But the lawsuit filed Friday by the Boynton Beach congregation also contends that the law violates religious-freedom rights. “For Jews, all life is precious and thus the decision to bring new life into the world is not taken lightly or determined by state fiat,” the lawsuit said. “In Jewish law, abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman, or for many other reasons not permitted under the act [the new law]. As such, the act prohibits Jewish women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion and thus violates their privacy rights and religious freedom.”

If it made you feel a little weepy to read that under Jewish law, “abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman, or for many other reasons not permitted under the act” you’re not alone. How sad that care for the life of women is so rare.

They mention that people who don’t share the religious views of the soon to be law will suffer “irreparable harm by having their religious freedom under the Florida Constitution violated.”

They say it “threatens the Jewish family, and thus also threatens the Jewish people by imposing the laws of other religions upon Jews.

Of course it does harm anyone who isn’t a radical extremist right wing Christian. And there is absolutely no justification for people imposing their religious beliefs on others in this country. The obvious choice is they have the right and freedom to not get an abortion if it bothers them so much (this, of course, rarely turns out to be the way these things work out as these beliefs regularly melt away when it becomes a personal problem). But they insist upon imposing this belief upon the rest of the country. And that creates a highly dangerous threat to this primary right.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of religion. It prohibits laws establishing a national religion, and so it follows that using religion to create laws is prohibited doubly. There is no national religion in the U.S.