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The Satanic Temple Leverages Hobby Lobby Ruling to Claim Exemption From State Mandated Pro-Life Materials as First Initiative in Ambitious Women’s Health Campaign
Informed consent bills requiring abortion providers to give their patients official “informational” material regarding the procedure have been criticized in the past for providing biased and false information to women in a bald effort at dissuading them from abortions. Such materials have included claims of a link between abortion and breast cancer, as well as claims regarding a depressive “post-abortion syndrome,” both of which The Satanic Temple view as “scientifically unfounded” and “medically invalid” and therefore an affront to their religious beliefs.
“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. This was made clear when they allowed Hobby Lobby to claim certain contraceptives were abortifacients, when in fact they are not. Because of the respect the Court has given to religious beliefs, and the fact that our our beliefs are based on best available knowledge, we expect that our belief in the illegitimacy of state mandated ‘informational’ material is enough to exempt us, and those who hold our beliefs, from having to receive them.”
originally posted by: BritofTexas
Hopefully this will reach the Roberts Court and help block his and his cronies march to establishing Catholicism as the state religion.
originally posted by: amazing
The hobby lobby ruling paved the way for this. What will be more horrifying to the duck hunting crowd is when Muslims start winning law suites for Sharia law!
originally posted by: jjkenobi
a reply to: BritofTexas
The irony here is the government shouldn't be involved in any of this in the first place. All these ensuing arguments and divisiveness has resulted from giving the government too much control.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Well this looks interesting. I'm waiting for the Pro-Hobby Lobby ruling crowd to come in and say that this isn't the same thing and it should be struck down for [insert biased reason to hate satanism].
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: NavyDoc
This whole situation is a slow-moving train wreck. It is only going to get more and more complicated as lawyers try to dance around legal definitions to please one group or another while trying not to look like hypocrites. Of course the people on both sides of the issue will do that for them. That Hobby Lobby ruling really opened up a HUGE can of worms and the people will suffer, as usual, while the courts screw the law up even worse than it already was (instead of just flat out overturning it as unconstitutional).