The Satanic Temple hopes to use the Hobby Lobby exemption to keep 'medically invalid' away from patients. Dirk Lammers / AP

An organization known as the Satanic Temple says the controversial Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision allows it to invoke a religious exemption from state-mandated informed consent laws on abortion, which it says result in the distribution of "scientifically unfounded" and "medically invalid" materials to women.

The group, which says it does not promote a belief in a "personal Satan" but rather "embraces rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions," says states that require abortion providers to give their patients materials on the procedure do so in many cases as a "bald effort at dissuading them from abortions."

The Satanic Temple says, in an “affront” to its religious beliefs, some of the materials distributed to patients by states have included mention of links between abortion and breast cancer and post-abortion syndrome, both of which the group says are unsubstantiated by the evidence.

The organization has put together a letter for women considering an abortion to present to their health care provider expressing the belief that the abortion materials and counseling being presented are motivated by politics and not science. Laws requiring women to receive pre-procedure counseling are currently on the books in 35 states.

Part of the letter reads as follows: