“This is evil.” Fr. Sam French, a young priest with a significant following on Instagram, recently posted these remarks in response to the resurfacing of a 2022 video created by a misguided woman who demonstrates steps that she recommends women take as they prepare to kill their baby with the abortion pill.
Yes, she created an altar to celebrate the act that will kill a preborn baby. With the increased use of abortion pills—as almost 70% of abortions are done via the abortion pill regimen—we cannot ignore posts like this, and they serve as potent reminders of the sick abortion mentality taking over our country today.
In the video, the woman, who calls it a “sacred abortion experience,” begins by saying that “building an altar for your abortion [is] a beautiful way to give reference to your experience.” Sitting on the floor with several objects around her, she speaks of including things like oils, photos, candles, and even the abortion pills themselves. She then recommends adding sage to “bless” the pills.
The woman also suggests adding a vessel to hold the “products of conception or fetal remains”—her dead baby—until the mother finds a way to “properly dispose” of this child’s remains.
As I watched, I couldn’t help but feel disgust, anger, and incredulity. But mostly I just felt sad. How did our society get to the point where a woman could think so little about the tiny human being growing inside her that she not only makes a mockery of the Catholic faith—as she claims “I work a lot with the Mary Guadalupe or Mother Mary energy”—but she makes a mockery of human life itself?
Yes, this truly is evil. As 1 Peter warns, “Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for [someone] to devour.”
Nowhere is this more evident than on an altar to abortion.
A mother’s job is to protect her child. Yet society wants us to believe that she has a “right” to kill her preborn child.
There is no such right.
The creation of an altar to abortion illustrates just how misguided and warped many in our society have become. And I have to wonder what the mother will think as she stares into the jar with her dead baby’s tiny and bloody body. Does reality hit when she sees his little hands and feet? Does she see a bit of herself when she looks into his beautiful face?
What a truly sad and disturbing moment that must be.
Some may say that we should not draw attention to this woman or to her sick altar, but I disagree. We must acknowledge that this kind of evil exists. We cannot bury our heads in the sand and ignore actions like this, as we can use them as teaching moments for those who do not yet see the humanity of the preborn baby.
One of the first steps to conquering evil is identifying it.
For a long time we have lived in a world where people say “live and let live,” and now the line between good and evil has become so blurred that many cannot even identify what is in fact evil.
As Fr. Mark-Mary Ames said in an Ascension video about morality, there are “certain actions which by their very nature are intrinsically evil.” These include the intentional taking of an innocent human life. That is the purpose of every abortion.
So how are we to get from a place where people think that an abortion altar is a good to teaching them that killing a baby is intrinsically evil? If they are ever to understand this, they must see the humanity of the preborn baby and work selflessly to protect him. That truth is one we must teach to our friends and family, to those who scream for “bodily autonomy,” and to our children as they grow.
Like all people, our children must understand the science that proves that a new human being is created the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg and that from then on this new little person is growing exponentially every day.
They must understand that a child growing in his mother’s body is not part of her body but simply residing in it.
They must understand that children are gifts.
Once they understand these truths, they will see that killing a preborn child is murder.
However, this understanding requires a radical shift in our culture, and it won’t be easy because, as Fr. Sam rightly says, “abortion has become the sacrament of Satan.”
Satan rejoices when a mother sacrifices her child at the altar of abortion. Satan rejoices when a mother shouts “My body, my choice”—a veritable slap in the face to Jesus’ words at the Last Supper when He offered up His body to save us.
The child growing in his mother’s body has his own body and his own soul. He is not a choice; he is a human being.
And so we must pray. Pray for the moms who are contemplating abortion. Pray for the women who think an altar to abortion is a good. Pray that the blinders are lifted from our collective eyes and we stop glorifying the slaughter of the innocents.
We all have the responsibility to stand up and protect the vulnerable, for as Jesus taught, “Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”
When we meet Christ face to face and He asks how we protected His little ones, will we say we did everything in our power to protect them, or will we say we turned a blind eye and allowed the evil to continue?
If we don’t speak up when we see atrocities like this video, if we ignore the horrors pushed on young people through social media, and if we continue to “live and let live,” the blood of the innocent will be on our hands too.
This article first appeared in LifeNews at lifenews.com/2025/05/28/woman-builds-altar-to-celebrate-killing-her-baby-in-abortion.
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