{"id":65301,"date":"2015-06-24T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=65301"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:21:43","slug":"satanic-temple-files-new-lawsuit-missouri-pro-life-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/satanic-temple-files-new-lawsuit-missouri-pro-life-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Satanic Temple files new lawsuit against Missouri pro-life laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a press release <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/satanic-temple-will-file-federal-lawsuit-against-missou-1713319365\">sent to the pro-abortion blog Jezebel<\/a>, the Satanic Temple has announced that on Tuesday it filed a new federal lawsuit over Missouri\u2019s 72-hour waiting period and informed-consent requirements for abortion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/tag\/satanic-temple\/\">previously reported<\/a> on the group\u2019s prior attempt to challenge Missouri law in state court, which claimed the 72-hour waiting period poses an \u201cunnecessary burden\u201d and \u201coffends [Satanists\u2019] sincerely held religious beliefs.\u201d The new suit reiterates their position that having to wait to abort \u201cviolates our right to free exercise,\u201d but primarily focuses on informed consent, arguing that it violates the First Amendment\u2019s prohibition on government establishment of religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, the state materials declare fetal tissue \u2014 in utero, not viable, and starting at conception \u2014 to constitute a \u2018unique human being with a life of its own, separate and apart from the woman whose uterus it occupies,\u2019\u201d Satanic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/unmasking-lucien-greaves-aka-doug-mesner-leader-of-the-satanic-temple\">also known as Doug Mesner<\/a>) said. \u201cThe question of when life begins is absolutely a religious opinion, and the state has no business proselytizing religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/bill-nye-embryology-science-denier\/\">frequently covered<\/a>, statements such as the one Greaves calls \u201creligious opinion\u201d can be found in many mainstream scientific textbooks. <em>The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology<\/em> by Dr. Keith Moore says that \u201cA zygote is the beginning of a new human being,\u201d while in <em>The Human Reproductive System<\/em>, Dr. Morris Krieger writes that \u201cthe human being\u2026begins life as a fertilized ovum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release sent to the pro-abortion blog Jezebel, the Satanic Temple has announced that on Tuesday it filed a new federal lawsuit over Missouri\u2019s 72-hour waiting period and informed-consent requirements for abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":51015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,546,3850,3671,715,3794,2674,2552,3621,1502],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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