Abortion has been glorified by Democrats for years, and now they re glorifying it even more. Today, a new hashtag is trending on social media, "Shout Your Abortion," and the Senate blocked a bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. What's the difference between that and a ban on abortion before 20 weeks? Is it because the unborn child can feel pain? Or is it because abortion should be illegal at any point in the pregnancy? Ben Shapiro explains why abortion should never be legal beyond 20 weeks in the eyes of the law, and why the killing of unborn children should never stop at that point. He also explains why it s not about a reluctant, difficult, emotional choice, it s about a moral mainstreaming of a totally and completely immoral act, and how we need to stop glorifying abortion in order to stop the killing and stop the rape and torture that goes on. Ben Shapiro: Abortion is a euphemism, and so is murder. Click here for a list of abortion restrictions across the U.S. right now, and see if you can find them in your state, state, or D.C. If you don t have an abortion at 20 weeks, you ll have to go to Planned Parenthood, but if you do, you can get an abortion in a state that does not allow abortion at that time, you're not going to get a free one, right? And if you don't have a doctor, you'll have to pay a fine. And you can't even get a shot at an abortion, because that's not a free of charge, you have to make a doctor's appointment, right at the clinic, but it's just like an appendectomy, but that's what you're paying for? You have to be a human being, not a patient. You can't have it, right?! That's right, it's not rare, it has to be rare, but you have a right to an abortion. And you must be a patient, right?? right? And it's a point of view, not rare . not safe and legal, right ? it means it's rare, not safe, not safe and or rare, right ? right and not , right and so on so you can have it in any point for any reason is not rare?
00:00:00.000So today, Senate Democrats decided it was time to save President Obama from the inconvenience of having to veto a bill that would stop abortion after 20 weeks.
00:00:23.000Why should it be rare, after all, if it's just like an appendectomy?
00:00:26.000And the truth is that Democrats have been glorifying abortion for years now.
00:00:29.000They try to claim that they don't glorify it, but they do.
00:00:32.000And the latest indicator that they're glorifying abortion is this new hashtag that's trending on Twitter and Facebook, hashtag shoutyourabortion.
00:00:39.000There's an activist, her name is Lindy West, she's one of the ladies who started this idiotic and immoral routine, and she tweeted, quote,
00:00:55.000What a decent and wonderful human being she is.
00:00:59.000It's a good thing that she didn't decide that she really needed that raise because the kids she has now wouldn't exist.
00:01:04.000The truth is that all of the children of these hashtag campaign women, they're not able to hashtag shout your abortion because they're dead.
00:01:12.000The absolute evil of this campaign should be pretty self-evident but it isn't because we purposefully blind ourselves all the time to what abortion is rather than facing it squarely and head-on.
00:01:21.000Euphemisms, they're the last resort of the morally obtuse.
00:01:24.000Abortion is a euphemism and so is termination.
00:01:27.000We're constantly using euphemisms in order to make ourselves feel better about being complicit in the great evil of our time.
00:01:33.000But this particular hashtag campaign, combined with the Democrats' action in the Senate, it reveals a pretty stunning truth.
00:01:39.000For advocates of abortion, it was never about a reluctant, difficult, emotional choice.
00:03:03.000Basically, the campaign for Republicans now seems to be, essentially, elect us, and then we'll do show votes, and then you'll want to elect us because we did a show vote, and then we'll do more show votes.
00:05:36.000And just on Sunday, Hillary actually told in one of the Sunday shows, she said, quote, That's a lie, obviously.
00:05:45.000There are about 18,000 post-20 week abortions in the United States every year.
00:05:49.000She said this kind of gets back to whether you respect a woman's right to choose or not.
00:05:54.000And so it's a woman's right to choose as to what constitutes human life, which, as a Jew, I find awkward because typically when we end up in a situation where people get to choose what constitutes human life, it gets super awkward because the people who define what human life is tend to be the people who want to kill certain other people.
00:06:10.000For those of us who actually are okay with the concept of human life being human life, we don't want to kill people.
00:06:15.000The people who are okay with killing people typically want to redefine human life for their own convenience.
00:06:20.000Well, Hillary Clinton is not the most popular woman in the Democratic Party.
00:06:24.000The most popular woman in the Democratic Party, of course, is Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who's a real charmer.
00:06:30.000I know Professor Warren as I knew her at Harvard Law School from way back when.
00:06:35.000She is a delight, and by delight I mean she's absolutely not a delight.
00:06:56.000I didn't think that the Republican leadership could sink any lower than trying to defund women's cancer screenings and access to birth control.
00:07:05.000Okay, let's pause it there for one second.
00:07:07.000Okay, first of all, just to point out, I don't know where all the Democratic women get their blazers, but it's apparently the same store.
00:07:13.000And whether it's Hillary Clinton wearing her orange jumpsuits or Elizabeth Warren wearing what appears to be a jacket from the closet of Cookie Monster, I don't know where they shop.
00:07:23.000But in any case, what she's saying there that that's what Planned Parenthood does, that what they do is cancer screenings, this is nonsense.
00:07:32.000Planned Parenthood doesn't do mammograms.
00:07:33.000They refer out for mammograms and there are plenty of other clinics
00:07:36.000That do these sorts of things and don't also provide abortions.
00:07:39.000Whenever you hear people say that only 3% of the services provided by Planned Parenthood are abortion services, this is rather misleading because the fact is that the number of women who go in for abortion services is significantly higher than 3%.
00:08:04.000That really doesn't cut a lot of weight.
00:08:05.000I mean, the fact is that probably what the Mafia does is only 3% murder, but that doesn't mean it's not the Mafia.
00:08:11.000In any case, here is Elizabeth Warren as she continues to make the case for late-term abortion.
00:08:15.000I saw the bill that we're voting on tomorrow, and I felt sick to my stomach.
00:08:20.000Here we are just days away from another reckless Republican government shutdown, and the Republicans think the best use of our time is to vote on a bill to give the government the power to intrude on the most wrenching, intimate, private medical decisions a woman will ever make.
00:11:29.000And the reason it's deeply important, folks, is because it is obvious to anyone that when you see a picture of a baby at 20 weeks, or 19 weeks, or 21 weeks, or 22 weeks, when you see these pictures, this is a human child.
00:12:15.000When you talk about taking a curette and putting it in the womb of a woman, and then chopping up the baby into pieces before vacuuming it out into a sink, that sounds a lot less sanitary than termination.
00:12:26.000We have all these post-apocalyptic movies that are now making the rounds.
00:12:29.000The Hunger Games, and you see the Maze Runner.
00:12:32.000You see all these movies, these post-apocalyptic movies.
00:12:34.000And in all these post-apocalyptic movies, always the evil government, whenever they take somebody out to kill them, say, take him out and terminate him.
00:12:44.000It's always some euphemism that's used.
00:12:46.000We use these euphemisms every single day and that's what makes all of this palatable because if we actually looked it in the face it wouldn't be quite as palatable.
00:12:53.000One of the people who's pushing this hashtag shout your abortion routine is a lady named Amelia Bono.
00:12:58.000The shout your abortion campaign is is this campaign that's now been pushed forward by folks on the on the far left to celebrate abortion.
00:13:59.000If I gave you some sort of drug that would prevent you from growing as a child, am I preventing you from being forced to grow?
00:14:05.000Or were you going to grow, and now I have actively stopped the process of growth?
00:14:10.000What's forcing you to become a mother lady is that you got pregnant and now you're gonna have to have the baby because that's what nature sort of dictates.
00:14:15.000But what's amazing, what's truly amazing about this little quote here is the I have a good heart line.
00:16:01.000Now the reason I'm coming down hard on him here is because Pope John Paul II went to Poland famously and did mass in 1979, communist Poland, then occupied by the Soviets, and he said, he specifically said, that he had been made Pope as a Pole because the Poles could be a special, quote, witness of his cross and his resurrection, which prompted the crowd to start chanting, we want God in a communist country.
00:16:25.000Literally a million people in the streets chanting, we want God, because Pope John Paul II was not a pansy.
00:16:30.000But Pope Francis has a perverse set of values, so he said nothing.
00:16:33.000And now, he's gonna come to the White House, and President Obama has invited a transgender man and a gay bishop to meet the Pope, naturally, because when President Obama senses an advantage, President Obama is a vicious politician, he senses an advantage, he's gonna push it ahead.
00:16:47.000The Pope is coming at a time when Planned Parenthood defunding is on the table.
00:16:51.000He's coming at a time when Planned Parenthood is the major issue in social politics in the United States.
00:16:56.000Is the Pope gonna say anything about that?
00:16:59.000And even if he does, the media won't cover it.
00:17:01.000So maybe he will, but it'll be off to the side because he's too busy forming a new relationship with his fellow leftist, President Obama, and apparently that relationship is more important than his relationship with his co-moralists.
00:17:13.000Or maybe President Obama is his co-moralist and abortion just ranks lower on the scale of values than, for example, income redistribution, because the Pope doesn't like capitalism and he's labeled it a great evil, which demonstrates both moral stupidity and a tremendous ignorance of how economics works, because there's been no greater force for empowering people and making them rich than capitalism, which is why when you look at the most heavily restricted economies around the world, that's where the people
00:17:38.000It is sad that the Pope really has the ability to derive such, and drive more importantly, the ability and the power to drive conversations is using that in order to push all of this leftism at the same time that America is having a crucial debate over whether or not we ought to kill a million kids a year.
00:18:00.000The poor in America and how terrible they have it when all the poor in America have a microwave and air conditioner or refrigerator and TV, but he's not going to spend substantial time chiding the President of the United States over the fact that the President of the United States just threatened to veto a bill that would protect a child after 20 weeks of development.
00:18:51.000Meanwhile, in other domestic political news, Scott Walker is out of the race.
00:18:55.000And importantly, Scott Walker jumped out.
00:18:57.000When he jumped out, he said that the other candidates should also start dropping out so that they could stop Donald Trump.
00:19:03.000We'll play the clip and then I'll explain why this is a very bad idea from Scott Walker, why this is politically stupid.
00:19:08.000Here's the governor of Wisconsin who flamed out in this campaign in a pretty major way.
00:19:14.000Sadly, the debate taking place in the Republican Party today is not focused on that optimistic view of America.
00:19:21.000Instead, it has drifted into personal attacks.
00:19:26.000In the end, I believe that the voters want to be for something, and not against someone.
00:19:32.000Instead of talking about how bad things are,
00:19:35.000We want to hear how we can make them better.
00:19:56.000Okay, typically that's not the guy I go to for.
00:19:58.000I need some narrative political advice.
00:20:00.000I'm gonna go to the super boring governor from Wisconsin, who just flamed out to the extent that he had $20 million in the Super PAC bank, blew through all of it in two months because he had 90 staffers on payroll, and just assumed magically that two debate performances wouldn't do anything to him.
00:20:13.000I'm not gonna take his advice on politics.
00:20:40.000Well, this gives him another opportunity to whine, so it's stupid politics.
00:20:42.000If you really want to drop out, which I agree with, and consolidate support against Trump, which is totally fine, shut up about it.
00:20:49.000You don't have to go out there and say it.
00:20:51.000And then there's the final point about what Scott Walker is doing here, what he's saying about narrative, that people want something to be for, not just something to be against.
00:21:09.000And it's not just you need an enemy, somebody who disagrees with you on policy.
00:21:11.000And this is the problem with the optimistic candidates like Scott Walker or the optimistic candidates, yes, like Marco Rubio.
00:21:18.000The problem with some of these optimistic candidates is that what they sort of suggest is if we just present a happy vision of the United States where everything is going great and we can only make it better, and the people on the other side
00:21:29.000As Reagan used to say, the people on the other side, they're well-intentioned, they just don't know what they're doing.
00:21:56.000And by the way, well, I think Carly Fiorina is starting to resonate, because she's picked up the message as well.
00:22:00.000And that is, the people we're fighting in this political fight, number one, they're not on our own side, and number two, the people we're fighting in this political fight are not well-intentioned.
00:22:08.000We don't all want the same future for the country.
00:22:11.000So, I respect Scott Walker and his record.
00:22:14.000I'm sad that politics now no longer takes into account record as much as it does sort of bloviation and loudness and brashness and all the rest of that.
00:22:25.000I mean, there's no question that glitz and glamour are part of the race.
00:22:27.000If Marco Rubio gained 20 pounds and had a bulbous nose, he wouldn't be a frontrunner.
00:22:31.000By any stretch of the imagination, he and Scott Walker would basically be in similar boats, although Rubio is smoother than Scott Walker is.
00:22:37.000But most of all, we don't live in a political climate where the whole optimistic vision of America, don't paint the other guys as bad, don't paint America as in a downhill spiral.