Few would argue that maintaining the environment requires killing the people who live in it, which made a mother’s claim that she did just that all the more shocking. 

Esther Kim Varet, a candidate for California’s 40^th Congressional District, recently said in an interview that she aborted two of her children. The first baby she aborted was when she was 21 before she and her husband had two children. Those two children — conceived with IVF to meet her timing, apparently — has left behind five other embryonic children being stored by her IVF provider. Most embryonic babies left in IVF storage are eventually killed. 

After IVF, she conceived a child naturally with her husband. They aborted their baby because they cared about “environmentalism” and only wanted a “boy and a girl.” 

Along with diminishing her own preborn children’s lives and humanity by saying that the abortions happened “very early” in her pregnancy, she defended her actions as necessary to protect the environment. 

For Students for Life’s President Kristan Hawkins, this amounts to “greenwashing,” something that many companies employ to imply their products are more environmentally friendly than they really are.  

Democratic U.S. Congressional candidate Esther Kim Varet used IVF to have two children. Then, at 41, she became pregnant naturally.

What did she do? She had an abortion, killing her healthy preborn baby, because she and her husband decided THEY only wanted two kids. She claims a… pic.twitter.com/lO0Ai87RyT

— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) April 26, 2026

In the case of the pro-abortion left, it’s even more extreme — the idea that anything, no matter how horrific or ridiculous it may be, can be justified by a false or exaggerated claim of “helping” the environment. 

Varet’s claims are a perfect example of how radical mental gymnastics are used by self-important ideologues to permit heinous decisions like abortion. There is zero connection between Varet killing two of her children and helping the environment. In fact, some research shows that having children actually promotes eco-friendly lifestyles within families. 

In reality, Varet and others who greenwash their abortion have very little care for the environment when choosing to kill their children. If they cared about the environment, they would oppose abortion because of the 50+ tons of Chemical Abortion Pill pollution made of chemically tainted blood, placental tissue, and human remains that go into our waterways — and ultimately our drinking water — each and every year.  

This pollution of the water with drugs that blocks pregnancy-supporting progesterone, threatening both the fertility and wellbeing of humans as well as endangered species and agriculture. 

In the interview, Varet made her true intentions painfully clear. 

“My husband and I looked at each other, and we know that for us, we’ve wanted two kids,” said Varet in the interview. 

Instead of honoring life, people like Varet are giving into fear and materialism, desperately wanting their own plans to succeed over God’s to the point that they would rather end their preborn children’s lives than risk losing it. Even the Planned Parenthood-founded Guttmacher Institute admits that most women who get abortions do so because it would interfere with their current lifestyle or plans. 

Not for the environment, not even for health reasons, but for their own personal benefit.  

READ MORE ABOUT SFLA’S PRO-LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM: 

READ: “AMICUS BRIEF ALERT: FDA Failed to Protect the Endangered Species from Chemical Abortion Pills, says Students for Life of America” 

READ: “WHAT’S IN THE WATER: Students for Life Files Comment Calling for EPA to Add Progesterone-Blocking Mifepristone to EPA’s List of Contaminants Set for Tracking” 

READ: “Students for Life Calls on the EPA to Add Forever Chemicals in Mifepristone to Contaminants List” 

READ: “What Do Animal Rights Activists and Pro-Lifers Have in Common? More Than You Might Think”