Posted on 02/16/2023 10:45:26 AM PST by Morgana
A Montana Democrat lawmaker recently proposed a bill that would allow pregnant mothers to abort their unborn babies for “religious freedom” reasons even if state law limits or bans abortions.
Newsweek reports Montana House Bill 471 is a project of state Rep. Ed Stafman, a Democrat and a Jewish rabbi who believes the law should respect “divergent and deeply held” beliefs about “when human life begins, bodily autonomy and when abortion is allowable.”
In other words, individuals should get to decide when their unborn babies’ lives are valuable and when they are disposable, not the law.
Stafman’s bill would amend a state law that protects pro-life doctors and nurses from being forced to abort unborn babies. It adds a pro-abortion exception that would allow pregnant mothers to abort their unborn babies in the first and second trimesters for “religious freedom” reasons even if state laws protect unborn babies from abortion at these stages.
“At any time during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy, a pregnant woman has the right to obtain an abortion from a willing health care provider, even when the abortion is prohibited by this chapter or otherwise prohibited under the laws of this state, if the woman seeks the abortion in accordance with the woman’s sincerely held religious tenets,” the bill states.
Stafman did not explain why the exception only applies to the first and second trimesters. Someone could argue that his amendment discriminates against religious beliefs that support aborting unborn babies for any reason up to birth.
Montana law allows unborn babies to be aborted for any reason up to 20 weeks. Because of a state Supreme Court ruling, state lawmakers have struggled to pass and enforce stronger protections for unborn babies.
Republicans control the state legislature, so Stafman’s bill has little chance of passing. Still, it is scheduled for a hearing Feb. 17 before the state House Judiciary Committee, according to the report.
“My bill seeks to say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. So if we’re going to protect the religious rights of folks to not participate, we ought to also protected religious rights of pregnant women,” he told Newsweek. “So that regardless of what other restrictions may exist in the law, or come into existence at some later point, there is a religious out just like there is for the health care worker.”
Defending the killing of unborn babies in abortions on religious freedom grounds is a new strategy of the pro-abortion movement. Several pro-life states currently are facing lawsuits from The Satanic Temple, as well as women and groups who profess to be Christian and Jewish, that challenge their abortion bans on religious freedom grounds.
Well Ed Stafman you have shown me and the world what god you worship.
You are of your father the devil
We can’t live with these people anymore. I see a breakup coming.
Satanic worshippers would agree.
Well, Rebbe, deciding which people were “lebensunwerten Lebens” worked out so well for your co-religionists last time around . . . I’m sure though, that this time will be different . . . right?
Are democRAT State Representatives human?
Hmmmm... Can I make Stafman my prisoner of war for my Aztec Sun God worship?
I mean, freedom of religion, no? And Aztec religion tells us if we don’t offer beating hearts to the Sun god, our crops will fail.
Can’t have people starving!
Lord Have Mercy!
Somebody needs to ask Rabbi Stafman if he believes jihadis killing Jews is exercising religious freedom ....
If they’d extend that to leftist adults, I’m in.
liberals engaging in stompy-foot hissy fits over the fact that it’s no longer a ‘constitutional right nationwide’
Only Baal worshipers would agree with this.
Well ... Democrats ... often same same.
Well Rabbi, you must know the eradication of 6 million Jews was a Theosphist religious practice, right?
Moloch worship is alive and well today, just as it was in the high places in ancient Israel. Some Jews in ancient times fell away from Jehovah, too, and sought out Moloch.
Freedom by killing unborn American babies is acceptable to a Jewish Rabbi legislator. Logic in that line of thought is incomprehensible. Ask Holocaust survivors.
wow, its a democrat who said that! and take off the yamaka, that doesn’t make you a believer in the Creator
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