Supreme Court Rejects Satanic Temple Case Challenging Missouri Abortion Law

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On Nov. 23, the Satanic Temple's lawsuit against the state of Missouri challenging its 72-hour waiting period law was rejected by the Supreme Court. There were too few Supreme Court Judges who believed that the lower courts' decisions needed to be reviewed, so Missouri's law will stay in place.

The Satanic Temple's 2019 lawsuit claimed that abortion is a key part of their religion's beliefs, and restricting it forced the 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.”

Earlier in the month, the Satanic Temple also attempted to have Justice Barrett forcibly recused from the case, due to her supposed incapability of making an impartial decision in a case related to abortion.

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