Child Sacrifice

Look at the picture at the top of this page. On the left, an Aztec pyramid. On the right, a Planned Parenthood clinic. Same shape. That is not an accident.

The Aztecs sacrificed children to Tlaloc, the rain god. Priests carried small children up the pyramid steps, cut out their hearts, and offered them to the sky. Archaeologists have dug up the remains at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. This is not legend. It happened.

The Numbers

Nobody called it health care. Nobody called it a "procedure." They knew what it was: the killing of children to get something the adults wanted: rain, harvests, the favor of the gods.

We do the same thing today. We just changed the gods.

About 73 million abortions happen in the world every year. That is the World Health Organization's number, not mine. Two hundred thousand a day. Every day.

In the United States, the Guttmacher Institute counted 1,126,000 abortions in 2025 — up 21 percent since 2020, the year before Dobbs. The rate is 16.7 for every 1,000 women of childbearing age. Almost two-thirds of them are done with pills now. A quarter happen through video-call "clinics" that mail the abortion drugs.

New York spent $112,000 stockpiling 150,000 abortion pills (misoprostol the backup drug) after the 2023 Texas ruling scared the blue states. This week the state admitted every single one has expired. Not one was distributed. They'll destroy them and won't restock. California gave away 250,000 pills free; Oregon traded its expiring stock for fresh supply. New York just let them rot. Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life called it "a great victory for the pro-life movement" and "humiliating" for the stockpilers.

And the legal fight moved up a level. On September 30 the attorneys general of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama went straight to the Supreme Court, asking it to take a case against the shield laws of New York, Massachusetts, and California, the laws that protect providers who mail abortion pills across state lines. The court hasn't agreed to hear it yet.

Those are not numbers. Every one of those numbers was a child with a heartbeat, ten fingers, and a future.

The Aztecs killed children one at a time on top of a pyramid. We do it 200,000 at a time and call the pyramid a clinic.

The Parts Business

In 2015, a young journalist named David Daleiden did something simple. He put on a hidden camera and asked Planned Parenthood executives what they do with the aborted children’s bodies.

Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, sat down over wine and salad and explained how abortionists could flip a baby around in the womb—breech deliver, feet first—so the organs come out intact. Heart, lung, liver. "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver," she said.

A week later came the second video. Dr. Mary Gatter, president of Planned Parenthood's Medical Directors Council, haggling over the price per specimen with men she thought were tissue buyers. "If it's still low, then we can bump it up," she said, laughing. "I want a Lamborghini."

They settled on $100 a specimen.

Planned Parenthood said it was all legal—just "reimbursement" for costs, nothing more. Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, went on camera and apologized for Nucatola's "tone."

Then, three months later, Planned Parenthood quietly announced it would no longer accept ANY reimbursement for fetal tissue. Not reduced. Not reformed. Zero. Richards said the new policy "removes beyond the shadow of a doubt the ludicrous idea that Planned Parenthood has any financial interest in tissue donation."

Think about that. If there was never any money in it, if it was all just shipping costs and good intentions, why tear up the checks? Innocent people don't burn payment records.

The Lab Mice

Where did the parts go? Follow the money to a building in Bethesda.

For years, the National Institutes of Health spent your tax dollars—between $30 million and $120 million a year—on research using tissue from aborted babies.

The flagship project: "humanized" mice. Researchers took livers, thymuses, and chunks of lung from aborted babies, some five months old, and surgically implanted them into mice. In the journals they call them BLT mice: bone marrow, liver, thymus. Senator Joni Ernst described one experiment where scalp tissue from an aborted baby was grafted onto a mouse and human hair grew out of it.

Shawn Carney, co-founder and CEO of 40 Days for Life, has spent years outside abortion clinics, and calls the mice "a sandwich of aborted body parts." The scientists would prefer you use the BLT acronym.

On July 29 of this year, Senator Ernst got her chance. Under oath, before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, she asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose agency, NIAID, funded this work, whether body parts from aborted babies should be put into mice for research.

Fauci took the Fifth. Not on one question. On every question. A month later the committee voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.

To be fair about one thing: there is no evidence Fauci personally held the scalpel. His agency just paid for the lab. The buck stopped nowhere.

On January 22nd of this year, the NIH finally announced it would stop funding research using fetal tissue from elective abortions. In August, 40 Days for Life wrote to Senators Grassley and Cassidy asking them to investigate everything the NIH paid for before the cutoff and "whether NIH's practices complied with the laws, regulations, Congressional funding restrictions, and ethical requirements expected of our nation's public health institutions."

The cutoff is welcome. The audit is overdue.

The Money Trail

And now the money trail is getting a second look, and this one landed just last week.

One hundred twenty-eight members of Congress, led by Senators Jim Banks and James Lankford and Representative Chris Smith, have asked the inspector general of Health and Human Services to investigate Planned Parenthood for waste, fraud, abuse, and misuse of taxpayer dollars. The letter starts with the pandemic money. The Small Business Administration is already reviewing whether 38 Planned Parenthood affiliates were even eligible for $88 million in PPP loans (Paycheck Protection Program loans to help small businesses to survive during the Covid-19 pandemic).

It goes on to demand a review of every federal dollar flowing to the organization—grants, contracts, the works—and asks the watchdog to consider suspension, exclusion from federal health programs, or criminal referral if it finds fraud.

A few honest caveats, because I don't sell hype. That is a request for an investigation, not an investigation. The inspector general's office says it hadn't even received the letter as of last week. And the $88 million is a question about eligibility, not a proven theft.

But the question is finally being asked, on the record, by 128 members of Congress: what did you do with the money?

The Vaccines

Now the part nobody wants to talk about at the dinner table. What's in the medicine cabinet?

Pamela Acker is a biologist who spent nine months working in a vaccine research lab before she walked out because of what she saw. In a 2021 interview she laid out the fetal cell lines used in vaccine development: WI-38, MRC-5, HEK-293, PER C-6.

HEK stands for Human Embryonic Kidney. The 293, Acker says, is the number of experiments it took to get a working cell line. "It doesn't mean there were 293 abortions," she says, "but for 293 experiments, you would certainly need far more than one abortion. We're talking probably hundreds of abortions."

Then she says the thing that will ruin your afternoon. These are her words, and I quote her because you should hear them unfiltered.

"They will actually deliver these babies via cesarean section. The babies are still alive when the researchers start extracting the tissue, to the point where their heart is still beating, and they're generally not given any anesthetic, because that would disrupt the cells that the researchers are trying to extract."

Her explanation for why it must be done this way is that the cells must be harvested within minutes to be usable. A miscarriage won't do. It must be a live birth, on schedule.

I am telling you what she said because the vaccine makers dispute some of it. But nobody disputes that the cell lines came from aborted babies, and nobody disputes that their organs are still in use to develop vaccines.

The Ballot Box

While all of this was happening, the political machine kept the doors open.

This November 3, Virginia votes on Question 1: a constitutional amendment for "reproductive freedom." Read the fine print the way the proponents don't want you to. Today, a third-trimester abortion in Virginia requires three doctors to sign off that the mother's life or health is at stake, in a hospital. The amendment replaces that with the judgment of a single physician and "health" includes mental health. Ed Whelan, one of the country's most careful legal minds, reads it as abortion available through the third trimester, up to birth.

One month out, the fight over Question 1 has two organized flanks. More than 150 Virginia pastors (250 by one count) signed an open letter urging a no vote, with Arlington's Bishop Burbidge running a parallel “Catholics Vote No” campaign. On October 3rd a group of pro-life physicians held a Richmond press conference warning the amendment guts medical oversight. The polls still favor the amendment.

In August, Massachusetts became the tenth state, plus Washington, D.C., with no gestational limit at all. Governor Maura Healey signed it under a podium sign that read, "ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE." That is a euphemism doing its work. The Aztecs would say, "the gods demand it." We say, "health care."

The child is just as dead.

The Argument They Can't Answer

One thing the other side can't answer, and it isn't religious.

In 1989, the philosopher Don Marquis—not a priest, not a preacher—published the most cited secular argument against abortion ever written. His point is simple: what makes killing you wrong isn't that you're breathing right now. It's that killing you steals your future, everything you would have experienced, done, and become. He called it a "future like ours."

A fetus has exactly that future. To kill it is to steal its future.

The biology isn't debated. Standard embryology textbooks say a new, genetically distinct human organism comes into existence at fertilization. Not a "clump of cells," but cells with their own DNA, their own sex, their own developmental path—which left alone becomes a baby, a child, an adult. You were that. I was that. Everyone reading this was that.

They can't argue the science, so they argue the words. Rename the victim and you don't have to look at it.

What They Don't Want You to Know

I am sick to my stomach at how few Americans know any of this. Not the 73 million. Not the mice. Not the $100 specimens and the Lamborghini joke. Not the babies Acker describes with hearts still beating while the tissues are taken out.

Everything has a clean name. "Tissue." "Products of conception." "Reproductive freedom." "Health care."

The Aztecs never bothered with clean names. They carried the child up the steps and killed it in front of everyone, because they believed the gods were watching and would reward them. We do it behind clinic doors, in sterile rooms, with the cameras off and then sell the parts, grind them into the research, and vote to keep it all legal forever.

Our gods are convenience, career, and "my body, my choice."

The pyramid is still there. It just has better branding.