This is one of the “most important” steps taken by the Satanic Temple, an American organization based in New York that has become famous for successfully erecting a monument to Baphomet–a representation of Satan. According to a statement posted on their website on February 1, with this new clinic they intend “to enable members to have access to safe and legal abortions, regardless of where they live or their financial situation.” Although it will initially be a “telehealth” center, the Satanic Temple anticipated having physical facilities in New Mexico, where abortion remains legal statewide, with no prohibitions or limits. In this regard, they state that they “have licensed medical personnel available to state residents who are at least 17 years old, pregnant with babies no more than 11 weeks of gestation, and who are medically fit for an abortion.”
The proposed religious abortive ritual of the Satanic Temple is in line with the Satanists’ main purpose: to eliminate all Christian morality from any legislation and any corner of public space. The opening of abortion clinics, where satanic abortion rituals are offered, is not only “one of the organization’s most important steps,” but also a “counterattack” to the repeal of Roe v. Wade and, with it, to the severe blow to abortion in the United States. The online clinic will also provide abortion pills by mail to those “who wish to perform The Satanic Temple’s religious abortion ritual.”
The name chosen for the first Satanist abortion clinic is “Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic,” an obvious reference to Justice Alito, the author of the sentence that overturned Roe v. Wade in the United States last June. Erin Helian, executive director of campaigns and director of religious reproductive rights at the Satanic Temple, explained to the Daily Caller News: “Before 1973, doctors who performed abortions could lose their licenses and go to jail. In 1950, Samuel Alito’s mother did not have options. 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.”
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