One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
The third tenet, and the one the Temple has litigated hardest. It is the basis of its religious-liberty claims against abortion waiting periods and mandated ultrasound scripts, and of its exemption campaign against corporal punishment in schools.
The third tenet — one's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone — is the sentence the Satanic Temple has litigated hardest and the clearest illustration of its method. It was the basis of religious-liberty claims against Missouri's seventy-two-hour abortion waiting period and its mandated informed-consent script, brought on the argument that a state which grants religious exemptions cannot grant them only to the religions it likes. It is the basis of the Protect Children Project, which offers members religious exemption from corporal punishment in schools. The claims have had mixed results in court and several were dismissed on standing or procedural grounds. The strategy does not depend on winning: each filing forces a court to say why this religion's exemption is different from the ones already granted.
One's body is inviolable, subject to one's own will alone.
The Satanic Temple, the Seven Fundamental Tenets, IIIThe tenet underlying the Temple's abortion-access and corporal-punishment litigation.
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