Women May Have Been Handed A Huge Abortion Rights Win, Thanks To… Satan??
With all the attacks on women's rights in this country coming from Christians, we guess it makes sense that it would be Satanists fighting back!
The Satanic Temple has been fighting a legal battle in Missouri over laws forcing women to jump through extra hoops to get abortions — making them one step closer to illegal.
Hilariously they're using the infamous Religious Freedom Restoration Act — yep, the one businesses have been using to refuse service to the LGBT community — as their central argument.
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"Mary Doe" says she was forced to view an ultrasound of her fetus and read a "life begins at conception" pamphlet — as well as waiting 72 hours — before getting an abortion.
Her lawyer argues these medically unnecessary steps shouldn't be forced upon her because she "adheres to principles of the Satanic temple" and "has deeply held religious beliefs that a nonviable fetus is not a separate human being but is part of her body and that abortion of a nonviable fetus does not terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being."
The Satanic Temple's Jex Blackmore explained:
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