reports<\/a> the Dallas Observer. \u201cThey say regulations, such as those that require women seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram and examine the results, read about abortion and sit-out a mandatory waiting period, violate the temple\u2019s religious teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s legal to get an abortion in Texas,\u201d the site continues. \u201cBut the procedure is banned after 20 weeks unless a life-threatening medical condition is involved or the fetus has a severe abnormality. If a person is eligible, the state requires them to get a sonogram and receive paperwork about medical risks, adoption alternatives and developmental stages of the fetus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe state then requires a woman to wait 24 hours after receiving the sonogram and paperwork before she can go through with the abortion,\u201d the Observer further informs. \u201cThe day-long wait is not required if for those who live 100 miles or more away from the nearest abortion provider.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Satanic Temple claims that these restrictions interfere with its \u201cabortion ritual,\u201d which it says Ann Doe performed. At its website (no, I won\u2019t provide the link), it calls the ritual \u201ca ceremonial affirmation of self-worth and bodily autonomy that integrates the abortive process.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to filing its suit, the Satanic Temple\u2019s attorney had \u201csent a letter to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission\u201d demanding \u201can exemption from the abortion restrictions on behalf of Ann Doe,\u201d the group\u2019s website also relates.<\/p>\n
The \u201crequirements are a precondition to Ms. Doe\u2019s ability to participate in a religious ceremony,\u201d the group further claims. \u201cIt is a substantial interference per se for the state to place a regulatory hurdle \u2014 one that costs money \u2014 in front of a religious exercise. The state might as well tax and regulate Mass.\u201d (Actually, it had already regulated Mass, at least on a temporary basis, via COVID-19 restrictions.)<\/p>\n
As for the \u201cabortion ritual,\u201d the Satanic Temple writes that it \u201c(1) requires an abortion; and (2) affirms her [the mother\u2019s] religious subscription to TST\u2019s [The Satanic Temple\u2019s] Third and Fifth Tenets.\u201d These tenets state, respectively, \u201cOne\u2019s body is inviolable, subject to one\u2019s own will alone\u201d; and \u201cBeliefs should conform to one\u2019s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one\u2019s beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n
When performing the ritual, a Satanic Temple member \u201cwill look at her reflection, be reminded of her personhood and responsibility to herself, take deep breaths, focus on her intent and make herself comfortable,\u201d writes the Observer. \u201cWhen ready, she will say the third and fifth tenet of the temple aloud.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the baby is killed, the Satanic Temple member \u201cwould return to her reflection and cite her personal affirmation: \u2018By my body, my blood. By my will, it is done,\u2019\u201d the Observer also relates.<\/p>\n
The Satanic Temple had filed two lawsuits in Missouri in recent years that were similar to its Texas effort and had lost. Yet the group\u2019s co-founder and spokesman Lucien Greaves claims that \u201cit wouldn\u2019t be accurate to say we lost in a way that would have challenged the legitimacy of our legal arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n
While I don\u2019t know if this is accurate, there are, lamentably, dark parallels between the Satanic Temple\u2019s beliefs and mainstream prenatal infanticide advocates \u2014 and our law itself.<\/p>\n
Consider that the Satanic Temple emphasizes the woman\u2019s will, \u201cBy my will, it is done,\u201d while prenatal infanticide advocates proclaim \u201cMy body, my choice!\u201d \u2014 even when that choice is murder. But since a \u201cchoice\u201d is made via exercise of will, \u201cpro-choice\u201d is another way of saying \u201cpro-my will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then consider our schizophrenic prenatal infanticide law. A man may be charged with a double-murder if he kills a pregnant woman. Yet if that woman had lived and decided to kill her unborn baby, it would be considered her right and might be called \u201ctermination of an unviable tissue mass.\u201d<\/p>\n
This irrationality isn\u2019t hard to understand: Much as with the antebellum constitutional provision deeming a slave three-fifths of a person, our prenatal infanticide laws reflect political compromise, not moral principle. And compromise often leads to contradiction. For rightness and rationality aren\u2019t determined by majority vote.<\/p>\n
The point, however, is that our law also deifies the woman\u2019s will. When she\u2019s with child and wants the baby, he\u2019s considered human and wholly inviolable; when she doesn\u2019t, he\u2019s considered something subhuman (like a slave) that can be discarded. Her will be done. Thus is \u201cdeifies\u201d not too strong a word, for such power over life and death is to be reserved to God.<\/p>\n
But transferring it to man is a Satanic Temple goal. \u201cThyself is Thy Master. Hail Satan!\u201d is the group\u2019s apparent motto, prominently displayed on its website. Oh, the Satanic Temple claims to be \u201cnon-theistic\u201d and thus, ostensibly, considers Satan a sort of metaphor. It\u2019s said, however, that the \u201cDevil\u2019s cleverest wile is to convince us he doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
For being \u201cthy own master\u201d may suffice to advance evil. As we sometimes learn in life if touched by wisdom, after all, following our own will invites disaster. This is often because when we do so, we\u2019re not actually following our will \u2014 it\u2019s just that we\u2019re not following God\u2019s, either.<\/p>\n
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