Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 30, 2025


Ep 1212 | The Left Cares About (Certain) Unborn Babies Now


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

160.85764

Word Count

9,498

Sentence Count

683

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

On today's episode of Relatable, Allie talks about birthright citizenship, transgenderism, and why we should all be thankful to God for His grace and grace alone. She also talks about a terrible story about a pregnant woman losing her baby when she was detained by ICE.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 David French has seemingly reversed his view on transgenderism, calling a man she in the New York
00:00:09.500 Times. Also, there's some confusion about birthright citizenship and whether it's something
00:00:16.300 we as conservatives, as Christians, should support. A terrible story about a pregnant woman losing her
00:00:24.080 baby when she was being detained by ICE has been making the rounds. But as always, we've got to
00:00:30.140 ask the question, is it true? We'll be talking about all of this and more on today's episode of
00:00:36.480 Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com. Use code
00:00:41.500 Allie at checkout. That's goodranchers.com, code Allie. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy
00:00:55.760 Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. A couple housekeeping things. Remember,
00:01:01.660 this is the week that we start three times a week. If you need my full announcement and explanation
00:01:06.900 for why we are going down to three times a week, you can go back and listen to Thursday's episode
00:01:12.080 or watch Thursday's episode. So Monday, Wednesday, Friday will be the new schedule. But this Friday,
00:01:17.540 we won't have an episode because it will be July 4th. Yay! So excited. It's like one of my favorite
00:01:23.720 days of the year. And I hope you guys have fun plans. This is the actual No Kings Day. You remember
00:01:30.600 that super lame protest from a couple weeks ago? The same people that were begging the
00:01:36.880 governments to force churches to close down and force us to mask our toddlers on airplanes are
00:01:43.540 now pretending that they are against tyrants. You remember that silly demonstration? Actual No
00:01:48.800 Kings Day is July 4th, where we celebrate our country and the values that she is supposed to
00:01:55.560 represent, the freedom that our Constitution guarantees. No matter what politician is in office,
00:02:01.920 we can be thankful to God for these things and do our best in every sphere of our lives
00:02:07.960 to preserve these principles. Also, we've got amazing merch that's out, y'all. I'm so excited.
00:02:16.340 We partnered with Carly Jean Los Angeles for this new stuff. We've got t-shirts, plant seeds that bloom
00:02:23.520 in eternity. That's what it says on the back. These are CJ LA shirts. On the front is a little embroidered
00:02:31.020 are for relatable with a little bouquet on the front too. We've got these two hats. And what
00:02:36.700 you're seeing right now is not all of the color schemes that we have. You'll have to go to
00:02:41.020 allymerch.com to see all of that. We've got razor respectful ruckus on a crew neck sweatshirt. These
00:02:46.940 sweatshirts are super thin. I love them. I wear them even in the summer because they're not giving
00:02:52.320 you a whole lot of warmth. They're just a nice light layer. And then we've got the other one,
00:02:57.480 the other crew neck that says self love won't save you, but Jesus will. I think the picture does not
00:03:03.240 do that crew neck justice. It looks a lot better in person. The front has the little embroidered R
00:03:10.380 on both of those, the razor respectful ruckus, self love won't save you. The little embroidered R
00:03:16.640 on the dad hat. That's what that style is called. And then the trucker hat or the rope hat has the
00:03:24.100 little relatable megaphone printed on the front. We've got a tote with the plant seeds that bloom
00:03:29.900 in eternity design. And again, we've got different colors of all these things. I love them so much.
00:03:36.360 I will be wearing one of these. I haven't decided which I think on the show tomorrow. Good Allie.
00:03:41.940 No, tomorrow I have to wear my 4th of July gear that I have, but I will be wearing these at some
00:03:47.340 point because I love them so much. We haven't had merch in a while y'all. So go to allymerch.com
00:03:53.260 Relatedbro if you're listening to or watching your wife wants relatable merch. She just does. So go to
00:03:58.700 allymerch.com. All right. It's Monday. So I'll just remind you that God's eternal plan of redemption
00:04:04.900 is always going off without a hitch and all you are responsible for doing at any given moment,
00:04:11.340 whether you are changing a diaper, washing dishes, sending an email, or you are doing some big,
00:04:17.480 bold act of courage and obedience and evangelism is to do the next right thing in faith.
00:04:22.860 with excellence and for the glory of God. In faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
00:04:28.700 That's all you can ever have the capacity to do empowered by the Holy Spirit. It is a good
00:04:34.400 life being a Christian because we get to trust God for all of our needs and to conform even the
00:04:41.200 desires of our hearts into his desires. And he is going to take care of us. I read this line the other day
00:04:47.680 in a devotional that said, trusting in God and his sovereignty means I am never the first one on the
00:04:54.240 scene. And I just stopped as I read that. I'm never the first one on the scene. So no matter what room
00:04:59.580 or space you enter, no matter what job you are about to do, whatever role you are about to fulfill,
00:05:05.520 God has already been there. He is not restricted by linear time the way humans are. He is outside of time.
00:05:11.700 He is sovereign over all of it. And he has arranged everything in your life to accomplish through and
00:05:18.980 in you exactly what he wants to accomplish. That is a good life that Christians get to live. No matter
00:05:25.000 what you are going through, he is going to complete your journey of sanctification
00:05:29.940 because he is faithful to do that. All right. Today's a news episode. That's what format we're doing.
00:05:36.680 It's News Monday, Theology Wednesday, Interview Friday. So we'll always have a little theology on Monday
00:05:43.300 because we've got to. We've got to be reminded of who is in charge as we get into the craziness of
00:05:47.940 what's going on in the world. And the craziness right now is in the pages of an outlet called
00:05:54.500 The Dispatch. And it has to do with David French, whom we have spoken of many times. David French,
00:06:02.360 if you don't know, a columnist for the New York Times, you might be thinking, well, yeah,
00:06:07.440 David French is progressive then if he writes for the New York Times. And so, of course,
00:06:11.260 you're going to have an issue with him. But you see, David French didn't always write for the New
00:06:15.120 York Times. He wrote for National Review and he has billed himself as a true principled conservative,
00:06:20.500 a conservative of all conservatives, the most conservative, the conservative-est,
00:06:25.500 if you will, because he has stood against Donald Trump based on principle. And there have been
00:06:32.580 times in my life when I've been pretty sympathetic to David French's position, when it seemed that he
00:06:38.280 was critiquing Donald Trump from the right, when he was so conservative and so constitutional that he
00:06:45.080 just couldn't get behind someone that he saw as an authoritarian, someone whose values didn't align
00:06:52.320 with his biblical faith. But as time has gone on, he has gone the way of people like Russell Moore
00:06:59.140 that because, maybe not because of, but alongside of his disdain for Donald Trump, he has also become
00:07:06.860 more progressive. And so I take his arguments against Donald Trump much less seriously. It's a
00:07:12.760 lot more convincing for a conservative like me when you have a conservative case against Donald Trump
00:07:17.860 and the Republican Party or the policies that he's putting in place. But when your argument is
00:07:23.680 actually mushy or when it's compromising or when it's unbiblical, when it's progressive, then you're
00:07:30.680 just not really someone that I can take seriously as like this principled conservative. I'm just like,
00:07:36.060 yeah, you don't like Donald Trump because you're more liberal than conservatives. And of course,
00:07:40.100 you don't like his conservative policy because you're progressive. And David French has become
00:07:44.360 more progressive. And the most recent sign that we have seen of this is that he is now calling a man
00:07:50.660 who recently decided to identify as a woman, she, when previously David French would say, no, I'm not
00:07:57.660 going to do that. In fact, in 2018, while writing for National Review, French refused to use the name
00:08:03.720 Chelsea for former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning. You remember so-called Chelsea Manning?
00:08:10.280 And this is a person who now thinks that he is a woman. He argued then in the pages of the National
00:08:15.780 Review that using Manning's preferred name did not align with his Christian belief. So I will sometimes
00:08:22.260 even use people's preferred name. I just won't say that a man is a she. And David French even went beyond
00:08:32.040 that. Okay. When you go even like beyond where Ali Stuckey is typically when it comes to gender, I mean,
00:08:39.080 that's like, that's very conservative. He said that he wouldn't even call Bradley Manning Chelsea in
00:08:45.260 2018, but now he's totally changed his tune. Now French refers to Brian Riddell. I think that's how
00:08:52.900 Rydell, I'm not sure how you pronounce his last name, um, who is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow who
00:09:00.480 now, uh, it has just been announced rights for the dispatch where David French is a senior editor
00:09:08.340 and his preferred name, Brian Riddell's new name is Jessica. And so it was announced that Jessica
00:09:17.580 is writing for the dispatch and David French says, this is great news for the dispatch. Nobody is better
00:09:24.020 on fiscal policy than Jessica. Jessica and I recently had a great conversation about the grim realities of
00:09:30.980 the federal budget on the opinions podcast link in next tweet. Now I think that David French was
00:09:38.480 being particular about not saying she in this post. I think that he said Jessica twice because he didn't
00:09:47.640 want the discord in his replies. But if you look at an article that he wrote in the New York times
00:09:56.360 in which he interviewed Brian Riddell, um, he says this, he says, Jessica might be one of the nation's
00:10:04.500 foremost experts about the federal budget and about America's fiscal realities. And she has taught me an
00:10:10.200 enormous amount about those issues. So I am delighted that Jessica is joining us for this
00:10:16.700 conversation. Okay. So he is using those female pronouns. Now you could say the New York times would
00:10:22.880 never allow him to use male pronouns for someone who identifies as a woman, but if you are so principled
00:10:29.280 and you are so on the side of truth and reality, David French, would you really allow an editorial team
00:10:36.020 at the New York times or anywhere to compel you to lie? Because that's what you have done in this
00:10:42.480 particular article. So let's go back and read what David French said in 2018, why he was so adamant
00:10:51.540 about telling the truth about gender and only referring to men as he and as their birth names. We'll get
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00:12:15.680 In 2018, when he was writing about Bradley slash Chelsea Manning, the article was titled The
00:12:27.460 Transgender Debate, Conservatives Cannot Compromise Truth. This was published on May 19th, 2018. He
00:12:33.940 argued that conservatives must hold firm to the biological reality of sex and resist compromising
00:12:39.200 on truth in the transgender debate. He said, the transgender debate is not about tolerance. It's
00:12:44.180 about truth. Conservatives cannot, must not compromise on the biological reality of sex,
00:12:50.340 and they cannot pretend that surgically or chemically altering the body somehow changes
00:12:55.860 that reality. He specifically addressed the case of Bradley Manning. He says, this is David French in
00:13:02.780 2018, just seven short years ago. I won't call Chelsea Manning she. It's not a matter of disrespect.
00:13:09.700 It's a matter of truth. To use female pronouns is to endorse fiction, and I won't do it. The push to
00:13:18.620 mandate pronoun usage, David French says, is a direct assault on free speech and religious liberty.
00:13:25.360 When the state or culture demands that we lie with our words, it's not just a social norm,
00:13:31.300 it's tyranny. The irony is in all of this, David French has been arguing for years that evangelicals,
00:13:39.360 that conservatives have accepted a tyrant in Trump because he has promised to give us some of the
00:13:46.560 things that we want, that he would say we've abandoned the Bible, we've abandoned the Constitution,
00:13:51.880 all in service of this god of MAGA, this cult-like association with Donald Trump. And yet here he is
00:14:05.420 submitting to what he has called tyranny by calling a man she. He is now writing fiction in the New York
00:14:14.040 Times, either because his conscience has changed on this, and if so, let's hear it. Let's hear the facts
00:14:20.740 that have changed, that have made you change your mind on this. His faith has changed. He doesn't
00:14:25.620 believe that biological, physical reality actually trumps this inner spiritual voice that tells a
00:14:33.680 person that they're not actually their biology. He doesn't care about God's authority that God says
00:14:39.760 in Genesis 127 that we are made male and female in his image. And he is simply and or he is simply
00:14:49.860 submitting to the authoritarianism of the New York Times, which says, yeah, you have to lie. You have
00:14:57.940 to affirm someone's stated identity, no matter what reality says. David French often talks about how
00:15:06.000 evangelicals have lost our credibility because we've compromised for Trump. David French has
00:15:13.040 compromised the integrity of Christianity and biblical truth by lying in this way far more than any Trump
00:15:23.320 voting evangelical ever has. Because at least those of us who have voted for Trump and are conservative
00:15:31.340 Christians, at least we are honest about some of the issues that we have with Trump, but the stakes
00:15:38.880 in each election that we are considering and the why behind voting for a policy platform on the Republican
00:15:46.640 side that is better than the policy platform on the left side without completely dismissing some of the
00:15:53.920 moral issues that we have with Donald Trump personally. But we are still taking the Bible seriously.
00:16:01.060 We just realized that no politician is going to be perfect. And we see the insanity, the debauchery,
00:16:08.180 the depravity of left-wing policies, the disorder that is enshrined into left-wing policy platforms.
00:16:15.880 And we say, yeah, I mean, Trump, even with his flaws, he's better. His platform is better. Okay,
00:16:21.940 that's an honest position to take even if you disagree with it. What is not the more honest position?
00:16:29.300 What is the dishonest position is to say that you are so principled, you are so moral, you are so
00:16:35.100 much more righteous than everyone who voted for Donald Trump. You take your faith in the Bible so
00:16:39.620 much more seriously. That's why you can't be pro-MAGA. And yet here you are compromising in a cowardly way
00:16:47.460 that almost no Christian evangelical who voted for Trump would do. And that is lying for money,
00:16:55.860 for power, or because you're a coward, or because you've compromised in a way that is completely
00:17:01.540 unbiblical. And again, that is far more embarrassing for the faith that you proclaim David French than a
00:17:11.720 Christian voting for Donald Trump. Okay? You have compromised your faith and abandoned what it
00:17:19.660 means to be a Christian just as much as any January 6th that told them that God said that they should
00:17:28.060 storm the Capitol. Yeah, hard pill to swallow. Let's learn a little bit more about Brian Riddell,
00:17:37.440 this person who has been accepted in some right-wing circles, who is a grown man with two children and a
00:17:44.480 wife who has declared after many years living as the man that he is, that he is a woman. So Riddell's
00:17:52.840 previous roles include chief economist to Senator Rob Portman, lead research fellow on federal budget
00:17:59.260 and spending policy at the Heritage Foundation. Okay, it's Riedel, Riedel. Okay, let me say that
00:18:05.460 correctly. Brian Riedel at the Heritage Foundation for a decade and director of budget and spending policy
00:18:13.020 for Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign. Those are some conservative bona fides right there.
00:18:20.700 Heritage Foundation. In February of this year, he posted a coming out announcement on Substack
00:18:27.840 titled, Yes, My Name Has Changed. So here's what he says. He says a variety of things. I won't read the
00:18:35.420 entire article, but he says, I've unmistakably known I was transgender since the age of four. Medical scans
00:18:41.580 and examinations performed as a volunteer in medical studies have since confirmed my predominantly
00:18:47.520 female brain biology, along with other biological characteristics that have countered my outwardly male
00:18:54.160 appearance. That is just hogwash. I'm sorry, it's just hogwash. And I say this truly sadly, this is not to be
00:19:02.580 mean, but what you just saw, the picture, the juxtaposition right there, what has to be going
00:19:11.320 through a man's brain to go from a handsome man, he was a handsome man, to someone, to a man who is
00:19:19.000 trying to dress up as a woman. Okay, this person doesn't look like a woman, does not look feminine,
00:19:23.740 does not look female in any sense, looks like a man who grew out his hair, is wearing some makeup and
00:19:29.980 is like playing dress up as a woman. That's a really, really troubled person. And I do have
00:19:36.700 sympathy for that because I have sympathy to a degree. Because in order to do that, you have to be
00:19:44.080 under very heavy delusion, extremely heavy delusion and maybe some distress. But what I don't believe
00:19:51.820 is that this person has a female brain. I don't even think that that is real. Yes, men and women's
00:19:57.780 brains are different. We function differently. That is based on a lot of things. It's based on
00:20:03.240 gametes. It's based on our hormones. This kind of differentiation starts in the womb. It gets
00:20:09.420 more pronounced throughout our lives, especially after puberty. But this is someone who grew into a
00:20:14.860 male, was a male, but grew into a man and went through regular puberty. And when you look
00:20:21.740 at specifically this claim that you can have a brain scan that shows that you have a female
00:20:27.320 brain, the studies that claim to prove this are just completely bunk. And in fact, a fellow
00:20:35.040 Manhattan Institute fellow, Colin Wright, we've had him on this podcast, and Manhattan Institute
00:20:41.300 writer, Christina Buttons, published an article in March saying that these transgender medical scans
00:20:48.480 are totally flawed. They said fatally flawed. And of course, that's ironic, given that Brian is
00:20:54.960 actually at the Manhattan Institute. So their article, Buttons and Wright, they argue this. They
00:21:03.220 claim this in the article. The article states that the notion of a female brain in a male body or vice
00:21:08.140 versa is not supported by current neuroscience. Studies claiming that transgender brains align more
00:21:13.280 closely with their gender identity, so-called, often rely on small sample sizes, inconsistent
00:21:18.540 methodologies, or binary classifiers that oversimplify complex brain data. The article, their article
00:21:24.540 cites a 2022 study that found transgender women, so that's men who say that they're women, their brains
00:21:30.980 were still closer to, quote unquote, cisgender men's than cisgender, quote unquote, women's, despite some
00:21:39.840 shifts. And these findings are not conclusive proof of a female brain. Their article also points out
00:21:45.820 that brain structure can be influenced by factors like cross-sex hormone therapy, which many studies
00:21:51.600 fail to control for adequately. Of course, if you inject your brain with a bunch of estrogen or inject
00:21:58.320 your body with a bunch of estrogen, that could have an effect on your brain. Still doesn't make you
00:22:01.920 a woman. It doesn't make your body female. The article also highlights that these scan slash studies
00:22:07.740 fail to control for a major confounding variable, supposed sexual orientation. That's also, I say
00:22:14.580 supposed, because that's also kind of a misnomer. Many transgender, quote unquote, individuals in these
00:22:21.260 studies identify as homosexual, and brain differences attributed to, quote unquote, gender identity may
00:22:26.300 reflect these differences that are really associated with sexual orientation. And by the way, that's not me
00:22:31.080 saying people are born with particular sexual propensity. They may or may not be. The Bible
00:22:37.440 still remains clear that homosexuality is a sin. That's a different conversation that we're not
00:22:43.660 having today. So this idea that brain scans can prove that you have a female brain, that's just not
00:22:51.380 true. And it's not possible. Now, it could be possible that someone has true, true, true gender
00:22:57.820 dysphoria. Maybe Brian truly does have gender dysphoria, where you have a persistent and insistent and
00:23:04.540 consistent feeling that you were born in the wrong body. And that has to be such a distressing
00:23:09.680 feeling. And we should have a lot of compassion for that. But the remedy for that is to help someone
00:23:17.400 accept their biological reality, not to get them to reject their biological reality, to try to change
00:23:24.540 their outward appearance and try to force everyone else to accept something that will never be true.
00:23:30.120 That a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man. It's not possible to be born in the wrong
00:23:34.920 body. All of us have different kinds of things wrong with our brain or wrong with our thinking or
00:23:41.040 ways in which our thinking is incongruent with reality. But we don't try to bend reality to try
00:23:46.840 to fit what our brain wrongly thinks. And yet this is a way in which people are trying to bend reality,
00:23:54.100 not only to how their brain thinks, or that's not only what they're trying to do,
00:23:57.860 but they're trying to change law, try to change language, trying to change how we see the reality
00:24:04.380 of human beings. And I'm going to fight against that. As much as we should fight against this idea
00:24:11.340 that two plus two can equal five, I will always fight against and adamantly reject in every single
00:24:18.700 way the idea that a man can become a woman, even if it is uncomfortable, even if it sounds impolite.
00:24:25.800 Because based on that lie, doctors for profit are butchering people's bodies, including minors.
00:24:34.320 The pain and the suffering, physical, emotional, spiritual, that these people have gone through,
00:24:40.900 that have sat on this couch, detransitioners have gone through, because of this lie that a man can be
00:24:47.140 she is so immense. And if we believe in God, and we believe in his authority, and we believe that he
00:24:53.780 is love, and we believe that his way is better, and we believe that telling the truth about people
00:24:59.500 is the best thing that we can do for them, because God is love and caring and compassionate,
00:25:04.780 and we know that he made the male and female, then the worst and cruelest thing that we can do to
00:25:10.120 someone like Brian is lie to them. I won't do it. I simply won't do it. David French, by calling him
00:25:16.440 she, is David French saying that he's nicer than God, that he knows better than God. And you don't,
00:25:23.520 David. You don't. His article says, Brian's article says, to be clear, my wife and kids have known the
00:25:30.720 side of me from the beginning, are 100% supportive, and encourage me to take this step. This is news to
00:25:35.740 the economic policy world, not to them. Nothing has changed at home. I don't believe you. I don't
00:25:42.800 believe you. Your poor children, I think two daughters, I'm not sure. There are pictures
00:25:49.360 circulating, you know, online of his family, which of course we won't post, but you have two young
00:25:56.560 children, and you think that they accept this. They miss their dad. And this is sowing confusion in
00:26:04.380 their lives. And you are sacrificing their stability on the altar of your desire. And that is the height
00:26:12.460 of selfishness. And David French knows that. And yet he's playing along with it. This is a tragic
00:26:18.760 story. Conservatives watch out. This kind of pernicious lie, destructive ideology is infiltrating
00:26:25.800 your circles too. And you have to be willing to stand up and say, two plus two is four. There is only
00:26:32.180 male. There is only female. And go back, listen to, watch the episodes with Genevieve Glock to know
00:26:40.300 what is really underneath this trend of grown men starting to identify as women and girls. Read that
00:26:49.880 chapter of Toxic Empathy. Have compassion for the true victims of gender ideology. The girls and
00:26:56.340 women whose spaces and teams are being infiltrated by men and boys. The minors whose bodies are being
00:27:05.340 castrated and chopped up for profit because they are confused and deceived about their gender. The
00:27:12.860 children whose parents are going this way and they will have trauma and confusion for the rest of their
00:27:19.240 lives because of this. Those are the victims to gender ideology. Allow your compassion to be directed
00:27:26.980 toward them and it will give you the gumption to continue to tell the truth. In an age of confusion
00:27:32.980 and cowardice, the clearest and the most courageous thing we can do is refuse to lie. David French, refuse to
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00:30:12.920 All right. Let's talk about birthright citizenship because I've seen this going around,
00:30:18.520 and even in conservative circles and some of the comments that I've received when I talked about
00:30:24.960 the Supreme Court wins that were announced on Friday, some of the decisions, Mahmoud v. Taylor,
00:30:31.320 that was a Supreme Court case that said, yes, parents do have the First Amendment right to opt out of
00:30:37.020 things like LGBTQ curriculum in schools. That was a huge win. But another win was about birthright
00:30:44.000 citizenship. But it really wasn't about birthright citizenship, this particular case. It was really
00:30:49.080 about these nationwide injunctions that are being put in place by judges that are stopping Trump's
00:30:54.820 executive orders. And this executive order that was in the center of this case happened to be about
00:30:59.480 birthright citizenship. But the comments that I've received from conservatives saying, oh, I don't know
00:31:04.540 about this one, have been focused on birthright citizenship. So we'll talk about that. So the Supreme Court
00:31:10.460 decided, as I said, on June 27th, in a case called Trump v. Casa, that federal judges cannot issue
00:31:17.800 nationwide injunctions, multiple of which had previously blocked President Trump's executive order,
00:31:22.980 which aims to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal or temporary immigrants. The 6-3
00:31:29.040 decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett allows Trump's executive order to potentially take effect
00:31:36.500 in states not currently involved in lawsuits challenging the EO as injunctions now apply
00:31:43.220 only to parties directly suing. In Amy Coney Barrett's opinion, there was a quote that was circulating that
00:31:51.140 was going viral because it was so sharp. So she is contending against Justice Jackson. You'll remember she
00:32:00.620 joined the Supreme Court under Biden. She wouldn't say what the definition of a woman is. A lot of
00:32:06.700 people said that she was just very objectively unqualified and that she was chosen because of
00:32:12.180 her race and because of her gender. This is Amy Coney Barrett basically saying, like, how in the world did
00:32:18.300 this person get on the Supreme Court because of her lack of understanding of the Constitution? She says,
00:32:22.780 we will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of
00:32:27.660 precedent. Two centuries, okay? Not two years, not two decades, two centuries, not to mention the
00:32:33.100 Constitution itself. We observe only this. Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing
00:32:41.580 an imperial judiciary. She goes all the way back, Amy Coney Barrett does, to Marbury v. Madison,
00:32:51.540 1803, okay? She's like, this principle that I'm talking about, it literally goes back to one of
00:32:59.140 the first Supreme Court cases, one of the most famous Supreme Court cases on which we base a lot of our
00:33:06.740 cases today. It set a lot of precedent. You remember that from law school? Like, how did you even pass the
00:33:11.920 bar? Of course, she doesn't say that, but this is like as sharp as it gets in Supreme Court justices
00:33:19.400 going after another. And I just appreciated that because that's the thing, of course, about these
00:33:25.560 left-wing justices. They actually don't care about the Constitution. Like, they really don't. They care
00:33:31.500 about their particular ideology. They are activists. They are going to follow along whatever Democrats say
00:33:36.880 that they want. And Amy Coney Barrett is like, okay, did you even read the Constitution? Do you even know
00:33:43.340 what we're talking about? So let's talk about what birthright citizenship actually is, since there's
00:33:50.020 a debate about this even on the right. Birthright citizenship is the principle that a person
00:33:54.480 automatically acquires citizenship of the country in which they are born. It grants citizenship to
00:33:59.500 individuals based solely on their place of birth. And in the U.S., it's justified through the 14th
00:34:05.200 Amendment. So the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the Reconstruction
00:34:10.480 Amendments passed after the Civil War. It addresses things like citizenship, equal protection. It was
00:34:17.540 enacted to overturn the Supreme Court's 1857, a Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, another one of those
00:34:24.620 very prominent Supreme Court cases that you probably learned about in high school or in college.
00:34:29.280 Text from the 14th Amendment says, all persons born are naturalized in the United States and subject to
00:34:34.140 the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they
00:34:39.800 reside. However, in a January 20th executive order, Trump aimed to restrict birthright citizenship by
00:34:48.520 returning to the original meaning and purpose of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause. So his
00:34:56.000 executive order says this, the privilege of the United States citizenship is a priceless and profound
00:35:00.840 gift. And then they go into what the 14th Amendment actually says. And the executive order says the
00:35:07.280 provision rightly repudiated the Supreme Court of the United States' shameful decision and dread Scott
00:35:12.420 v. Sanford. But the 14th Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to
00:35:18.800 everyone born within the United States. The executive order asserts that children born in the U.S. to
00:35:24.160 parents who are either unlawfully present or legally present on temporary visas are not subject to the
00:35:30.660 jurisdiction of the U.S. and thus not entitled to automatic citizenship and directs federal agencies to
00:35:37.220 stop issuing citizenship documents to such individuals. The Supreme Court ruling did not
00:35:44.660 address the constitutionality of this executive order, just the nationwide injunctions that were put in
00:35:51.020 place by judges to stop this and other executive orders. The decision empowers the Trump administration to
00:35:57.520 move forward with administrative actions to implement the policy, this policy, other policies, at least
00:36:02.580 temporarily in parts of the country. All right. So why is this a problem? First, we have to talk about
00:36:10.920 birth tourism. There's so much that we could talk about the problems of birthright citizenship, the
00:36:15.940 realities of it. We don't have time to get into all of that. But let's talk about birth tourism and chain
00:36:21.200 migration. So birth tourism motivates people to enter into the U.S. illegally or temporarily to
00:36:27.420 have children who have children who then gain citizenship. And then that can then lead to
00:36:32.420 family sponsorship. That's chain migration. So that child becomes a citizen just by being born there.
00:36:39.940 It is then easier for the rest of their family to take priority in becoming legal citizens. It is
00:36:46.460 totally gaming the system. There was a Senate committee finding on a Senate committee on Homeland Security
00:36:54.840 finding that came out a few years ago in 2022. I believe it was authored by Senator Rob Portman,
00:37:04.000 in which they found that certain policies that were implemented, particularly under Barack Obama,
00:37:12.400 actually exacerbated, made more accessible this birth tourism. So here's some of what they found.
00:37:19.040 We'll link it in the description so you can read it for yourself. It's very long.
00:37:23.040 So they found this is findings of fact changes to State Department policies governing the issuance
00:37:28.840 of B visas in 2015 made birth tourism more accessible. They instructed consular officers not
00:37:37.140 to deny visa applicants solely because they plan to travel to the U.S. to obtain citizenship for their
00:37:42.100 child. So basically someone could come in for the express reason of doing what we just described
00:37:47.840 and people in charge were not allowed to say no based on that after 2015.
00:37:54.320 This report also found after the committee began its investigation in 2020. So this committee started
00:37:59.600 investigating this issue after Trump was president. The State Department amended its policies governing
00:38:04.080 the issuance of B visas to prohibit travel to travel to the U.S. solely for birth tourism.
00:38:09.580 The State Department's 2020 policy change prohibiting birth tourism was a primary reason for
00:38:14.560 one company called Miami Mamas to discontinue their operations. Birth tourists often make substantial
00:38:23.420 cash declarations upon entry to the U.S., make return trips to secure citizenship for numerous
00:38:28.760 children, and receive significant adjustments for total hospital costs incurred. So this is like a really
00:38:36.520 good deal for the people who can afford it to come over here and to have their children.
00:38:41.400 Okay, let's talk about Miami Mama. This is one example. There are so many examples of this
00:38:47.320 happening. Miami Mama LLC was raided by federal authorities in 2017 because of what they were up
00:38:55.260 to. So again, under the Trump administration, this is according to NBC Miami. This is an example
00:39:01.340 of what we're talking about. The company's website says they have been operating. This is according
00:39:06.340 to NBC. The company's website says they have been operating in Miami since 2009 and are the first
00:39:12.860 in Miami for Russian women who want to give birth to their child in the best climate with the best
00:39:18.120 quality of health care. The company offers packages ranging from just under $20,000 to over $53,000
00:39:24.560 that include all the medicines and procedures that come along with childbirth. They charge more for
00:39:30.940 those who get C-sections while assisting in finding housing, opening U.S. bank accounts, and obtaining
00:39:36.260 documents such as social security cards, birth certificates, and other documents needed for the
00:39:41.060 child. The website says, okay, this is very lucrative for a lot of people. This has become
00:39:46.620 very lucrative industry. This is an article that was published at the beginning of this year by CNN.
00:39:53.480 Birth tourism organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to the U.S.
00:39:59.020 CNN says a California woman was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison in a long-running
00:40:04.040 case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to deliver babies who
00:40:09.080 automatically became American citizens. This woman, Phoebe Dong, was given a 41-month sentence and
00:40:16.700 she was ordered immediately. She was taken into custody. Dong and her husband were convicted in
00:40:26.760 September of conspiracy and money laundering through their company, USA Happy Baby. Federal prosecutors
00:40:34.960 sought more than a five-year sentence for Dong and argued that she and her husband helped more than
00:40:39.920 100 pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. They worked with others to coach women on how to trick
00:40:48.500 customs officials by flying into airports believed to be more lax while wearing loose-fitting clothing to
00:40:56.240 hide their pregnancies. Okay? For tens of thousands of dollars, each defendant's, the defendant's helped
00:41:04.560 her new, okay, the defendant, sorry, this typo in this article, defendant helped her numerous customers
00:41:11.360 deceive U.S. authorities and buy U.S. citizenship for their children. The U.S. Happy Baby case was part of a
00:41:19.680 broader probe into businesses that helped Chinese women travel to give birth in California. The operator of
00:41:25.860 another business is believed to have fled to China while another was sentenced in 2019 to 10 months
00:41:32.640 in prison. Okay, so this is already sketchy. Parts of this is already illegal, the birth tourism part.
00:41:40.280 However, it hasn't mattered until the Trump administration is saying that it mattered when
00:41:45.600 it comes to citizenship for the kids. Even if it was illegal, even if they were risking all of this,
00:41:51.320 like their baby still gets the citizenship. They still may get the benefits of chain migration.
00:41:59.100 So that's a huge issue that people are gaming the system, people are making money off of this,
00:42:05.400 and they are getting all the benefits of citizenship when other people have been waiting in line for a
00:42:11.060 very long time to get citizenship and do it the right way. There are many countries that do not
00:42:18.640 have birthright citizenship. Most countries don't have the birthright citizenship that the United
00:42:23.900 States has. And people are acting like, progressives are acting like, oh my gosh, this is so fascist.
00:42:29.120 This is so horrible. This is so bigoted that we wouldn't have birthright citizenship. Okay,
00:42:33.320 most countries don't. I see some people saying, oh, this is so sad and bigoted and progressives are just
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00:43:56.900 Okay. Countries with restricted birthright citizenship. I'll list them. But first, let me say
00:44:01.440 the U.S. and Canada are the only first world countries that have unrestricted birthright
00:44:06.320 citizenship. So there are other countries, I think 33 other countries that also have unconditional
00:44:12.440 birthright citizenship. So if you are born there, you become a citizen automatically. They are mostly
00:44:18.660 like in South America. And there are some other ones in different parts of the world too. But U.S.,
00:44:27.200 Canada, only other Western civilization countries that allow this unconditional birthright citizenship.
00:44:35.360 I can't even read you all of the countries that have highly restricted birthright citizenship or
00:44:41.200 no real birthright citizenship at all because it's most countries. But I will list you some of them.
00:44:48.540 The countries that many progressives hail as so forward-thinking and so much more compassionate
00:44:53.340 than the United States. Y'all, when it comes to immigration, there is not a country more compassionate,
00:44:57.800 if you want to call it that, more open than the U.S. Okay? So I don't want to hear the complaints
00:45:02.300 about how we are finally enforcing immigration law. Every country has a right and a responsibility
00:45:07.740 to do that. I'm not saying we should be cruel, but it's also not always going to look nice and easy
00:45:13.160 either. And that's how other countries do it as well. I mean, Mexico has way stricter
00:45:19.560 immigration policies than we do. You don't have the same rights as an immigrant in Mexico as the
00:45:26.420 native-born people have. It is so different than the United States. Okay. Here are the countries
00:45:31.360 that have extremely conditional and restricted birthright citizenship. It's conditional. I can't
00:45:36.600 even call it birthright citizenship because it is conditional, your citizenship, if you're born in
00:45:41.040 these countries, on your parent status, on their permanent residency, whether they have citizenship in
00:45:46.760 other countries. So France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, China,
00:45:55.080 India, Iran, Israel, Japan, so many others, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
00:46:04.100 extremely conditional. Lots of conditions, lots of qualifications, lots of restrictions. America,
00:46:10.380 because of what I think is a wrong interpretation of the 14th Amendment, is completely liberal and open
00:46:16.260 when it comes to birthright citizenship. Other countries are a lot more strict and a lot stricter
00:46:23.180 and a lot more sane, a lot saner when it comes to their immigration policies, especially with birthright
00:46:30.340 citizenship. So let's not act like this is extremist. This is normal. It's the same thing that progressives
00:46:35.060 do when it comes to abortion. Like some people will say, oh, yeah, I just maybe don't think abortion
00:46:40.580 should be legal after 16 weeks, like when we know they can feel pain, maybe. And you'll get the
00:46:46.760 progressives in the Planned Parenthood lobby all dressed in their red robes saying, this is the
00:46:50.900 Handmaid's Tale. We're going back to the 1950s. This is so radical and extreme. And it's like, well,
00:46:57.600 16 weeks is still later than most of Europe. France, I'm pretty sure, has a 12-week limit
00:47:04.080 on abortion. Guys, if we're more liberal than France or Germany on anything, we're going in
00:47:12.680 the wrong direction. Here's also an ironic point in all of this. Democrats suddenly care for unborn
00:47:19.700 babies when it comes to birthright citizenship. Within hours of the published decision from the
00:47:25.880 Supreme Court, the plaintiffs, CASA of Maryland, it's an immigration advocacy organization, along with
00:47:32.960 Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, filed to
00:47:39.540 convert the case into a class action lawsuit. So they asked Judge Deborah Boardman to ask the U.S.
00:47:45.200 District Court in Maryland to officially recognize a class of children born or to be born to immigrant
00:47:51.620 parents who could be denied citizenship under the executive order. Under this lawsuit, even children
00:47:58.380 in the womb would be included. So suddenly, when it comes to accomplishing their immigration goals,
00:48:05.040 because remember, Democrats are thinking long game. If they can change the demographics of the
00:48:10.140 country, if they can make, they think, America less conservative evangelical white, then they will
00:48:16.420 secure progressive victory forevermore. So this is very important to them. So when it comes to achieving
00:48:21.240 their political ends, suddenly babies inside the womb are not just human beings, but they also have
00:48:26.600 full rights. They have full rights, constitutional rights. And it's so interesting that they're using
00:48:31.740 the 14th Amendment to try to say that babies inside the womb are afforded the same rights as everyone
00:48:38.920 else. That's the argument that we make. That's the argument that conservative pro-lifers make, that the
00:48:45.080 equal protection clause actually does extend to babies inside the womb, and therefore they should be
00:48:50.820 granted the same constitutional rights that you and I have, that they should be given the foremost right,
00:48:58.640 which is the right to life, the right not to be murdered. That is a proper interpretation of the
00:49:04.760 14th Amendment, though. An improper interpretation of the 14th Amendment is to say that this grants
00:49:10.340 unconditional citizenship to everyone who was born here. I'm not arguing with their position that babies
00:49:17.500 inside the womb should be afforded all rights, including rights in the 14th Amendment. I'm saying the right
00:49:22.440 to unconditional citizenship because of where you were born is not in the 14th Amendment. So the hypocrisy there
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00:51:12.440 Okay, so here's the story that you've probably seen. A Guatemalan illegal alien named Iris Diana
00:51:19.020 Monterosolimus came into the spotlight when the outlet Nashville Banner painted her as a victim of
00:51:26.020 ice mistreatment in a story published on May 27th. She was detained while pregnant. She lost her baby.
00:51:32.380 According to the banner, due to allegedly being denied medical care, the Department of Homeland
00:51:38.100 Security, though, claims that this is a lie. Here's what the Nashville Banner said.
00:51:42.620 After she was arrested by ICE, she ended up at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana,
00:51:47.720 where she asked for medical help for days, and she lost her midterm pregnancy. She said,
00:51:56.420 they didn't give me medical attention nowhere. Not in Louisiana, not in Alabama. I was in Alabama,
00:52:01.040 too, sleeping on the floor. She said she was given 12 pills to take daily, though the banner was unable
00:52:07.520 to independently verify this. She took them for two days before stopping, convinced something was wrong.
00:52:13.360 I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and I wasn't getting the
00:52:17.260 medical attention I needed. I called ICE. I called and sent texts, but still nothing. They told me I had
00:52:23.240 to wait for my flight. Can you imagine? We've got Representative Jaya Powell. She is a Democrat
00:52:30.180 representative from Washington. She said, a pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her
00:52:35.320 prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced
00:52:40.860 to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting, and we should all be outraged. Now, I will say,
00:52:46.120 if that is true, it is disgusting, and we should be outraged. I would have absolutely no problem
00:52:51.920 saying that just because I support, in general, deportations, the sovereignty of our country,
00:52:57.800 the enforcement of immigration law, which does include deportations. That's the only way that
00:53:03.140 we make sure that citizenship actually means something and counts. That doesn't mean that I
00:53:09.220 am going to agree with every individual treatment of every single person, and because human beings are
00:53:15.200 flawed, systems can be flawed as well, and they can be simple, and they can do wrong things.
00:53:21.300 So I would have no problem saying, this is horrifying. I'm so sorry that this happened,
00:53:26.120 and we need to investigate to make sure that nothing like this happens again. We've got all
00:53:30.820 kinds of posts saying this. This is Santa Anna updates. This has a ton of engagement on social
00:53:37.560 media. A pregnant woman in ICE custody loses baby. We've got different Christian influencers who are
00:53:44.640 talking about this, of course, questioning the validity, the integrity of the pro-life movement,
00:53:51.840 because we support deportations and don't have any problem with this. And of course, I think some
00:53:57.540 people on the right will even see this as an opportunity to say, yeah, see, I have a problem
00:54:02.740 with this, just to try to maintain some kind of middle-of-the-road position. But whenever I see
00:54:10.920 something from the left, I'm going to stop before I say anything, even if initially it does seem
00:54:16.400 horrifying, I'm going to wait for more facts to come out. And there has been a counter-narrative.
00:54:21.060 I don't know for sure if what the DHS is saying is true, but here's what the Department of Homeland
00:54:26.840 Security, Trisha McLaughlin, what she has to say. She says, absolutely false. She, this woman,
00:54:33.180 had full medical prenatal care. We have documentation to show it. Iris, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has
00:54:40.460 been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide. So
00:54:46.600 this is what the DHS has to say. They rebutted this on their government website. They say she
00:54:52.960 received prenatal care, including an ultrasound, an OBGYN visit, dental care, and medication. She was
00:55:01.020 also admitted to a hospital and saw multiple nurses. They said she received prenatal care, including a
00:55:06.500 fetal Doppler ultrasound. As soon as she identified the distress on April 29th, ICE provided immediate
00:55:12.200 medical assistance. DHS says ICE sent her to a hospital immediately to receive medical care.
00:55:18.660 They say she was not required to sleep on the floor. She had a bed in her cell. They also say
00:55:24.460 all ICE New Orleans detainees are provided appropriate dietician-cleared menus daily per ICE
00:55:29.660 performance-based national detention standards. We have no record of a grievance filed by a detainee
00:55:37.260 because she said that she was mistreated and mocked by the guards. They say that she was arrested
00:55:43.080 twice for child abuse and neglect with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. I don't understand why she's
00:55:47.400 not in prison then, but she also has an active warrant for homicide in Guatemala. Yikes.
00:55:54.360 Okay, so this is what the DHS is saying. This is why she was being detained. This is why she was
00:56:03.480 being deported because she is a dangerous woman, according to the DHS. Now, you can say, well,
00:56:09.920 I don't believe the DHS. It's just propaganda. We haven't seen the documentation that has been
00:56:13.860 talked about, and maybe they can't because of privacy reasons. But I would just say, I would warn you,
00:56:20.000 before you latch on to a story that is meant to grab onto your heart and pull your empathy in the
00:56:26.180 direction of progressive policy to ask yourself, but is this true? And typically, it's wise just to
00:56:31.460 wait just to see, okay, is this story actually right? Or is there something that they're not telling us
00:56:38.620 here? And it seems to me like there are at least some countervailing set of facts here. I don't know
00:56:47.700 what's true. I do believe that all people, no matter their immigrant status, should be treated
00:56:54.320 with dignity, should be treated with care, especially unborn children, that all these people are made in
00:56:59.960 the image of God, and they should be treated with respect. But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't
00:57:04.580 be detained, and they shouldn't be deported, because if they are here illegally, they should. And I am for
00:57:10.760 any dignified and kinder way that we can do that. If the left would like to give me some policy
00:57:18.260 suggestions, then I am totally willing to hear them out. But if the suggestion is we shouldn't be
00:57:23.620 detaining and deporting people at all, then I just can't get on board with that. I can't get on board
00:57:28.540 with that, and we're not going to be able to have a good conversation about it. Okay, final thing. I just
00:57:33.140 want to play you one thing. BBC presenter Martine Croxall, she went viral after she was brave enough
00:57:40.700 to do this on air. It's not one. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research
00:57:46.020 which says that nearly 600 heat-related deaths are expected in the UK. Malcolm Mistry, who was involved
00:57:52.780 in the research, says that the aged pregnant people, women, and those with pre-existing health conditions
00:58:00.220 need to take precautions. So she kind of rolled her eyes there. She said, women. And this was
00:58:08.120 published by Pink News, which is a pro-LGBTQ outlet. And all of the comments were so mad at her. I'm sure
00:58:13.580 she has received a lot of heat for that. She posted a huge thank you to everyone who has chosen to follow
00:58:20.560 me. And so far, I don't think that she's been punished for that. But just be praying for her. Give her a high
00:58:26.400 five on social media if you can. It's Maxine Croxall. Or sorry, I said Maxine. It's Martine.
00:58:32.980 Martine BBC is her handle on X. And just that small act of not lying, of refusing to tell a lie and
00:58:41.940 insisting on telling the truth, that means a lot. That gives a lot of people courage. So high five to
00:58:46.860 you, Martine. Keep going. That brings it full circle. If there's nothing else that you can do today
00:58:53.240 to advance the truth, which there's always something, but one of the bravest things you can
00:58:57.920 do is refuse to lie. All right. That's all we've got time for today. We'll be back here on Wednesday.