Pearl - October 05, 2024


Is Being Pro-Life HURTING the REPUBLICAN PARTY？ ｜ Pearl Daily


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Length

6 minutes

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168.20836

Word Count

1,085

Sentence Count

77

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

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J.D. Vance is the latest conservative voice to join the 2020 Republican presidential field, and he's got a message for the pro-life movement: abortion is murder, and we should all be thankful we don't have it anymore.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Okay, so we have J.D. Vance, and obviously the one issue they're going to try to get
00:00:08.760 conservatives on is abortion. Many people, myself included, believe that abortion is murder,
00:00:14.560 and it's not something that we want to compromise on. Unfortunately, if I had to predict, I don't
00:00:21.000 see abortion going anywhere. Knowing that, conservatives during the election are going to
00:00:26.500 shy away a little bit from this topic. You know, I grew up in a working class family in a
00:00:31.660 neighborhood where I knew a lot of young women who had unplanned pregnancies and decided to
00:00:35.720 terminate those pregnancies because they feel like they didn't have any other options. And,
00:00:40.300 you know, I, I, one of them is actually very dear to me and I know she's watching tonight
00:00:44.540 and I love you. And she told me something a couple of years ago that she felt like if she
00:00:49.740 hadn't had that abortion, that it would have destroyed her life because she was in an abusive
00:00:53.740 relationship. And I think that what I take from that as a Republican who proudly wants to protect
00:00:59.220 innocent life in this country, who proudly wants to protect. Now, again, the accountability point
00:01:06.020 of view would be, well, if you are in an abusive relationship, bad choices have consequences.
00:01:13.020 And if you're having sex unprotected in an unstable relationship, you have to deal with
00:01:18.500 the consequences. But in 2024, as women, we have a lot of bailouts for our bad decisions.
00:01:26.280 So that objectively, not a great choice. And then we're given technology to make it go away.
00:01:34.300 The vulnerable is that my party, we've got to do so much better of a job at earning the American
00:01:40.120 people's trust back on this issue where they frankly just don't trust us. And I think that's
00:01:44.920 one of the things that Donald Trump and I are endeavoring to do. I want us as a Republican
00:01:49.500 party to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. I want us to support fertility treatments.
00:01:55.120 I want us to make it easier for moms to afford to have babies. I want it to make it easier for
00:01:59.540 young families to afford a home so they can afford a place to raise that family. And I think there's
00:02:04.340 so much that we can do on the public policy front just to give women more options.
00:02:10.400 Now, as women, I don't blame him for pandering a little bit because I think that's what they
00:02:16.920 have to do. But as women, I like to be able to identify it. Do we have options? Yes or no?
00:02:23.860 Do we have the option to work? Yes. Do we have the option for daycare? Yes. Do we have the option
00:02:29.360 to stay home? Yes. Do we have the option to go to school and save money for a decade before we
00:02:34.420 have children? Yes. Do we have the option to use plan B? Yes. Do we have the option to get abortion?
00:02:42.900 Yes. Objectively, we have all of those choices. So this is pandering a little bit. Now, of course,
00:02:51.280 Donald Trump has been very clear that on the abortion policy specifically, that we have a
00:02:56.420 big country and it's diverse. And California has a different viewpoint on this than Georgia. Georgia
00:03:01.620 has a different viewpoint from Arizona. And the proper way to handle this as messy as democracy
00:03:07.200 sometimes is, is to let voters make these decisions, let the individual states make
00:03:13.200 their abortion policy. And I think that's what makes the most sense in a very big, a very diverse,
00:03:18.600 and let's be honest, sometimes a very, very messy and divided country. I think this is smart. I
00:03:24.380 would almost suggest the conservative party going to the point of being pro-choice. Now, I know,
00:03:31.620 that conservatives do not want to hear this. I know that abortion is morally wrong. I've seen
00:03:39.220 abortions and it is disgusting. I can't believe it's legal, but we have to be smart. Do you guys
00:03:46.840 think it's likely in our lifetime that there will be a repeal the 19th? The answer to that is no.
00:03:54.380 Unfortunately, this isn't make a wish. This isn't what I want to be true. This is what
00:03:59.340 the market currently is. So knowing this, politicians are going to have to cater to
00:04:06.240 female voters in order to win some of them over. So Melania also released a statement
00:04:14.640 on abortion recently. We all know Melania is not going to say something without the approval of
00:04:21.260 her husband, I would assume, right? I mean, he's a pretty powerful guy. And she put out a statement
00:04:27.300 saying that she is pro-choice. Now, Melania has an appeal to women. I know there are many
00:04:33.580 people, maybe liberal women, that maybe don't like her because she's married to Trump,
00:04:39.520 but she's fashionable, she's likable, she's elegant. She has a female appeal.
00:04:45.700 So I think it was really smart of them to have Melania make a statement backing up the Republican
00:04:52.800 party and saying that they're not as anti-abortion as the left is saying. Individual freedom is a
00:05:00.740 fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it
00:05:07.220 comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth. Individual freedom. What does
00:05:15.000 my body, my choice really need? I think this was smart. I don't think this was an accident. I think
00:05:21.020 it was smart right before election season. Again, guys, many people think that they're morally
00:05:27.720 superior because they have a pro-life stance. And that's how they view themselves, that they
00:05:32.300 have higher morals than pro-choice. At the end of the day, that has not been effective
00:05:37.780 in reducing abortion. If anything, I would say maybe birth control has been effective in reducing
00:05:44.560 abortion. But the year after Roe versus Wade was overturned, we had an increase in abortions.
00:05:50.700 So as much as even though I'm pro-life, I have to think, how can we be smart to get the best person
00:05:58.180 in office that we can? Now, this could backfire. It's possible this could backfire after the
00:06:04.760 election. Maybe they'll lose conservatives and they still won't vote Trump. I don't know.
00:06:10.420 But the purpose of me saying this is to say, I don't think conservatives should write them off.
00:06:16.120 we have to understand where Trump's coming from. They need the female vote. We don't win by
00:06:22.100 catering. Well, then go full pro-life. Let me know how that goes for you. Okay.