Touting itself as the first religious abortion facility in the world, The Satanic Temple (TST) is promoting a telehealth abortion clinic in New Mexico. Abortion is legal up to the point of birth in New Mexico, except in the cities of Clovis and Hobbs, which banned abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The clinic is aiming for tax exemption because they state abortion is an “essential part of a religious practice.” They claim to be the first abortion clinic to function as a religious organization.
The clinic is offering 24/7 telehealth appointments enabling women to quickly receive chemical abortion medications delivered to their doorsteps. The cost to end a child’s life through this organization? $91 per-pack of mifepristone/misoprostol combination. The abortion is then performed by the women in their homes without medical oversight.
These drugs carry four times the risk of complications as compared with surgical abortion, as shown in studies, and an average of 5-8% of women need emergency room visits for complications following mifepristone/misoprostol abortion.
In addition, many women report emotional consequences after chemical abortion.
One-third of women (34%) who had a chemical abortion “reported an adverse change in themselves, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and thoughts of suicide,” according to a study of post-abortive women conducted by the group Support After Abortion.
Chemical abortion now accounts for more than 70% of all abortions in the U.S. and has ended the lives of millions of America’s children since first approved by the FDA more than twenty years ago.
Preparing for the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Big Abortion has made sure the abortion pill would be readily available despite the laws or the availability of a brick-and-mortar clinic. Telehealth abortion and website availability deliver abortion on demand and, when convenient for the abortion provider, disregard laws or limits in each state.
TST Health, the founder of this New Mexico clinic, asserts itself as “a collaborative of reproductive rights advocates and abortion care providers contracted and directed by The Satanic Temple to advance its Reproductive Religious Rights Campaign. TST Health seeks to expand access to medical abortions and TST's abortion ritual.”
The TST Health abortion ritual is meant to coincide with the chemical abortion process.
This ritual was recently outlined in Cosmopolitan, a magazine geared towards young women. Part of the abortion ritual includes the woman reciting the "Personal Affirmation": "By my body, my blood; by my will it is done." The oral ritual also includes the recitation of The Satanic Temple's Third and Fifth tenets.
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TST Health encourages women to include loved ones, light candles and even dress up to help them feel “empowered” during their in-home abortions. Could this be the abortion industry’s last-ditch effort to “find” empowerment in abortion, a process that commonly leaves women with pain, regret, and empty arms?
Like others who see telehealth as key in expanding chemical abortion throughout the U.S., TST Health hopes to expand its clinic model beyond New Mexico — into states where abortion is otherwise banned.
Already the group is encouraging women in states where abortion is banned to contact them, stating “we will do our best to help you overcome challenges and get the care you deserve.”
Although mifepristone/misoprostol abortion is approved by the FDA only through 10 weeks gestation, this abortion facility, like most throughout the U.S., have taken the liberty of offering these drugs off-label beyond the approved guidelines.
The founders have struggled with funding and are depending on charitable donations and merchandise sales to overcome a slow patient interest.
Cosmopolitan reveals some of the challenges for this satanic clinic, including pushback from leaders in the abortion-rights movement and low patient turnout. As of late summer, “only 50 people had come through the clinic’s virtual doors.”
In a show of disrespect, founders have named the first clinic after a U.S. Supreme Court justice the group sadly wishes were dead. Naming their facility, “The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic" in a deliberate attempt to disgrace Justice Alito’s mother. Justice Alito drafted the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion.
The Dobbs decision has enraged some in the abortion industry.
A recent study revealed the implications of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last year.
In the first six months of 2023, “births rose by an average of 2.3 percent in states enforcing total abortion bans compared to a control group of states where abortion rights remained protected, amounting to approximately 32,000 additional annual births resulting from abortion bans," according to the study.
"In 1950, Samuel Alito’s mother did not have options, and look what happened," said Malcolm Jarry, a co-founder of The Satanic Temple. "The clinic’s name serves to remind people just how important it is to have the right to control one’s body and the potential ramifications of losing that right.”
Some comedians have applauded the move to name the facility after Alito’s mother as "the single best mom joke of all time." In an equally disrespectful act, TST Health is selling condoms with the faces of the Supreme Court Justices on them.
Alito’s mother, Rose F. Fradusco Alito, was actually very successful, not only as an educational leader but also as a wife and mother. Alito’s father, an immigrant from Italy, was also an educator, and served as well in the New Jersey legislature and the U.S. Army Reserve. Even most in the media admit it would have been unlikely for this couple to have considered abortion, even if legal in 1950.
Those in pregnancy help across the world understand that the death of a child is not a choice or a religious ritual, but rather a tragedy – something that should never be celebrated.
The child aborted was someone of great value to our world. Rather than using manipulation and lies to influence women, pregnancy help organizations work tirelessly to provide real support and resources to make abortion unthinkable now and in the future. Together our vision is a world where every new life is welcomed and children are nurtured within strong families, according to God’s Plan.
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