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Voltaire2

(13,061 posts)
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:54 AM Jan 2018

Satanic Temple challenges Missouris abortion law on religious grounds


There will be a showdown with Satan on Tuesday in the Missouri Supreme Court.

Not with Lucifer himself, but with a group called the Satanic Temple that is going to bat for a woman identified as "Mary Doe." She contends the state’s informed consent law, which required her to wait 72 hours before having an abortion in May 2015, violated her religious beliefs.

Specifically, the woman — identified in the case summary as a "Greene County resident" — says she was forced to view an ultrasound of her fetus and pledge that she read a booklet stating that the “life of every human being begins at conception.”

This despite the fact that Doe advised the doctors at the St. Louis clinic that "she adheres to principles of the Satanic temple and has sincerely held religious beliefs different from the information in the informed consent booklet," the case summary states.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/satanic-temple-challenges-missouri-s-abortion-law-religious-grounds-n839891

That sword the christian warriors are wielding to secure their right to be homophobic bigots? It cuts both ways.
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Satanic Temple challenges Missouris abortion law on religious grounds (Original Post) Voltaire2 Jan 2018 OP
This Group is well worth following TBA Jan 2018 #1

TBA

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1. This Group is well worth following
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 09:02 AM
Jan 2018

The TST is doing some very important work in the area of reproductive rights and the separation of church and state. They have an anti school spanking campaign and and campaign to challenge the "Good New Clubs" which go into the schools and indoctrinate children in evangelical Christianity.

I am not a spokesperson, just a follower.

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