abortionmatrix.com Starhawk is a best-selling author and a highly regarded voice within witches' circles. She is also a licensed minister of the Covenant of the Goddess. Starhawk defended abortion this way: It is in our encounter with the mysteries of birth and death ... that we meet the Goddess. So to take away our right to have that encounter [through abortion], to face that often painful and difficult choice, is to deny a woman's deepest spiritual self. Zsuzsanna E. Budapest is a Hungarian-born witch considered to be the "Mother" of the feminist spirituality movement in the United States. She founded the first feminist witches coven here in the 1970s, the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, which served as a template for other feminist covens across the country. A prolific writer, Budapest has provided spiritual justification for abortion and offered abortion rituals in her books. In The Grandmother of Time, Budapest wrote, "Abortion is the prerogative of the Dark Mother." (Zsuzsanna E. Budapest, The Grandmother of Time: A Woman's Book of Celebrations, Spells, and Sacred Objects for Every Month of the Year (New York: Harper, 1989), 127.) "Dark Mother" is an allusion to the life-taking aspect of the goddess that always accompanies her fertile, sensual nature. Budapest believes abortion is a woman's "responsibility, making the choice of life and death as much a part of the Goddess as her life-giving good nature." As one goddess worshipping witch put it, the goddess "who whets your appetite with sexual pleasure also whets the knife." (Nevada Kerr, "Abortion as a Sacred Rite," Snuff It, no. 4) Ginnette Paris is author of the books, Pagan Meditations, Pagan Grace and The Sacrament of Abortion. She is a witch who currently serves on the Core Faculty of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. In The Sacrament of Abortion, Paris writes: It is morally acceptable that a woman who gives life may also destroy life ... whoever kills a fetus commits a murder.... (a fascinating and sobering acknowledgement of a biblical and scientific truth). It is not immoral to choose abortion; it is simply another kind of morality, a pagan one ... [O]ne can occasionally resort to abortion when it is necessary to sacrifice the fetus to a higher cause ... In the book a woman is instructed to consider the reasons behind abortion. Paris asks, "To what ideal or what set of values is she sacrificing the fetus?" Her repeated reference to sacrifice is purposeful. Her entire book can be summed up as advocating abortion as a sacrifice to the goddess Artemis. Historically, the Goddess Artemis was worshiped as goddess of birth and goddess of blood sacrifice. Abortion as a sacrifice to Artemis. Abortion as a sacrament -- for the gift of life to remain pure (Ginnette Paris, The Sacrament of Abortion (Spring Publications, POB 222069, Dallas, TX 75222, 1992) pp. 53, 56, 107 & back cover.) The post office box of an Aware Woman abortion clinic employee, Veronica Jordan, (P.O. Box 060192, Palm Bay, FL 32906) was the same mailing address for the Open Circle the Wiccan newsletter which recruited volunteers to work magic around the property of the abortion clinic. Why then, if Wicca does not promote abortion as part of their religious belief, does this newsletter recruit "abortion clinic defenders" and rally Wiccans for pro-abortion demonstrations? We see frequent Wiccan bumper stickers appearing on cars of abortion clinic workers: "THE GODDESS IS ALIVE AND MAGIC IS AFOOT" and "IN GODDESS WE TRUST." Modern Feminism What we are witnessing today is a return to ancient fertility rites -- when the gods and goddess of fertility were invoked through ritual sex -- and children were the accepted human sacrifice to ensure personal and communal prosperity. We are seeing a growing spiritual justification for abortion, a thinly veiled cover for ritual child sacrifice. An example of the spiritual deception that so often leads to the trampling of the sanctity of life can be found in a newsletter published by the National Abortion Federation. It provides an account of their 1985 national convention. One of the speakers was Carter Heyward, an ordained Episcopal priest who has been active for many years in the feminist movement. In her address she stated: "If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning." That an ordained leader of a church that supposedly represents Jesus to the world could describe child sacrifice as a sacrament or holy rite of the church without facing excommunication is a staggering illustration of the collective deception we are facing as a nation.

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