Satanic Temple lands early blow in Missouri abortion law case
 

The Missouri Satanic Temple claimed an early victory for religious freedom in a case seeking to overturn an abortion law requiring a women to wait 72 hours before the procedure, undergo an ultrasound and hear a fetal heartbeat.
During Tuesday?s hearing, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith asked the state to clarify whether women were forced by law to undergo an ultrasound in order to listen to the fetal heartbeat.

?The best interpretation of that statue,? responded Solicitor General John Sauer, ?is that she is entitled to decline.?

?There is no legal requirement that she must pay for the ultrasound,? he added.

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