What’s good
for the Red State Hillbilly superstitious laws regarding Women’s Health Care is
good also to all others regarding the best possible scientific options as
opposed to the superstitious “Christian” options of these third word states.
In a
statement, the Satanic Temple said that it will use the Supreme Court’s recent
Hobby Lobby decision to exempt its believers from state-mandated informed
consent laws that require women considering abortions to read pro-life
material.
Informed
consent or “right to know” laws state that women seeking elective abortions be
provided with information about alternatives to the procedure, often couched in
language that attempts to personify the fetus. According to the Guttmacher
Institute, 35 states currently have informed consent laws, and of those, 33
require that the woman be told the gestational age of the fetus.
In some
states, that information consists of pro-life propaganda that links abortion to
a higher incidence of breast and ovarian cancers, or discusses “post-abortion
syndrome,” a mental condition not recognized by any major medical or
psychiatric organization.
Because the
Satanic Temple bases its belief “regarding personal health…on the best
scientific understanding of the world, regardless of the religious or political
beliefs of others,” it claims that state-mandated information with no basis in
scientific fact violates its “religious” beliefs.
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