Jєωιѕн groups join Satanists in demanding legal abortion based on ‘religious freedom’ rights
A recent Florida lawsuit seeks to apply a broad new claim by many Jєωιѕн groups that legal abortion is necessary for the practice of their religion.
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(LifeSiteNews (https://www.lifesitenews.com/)) — In an apparent new strategy seeking to maintain the decriminalization of preborn child killing, a south Florida ѕуηαgσgυє filed a lawsuit against the State of Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban arguing that it violates the “religious freedom” of Jєωs.
The L’Dor Va-Dor Congregation of Boynton Beach filed the complaint (https://s3.docuмentcloud.org/docuмents/22060281/complaint-ldor-va-dor-vs-state-of-florida-final.pdf) in Florida’s 2nd Circuit Court on June 10 seeking to impede the enforcement of HR 5 (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/florida-house-passes-15-week-abortion-ban-ahead-of-key-supreme-court-case/), which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 14 and goes into effect on July 1.
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According to the filing, since Jєωιѕн law sometimes requires an abortion, the new Act impedes Jєωs from practicing their religion:
In Jєωιѕн law, abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman, or for many other reasons not permitted under the Act
. As such, the Act prohibits Jєωιѕн women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion and thus violates their privacy rights and religious freedom.
The plaintiffs go on to assert that their congregants and others “who do not share the religious views reflected in the Act will suffer additional irreparable harm by having their religious freedom under the Florida Constitution violated.”
The lawsuit also declares that HR 5 “threatens the Jєωιѕн people by imposing the laws of other religions upon Jєωs.”
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In recent years, the same general case has been made by professed Satanists, who have argued that any restriction to the killing of preborn children violates (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanic-temple-leader-seeks-religious-exemption-to-pro-life-laws-offers-to/)their religious beliefs. In 2015, the New York-based “Satanic Temple” filed (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanists-sue-missouri-pro-life-laws-violate-our-religious-beliefs/) a federal lawsuit against Missouri (https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-satanists-are-trying-to-use-americas-religious-freedom-laws-to-overturn-pro-life-legislation/), claiming that state laws restricting abortion violate their “free exercise” of Satanism.
In 2020, they launched a campaign titled “Satanic Abortions Are Protected by Religious Liberty Laws (https://announcement.thesatanictemple.com/rrr-campaign41280784),” and just last month they announced (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanic-temple-plans-to-demand-religious-exemption-to-perform-abortion-ritual-if-roe-overturned/) an attempt to circuмvent the expected overturning of Roe v. Wadethrough a “religious exemption” so that its members can continue to perform its “religious abortion ritual” every place possible in the U.S.
But according to Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, abortion is not a religious issue but rather has to be governed by scientific principles. “First of all, we’re talking about an action that is the killing an innocent human life,” the well-known priest told LifeSiteNews.
As the Priests for Life website (https://www.priestsforlife.org/letters/letters-to-the-editor-letters.aspx?group=14) explains, “The question of when an individual human being’s life begins has to be a scientific one, and the simple fact is that no modern medical text shows life to begin at any time other than the moment of conception. The fact that life begins at conception is a proven scientific fact that all the pro-abortion rhetoric in the world can’t alter.”
And since abortion involves the taking of a human life, Pavone explained, “the government can still restrict someone’s religious freedom precisely out of the duty to protect others. And in this case the state [of Florida] is asserting that interest. It’s a compelling interest, and it’s an interest in protecting human life.”
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Last month, more than 140 Jєωιѕн organizations, including (https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1526554405826441218?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1526554405826441218|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Forthodox-rabbi-excoriates-adl-as-blasphemous-and-dishonest-for-calling-abortion-a-Jєωιѕн-value%2F) the Anti-Defamation League, sponsored (https://Jєωιѕнrallyforabortionjustice.org/)what they called a “Jєωιѕн Rally for Abortion Justice” affirming the position of the L’Dor Va-Dor’s lawsuit, stating “abortion access is a Jєωιѕн value” and “banning abortions is a religious freedom issue.”
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While 83% (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/22/american-religious-groups-vary-widely-in-their-views-of-abortion/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=b5d58d2b5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-b5d58d2b5e-40) of American Jєωs believe the killing of preborn children should be legal in all or most cases, that is certainly not the case for all. In response to the Jєωιѕн Rally’s assertions, Orthodox Rabbi and longtime prolife hero Yehuda Levin denounced (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/orthodox-rabbi-excoriates-adl-as-blasphemous-and-dishonest-for-calling-abortion-a-Jєωιѕн-value/) the movement, calling it “blasphemous,” “dishonest,” “totally duplicitous,” and “totally untrue.”
After demonstrating that the same penalty for homicide is also applied for feticide in the Jєωιѕн scriptures and how this was codified as “operative law,” the New York City activist addressed these organizations by stating, “You’re free to start your own religion which celebrates the babies you murder by turning lights on buildings, etc., but don’t have the chutzpah, the temerity, to try to call this traditional Torah Judaism, because it certainly is not.”
This lawsuit comes as pro-abortion militants in the United States react to an expected overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision by the end of the month should the leaked (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-scotus-roe-leaked/) U.S. Supreme Court draft majority opinion hold.
Six days after the May 2 leak, the headquarters of a pro-life advocacy group in Wisconsin was set ablaze (https://madison.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-madison-anti-abortion-headquarters-hit-by-apparent-molotov-cocktail-vandalism-graffiti/article_526660ea-776d-50ca-9baa-4b4a9337dca7.html)with Molotov cocktails and a pro-abortion terrorist group calling itself “Jane’s Revenge” took credit (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/militant-pro-abortion-group-releases-manifesto-taking-credit-for-firebombing-wisconsin-pro-life-hq/) for the vandalism while promising to commit many more such crimes with “increasingly extreme tactics.” Explaining “we are all over the U.S.,” they threatened that “we will not stop, we will not back down, nor will we hesitate to strike.”
Since then, at least 23 (https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/06/14/report-23-pro-life-organizations-vandalized-firebombed-recent-weeks/) pro-life organizations have been vandalized across the country along with many churches being targeted (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-abort-janes-revenge-admits-to-vandalizing-four-churches-continues-to-threaten-pro-lifers/). In a recent attack in Olympia, Washington, the terrorist organization boasted of the “face lifts” they gave to four churches with their slogan graffiti message “If abortions aren’t safe then neither are you,” along with “Abort the Church,” and “God loves abortion.”
Jєωιѕн groups join Satanists in demanding legal abortion based on ‘religious freedom’ rights
A recent Florida lawsuit seeks to apply a broad new claim by many Jєωιѕн groups that legal abortion is necessary for the practice of their religion.
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Thu Jun 16, 2022 - 10:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews (https://www.lifesitenews.com/)) — In an apparent new strategy seeking to maintain the decriminalization of preborn child killing, a south Florida ѕуηαgσgυє filed a lawsuit against the State of Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban arguing that it violates the “religious freedom” of Jєωs.
The L’Dor Va-Dor Congregation of Boynton Beach filed the complaint (https://s3.docuмentcloud.org/docuмents/22060281/complaint-ldor-va-dor-vs-state-of-florida-final.pdf) in Florida’s 2nd Circuit Court on June 10 seeking to impede the enforcement of HR 5 (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/florida-house-passes-15-week-abortion-ban-ahead-of-key-supreme-court-case/), which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 14 and goes into effect on July 1.
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According to the filing, since Jєωιѕн law sometimes requires an abortion, the new Act impedes Jєωs from practicing their religion:The plaintiffs go on to assert that their congregants and others “who do not share the religious views reflected in the Act will suffer additional irreparable harm by having their religious freedom under the Florida Constitution violated.”
The lawsuit also declares that HR 5 “threatens the Jєωιѕн people by imposing the laws of other religions upon Jєωs.”
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In recent years, the same general case has been made by professed Satanists, who have argued that any restriction to the killing of preborn children violates (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanic-temple-leader-seeks-religious-exemption-to-pro-life-laws-offers-to/)their religious beliefs. In 2015, the New York-based “Satanic Temple” filed (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanists-sue-missouri-pro-life-laws-violate-our-religious-beliefs/) a federal lawsuit against Missouri (https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-satanists-are-trying-to-use-americas-religious-freedom-laws-to-overturn-pro-life-legislation/), claiming that state laws restricting abortion violate their “free exercise” of Satanism.
In 2020, they launched a campaign titled “Satanic Abortions Are Protected by Religious Liberty Laws (https://announcement.thesatanictemple.com/rrr-campaign41280784),” and just last month they announced (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satanic-temple-plans-to-demand-religious-exemption-to-perform-abortion-ritual-if-roe-overturned/) an attempt to circuмvent the expected overturning of Roe v. Wadethrough a “religious exemption” so that its members can continue to perform its “religious abortion ritual” every place possible in the U.S.
But according to Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, abortion is not a religious issue but rather has to be governed by scientific principles. “First of all, we’re talking about an action that is the killing an innocent human life,” the well-known priest told LifeSiteNews.
As the Priests for Life website (https://www.priestsforlife.org/letters/letters-to-the-editor-letters.aspx?group=14) explains, “The question of when an individual human being’s life begins has to be a scientific one, and the simple fact is that no modern medical text shows life to begin at any time other than the moment of conception. The fact that life begins at conception is a proven scientific fact that all the pro-abortion rhetoric in the world can’t alter.”
And since abortion involves the taking of a human life, Pavone explained, “the government can still restrict someone’s religious freedom precisely out of the duty to protect others. And in this case the state [of Florida] is asserting that interest. It’s a compelling interest, and it’s an interest in protecting human life.”
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Last month, more than 140 Jєωιѕн organizations, including (https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1526554405826441218?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1526554405826441218|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Forthodox-rabbi-excoriates-adl-as-blasphemous-and-dishonest-for-calling-abortion-a-Jєωιѕн-value%2F) the Anti-Defamation League, sponsored (https://Jєωιѕнrallyforabortionjustice.org/)what they called a “Jєωιѕн Rally for Abortion Justice” affirming the position of the L’Dor Va-Dor’s lawsuit, stating “abortion access is a Jєωιѕн value” and “banning abortions is a religious freedom issue.”
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While 83% (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/22/american-religious-groups-vary-widely-in-their-views-of-abortion/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=b5d58d2b5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-b5d58d2b5e-40) of American Jєωs believe the killing of preborn children should be legal in all or most cases, that is certainly not the case for all. In response to the Jєωιѕн Rally’s assertions, Orthodox Rabbi and longtime prolife hero Yehuda Levin denounced (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/orthodox-rabbi-excoriates-adl-as-blasphemous-and-dishonest-for-calling-abortion-a-Jєωιѕн-value/) the movement, calling it “blasphemous,” “dishonest,” “totally duplicitous,” and “totally untrue.”
After demonstrating that the same penalty for homicide is also applied for feticide in the Jєωιѕн scriptures and how this was codified as “operative law,” the New York City activist addressed these organizations by stating, “You’re free to start your own religion which celebrates the babies you murder by turning lights on buildings, etc., but don’t have the chutzpah, the temerity, to try to call this traditional Torah Judaism, because it certainly is not.”
This lawsuit comes as pro-abortion militants in the United States react to an expected overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision by the end of the month should the leaked (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-scotus-roe-leaked/) U.S. Supreme Court draft majority opinion hold.
Six days after the May 2 leak, the headquarters of a pro-life advocacy group in Wisconsin was set ablaze (https://madison.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-madison-anti-abortion-headquarters-hit-by-apparent-molotov-cocktail-vandalism-graffiti/article_526660ea-776d-50ca-9baa-4b4a9337dca7.html)with Molotov cocktails and a pro-abortion terrorist group calling itself “Jane’s Revenge” took credit (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/militant-pro-abortion-group-releases-manifesto-taking-credit-for-firebombing-wisconsin-pro-life-hq/) for the vandalism while promising to commit many more such crimes with “increasingly extreme tactics.” Explaining “we are all over the U.S.,” they threatened that “we will not stop, we will not back down, nor will we hesitate to strike.”
Since then, at least 23 (https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/06/14/report-23-pro-life-organizations-vandalized-firebombed-recent-weeks/) pro-life organizations have been vandalized across the country along with many churches being targeted (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-abort-janes-revenge-admits-to-vandalizing-four-churches-continues-to-threaten-pro-lifers/). In a recent attack in Olympia, Washington, the terrorist organization boasted of the “face lifts” they gave to four churches with their slogan graffiti message “If abortions aren’t safe then neither are you,” along with “Abort the Church,” and “God loves abortion.”
This will be the Title VII case of a lifetime.