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‘Dumbest legal theory’: Pro-life attorney slams arguments that ‘religious freedom’ protects abortion

Updated: December 16, 2022 at 4:57 pm EST  See Comments

Fri Dec 16, 2022 – 4:39 pm ESTFri Dec 16, 2022 – 4:40 pm EST

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INDIANA (LifeSiteNews) — A recent ruling blocking the implementation of a new restrictive abortion law in Indiana is “insane” and based on “cockamamie legal theories” according to pro-life attorney Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society (TMS).

Breen, who serves as vice president and senior counsel of TMS, told LifeSiteNews a judge’s December 2 decision granting a preliminary injunction against SB 1, which was signed into law on August 4, “makes no sense at all when you look at both the allegations of these plaintiffs and the fact of what abortion is, which is the killing of innocent human beings.”

The challenge to the law utilized a relatively new legal strategy—originating with Satanists none the less—and involved five female plaintiffs in Indiana with a group calling themselves Hossier Jews for Choice who claimed SB 1 violated the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

The petitioners proposed that SB 1, which restricts abortion to all but several narrow circumstances, imposes on citizens what they claim to be a “theological opinion” that “human life begins at conception” when their own professed beliefs

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