If Christian business owners cannot be compelled to violate their faith, why should the same protection not apply to Satanists? That's the argument the Satanic Temple is making to claim that, in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, women who share their beliefs should not be forced to follow some of the more restrictive state-level abortion laws to crop up in recent years. Specifically, the Satanic Temple wants women to be exempt from having to view legally mandated "informational" materials â which it calls "biased" and "medically invalid" â prior to having an abortion. Dozens of states require women to attend counseling before receiving an abortion, while 10 mandate that they receive written materials before undergoing the procedure, according to the Guttmacher Institute. "While we feel we have a strong case for an exemption regardless of the Hobby Lobby ruling, the Supreme Court has decided that religious beliefs are so sacrosanct that they can even trump scientific fact," a spokesperson for the group said in a press release. The Satanic Temple added that all women who share their belief that the "body is inviolable subject to one's own will alone" â and not merely temple members â should be free to claim the exemption. - - Jon Terbush Don'cha love it?
Why should only religions have the right? Seems like it's favoring religion. What if someone just doesn't want to? It causes psychological distress? Is that less important than letting fanciful beliefs alter policy?
They want to restrict ultrasounds, because 78% of pregnant women do not follow through with their abortions after seeing an ultrasound of their baby. When constitutional rights (LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) extend to the baby, the debate will be over....... until then the country will continue to commit infanticide at the rate of a million+ per year. Something like 56 million babies aborted since RVW. For most the psychological distress comes years later in post abortive women. The satanic temple cares zero about women.
It would appear that "the Satanic Temple added that all women who share their belief that the "body is inviolable subject to one's own will alone" â and not merely temple members â should be free to claim the exemption" include women who are not members of any religion at all. There was another report of an Islamic business that wanted to require all its female employees to wear the head covering. Why not? I'd love to see the SC hoisted on this issue.
Freedom of religion means freedom from having others' religious beliefs thrust upon those who do not share those beliefs.
I didn't know that the right to life was a religious matter. I thought that all babies independent to their faith or lack of (as if we could know), were entitled to a chance to be born.
What's wrong with a society when the person who tries to save the life of an unborn baby is subjected to ridicule and jokes and the person who would take the life is praised? Women's healthcare, that's the joke.... just call it what it is -" abortion"
Everyone loses about 30,000 skin cells per day. Each of those cells could be cloned to create more life. So every day we have like 30,000 abortions. It's a horror I tell ya. It's why the Satanists are so happy.