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Missouri Satanist: 72-hour waiting period for abortions violates my ‘sincerely held religious beliefs’

The waiting period places an “unnecessary burden” on her religious belief that her body is subject to her will alone, she said.

“The waiting period interferes with the inviolability of my body and thereby imposes an unwanted and substantial burden on my sincerely held religious beliefs,” she said.

Her statements echo language in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, under which Hobby Lobby claimed protection in its successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate.

Under the law Mary plans to challenge, she would be required to wait three days between her initial appointment, where she must undergo counseling, and the abortion procedure.

The Satanic Temple set up a GoFundMe page to help Mary pay transportation and lodging costs to travel hundreds of miles to St. Louis, where the state’s only abortion provider is located.

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Waiting period. More like wanting.

Her body is subject to her will only. Problem is abortion isn't about her body.

What would Beelzebub do?

I think it's fair to draw the freedom to exercise your religion line at the point where you directly and definitely harm another individual. Abortion is pretty hard on the individual at the receiving end. Therein lies the rub.

Religious discrimination... of course


sad times a girl can't even practice her faith

JohnStOnge wrote:I think it's fair to draw the freedom to exercise your religion line at the point where you directly and definitely harm another individual. Abortion is pretty hard on the individual at the receiving end. Therein lies the rub.

I am glad you are now support gay equality.


Thanks JSO!!

andy7171 wrote:Waiting period. More like wanting.

THIRST!

I am glad you are now support gay equality.

There's not really any such thing as homosexual vs. heterosexual equality. Doesn't matter what we do. They're not the same thing. One, heterosexual, is the normal sexual orientation. The other, homosexuality, is an abnormal sexual orientation.

Beyond that, when I say your rights stop where you directly and definitely harm someone else I mean when you take action to harm someone else. You are not doing that when you simply refuse to associate with or help someone else. If someone punches someone else in the nose they are definitely and directly taking action to harm them. If they see someone else lying in a ditch and drive by without stopping they are not. They are simply opting not to help. Two completely different things.

People should be free to opt not to, say, cater somebody else's "wedding" for whatever reason they want whether it's because the "wedding" involves two members of the same sex or whatever other reason they have. Could be a religious reason or it could be some other kind of reason. But it should be NONE of government's business.