U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Satanic Temple’s Pro-Abortion Appeal in Missouri

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The Satanic Temple briefly parked a statue of baphomet — a satanic figure — in front of the Arkansas State Capitol Building as part of a demonstration in August of 2018.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected a lawsuit from The Satanic Temple attacking pro-life laws in Missouri.

Live Action reports,

The announcement was released by the Supreme Court late last month, refusing to grant certiorari, meaning there weren’t enough justices on the Supreme Court who felt the case merited a review of previous court rulings. The Satanic Temple first filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn Missouri’s 72-hour waiting period law in 2018, which was dismissed by the Eighth Circuit Court. Another lawsuit was filed in 2019 on similar grounds, on behalf of an anonymous woman, “Judy Doe,” claiming the laws violated TST’s religious freedom. Doe and TST claimed Missouri’s laws were “forcing Plaintiff to act and forgo acting in a manner that violates her belief in The Satanic Tenets as a condition for getting an abortion in Missouri.”

The Satanic Temple has begun calling abortion a “religious rite” in recent years, seemingly in an attempt to skirt pro-life laws like the one in Missouri. The Temple’s abortion “ritual” consists of making affirmations in front of a mirror before and after the procedure.

In September The Satanic Temple sued Lamar Advertising after the media company rejected pro-abortion billboards that the group wanted to place near pregnancy resource centers in Arkansas and Indiana.

The billboards claimed The Satanic Temple’s “religious abortion ritual averts many state restrictions” on abortion.

So far The Satanic Temple has not been successful at convincing federal courts that abortion is a religious ritual. That bodes well for the lawsuit against Lamar over the billboards in Arkansas.

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Pro-Abortion U.S. Reps. Want to Repeal Pro-Life Hyde Amendment

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Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute are teaming up with liberal members of Congress in calling for the repeal of the pro-life Hyde Amendment in 2021.

The Hyde Amendment is a provision in the federal budget that prevents Americans from being forced to fund abortion procedures with their tax dollars. It contains exceptions for cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s life or physical health are in jeopardy.

Every year since 1976 Congress has attached some version of the Hyde Amendment to the federal budget to prevent taxpayer-funded abortion.

But Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D – Connecticut), the newly elected chair of the House Appropriations Committee in Congress, says the Hyde Amendment will not appear on next year’s budget in the U.S. House.

Several pro-abortion groups — including Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher Institute — have issued statements supporting removal of the pro-life Hyde Amendment from the federal budget.

Here’s the truth:

Public opinion polling has shown again and again that Americans don’t want to pay for abortions with their tax dollars.

For years the Hyde Amendment was viewed as a reasonable compromise between pro-life and pro-abortion congressmen, but it’s clear that pro-abortion groups no longer see it that way.

Without the Hyde Amendment, even if you don’t support abortion and you don’t have an abortion, you could still be forced to pay for an abortion with your taxes.

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