Satanists Seize On Hobby Lobby To Test The Limit Of Religious Freedom

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/05/01/3653655/satanic-temple-abortion-waiting-period/

 

The Satanic Temple, a faith community that ascribes to seven central tenets that track closely with humanism, is seeking a religious exemption from Missouri’s 72-hour abortion waiting period on the grounds that the law violates their sincerely held beliefs about bodily autonomy.

The St. Louis chapter of the Satanic Temple says they were recently contacted by a Satanist woman, whom they identify only as “Mary,” who is struggling to navigate Missouri’s harsh abortion laws as she attempts to end a pregnancy. She lives hundreds of miles away from the state’s only abortion clinic, and she doesn’t have the means tomake the trip twice in order to comply with the state’s mandatory counseling and 72-hour waiting requirements. So her religious leaders are stepping in on her behalf.

Satanic Temple leaders set up a crowdfunding site to raise money to help Mary cover the expenses associated with her abortion procedure. And they’re also arguing that, based on their community’s religious tenets — which stipulate that “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone” and “we should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs” — Mary should be able to get a faith-based exemption to the state’s 72-hour waiting period.

According to the crowdfunding page set up on her behalf, Mary now plans to present her doctor with a letter that reads, “I regard a waiting period as a state sanctioned attempt to discourage abortion by instilling an unnecessary burden as part of the process to obtain this legal medical procedure. The waiting period interferes with the inviolability of my body and thereby imposes an unwanted and substantial burden on my sincerely held religious beliefs.”

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Good.

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Well done to them for pursuing this, I hope this lady is able to get what she wants.

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[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

I called it, I new this will happen and it is only the beginning. Those homophobic as*holes who were blinded by hatred totally forgot about all logic just to allow people to legally be homophobic.

Now it has backfired and it will only unleash a flood gate of law suits against states. Judges will clearly side with Mary and others like her because I bet most of them don't believe in this religious freedom act.

Here we go homophobes finally you will get bitten in the a** for your hatred.

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Good for her.

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[NathanC 938]

Good that the satanists are challenging their flip side... This day and age we still have make belief in our government... Truly sad...

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

What a ****ty law. When a woman makes a decision about her body/life it is rarely a rash decision. It's insulting to tell a woman she must receive counselling (likely to be persuaded to make a decisionbased on their beliefs) and wait 72 hours as if she is a child who can't think for herself.