Tue Jun 21, 2022 – 9:24 pm EDTTue Jun 21, 2022 – 9:25 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — With a south Florida synagogue filing a lawsuit against the state of Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban — arguing that it violates the “religious freedom” of Jews — Fr. Frank Pavone challenged the proposition and explained how it remains “off point.”
The well-known national director of Priests for Life was speaking to a complaint filed June 10 by the L’Dor Va-Dor Congregation of Boynton Beach that seeks to impede the enforcement of HR 5, the state’s new 15-week abortion ban signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 14 and goes into effect on July 1.
Utilizing a seemingly novel argument for individuals identifying as Jewish, the synagogue’s filing proposed that HR 5’s further restriction on the killing of preborn children was an imposition against the practice of their religion:
In Jewish 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 [HR 5]. As such, the Act prohibits Jewish women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion and thus violates
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