
“Forcing a mother to deliver a dead fetus to term, or one that will certainly die moments after birth, does not advance a governmental interest to protect fetal life, is contrary to Jewish law, severely damages the mental health of the mother, is flatly cruel and degrading, does nothing to promote ‘life’ and serves no legitimate purpose at all,” the lawsuit argues.
Lisa Sobel, Jessica Kalb and Sarah Baron are the three women named in the lawsuit, according to the newspaper.
Here’s more from the report:
Baron, 37, has two children, but faces a higher risk of passing along genetic anomalies, like the fatal Tay-Sachs disease, should she choose to have more kids, the suit says.
Daniel Grossberg, a Democratic state representative-elect and Jewish activist, said many Jewish women “wouldn’t even consider” having kids without reproductive freedom.
“Jewish women are not going to get pregnant if they know that they’re going to get that scan and be told, ‘you’re forced to carry this to term and suffer and the fetus who will become a baby will have to suffer as well,’” Grossberg said.
Their lawsuit claims Jewish law teaches that human life does not begin at conception and abortions are required in some circumstances.
However, this is not settled in the Jewish faith. Other rabbis say Judaism condemns abortion, pointing to religious texts that recognize the value of babies in the womb and condemn the murder of innocent human beings, including those not yet born.
Responding to a similar lawsuit in Indiana this week, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said Americans are not entitled to a “medical intervention that ends human life.”
“Rather than avoid unwanted medical treatment or duties imposed by law that would impinge their religious exercise, Plaintiffs use religious beliefs to demand medical intervention to end human life,” the attorney general’s office wrote. “The state is aware of no case in America holding that a religious belief entitles someone to medical intervention of any kind, much less intervention that ends human life.”
Currently, 15 states, including Kentucky, protect unborn babies from abortion, and eight more are fighting in court to do so. SBA Pro-Life America estimates approximately 200,000 unborn babies will be saved from abortions every year as a result of the pro-life laws that are in effect or soon may be in effect, pending legal challenges.
Okay I am very confused. They say they are Jewish and they worship Molech and this is exercising their religious beliefs?
Rats first
I don’t get why they are whining. Kentucky shares a border with Virginia, and IIRC they permit abortions w no restrictions.
Clearly guided by a lack of faith.
“Jewish women are not going to get pregnant if they know that they’re going to get that scan and be told, ‘you’re forced to carry this to term and suffer and the fetus who will become a baby will have to suffer as well,’” Grossberg said.So, if abortion is illegal, these women won't get pregnant; but if it is legal, they will get pregnant, then abort the baby.
I guess since they are confused about their religious beliefs they never heard about the “final judgment”.
Revelation 2:9
King James Version
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan
Surprise, Surprise
Mental retardism is running rampant across this country. That and everyone using “recreational” drugs.
“Baron, 37, has two children, but faces a higher risk of passing along genetic anomalies, like the fatal Tay-Sachs disease, should she choose to have more kids, the suit says.”
So it’s acceptable to murder an unborn baby, but it’s not acceptable to get her tubes tied?
We all take a gamble when we have kids.
Forrest Gump said it best regarding the box of chocolates, you know.
And if she was so concerned about it, why did she take that gamble and have the two kids? Personally, I think she’s full of doo.
And if she’s truly concerned, she either takes extra precautions or keeps her hand over it. They call themselves pro-choice but they never exercise any other choices other than just being irresponsible.
Sometimes I walk by San Francisco’s wealthiest synagogue, the sort of temple that generations of the Levi Strauss family have attended. They posted a huge banner recently that reads: “Reproductive freedom is a Jewish value.” I’m in no way an expert on Judaism, but I suspect that folks at the temple simply equate their own political liberalism with Jewishness.
“Jewish” in Name Only
They are JINOs.
I’m sorry, I can’t find a single passage in the Old Testament, the Jewish Bible, whereby killing the unborn is stated as a Jewish Rite, or right. It’s just not there. Any lawyer worth a damn will ask these “Jewish” women to point to any passage in the Old Testament that makes their case that their religion makes the case for murdering the unborn for convenience or for any reason whatsoever.
What she doesn’t realize, apparently, is that the issue is not “reproductive health”, but about murdering babies.
Murder violates the 6th commandment.
Also worth noting is that those she included in the decision making did NOT include God, who HATES the murder of children.
Acts 7:43
King James Version
43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon
post partem?
Every Jewish baby that is aborted is a victory for the spiritual descendants of Hitler.
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