#5SmartReads - November 12, 2021

Hitha on the unlikely religious ally in the fight for reproductive rights, a father's perspective on paid leave, and Brooke Shields

How the Satanic Temple is using ‘abortion rituals’ to claim religious liberty against the Texas’ ‘heartbeat bill’ (The Conversation)

What happens when making abortion illegal is a violation of your religious rights?

That’s the case the Satanic Temple is making (and they are not to be confused with the Church of Satan, who actually worships the Devil).

This piece carefully examines the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (which the Satanic Temple argues that they can access mifepristone and misprostol for their abortion rituals), and the history of the Temple’s legal challenges against state abortion bans.

Time will tell if the Temple’s legal challenges make its way to the Supreme Court.