Satanic Temple argues religious freedom laws guard members from any restrictions on “Satanic abortion ritual”

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Claiming that ending the life of a first trimester unborn baby is a religious right for their members, the Satanic Temple has issued a press release demanding that religious freedom protections exempt them from all state restrictions on abortion.

The ritual is practiced when the individual stares at themselves in a mirror during the moments immediately preceding an abortion, and recites one of the Satanic Temple’s “tenets” that a person’s body is “subject to one’s own will alone,” that “beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world,” and that a person should never “distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.” Continue reading…