Editing The Satanic Temple (section)

===Planned Parenthood counter-protests===
[[File:Future of Baby is Now wide Blackmore 15.png|thumb|"Future of Baby is Now", an abortion rights protest by The Satanic Temple]]
On August 22, 2015, the Detroit chapter of the Satanic Temple held a [[counter-protest]] outside of a [[Ferndale, Michigan|Ferndale]] [[Planned Parenthood]] location in response to anti-abortionist groups that were planning to protest Planned Parenthood on that same date.<ref>{{cite web |last=DeVito |first=Lee |date=August 24, 2015 |title=The Satanic Temple countered Planned Parenthood protests with some guerrilla theatre |url=https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2015/08/24/the-satanic-temple-countered-the-planned-parenthood-national-day-of-protest-with-some-guerrilla-theatre |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028204533/https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2015/08/24/the-satanic-temple-countered-the-planned-parenthood-national-day-of-protest-with-some-guerrilla-theatre |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |access-date=November 29, 2018 |website=[[Detroit Metro Times]]}}</ref> As part of the protest the Temple held a [[guerrilla theatre]] [[performance art|performance]] that included two men dressed as clergy pouring milk on kneeling actresses.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boland |first=Barbara |date=August 23, 2015 |title=Satanists drench women with milk for Planned Parenthood counter-protest |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/satanists-drench-women-with-milk-for-planned-parenthood-counter-protest |access-date=November 29, 2018 |website=[[Washington Examiner]]}}</ref> This was not the first protest of this type that the Temple had held in support of the organization, as they had previously held a 2013 protest where they brought children to the [[Texas State Capitol]] who chanted "Fuck You" and "Hail Satan", while holding signs reading "Stay Out Of My Mommy's Vagina".<ref>{{cite web |date=August 26, 2015 |title=Planned Parenthood Supporters: Satanists Drench Women in 'Breast' Milk To Stand Against 'Forced Motherhood' (VIDEO) |url=http://www.hngn.com/articles/123118/20150826/planned-parenthood-satanists-drench-women-breast-milk-stand-against-forced.htm |access-date=November 29, 2018 |website=Headlines & Global News}}</ref>

On April 23, 2016, led by [[Jex Blackmore]], members of the Detroit chapter of the Temple counter-protested the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society's protest of Planned Parenthood. Temple members dressed in bondage [[fetish clothing]], wearing baby masks and diapers while engaging in [[flagellation]]. The Temple said that the reason for the protest was to "expose the anti-choice protest as an act of fetal [[idolatry]], highlighting the fetishization and abstraction of the 'baby.'"<ref>{{cite web |last=Zavala-Offman |first=Alysa |date=April 23, 2016 |title=The Satanic Temple will interrupt Planned Parenthood protests in classic Satanic Temple fashion |url=https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2016/04/23/the-satanic-temple-plans-to-interrupt-some-planned-parenthood-in-classic-satanic-temple-fashion |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130071810/https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2016/04/23/the-satanic-temple-plans-to-interrupt-some-planned-parenthood-in-classic-satanic-temple-fashion |archive-date=November 30, 2018 |access-date=November 29, 2018 |website=Detroit Metro Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Utz |first=Charlie |date=2018-10-31 |title=Meet Satanist activist and performance artist, Jex Blackmore |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/42000/1/satanist-activist-performance-artist-jex-blackmore-america-detroit-good-trouble |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref>