(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life leaders are criticizing a Democratic congressional candidate who recently explained why she killed two innocent preborn babies in the womb.

The interview also highlights the extremism of the environmentalist movement, which puts bees and trees above babies, and the ethical problems with in vitro fertilization (IVF).

California candidate Esther Kim Varet made the comments during a recent episode of a show called “The Happily Never After.” She is running in the 40th Congressional District against Congresswoman Young Kim, a Republican.

The title of the episode, “All About Abortion,” underscores how the direct and intentional killing of innocent preborn babies is important to Varet.

Varet shares how at age 21 she killed her innocent preborn baby in the womb. She and her husband later struggled with fertility and used embryo-destroying IVF to conceive two children. She said she still has five human-embryonic children “on ice right now,” meaning in a cold storage facility.

After those two kids were born, Varet said she and her husband conceived a child naturally. However, they killed their own child in the name of “environmentalism” and because they already had a “boy and a girl.”

During the interview she also dehumanized her own children by writing off their humanity, saying both babies were killed “very early” in the pregnancy.

“It’s really crazy, because I think back to that moment, where my husband and I looked at each other, and we know that for us, we’ve wanted two kids,” she said.

“Mostly a boy and a girl, we got one of each,” she said, referring to her lab-created children.

She also said her and her husband are “big environmentalists.”

“I know exactly why we just wanted two – we wanted just to replace ourselves and not overburden anybody else or the world,” she said, referring to her decision to violate the human rights of her own children.

Perhaps addressing potential concerns, she said she is not saying the kids were “disposable.”

However, in making the point, she did acknowledge there is a direct connection between IVF and abortion.

“I’m not saying that these are disposable things,” Varet said. “The irony is so many people that want to wave their finger at you, I’m telling you, if you’ve gone through IVF, you’re doing the same thing. You have embryos. You’re making choices,” she said.

It appears she was referring to the eugenic destruction of human embryos based on the possibility of adverse medical diagnoses or even pure vanity, such as the potential height or eye color of a baby.

The clip drew strong criticism from Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life Action and Students for Life of America. Hawkins, the mother of two children with cystic fibrosis, is also an outspoken opponent of the selective killing of innocent preborn babies because of potential medical problems.

“This is the logic of abortion supporters,” Hawkins wrote on X. “Human beings are seen as the problem, and fewer humans are seen as the solution…even when the victim is your own healthy preborn baby.”

“No more green-washing abortion,” Hawkins said.

“Every human life has value, and every preborn baby deserves protection,” the pro-life leader said. “We will not stop until we end abortion in our lifetime.”

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

Others chimed in with their own criticism.

“Unpopular opinion: no one who’s killed their child should be in office,” Samantha DeLoach, a spokeswoman for Them Before Us, wrote on X.

“We love nature but will use high-tech methods to kill the natural product of sex,” conservative commentator Emily Jashinsky wrote mockingly.

Though Varet’s story is clearly one of personal convenience, she quickly pivoted the discussion to the “hard cases,” often cited by pro-abortion groups to justify the wholesale destruction of innocent human life.

Both Varet and the co-host started talking about the tragic cases of rape and incest to justify their support for abortion.

The story also undermines claims that no one really wants to have an abortion and women are the second victim.

Yet pro-lifers affirm that all human life, no matter the circumstances, is worthy of protection.