The Satanic Temple (TST) has announced plans to open a third abortion facility — and they’re (sort of) naming it after President Trump.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- The Satanic Temple has claimed abortion is a religious “ritual.”
- Its first abortion facility opened in 2023 in New Mexico and is named after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s mom. Its second is located in Virginia.
- Its third facility, named after President Trump, is set to open this month in Maine.
THE DETAILS:
In a press release, the Satanic Temple announced that it will open its third facility on June 14, 2025 — Donald Trump’s birthday. The group also intends to name it “The President’s Yuge Most Beautiful Tremendous Satanic Abortion Clinic,” in similarly odd and disrespectful fashion as its previous facilities.
Their first abortion facility, opened in New Mexico, was named “The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic.” The group snidely remarked that “[i]n 1950, Samuel Alito’s mother did not have options, and look what happened.”
The second facility was opened in Virginia and was named “The Right To Your Life Satanic Abortion Clinic.”
All three abortion facilities are telehealth facilities, dispensing abortion pills to women in their respective states at no cost.
THE BACKSTORY:
The Satanic Temple claims that abortion is a religious ritual, and as such, should be made legal under religious freedom.
In the ritual, a woman reads the Third Tenet — “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone” — in front of a mirror; then, after taking the abortion pills, she recites 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.”
This ritual has been endorsed by Cosmopolitan magazine, which likewise assured its readers that the ritual doesn’t mean abortion is a “religious sacrifice,” though what else an intentional taking of a human life in the name of religion would be is not clear.
The Satanic Temple has repeatedly claimed that pro-life laws are violations of its members’ religious freedom, filing multiple lawsuits in an attempt to have them overturned. These have repeatedly been dismissed.
