Religious Reproductive Rights
Joining other religious organisations who have expressed objections to the many restrictions being enacted by states and jurisdictions that interfere with abortion access, bodily autonomy and other related issues that affect our members’ religious rights, the Contemplative Order of Compassion advocates for religious exemption from unlawful attempts to interfere with our religious freedom, through laws that directly violate our religious conscious by inflicting shame and conflict, despite such laws being inconsistent with scientific evidence, sound medical practice and safety standards.
Sacrament of Reclaiming the Sacred Womb
This is a sacramental ritual for women and those assigned female at birth (AFAB) to affirm bodily autonomy, self-worth, sovereignty and healing, through a sacred abortion ritual. By sanctifying the abortion process, affirming the individual’s sovereign and sacred rights to spiritual comfort, confidence and bodily autonomy when undergoing a safe, scientific procedure under the care of a qualified medical professional, this is one of the highest sacraments offered in our church.
Standing in solidarity with other spiritual and religious institutions in the assertion that the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court is a direct violation of religious liberty, the Contemplative Order of Compassion firmly asserts religious exemption from the unjust and inhumane SCOTUS decision on the basis that our Sacramental Ritual of Bodily Autonomy & Reproductive Freedom is a protected freedom under the Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause.
The Free Exercise Clause protects citizens’ right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a “public morals” or a “compelling” governmental interest.
Just as Religious Scientists cannot be compelled to rely on hospitals or medical treatment; Jehovah’s Witnesses cannot be compelled to receive blood transfusions; and Jews cannot be compelled to work on their Sabbath; members of the Contemplative Order of Compassion shall not be compelled to refrain from one of the most solemn sacraments available to women and persons assigned female at birth.
