Salem-based Satanic Temple says abortion is part of a religious ceremony, challenging Texas law

[boston bean]

While the Supreme Court declined to block a stringent new Texas abortion law from going into effect, the Salem-based Satanic Temple is taking its own approach to help people end pregnancies if they choose to do so.

The religious group said in an Aug. 31 letter to the Food and Drug Administration that abortion is part of a religious ritual, and preventing access to treatments that can terminate pregnancies violates religious freedom.

As such, the group claims its members should have access to mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs that can end pregnancies, without being subject to their regulations.

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[LiberalFighter]

1. What did the Jewish priests use?

[TomSlick]

8. Dust from the floor of the tabernacle.

Numbers 5:11–31

[Hortensis]

2. The RW/trumpists are all over this. Larry Elder tweeted it. Etc, etc, etc. nt

[erronis]

3. Can't this be used to override any state (or federal) laws? Religious grounds to get stoned,

etc.

Or does "religion" just mean some cult that invokes the name of christ and is sanctioned by the current establishment?

[aeromanKC]

4. Peyote

[marble falls]

5. I get it. But I don't think it's helpful.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Same

There's times I appreciate these guys, like when forcing in demonic statues when other religions are being allowed to put theirs ... where there should be no religious iconography to begin with (like government buildings) for example ... but this one is a bad look. Abortions are part of their 'rituals'? Not good.

[iemanja]

7. This won't work

It's akin to human sacrifice.