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In reply to the discussion: Indiana appeals court uses Mike Pence's religious liberty law to block abortion ban [View all]Hekate
(98,993 posts)29. These religions already exist, the Old Religion among them. 🌙 In addition Judaism, as my late MIL asserted strongly...
holds that the womans well-being is primary. How did she put it, while Randall Terry was romping around terrorizing women at clinics? You dont cut down the tree to save the branch, is what she said. Put another way, the fetus must draw breath and if you want Scripture for that, its because God blew breath into a clay figure, and Adam became a living soul.
In short, she thought American hysteria on the subject of womens reproductive care was stupid, and this was a woman who was born in 1914.
Many traditions around the world hold that a fetus is not ensouled until and unless it draws breath. But they tend to be polytheistic, so what would they know, right?
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Indiana appeals court uses Mike Pence's religious liberty law to block abortion ban [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Apr 2024
OP
Isn't religious liberty about believing what you want while not interfering with others?
bucolic_frolic
Apr 2024
#4
These religions already exist, the Old Religion among them. 🌙 In addition Judaism, as my late MIL asserted strongly...
Hekate
Apr 2024
#29
It's difficult to reason with people who are convinced that the US was founded as a Christian nation...
Hekate
Apr 2024
#32
Wish I could say Thomas and Alito were spinning in their graves over this decision
rpannier
Apr 2024
#18
To me, these abortion bans are a violation of women's civil, and religious rights.
patphil
Apr 2024
#22