The Satanic Temple has decided to use Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to scorn pro-life activists by opening an abortion clinic in New Mexico.
On Wednesday, the organization announced the launch of TST Health, which it described as “the first-ever religious abortion clinic network.” It said its first clinic will open at an undisclosed location in New Mexico on Feb. 14.
The new clinic will be named after the mother of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade last year, as a mocking jab.
The Satanic Temple claims this effort is a “collaborative of reproductive rights advocates and abortion care providers contracted and directed by The Satanic Temple to advance its Reproductive Religious Rights Campaign.”
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The temple released a flyer providing an overview of what the procedure would entail and assuring those interested that they would be made comfortable.
“The Satanic Temple’s Abortion Ritual serves to cast off notions of guilt, shame, and mental discomfort that a patient may experience when choosing to have a medically safe abortion,” the flyer said.
The temple cited two of its tenets as key parts of the ritual.
The first is Tenet III: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
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The second is Tenet V: “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.”
This is then followed by a personal affirmation: “By my body, my blood By my will, it is done.”
Interestingly, the ritual purportedly provides “something that allows you to see your reflection or imagine yourself” but does not provide an ultrasound of the unborn baby.
The organization’s news release said the facility will provide free telehealth screenings and abortion pills in states where abortion has been banned
The temple said the facility’s staff will be fully licensed medical professionals and will provide the abortion pills to those 17 and older…
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