Satanic Temple statue<\/p>\n
Cosmopolitan was always the trashiest of the ladies\u2019 magazines one could pick up at your local Shop-Rite check-out aisle, but the dying of print and the squeeze put upon whatever shopping lane business they were still doing by self-checkout apparently has the editors over at Cosmo pretty desperate these days.<\/p>\n
So, they decided it was high time to profile Samuel Alito\u2019s<\/a> Mom\u2019s Satanic [Abortion] Clinic. Seriously.<\/p>\n \u201cSamuel Alito\u2019s Mom\u2019s Satanic Abortion Clinic. Does it sound like pure clickbait? Sure,\u201d the writers admitted in the piece<\/a>, published Nov. 14.<\/p>\n \u201cBut beneath the outlandish branding lies a sincere mission: The New Mexico\u2013based telehealth practice, a legitimate medical entity run by an accredited clinical team, offers abortion care to patients within state lines.<\/p>\n \u201cThe staff prescribes abortion pills (at $91 per set, a competitive price) up until the eleventh week of pregnancy and offers 24\/7 phone access to licensed medical personnel to anyone in need. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re also Satanists, members of a religious organization called The Satanic Temple.\u201d<\/p>\n The Temple<\/a>, Cosmo said, \u201cchose New Mexico for a few reasons. It has about 3,300 members in the state, a robust base of potential need. New Mexico is also considered an abortion-rights stronghold, lacking oppressive laws dictating gestational limits, age restrictions, waiting periods, and mandatory \u2018counseling.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cHere, unlike in neighboring states Texas and Oklahoma, it\u2019s still legal for doctors and nurse practitioners to prescribe abortion pills remotely and have them mailed to patients for safe use at home,\u201d the report said. \u201cAnyone traveling to New Mexico from out of state can use a P.O. box or a friend or family member\u2019s address \u2014 even a hotel\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n My initial (flippant, sardonic) reaction was that the abortion mill industry had always been satanic and its high time satanists themselves got a bit of the action. Where\u2019s the representation here, people? Planned Parenthood may be doing the work of the devil, but how many devil-worshippers are filling key roles in the organization? Check your demonic privilege, PP.<\/p>\n Anyway, like the usual establishment media reports on anything related to the Satanic Temple<\/a>, Cosmo is quick to point out \u201cthat Satanists don\u2019t actually worship the devil\u201d and \u00a0that its \u201croughly 1.5 million global members view Satan more like a mascot, one depicted not as a dark, omniscient deity but as a literary character.\u201d<\/p>\n A literary character who acts, um, a lot like the devil. As popular YouTuber Ruslan KD noted, it was \u201cthe most demonic thing I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n