Earlier this summer, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the state would be funding an abortion hotline, offering information to callers on abortion facilities within the state and transportation options for those needing to travel for the procedure. Now, records obtained by the New Mexico Alliance for Life found that one of the abortion facilities women are being referred to is operated by none other than The Satanic Temple.
In February, The Satanic Temple announced that it was opening a telemedicine abortion facility in New Mexico, and would name it “The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic.” It operates under The Satanic Temple (TST) Health, and is claimed to be the world’s first-ever “religious” abortion facility.
Women who go to TST Health’s abortion facility will have a consultation, and then their abortion pills will be sent to a pharmacy that partners with TST Health. The pills will then be sent in the mail to the woman in “discreet” packaging.
The Satanic Temple adopted abortion as one of its “rituals,” which it has frequently — and unsuccessfully — attempted to use as a tool to overturn pro-life laws. In the abortion ritual, a woman first must read the Third Tenet — “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone” — in front of a mirror. After taking the abortion pills, the woman must recite the Fifth Tenet — “Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs” — in front of a mirror again. After passing the preborn child’s body, the woman concludes by reciting a personal affirmation: “By my body, by my blood, by my will it is done.”
When the abortion hotline was announced, Madison Schaeffer, a spokesperson for the New Mexico Department of Health, told local media that registered nurses would help callers find abortion facilities, using taxpayer dollars. “They’re really experienced in terms of helping New Mexicans, you know, access health resources and doing health assessments over the phone,” she said. “We can meet somebody’s needs immediately and tell them ‘We’ve got appointments next week here and we can get you in.’”
Though New Mexico is one of the most pro-abortion states in the country, the notion of referring women to a satanic abortion facility is still a shocking notion.
“Why are taxpayers of New Mexico forced to promote the satanic temple religious abortion center through the pro-abortion governor’s hotline?” Elisa Martinez of the New Mexico Alliance for Life said in an e-mailed press release. “Is the state of New Mexico fully disclosing to women that ‘TST Health’ is a satanic ritualistic abortion center and that abortion is not a life-saving procedure or (not health care), that it involves the ending of an innocent human life?”
