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(LifeSiteNews) – Religious leaders in Florida, including two “Christian” pastors, have sued to overturn the state’s recently activated 15-week abortion ban, arguing the law infringes upon their freedom of speech and of religion.
Five separate lawsuits complain that the Florida abortion ban restricts the congregational leaders’ “ability to counsel … about abortion in accordance with their faiths, since Florida law prohibits counseling or encouraging a crime,” Reuters reported.
The plaintiffs include pastors of the United Church of Christ and of the Episcopal Church, three rabbis, a Buddhist lama, and a Unitarian Universalist minister.
HB 5, which came into effect on July 1, includes exceptions in cases where a mother allegedly risks death or “irreversible physical impairment,” but not for rape or incest. The law was modeled after the 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi that came before the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case decision, officially released in June, allowed such abortion bans in the first and second trimester by overturning Roe v. Wade.
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