Satanic Temple Argues Abortion Is a ‘Religious Ritutal’ In Legal Challenge to SCOTUS Ruling

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The Satanic Temple has joined Democrats in their battle against the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade, releasing a statement that reveals they will fight in court for the right to “religious abortion.”

According to the Satanic Temple, the killing of an unborn baby as “the ultimate offering to Satan and Satanists should be allowed religious exemptions to perform abortion rituals in states that have put up barriers to the controversial procedure.

The Satanic Temple is proud to announce its Religious Abortion Ritual, a ceremony rooted in our deeply-held beliefs,” the group said in a video announcement on YouTube. “Thyself is thy master. Hail Satan!

It claims its abortion ritual is a “spiritual experience designed to instill confidence and self-worth in accordance to TST’s religious beliefs,” and it compared the “ritual” of killing unborn babies to a baptism or communion for Christians.

In states that outlaw abortion but grant exceptions for instances of incest and rape,” TST said in a statement, “members should be permitted a religious exception to perform TST’s religious abortion ritual.”

States that outlaw abortion and do not grant exceptions present more significant challenges, but TST has a number of plans that we will be undertaking quite soon,” TST said. “First, we will be suing the FDA to permit TST access to Mifepristone and Misoprostol for use under medical supervision as part of our religious abortion ritual.”

TST said it is filing the lawsuit under Federal RFRA, adding that “unfettered access” to these drugs – which are taken to terminate a pregnancy – would be a considerable step toward enabling TST to perform its abortion ritual without government interference. 

Satanic Temple joins fight against Texas abortion law
The Satanic Temple has joined Democrats in fighting the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade

Fox report: The religious organization introduced the “Satanic Abortion Ritual” to argue for a religious exception under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a 1993 federal law which made it illegal for states to interfere in anyone’s religion without demonstrating a compelling interest.

The abortion ritual, according to TST’s website, involves the recitation of two of its tenets and a personal affirmation that is “ceremoniously intertwined” with the abortion. 

Because prerequisite procedures such as waiting periods, mandatory viewing of sonograms, and compulsory counseling contravene Satanists’ religious convictions, those who perform the religious abortion ritual are exempt from these requirements and can receive first-trimester abortions on demand in states that enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” TST says on its website.  

Newspunch has reached out to TST for further comment and will update this story accordingly. 

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17 Comments

  1. They say their first commandment of you like us to do as thou will est, but do no hsrm.So I would be taking them to Court on tne grounds that their view of abortion is contrary to their fundamentalism.
    And if they can sue for religious stuff then there should be a billion Christians, evem Heaven Forbid of course, the Pope could stick his head into the thing a d due the Democrats for attacking Christian religions rights, to exercise the ten commandments and obey the Law that Thou Shall not kill. And it is a blank total statement which means Thou Shall not KILL ANYTHING. So no wars no executions no assassinations, no slaughterhouses.

      • “Do as thou wilt” is the phrase. Wiccans use “Do as thou wilt, an it harm none.” Satanists don’t care who they harm.

    • You can’t eat unless something is killed. Either you do it, or someone does it for you. Every hamburger is dead cow that someone killed. Even tomatoes die when they meet the hydrochloric acid that’s in your stomach. The only thing humans don’t have to kill to eat is salt.

  2. In this case they’re telling the truth. That is the main function of abortion, sacrifices to their demons. The problem is that 99.99% of the politicians in DC are in on it.

  3. This new information should straiten this issue out quickly. Gee, why didn’t they tell us this earlier. It would have saved a lot of time and effort by the SC and others had they known it was a religious issue.
    When do the arrests for child murder start?
    Seriously, where do these people come from? I hope they don’t have daycare.

    • Given the million+ abortions every year only a small number would likely be used in the satanic ritual. The biggest motivator for abortion is about the money. Big pharma pays big bucks for fetal tissue.

  4. There is no such thing a “right” to murder another. There is no such thing as a “religion” based – wholly or partly – on the murder others. Claiming such is merely a revelation of how ignorant and mentally broken these doomed people are.

      • This type of temper tantrum is just an attempt to get their way no matter what wisdom and morality say. These are likely the same people who demand others submit to their addiction to needles, yet say, “keep your laws off my body.” The same people who claim to be tolerant and not racist, make racial slurs toward anyone who opposes their immoral actions.

  5. Nice. That may may actually fly. All PP has to do is put up upside down pentagrams and crosses and boom, religious exemption.

  6. Nkgoo, geniş kapsamlı bilgi platformudur. Her konuda bilgi içeriği üretme amacıyla yayın hayatına başlamış referans kaynak sitedir. Ayrıca telif hakları konularına da özen gösterilmektedir.

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