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Posted on 06/14/2026 1:35:31 PM PDT by Morgana
YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, who announced June 3 that he and his wife had aborted their unborn son because the baby tested positive for Down syndrome, addressed his pro-life critics and people using “God and Jesus as their weapon.” The Ridgways have gone viral and made national headlines because of their decision.
“A lot of the pro-life people are wishing death upon me and my wife, which is hypocritical,” he said in a video posted to X June 10. “And a lot of them use God and Jesus as their weapon and their justification, but like, it doesn’t matter to me because I’m not religious.”
“I don’t believe in God,” he said. “I don’t believe in the Bible. Like, I haven’t since I was 8 years old, and then I learned science, and I was like, ‘Well that makes more sense.’”
Jesse Ridgway: What About Forgiveness?
Jesse Ridgway is a filmmaker and digital creator who rose to fame through his viral, multi-year scripted YouTube mockumentary, “The Psycho Series.” Alongside his wife, Ashley, who frequently co-stars in his videos, Jesse produces dramatic, alternate-reality web series, gaming content, and personal, reality-style vlogs documenting their family life. There has been speculation from some, which has not been substantiated, that the Ridgways’ videos about their pregnancy and abortion are not real.
In March, Jesse and Ashley Ridgway announced they were expecting their first child, but by late April, Jesse shared that prenatal testing indicated a 95% chance their baby, which they learned was a boy, would be born with Down syndrome, also known as Trisomy 21.
Expressing initial hope that the results might be a false positive, Jesse noted that the condition carries severe health risks, including heart defects and developmental issues. The couple decided to pursue an amniocentesis for a definitive answer, which ultimately confirmed the Trisomy 21 diagnosis.
On June 3, Jesse revealed on social media that he and his wife had decided to abort the baby. He explained that learning about the lifelong dependency, high miscarriage rates, and severe medical complications associated with Down syndrome contributed to their choice. YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, who announced June 3 that he and his wife had aborted their unborn son because the baby tested positive for Down syndrome, addressed his pro-life critics and people using God and Jesus as their weapon.Click to Post
The announcement went viral on X, sparking widespread outrage from Christians and pro-life advocates. Critics expressed shock and horror, with some contrasting the decision to abort the baby with the couple’s past efforts to save their dog’s life.
Others shared positive stories of family members with Down syndrome, emphasizing that a child’s worth should not be dictated by a disability. Critics also disputed Jesse’s later characterization of the abortion as a “loss.”
In response to the intense backlash, Jesse expressed shock at the “hate and vitriol” directed at him and his wife. The couple told TMZ they had “seen the darkest side of humanity,” and Jesse revealed that due to safety concerns and death threats, they had installed a security gate and he was keeping a gun by his nightstand.
The Ridgways’ continue to be the subject of online discussion in the aftermath of their decision. Christian influencers and advocates who have addressed the news include Alisa Childers, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Lila Rose.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson even commented on it, reposting Jesse’s viral post and stating, “When a culture devolves to the point of depravity where ‘influencers’ can go online and so casually dismiss the deliberate murder of their own precious child, the survival of that culture itself is at risk.”
Jesse’s father, Jeff Ridgway, replied to Johnson, saying, “Mr. Speaker, please refrain from your judgement of others when you cannot uphold the Oath office you have taken. Remember you swore on the Bible, I am sure you have problems sleeping!”
Jeff also reposted Jesse’s June 10 video, telling his son, “Speak your truth, Mom and I support your decisions, it’s a shame that so many people have hatred in their souls towards people that had to make hard decisions.”
“People need to worry about themselves and not sit in their glass houses and cast stones,” said Jeff. “Wait, I always thought God could only judge!”
“Thanks for battling the speaker of the house for me lmao,” Jesse replied.
Since his June 3 post went viral, Jesse Ridgway has continued posting and pushing back on critics. In his June 10 video, he said that he will continue to do so. Addressing people who think he should stop and “go off the grid,” Jesse said now is the time to lean in. “It’s something that matters,” he said, noting that he “struck a nerve.”
“I’m doing this, not just for myself and my wife and my family, but for all the families, all the prospective parents, the women, the single mothers, the fathers who are confused, confronting this situation, the ones that have been told to be silent,” said Jesse.
“It’s important that I encourage the conversation, keep talking about it,” he continued, “‘cause I don’t want the message and the takeaway to be like, ‘Yeah, you’re gonna get a lot of backlash for aborting a child,’ when there is, again, a million abortions every single year. They’re just happening in the shadows.”
Jesse said he didn’t want to “back down” and have people conclude that his critics were right. To the pro-lifers with religious beliefs, he said, “If it’s how you want to frame your life and your decisions, more power to you. When you start to use it as a weapon, then it becomes problematic.”
“People saying, ‘Go to hell,’ it’s like, that doesn’t matter ‘cause I can’t go there,” said Jesse. “I don’t believe in it, and I just can’t imagine I’ll be ending up in a human-personified place that has fire and brimstone and a man with a pitchfork. I just don’t buy it.”
Continuing to speak to the “religious folks,” Jesse asked, “Don’t we believe in forgiveness? I mean, we’ve all sinned right? So then you can just ask for forgiveness and things will be ok.”
He said he’s going to “keep pushing…I would encourage more conversation about this topic.”
“I’m sure a lot of people that would even judge me are gonna be confronting this potential situation, or Trisomy 18, some of the other chromosomal abnormalities,” said Jesse. “It happens. I did not think it would happen to me, and here I am.”
“Never in a million years did I expect to be a poster child for abortion,” Jesse said, commenting that he and his wife “were just trying to be first-time parents, and it’s been overwhelming.”
He thanked his supporters and said he would keep speaking about the situation because he does not want his fans to make judgments about it without the full context or based on a “vocal minority that is being just absurdly provocative.”
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People who believe killing a baby just because he or she has down syndrome is wrong! https://secularprolife.org/
he says he does not believe in God, so clearly he does not think like a prolifer
This shows you how atheism dehumanizes us.
Classically, one response to such declarations is, “Fortunately, God believes in you.” Though, to be true, a person can always choose to reject God in this life until “Death do us part.”
“I don’t believe in God,” he said. “I don’t believe in the Bible. Like, I haven’t since I was 8 years old, and then I learned science, and I was like, ‘Well that makes more sense.” Science and medicine tells you where babies come from and you murdered one.
He’ll believe in God when he sees God.
Somebody needs to clue her in to the fact that when you choose to kill another human being just because they have Down syndrome you don’t have to be religious to find that repugnant, just human.
Genesis 3:4-5
SHE WILL. Hopefully now, but certainly later.
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“ “I don’t believe in God,” he said. “I don’t believe in the Bible.”
Obviously.
Amen! Psalms 14:1 and 53:1 said it best: only fools say in their hearts there is no God.
That is true, I’m sad to say.
I dont care if you are religious or not... unless YOU personally are faced with this same situation, YOU have NO right to judge this person. Having a handicap/deformation is right there on the argument level as a rape victim has for the “right” to abort.
Morgana this is not directed at you. this is directed to the populace who are ready to crucify this girl...
Please elaborate on how having a child with a mental handicap is on the same level as a pregnancy caused by rape.
One doesn’t have to believe in God to know killing babies, wherever they may be, is wrong.
Jesse will get a chance one day to explain his beliefs to God when he stands at his judgement and tells God He does not exist.
It is a scientific fact that human life begins at conception. We've known this for a long time but our pro-death culture has made great efforts to hide this from the populace, especially our young people. At the point of conception, everything that is necessary for it to develop into a human being is present, including its own unique DNA. Allowed to complete its natural development, it will not turn into a kidney or lung or an undifferentiated mass of cells, but a human being.
The real question is whether the destruction of innocent human life is any different than the murder of a born person. Since science now unequivocally tells us that at conception it is a human being, that should be the starting point for any consideration of this question, not the aftermath.
As I said in another thread on this topic, when we speak of human zygotes, embryos, fetuses, babies, children, teenagers, adults, middle-aged, and old age, these are all simply descriptions of the various stages of human development. Some occur on one side of the birth canal, others on the other side. Some may have been conceived under less-than-ideal circumstances. Some may be imperfect or unwanted by their parents or by society. But all are living human beings. All have an equal human dignity. None should unjustly be deprived of life.
So where do we draw the line at the taking of an innocent human life? What difference does location or stage of human development make? If we lower ourselves to countenance taking the life one category of people for our own convenience and satisfaction, who is next?
Before it can become a legal issue, the moral issue has to be addressed. Before there were written laws against pre-meditated murder, there was a general consensus that it was wrong and this was the basis of the law against murder.
Even though it seems clear to me and others that based on the scientific evidence it is rational to conclude that human life begins at conception, it is an unfortunate fact there is doubt or disbelief about this in a large segment of the population. Is it a human life, or isn't it? If it isn't, you can do whatever you want with it. If it is, it should be treated like all other human life. If one simply does not know, it should be given the benefit of the doubt of being human until proved otherwise. It would be akin to seeing a human shaped bag in the middle of the road. If there's a chance there's a human being in there, do you stop or go around it, or just run over it because you don't know? If you are going to err, it's always wise to err on the side of life.
” crucify this girl..”
This is a man first of all.
Second he and his wife could have given the baby up for adoption if they felt they could not raise a child with down Syndrome. Safe Haven Laws work for married couples too.
He has this big youtube channel, why didn’t he ask his viewers for anyone interested in adopting the baby?
I often wonder if it concerns these leftists that their world views reduce the value of their own life to whatever someone more powerful decides - a fact demonstrated over and over again by leftist governments.
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