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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother disturbing take on the Anti-Abortion laws: Allowing religion to legislate medical procedures
It's a sign of a backwards, primitive culture when it elevates religious superstition above science. Dictating what procedures health care officials can, and cannot do, based on an invisible man in the sky is a sign that, in many parts of this country, we are a barbaric nation.
Medicine uses the scientific method, which relies upon years of study and observation. Established medical procedures are required to demonstrate its effectiveness through hypothesis testing and experimentation. It's not based some guy wearing a fancy hat in Italy nor is it based on some sweaty preacher spewing nonsense.
If the SCOTUS allows these laws to stand, it will be taken as a sign that religious beliefs must be given more legislative power than science.
klook
(12,154 posts)could become a thing of the past if the fanatics who forced Terri Schiavo to stay alive get their way.
Bayard
(22,061 posts)"Allowing religion to legislate medical procedures".
yaesu
(8,020 posts)killer cancer & other diseases, keeping them heavily medicated until their heart gives out. To me, religion is heartless, its evil, its probably the thing I hate the most in this world.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,534 posts)Jehovah's Witnesses could ban blood transfusions for everyone. After all, it's their religious believe that this is a sin.
Jews and Muslims could ban implants of pig valves for people whose heart valves have failed, because their religious texts teach that pigs are unclean.
Catholics who believe birth control is a sin could ban it for everyone.
Hindus who believe cows are sacred could ban cow parts from being implanted.
Feel free to add to this list.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Religion should have no place in government whatsoever. Absolute separation between church and state!
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Some child molesters use the Bible to rationalize their actions.
Freedom of religion?
sop
(10,156 posts)Christian Science is a return to "primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." It believes "disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health."
Yeah, that must be why the GOP is trying to take away healthcare from millions of Americans.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)a friend's parents are JW, but suddenly when the father would die without dialysis, he got it. go figure. a lot like more than one catholic mother i knew back in the day who, upon finding out their teenage daughters were pregnant, demanded they get abortions. one got an abortion at 4 months (she was too afraid to tell her mother until then). the other was 5 months along (too afraid to tell her parents). She ended up delivering twins and suddenly they were the best thing that ever happened.
religion schmeligion.
Mosby
(16,299 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)And they are going to give us this vision whether we want it or not. We cannot let that happen.
pazzyanne
(6,548 posts)must be given more legislative power than science."
The trump administration has already lead us down this path. Lots of science deniers in the MAGA camp.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)it's not even biblical. it's just a way to control and punish women.
the bible is pretty clear that women are not equal to men though. so maybe that. hate to provide this link just because of the use of the term "pro life" which I will not use as a term to describe anti abortionists, but nonetheless here is some commentary.
https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/25602-abortion-rights
sop
(10,156 posts)"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)Far past time to quit subsidizing superstition by tax code and government grants (as for religious schools and religion sponsored social services).
The young people will lead.
Stainless
(718 posts)"Light your faith and you can light the world. Set fire to the church of your choice."
It no longer seems that absurd in my old age.