Satanic Temple Fights Back Against Ridiculous Texas Abortion Laws (VIDEO)


Texas has passed a ridiculous new abortion law. They are now requiring women to pay for funerals for their aborted or miscarried fetuses. A microscopic embryo can now be treated the same as a dead person.

The Satanic Temple has stepped up to fight this ridiculous bill. They are saying that it violates their religious beliefs.

TST spokesperson, Lucien Greaves, said:

“Texas health officials are baldly imposing the view that the fetal tissue is elevated to personhood — a religious opinion that conflicts with our own. If Texas is going to treat the disposal of fetal tissue differently from the disposal of any other biological material, in contradiction to our own religious beliefs, they need to present a compelling state interest for doing so. Of course, there is no such state interest, and it is obvious to everyone that the demand for fetal tissue burial is a punitive measure imposed by sadistic theocrats. These officials deem harassment an acceptable form of pushing their misguided religious agendas.”

They are using the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to frame their argument. It basically says that someone can’t be made to do something that violates their religious beliefs. This is a law passed by right-wingers and used by Hobby Lobby during their birth control case.

They are already planning to sue if someone from their group is forced to bury a fetus, thus violating that their members’ religious beliefs without a logical, compelling reason.

Greaves also said:

“We’ll file an injunction as soon as the state tried to impose this on a member who claims exemption. As soon as that happens, we absolutely will sue, and it’s very, very difficult to imagine any plausible reasoning by which we’d lose.”

The Satanic Temple rightly believes that fetal tissue is not a person. A microscopic embryo is not a person and shouldn’t have to be treated like a dead person. It’s just another sneaky way to try and keep women from getting abortions.

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