The Satanic Temple (TST) recently announced that they are raffling a free abortion to promote their “religious abortion ritual” and as part of an effort to fund their planned challenges to state abortion laws.
According to CBN News, TST claims that abortion is a vital part of its seven tenets, particularly tenet three which says that “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone” and tenet five, which states that, “Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort facts to fit one’s beliefs.”
Recently, TST has asserted that its members are exempt from state laws that might block access to abortion during the first trimester because it violates their religious rights.
They say the members’ religious rights are exempt from state laws that might block access to abortion during the first trimester, LifeNews reports. TST describes abortion as a “Spiritual experience designed to instill confidence and self-worth in accordance to TST’s religious beliefs.” Because of this, they argue that their members should not be subject to mandatory waiting periods, counseling, nonvoluntary viewing of sonograms, and/or reading material.
TST, which was founded in 2012 and claims to have 300,000 members, appeals to court rulings like the 2014 Hobby Lobby case to argue for their members’…
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