A Florida synagogue has launched a lawsuit claiming that the state's new regulation prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks violates the non secular freedom of Jewish folks.
The regulation signed by Governor Ron DeSantis in April will substitute the earlier laws proscribing the best to abortion till 24 weeks of being pregnant. The 15-week ban, which is able to go into impact on July 1, doesn't make exceptions for circumstances of incest or rape, and solely permits abortions in case the lifetime of the pregnant particular person is in peril or liable to severe accidents, or if a fetal abnormality is detected.
The Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor of Boynton Seashore argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday within the Leon County Circuit Court docket that the Florida regulation violates Jewish teachings stating that abortion "is required if needed to guard the well being, psychological or bodily well-being of the girl."
"For Jews, all life is treasured and thus the choice to convey new life into the world is just not taken calmly or decided by state fiat," the lawsuit reads. "In Jewish regulation, abortion is important if required to guard the well being, psychological or bodily well-being of the ladies or for a lot of different causes not permitted [by Florida's law]. As such, the act prohibits Jewish girls from working towards their religion free of presidency intrusion and this violates their privateness rights and non secular freedom."
The congregation added that the brand new regulation additionally violates the best to privateness assured by Florida's structure. That is the second problem levied towards the invoice, after Deliberate Parenthood and different reproductive well being suppliers filed a lawsuit on June 1.
That lawsuit, additionally filed within the Leon County Circuit Court docket, mentioned that the brand new regulation violates the best to privateness granted in Florida's structure, which extends to an individual's proper to acquire an abortion. This identical proper to privateness was cited by Florida Supreme Court docket justices 33 years in the past to overturn a state regulation requiring parental consent for abortion.
Because the Florida Supreme Court docket hasn't judged in a case involving abortion since then, that very same proper to privateness stands to guard abortion rights.
However abortion-rights activists are actually involved that the privateness proper may very well be reinterpreted, as DeSantis appears eager on tightening restrictions on abortion rights within the state. The governor doesn't seem involved in regards to the two lawsuits the invoice is now going through.
"Our workplace is assured that this regulation will finally stand up to all authorized challenges," a spokesman for DeSantis mentioned in an e-mail to the Related Press. The 2 lawsuits are thought of more likely to be handled as a single case, based on the AP.
A listening to is anticipated within the subsequent two weeks, nearly similtaneously the U.S. Supreme Court docket is anticipated to rule on a Mississippi abortion case that may overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that has ensured the nationwide proper to abortion in the USA since 1973.
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