New York Times waits until Christmas to drop profile of Baptist minister who conducts pro-abortion rituals



The Satanic Temple offers an "abortion ritual" for the purpose of "cast[ing] off notions of guilt, shame and mental discomfort" associated with the extermination of an unborn baby. The devil-branded anti-Christian group is not, however, the only game in town when it comes to normalizing and ritualizing the wholesale slaughter of the innocent.

Two days after Christmas, the New York Times detailed the work of certain supposed clerics to "show that religion could be a source of support for abortion rights."

The Times noted that Katey Zeh, the CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice who performs her activism in the guise of an ordained Baptist minister, was joined this past fall by a Jewish cantor and a Presbyterian minister, both women, for her "ritual blessing" of an abortion clinic in rural Maryland.

"You all are blessings to those who come to you for care during some of their most vulnerable and sometimes painful moments," Zeh stated in the waiting room for the abattoir.

According to the RCRC, their abortion rituals often involve prayer, the burning of sage, "abortion storytelling," music, poetry, singing, and dancing. The Times indicated that Zeh's organization has held 10 blessings at abortion clinics since 2017.

Zeh stated in January, "It has been my sacred call to share in as many places as possible the truth that abortion is a blessing — it has the power to save lives and bless them, too."

'Christians know that Satan cannot create life — he only destroys.'

The RCRC website links to the "Abortions Welcome" page, which contains a hodgepodge of "meditations, rituals, stories, and scripture curated for different parts of the abortion process," along with witches' spells. Like the Satanic Temple, there is also an abortion ritual; however, it is not characterized as a "destruction ritual" but instead wears the skin of a Jewish ceremony and is aligned with the new moon holiday Rosh Chodesh.

The RCRC — which claims to be rooted in an "antiracist movement" despite the disproportionate extermination of black babies by the abortion regime — also provides a pamphlet containing alleged prayers of blessings from various clerics, including a self-identified Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, a Unitarian Universalist minister, a rabbi, and others.

The supposed Catholic blessing, which asks God to bless the woman getting the abortion but not her child, comes from Chris Tessone, who is not recognized as a priest in the Catholic Church, which has from the first century affirmed "the moral evil of every procured abortion."

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explicitly states, "Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life."

Despite the Catholic Church's clear moral teaching on abortion, the RCRC claims that "Catholic teachings on reproductive health topics are both more complex and simpler than the ones commonly thought of as the singular Catholic worldview."

The Protestant prayer, from Marvin Marsh, a retired Baptist pastor who served as board chair of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, asks that the Holy Spirit seize upon the abortion as an opportunity to confer new gifts upon the mother. The RCRC notes on its website that "views on abortion vary widely among the 30,000+ Protestant Christian denominations," but only provides two examples defending abortion.

The activist group, which affirms the personhood of the pregnant woman but not the child growing within her, has repeatedly emphasized that it regards abortion as "sacred."

"I don't think Jesus would join the protesters outside the abortion clinic," Zeh told Newsweek in 2022. "I think that he would be accompanying patients inside, caring for them and holding their hands. That is the Jesus that I know."

"The Satanic Temple and other movements that promote abortion rights in the name of autonomy are in fact beholden to an anti-freedom," Blaze News' Kevin Ryan noted in a recent op-ed. "Christians know that Satan cannot create life — he only destroys. He may offer seductive ideas cloaked in equality or liberty, but his goal is always to eradicate the value of human life, which stands at the core of God's creation."

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South Bend cop who helped an abandoned baby meets him 23 years later — all grown up and in a familiar uniform



A baby boy was discarded in the hallway of an apartment complex in South Bend, Indiana, just days before Christmas 2000. Gene Eyster, one of the police officers who dealt with the case and did his part to provide the boy with some comfort while in the hospital, long wondered about the child's fate.

A few weeks ago, the now-retired police lieutenant was not only provided with an update but with an outstretched hand. The boy he had helped, now a man, had done more than survive. He thrived.

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'Baby Boy Doe'

The South Bend Tribune reported on Dec. 23, 2000, that a newborn baby had been discovered in the hallway of a Park Jefferson apartment building after midnight. A nearby resident, Christian Rowe, heard the child crying.

"I looked down the hallway and saw a box sitting there," said Rowe.

Rowe indicated he and his friend found a newborn shivering inside a small box, wearing a sleeping outfit and wrapped in blue-green blankets.

"I didn't know what to think," said Rowe. "We brought it inside the apartment to keep it warm."

Rowe and his friend called police, who rushed to the scene with an ambulance in tow.

"It's a heartbreaker for us," said then-Sgt. Ian McQueen of the SBPD's Major Crimes Unit.

According to the SBPD, responding officers roped then-Sgt. Gene Eyster into the investigation, who immediately began seeking answers for the following questions: "How did the baby get there? Was he kidnapped? Was it intentional? Is anyone looking for him?"

Eyster told the Tribune, "Initial examination indicated it may have been a home delivery."

"I want to find the mother and make sure she's OK," said Eyster. "After that, we'll let the chips fall where they fall. ... The priority is care and concern for the child, then the mother, and lastly if there's any criminal intent."

The SBPD indicated that Eyster worked with local media outlets to spread the word about the boy, often referred to in reports as "Baby Boy Doe."

"'Baby Doe' sounded so cruel," said Eyster. "So ... I started calling him 'Baby Jesus' since it was so close to Christmas."

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With the hunt underway for answers about the boy's origin, Eyster went out and bought a teddy bear to keep the child company in his hospital crib.

Eyster recently told CBS News that the bear was "just a symbol to let everyone that walked past know that he was cared about."

A subsequent report indicated the baby was found to be in good health and was believed to have been between three and seven days old when left in the entrance to the apartment building.

The mother who abandoned the child after a home delivery later turned herself in to police.

After the boy's medical examination, police indicated he was released to Child Protective Services whose division director at the time indicated there would be some kind of foster-care placement.

In the decades that followed, Eyster wondered what had become of the child, especially whenever he would pass the Park Jefferson apartment complex. There was no finding out, however, since the records were sealed.

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Blast from the past

According to SBPD, Eyster, who recently lost his only son, received a call from Officer Josh Morgan last month.

"Gene," said Morgan. "You aren't going to believe this."

Eyster indicated that he remembered virtually everything from his time on the force, especially the case of the abandoned baby at Christmastime.

"He's sitting next to me right now," said Morgan. "He's my rookie!"

"Baby Boy Doe" evidently grew up to become SBP Officer Matthew Hegedus-Stewart.

The department indicated that Morgan pieced together parts of the puzzle after his rookie had mentioned his adoption in infancy and his abandonment when responding to a call regarding a similar incident.

Morgan pulled the thread further, tracking down the original case report, then identifying Eyster as the lead investigator.

On March 22, Eyster met Hegedus-Stewart, noting, "You're a little bit bigger now."

CBS News indicated that Hegedus-Stewart now wears the same uniform Eyster did and patrols the exact same neighborhood.

The SBPD suggested that the rookie "has to wonder if, even subconsciously, this experience motivated him to want to pursue law enforcement."

The rookie told the retired lieutenant in person, "Thank you for everything you did for me."

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Hegedus-Stewart told CBS News it was a "full-circle moment that hit home."

Eyster noted that the timing of the reunion, just months after his son's unexpected passing at the age of 36, "couldn't have been any better to help fill a void that I've had to deal with."

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Newborn baby discovered in shopping bag, law enforcement says



Over in the U.K., Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Simon Crick said that someone who had been walking their dog on Thursday night alerted authorities after finding an infant in a shopping bag.

Temperatures in London on Thursday night were reportedly quite cold.

Crick said the individual who found the child kept the infant warm until paramedics arrived.

He said the baby was uninjured and was being cared for by hospital staff. He noted that the temporary name Elsa had been bestowed upon the child.

Crick said it is thought that the baby is either black or mixed race.

While he said it is thought that the child was under an hour old when she was discovered, it is not known how long the baby had been there when discovered.

"We are extremely concerned for her welfare," he said regarding the child's mother, noting that she would require "immediate medical attention following the birth."

He urged the child's mother to seek help, suggesting that she could call or head to a police station or hospital.

"If you are the baby's mother, please know that your daughter is well," Crick said.


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Baby clothier apologizes for firing woman who wanted to remain by her premature baby's side after his hospitalization



A Texas woman working for a baby clothing company was reportedly denied a work-from-home option that would have enabled her to both keep her job and care for her newly adopted, 1-pound premature baby.

Facing significant backlash over Marissa Hughes' alleged firing — off-brand for a company that caters to children and often blogs about ways to relieve parental stress — Ying Liu, the founder and CEO of Kyte Baby, has offered two separate apologies on TikTok and invited Hughes back.

According to a GoFundMe fundraiser for the baby's medical expenses, Marissa and Rawley Hughes of Dallas have faced incredible difficulties having children. In addition to losing three babies, Marissa Hughes has undergone nearly three years of extensive fertility treatments with no success.

The couple was nevertheless undeterred in their commitment to growing their family and raising children.

"We were also blessed to have been foster parents," wrote Marisa Hughes. "Now we feel the Lord truly calling us to step into long-term, earth-side parenthood. The Lord has laid adoption on our hearts."

Months after announcing they were adopting, the couple received a joyous call on Dec. 29 notifying them they had a 22-week-old premature son waiting for them in the neonatal intensive care unit of an El Paso hospital, nine hours away. Their baby boy, Judah Al Haven Hughes, weighed little over one pound.

The New York Post reported that due to Judah having "various health concerns," he required an extended hospital stay. Accordingly, he would not be released from the NICU until the end of March. The boy's adoptive parents wanted to keep their boy company and care for him in the meantime.

Marissa asked Kyte Baby to continue her work from the hospital in the interim, but was allegedly only offered two weeks. Since she has been at the company for less than a year, she does not qualify for the Family and Medical Leave Act, which would have otherwise afforded her 12 weeks of unpaid leave and continued benefits.

According to the Post, Hughes was allegedly told that if she did not turn up to work after the two-week period, she would be out of a job. Given everything she had done already to become a mother and the care Judah still required, the decision was evidently a no-brainer for Marissa Hughes.

Kyte Baby's owner, Lieu, later indicated she had been the one to veto Marissa's request for remote work.

Following Hughes' departure, considerable backlash against the company, and calls for boycotts, Liu released two apology videos on TikTok, reported People.

In the first video, Liu said, "I wanted to hop on here to sincerely apologize to Marissa for how her parental leave was communicated and handled in the midst of her incredible journey of adoption and starting a family."

After stressing her respect for biological and adoptive parents alike, Lieu noted that "such respect and good intentions were not fully communicated to Marissa in the discussion of her parental leave."

Liu assumed ultimate responsibility for the decision, stressing, "It was my oversight that she didn't feel supported as we always have intended."

The baby clothier noted further that Marissa will have a position waiting for her "whenever she decides to return to work" and wished the "best to her and her family."

The initial apology apparently did not go over well as critics slammed Liu for a supposedly canned and calculated response. Liu later conceded the "comments were right" and the video was "scripted," reported the Daily Mail.

In the second video, posted to TikTok on Thursday, Liu struck a less corporate tone and said, "Sincerely, what went wrong is how we treated Marissa and I'm the one who made the decision to veto her request to go remote as she stays in the NICU to take care of her adopted baby. When I think back, that was a terrible decision."

"I was insensitive, selfish and was only focused on the fact that her job had always been done on-site and I didn't see the possibility of doing it remotely," continued the baby clothier. "Having a bit of sensitivity and understanding would have accommodated her, and I did not accommodate her."

"I understand if you don't want to come back to work anymore, but we will continue to pay you as if you were working remotely for us for those hours that you proposed until you're ready to come back," said Lieu. "And your position, your original position, is always open for you when you come back."

Neither the company nor Hughes appear to have responded to the Post's requests for comment.

Hughes indicated in an update on Facebook that Judah was being transferred to a Level 4 NICU, suffering a blockage in his intestines, an infection, and holes in his heart and lungs.

At the time of publication, Judah's medical fund had raised over $69,000. Luna Aziz, the CEO of the lactation-assistance company Legendairy Milk, chipped in $5,000. Lactation counsler Karrie Locher of Karing for Postpartum also donated $5,000. The Texas-based baby clothing company Kate Quinn chipped in $2,000.

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