Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 127

00:00:00.140 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. So we've got a

00:00:05.780 lot to cover because there's a lot going on in the news. First, I want to talk about the

00:00:09.860 latest in abortion news. We talk about abortion a lot on this podcast, but that's because

00:00:13.900 it's in the news a lot. And of course it speaks to a shift in our culture. And obviously it

00:00:20.140 has eternal and biblical significance as well, which falls under the category of things that

00:00:25.780 we like to analyze on this show. Then we are going to cover Parkland survivor and 2A advocate

00:00:31.880 Kyle Kashuv and Harvard's decision to rescind his acceptance based on racist comments that

00:00:38.280 he made a couple of years ago. And then I want to discuss flag burning and whether or not it

00:00:44.040 should be legal. And then if we have time, if we have time, I'm not sure that we're going

00:00:48.120 to have time to cover all of this, but if we have time, I want to talk about this New York

00:00:51.180 Times op-ed that I found really interesting. And it was titled, uh, how should Christians

00:00:55.460 have sex? And it, uh, covered purity culture, which is something that we've talked about on

00:00:58.940 this podcast before, but I will warn you, I'm probably going to spend the majority of

00:01:03.100 the time on, uh, the abortion topic because there's so much there. It includes Illinois' latest,

00:01:09.740 uh, Illinois' Illinois. Uh, I don't really know how to say that as a possessive. Any of you

00:01:15.400 from Illinois is out. Wow. Illinois out there can tell me how to say it in the possessive

00:01:21.760 way, but it kind of trips me up just a little bit. So we are going to discuss the latest

00:01:28.020 law, uh, that Illinois passed. Is that better? Uh, and then we're going to talk about Joe

00:01:33.280 Biden's flip-flopping on abortion. We're going to talk about the Hyde amendment. And then if

00:01:36.860 we have time, we'll talk about Clarence Thomas's, uh, recent comments on Roe v. Wade. So first,

00:01:41.840 uh, let us look at, uh, what passed the Illinois legislature earlier this month. It was called the

00:01:48.340 Reproductive Health Act. Uh, as you guys know, reproductive health equals a euphemism for abortion.

00:01:54.960 That's what it is. It is a euphemism for abortion. Um, it's funny. It's a funny euphemism to use

00:02:00.960 because abortion doesn't have anything to do with reproduction or health. Um, but an entire legion of

00:02:06.460 people desperately clamoring to sanitize the brutal reality that abortion is the killing

00:02:11.680 of a child have decided to use this particular, uh, this particular phrase to help them justify

00:02:18.180 and to kind of sway any guilt that they feel for advocating for murder. So the goal of this bill

00:02:23.720 is not to lower the maternity or the maternal mortality rate, or to make having a baby better

00:02:29.180 or safer for women. Uh, the goal of the bill is to make access to abortion through all nine months as

00:02:34.560 easy as possible period. You can go online and you can read the bill. That's exactly what it does.

00:02:39.860 And it's only what it does. So here's what the act actually states. Um, every individual has a

00:02:44.860 fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about the individual's own reproductive health,

00:02:49.620 including the fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care. So what we see here,

00:02:56.020 again, even it's in its, uh, stated purpose is this, uh, euphemistic language used to describe

00:03:01.580 abortion. So let's just stop right there and think about that for a second. Uh, abortion advocates do this

00:03:06.840 a lot. They kind of talk out of both sides of their mouth. Uh, on the one hand, they say, okay,

00:03:10.960 abortion is not that big of a deal. It's, it's nothing. It's just this, like any kind of other

00:03:15.400 procedure that you do. It's just like going to the dentist and getting a cavity taken care of or

00:03:20.600 something like that. It's really not something that we need to make a fuss over, but if that were

00:03:25.740 really true, why couldn't they just use the term abortion? Why couldn't they just use the term

00:03:30.140 abortion in the stated purpose of this bill? But you hear this a lot. You hear about a women's

00:03:34.780 freedom. You hear about autonomy. Uh, you hear about reproductive health or reproductive health

00:03:39.580 care. Why are they so afraid? Sometimes it seems like just to call it abortion or to say what an

00:03:45.520 abortion actually is. That's also a theme among abortion advocates is that they don't want to talk

00:03:50.980 about what abortion actually is, which is the killing of a child that it doesn't matter which side

00:03:56.600 of the aisle that you're on. That's what it is. They like to use phrases like termination of

00:04:01.680 pregnancy. Again, they use euphemisms to try to morally justify what I think many of them know

00:04:06.840 in their heart of hearts is wrong. Um, the fact of the matter is, is that Planned Parenthood

00:04:12.140 and the pro-abortion side, at least the powers that be on the pro-abortion side, they've done such a good

00:04:17.940 job. Um, and I don't mean a morally good job, but an effective job of skirting around what abortion

00:04:23.460 actually is. And, um, they've done such a good job that most people who support it really have no idea

00:04:30.680 what abortion is. They really don't. If you asked the average pro-choicer what happens in a first or

00:04:36.540 second or third trimester abortion, they couldn't tell you. I guarantee you the average pro-choicer

00:04:41.300 could not tell you what happens in an abortion procedure. Uh, furthermore, if you ask them about

00:04:47.680 fetal development, what is happening, uh, to the fetus or the baby, I don't really care what you call it.

00:04:52.900 Uh, either one, if you ask them what is happening in that stage of development, uh, in the child's brain

00:04:58.900 or body nervous system, whatever it is, they couldn't tell you. They could not tell you about

00:05:02.960 pregnancy. They could not tell you about gestation. They could not tell you about fetal development.

00:05:07.320 And yet they have claimed to be the experts on science and women's bodies. Um, that's because

00:05:11.940 the resources on the pro-choice side never talk about what really happens. They really don't.

00:05:17.020 So if you go to any academic website or any medical website, or even Planned Parenthood's own website

00:05:22.720 to learn what an abortion is, say you're a woman seeking an abortion and you just want to know

00:05:27.220 what the procedure is, um, it will tell you these sites will tell you what an abortion is,

00:05:31.960 but it's not going to use the term. Uh, it's probably not going to use the term fetus. It might,

00:05:38.660 but it's more likely going to use the phrase terminate the pregnancy or tissue or fetal tissue,

00:05:45.100 or in a DNX abortion, which we will touch on in a second, it might say cerebral contents. Uh,

00:05:51.320 it will hardly ever use the word fetus. It's definitely not going to use the word baby. It's going to

00:05:56.180 avoid, uh, using as many human terms as possible, even though fetus of course is a human term. Uh,

00:06:02.760 for some reason, people think that using fetus is more dehumanizing and more sanitizing than

00:06:08.960 using the word baby, but it's just a stage of development in a baby's life. So we're not going

00:06:14.600 to see terms like, or words like limbs or head or heart, even though these are all very accurate

00:06:20.060 and necessary words to use when describing abortions. Um, but we'll hear words like tissue

00:06:25.240 to describe a body and embryonic pulsing, uh, to describe a heartbeat. And the reason of course,

00:06:30.880 is that abortion advocates want desperately, they want desperately to pretend that what is being

00:06:36.020 terminated is not a human being. Uh, it's not a life. It's not a person. And therefore nothing is

00:06:42.720 being killed. That's what they want people to believe. That's what they want themselves to believe.

00:06:46.320 Uh, abortion advocacy is entirely dependent on euphemisms, on deception and on feelings,

00:06:53.360 not at all on accuracy, not at all on fact. Um, if we go back to the stated purpose of this act,

00:07:00.660 uh, we know why this is. So it says every individual has a fundamental right to make

00:07:06.460 autonomous decisions about the individual's own reproductive health. So we see that word

00:07:13.400 autonomous. This word autonomy is one that we see a lot, not just in relation to abortion, but

00:07:19.180 really in relation to a lot of issues, especially surrounding women. And that is because autonomy is

00:07:25.480 the only value held when the God that you worship is yourself autonomy, which means being able to

00:07:32.420 control yourself and control your body is the only value that is held when the God that you worship

00:07:38.320 is self increasingly. That is who we as a society have decided that we worship the God of self.

00:07:44.480 When you worship yourself, all that matters is that you are in control and that you get to do what you

00:07:49.840 want to do. Consequences be damned. Uh, it does not matter who is hurt by your decision when autonomy

00:07:56.500 is your highest value. Uh, this is part of why the whole self-love, self-obsession, self-affirmation

00:08:03.980 culture that we see on Instagram and in self-help books, that seems like it's edifying. That seems

00:08:09.260 like it's positive is actually toxic because it has an effect on how we view even life and death

00:08:15.520 issues like abortion. Uh, when you believe that you are your object of worship, that you are your own

00:08:22.700 God, that you are the only moral arbiter that exists. You can justify absolutely anything.

00:08:28.240 Everything is okay. Everything is okay. When you are your own God, including, but not limited to

00:08:34.160 killing a defenseless child inside the womb. Uh, it is by denying the existence of the God of scripture

00:08:41.260 as the moral lawgiver and replacing him with the God of self, uh, that society has elevated autonomy to

00:08:48.400 the place that it has, uh, to be our chief value. And that has allowed us to justify all sorts of

00:08:55.420 immorality. Uh, and it is this shift. It's this shift that has convinced millions of people in

00:09:01.640 America that when a woman is pregnant, that she is the only human being that matters in that equation.

00:09:06.980 Uh, they have been convinced that control of oneself and control of one's life must be protected at all

00:09:14.160 costs. Thus convenience has to be clung to at all costs and consequences are seen as a form of

00:09:21.300 grave injustice that has to be avoided at all costs. And thus we get the quote moral argument for

00:09:28.180 abortion. That's really all they've got is autonomy. Uh, so there are two big things that the Illinois

00:09:34.300 bill did. One, it denies that an unborn child has any rights. So the act states this, uh, word for word,

00:09:41.780 a fertilized egg embryo or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this state. So what that

00:09:50.580 means is that at no point in the pregnancy and no point in the pregnancy does an unborn child have

00:09:56.980 any rights. So I'm 38 and a half weeks right now. Uh, this child inside my womb that moves nonstop,

00:10:03.740 that is a practicing breathing that is about to be born any day now has no rights simply because it is

00:10:10.940 inside my body in the state of Illinois. So if someone decided in the state of Illinois to murder me

00:10:16.220 and thus murdered my child, they would be charged with one homicide, not two, if they decided to

00:10:21.880 assault me and I survived, but my baby didn't, they would only be charged for assault. They

00:10:26.960 wouldn't be charged for murder, even though my baby inside me died. It's the same thing in New York.

00:10:31.640 Um, the second thing that it does, it does a few things, but the two big things that we're talking

00:10:35.540 about is saying that, uh, an unborn child has no rights at any point in gestation. And the number two,

00:10:41.580 it repeals the state's partial birth abortion ban act. And this is probably one of the most grotesque

00:10:47.020 parts of this bill. So let me first tell you what a partial birth abortion is. And then, um,

00:10:52.880 I'll tell you what repealing this actually means. So a partial birth abortion is actually called,

00:10:59.180 or is medically called a DNX abortion. You'll hear the argument from the pro-choice side that

00:11:03.900 partial birth abortion is in a medical term. Fine. If you don't want to use partial birth abortion,

00:11:08.140 even though that's what it is, that's actually what happens. We can use the technical medical

00:11:12.980 term that you'll find on a variety of pregnancy or medical sites. And that is DNX abortion. So

00:11:18.420 that stands for dilation and extraction abortion. You don't have to take my word for this. I'm not

00:11:23.020 getting this from pro-lifesally.com. You can go anywhere to any medical or academic site that will

00:11:29.400 tell you what a DNX and abortion is. And again, they're probably not going to use very human or, um,

00:11:34.360 personable terms or personal terms, I should say, but they will tell you exactly what I'm about to

00:11:41.420 explain to you in one way or another. So DNX abortions are only used after 16 weeks. And the

00:11:47.100 reason for that is because at 16 weeks, uh, the baby is too big and moves too much. It's too squirmy

00:11:52.560 to be killed in other ways. Typically, uh, the bigger a child gets inside the wound, the harder it

00:11:57.360 is to suck them out with a tube or to dismember them with forceps as is typically done in the first

00:12:02.780 and second trimester. So that would be why when DNX abortion is used, that would be why it is used

00:12:08.520 because the child is just too big and too much to be killed in another way. Uh, so what a DNX abortion

00:12:14.640 does is that it induces delivery. So this can be done in a variety of ways, but it induces delivery.

00:12:20.780 The doctor delivers the baby breach. If you don't know what that means, that means that the baby

00:12:25.260 comes out feet first. And when the neck of the baby actually reaches the birth canal, the abortionist,

00:12:30.700 uh, goes in and cuts a hole in the back of the baby's skull, inserts a suction tube and

00:12:34.880 sucks the baby's brain out until the skull collapses. Now, if you think that I'm describing

00:12:38.940 a horror movie, I understand that it sounds like it, but I promise you, I'm not exaggerating.

00:12:43.000 I promise this is not hyperbole. This is not Ali's fiction hour. Again, you can go online and you can

00:12:47.940 look this up for yourself. Please don't take my word for it. So the abortionist cuts a hole in the

00:12:52.860 back of the baby's skull while the baby is alive, by the way, moving around flailing its limbs,

00:12:58.400 I would assume, uh, inserts a suction tube and sucks the baby's brain out until the skull collapses.

00:13:04.460 And like I said, this is all done when the baby is alive. They have traveled through the birth canal

00:13:09.140 at this point. So they are definitely awake at this point. They're most likely moving. Um, if the baby

00:13:14.720 is far enough along, they are probably getting ready to take their first breath. They are instinctively

00:13:19.880 getting ready to cry, instinctively looking for their mother, but instead they are met with a puncture in

00:13:25.420 the back of the head. And before they know it, their brain has been sucked out. Now, if you are

00:13:30.900 ignorant of, and I don't mean this in a pejorative way, but if you are ignorant of how, what a baby

00:13:37.160 looks like inside the womb at 16 weeks or further, and if in your mind, you're picturing some kind of

00:13:42.640 blob, then you have some learning to do. You just need to go on any pregnancy website whatsoever,

00:13:47.960 not necessarily an abortion website, just any pregnancy website whatsoever. And you will see

00:13:52.960 that at 16 weeks, they are fully formed. They're still underdeveloped. They still have growing to

00:13:57.300 do. They still have development to do, but they're fully formed. I mean, my baby, I saw her at 11 and

00:14:01.740 a half weeks. She was fully formed. She was moving around hands and feet, uh, spinning her head around

00:14:07.160 they're moving. They've been moving for a long time. And at 16 weeks, you're probably actually starting

00:14:11.920 to be able to feel your baby move at 20 weeks. You've been able to feel her for a while at 24 weeks.

00:14:17.140 And onward, of course, those movements are very strong. There is no doubt whatsoever. There's no

00:14:22.020 medical disagreement on whether or not this baby is alive and, um, can very likely feel pain. We also

00:14:28.040 know, I actually read this the other day in a pregnancy resource that I was just reading for

00:14:31.960 myself, not for abortion, that, uh, babies actually cry inside the womb, that doctors have been able

00:14:37.180 to see the crying reflex start to develop inside the womb. Do we know if tears actually come down? No,

00:14:44.000 but when there's a loud noise, when there's something to react to a baby's chin quivers and you see

00:14:50.020 them open their mouth, like they're, uh, trying to scream or they're trying to react to something, I

00:14:54.580 cannot imagine. I cannot imagine the reaction that happens when they are met with a knife to the back

00:15:01.080 of the neck or when they are met with a needle that is meant to stop their heart. I cannot imagine the

00:15:08.040 pain and the brutality and the gruesome nature of what is happening inside the womb. And one day we will

00:15:15.180 be able to see it and there won't be any question about what is actually happening. Now you may be

00:15:22.060 thinking, Ali, isn't there a federal ban on this horrific act? Isn't there a federal ban on partial

00:15:28.440 birth abortions? Yes, there is except to save the life of the mother. But a couple things, the reason

00:15:33.860 why this is still significant that Illinois decided, uh, to repeal this as a state, um, one, it shows where

00:15:40.780 they'd like to go for the future. So if the federal ban is overturned, which it probably will be if

00:15:45.460 Democrats, uh, take over Congress and take over, uh, the presidency as well, if, if the federal ban

00:15:51.060 against partial birth or DNX abortion is overturned, Illinois wants to make sure that the state doesn't

00:15:56.480 stand in the way of that. So it tells you where their priorities are, that they of course, um, are

00:16:01.020 totally fine with this happening at any stage in pregnancy. The second reason why this is a significant,

00:16:06.840 why it's important to know that they're repealing this and why it's even important to know that

00:16:12.640 there's an exception for the life of the mother to this day in America, according to the federal

00:16:18.380 ban on partial birth abortion is because there is never, there is never a reason to perform a partial

00:16:24.140 birth abortion to save the life of the mother ever, ever. Now you might be thinking, Ali, how do you know

00:16:30.800 this? Are you a doctor? Do you have an MD? Uh, no, I I'm not. And I don't have an MD, but you don't

00:16:38.300 have to be a doctor to read and understand basic logic. So DNX, uh, abortions only happen after 16

00:16:43.780 weeks, usually after 20 weeks, uh, babies as young as 21 weeks have survived outside the womb. You can

00:16:49.440 look that up yourself. You're not just going to find that on pro-life sites. You're going to find that

00:16:52.880 on basic news sites. You're going to find that on CNN, 21 weeks. Uh, that is in the middle of your

00:16:58.800 second trimester. So babies born at 21 weeks have survived outside of the womb. Babies at 24 weeks

00:17:04.940 are considered viable, which means they have a really good chance of surviving outside of the

00:17:09.640 womb. A 24 weeks is still in the second trimester. So that means if in the extremely rare case that a

00:17:17.160 mother will die, if she remains pregnant, anytime after 21 weeks, the child needs to be delivered,

00:17:23.380 not killed. So whether by abortion or by delivery, uh, a baby is going to come out. So can you tell

00:17:31.640 me if this is to save the life of the mother, if this is to save the life of the mother, if the baby

00:17:36.300 needs to be removed for the mother to live, why does the baby also have to die? Can you give me a

00:17:41.560 medical reason for that? And abortion involves a lot more intervention than a C-section and is a lot

00:17:46.860 more dangerous to the mother than an induced labor is, uh, which is why the line that a DNX abortion

00:17:53.320 is only used to save the life of the mother is complete hogwash. It's not true. It would never,

00:17:59.040 ever be true. An abortion in the third trimester to save the life of the mother does not make any

00:18:04.700 sense. By the start of the third trimester at 28 weeks, a baby has a 97% chance of surviving outside

00:18:12.380 of the womb. So if that mom needs to deliver the child in order to live, you deliver the child.

00:18:18.180 You don't kill the child. Child has to come out either way. It doesn't make any sense. And so I

00:18:23.840 guarantee you a DNX abortion in Illinois, what they want is to be able to perform this gruesome act

00:18:31.440 without any restrictions whatsoever. And for any reason, um, hardcore abortion advocates want legal

00:18:38.400 abortion through all nine months without restrictions, period. It doesn't matter how the baby is

00:18:43.320 killed and it doesn't matter why. Um, I tweeted this the other day, uh, about the Illinois law and

00:18:49.220 the brutal nature of, uh, DNX abortions. And it ended up getting a lot more attention and pushback

00:18:56.180 than I, than I'd realized. I actually woke up yesterday morning and I realized I had all of these

00:19:00.680 notifications about this tweet and I hadn't even noticed it. All these leftists commenting on this,

00:19:05.140 just saying, you're a liar. You're a liar. This is such a lie. Wow. People make things up.

00:19:09.740 People quote tweeting this saying, wow, I can't believe you would make this up. There's so much

00:19:13.320 misinformation out there. You're spreading false information. You're so crazy. Really? Is this a

00:19:19.100 lie? Am I, am I a liar? Because I read the bill. Did you, I read the bill and I researched what a DNX

00:19:26.120 abortion is. Did you, apparently none of them did. Um, but this is what they do. They deny, deny,

00:19:32.920 deny without ever having to come up with any kind of logical defense behind their denial. Because

00:19:38.020 even the most passionate abortion advocates struggle with reconciling their humanity with

00:19:43.740 the justification of the brutal killing of a defenseless baby. So they will just say,

00:19:47.860 you're lying, you're lying. And they'll deny that the baby exists. And when you say, well,

00:19:52.660 here's my research. That's what I did. I said, here's my research. Here's a resource that I know

00:19:57.060 you guys will trust CNN that says that the bill overturned or repealed the partial birth abortion

00:20:03.260 ban in their state. And here is a resource that says with medical sources, what a DNX abortion is,

00:20:12.000 they say, well, it hardly ever happens. Or when it does happen, it's for a good reason. So you'll see

00:20:17.500 the goalposts move because they don't want to come to terms with the reality of what they're defending.

00:20:22.060 And this is why it's become so easy for politicians and for the powers that be on the abortion side

00:20:29.240 to make an argument for overturning something like the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment restricts tax

00:20:34.100 dollars from directly funding abortion. Now, of course, we know that Planned Parenthood still gets

00:20:38.440 $500 million from the government every year from the government, a.k.a. us. And they are the

00:20:44.920 country's number one abortion provider. That money is movable. So we already are, in essence,

00:20:50.120 funding abortion by funding Planned Parenthood. But the Hyde Amendment does say that our money

00:20:54.560 cannot go directly to paying for abortion. It has been in place for a long time. All the Democratic

00:20:59.980 candidates now are supporting overturning that. They're supporting getting rid of the Hyde Amendment,

00:21:06.100 saying that no taxpayers should absolutely be forced, no matter what, to fund abortion.

00:21:13.100 There have been many people, many Democrats over the years, I would say most Democrats over the years,

00:21:18.060 even pro-choice Democrats have said, you know what, I'm for abortion access, but I don't want people

00:21:25.620 who are conscientious objectors to be forced to fund it. That's changing now. The reason that it's

00:21:31.240 changing is because they have gone along this line of saying that health care is a right

00:21:34.820 and abortion is health care. Therefore, we should pay for it. Joe Biden, however, who fancies himself a

00:21:41.480 religious person, has been against, has been for the Hyde Amendment for many years, all of his career,

00:21:48.100 really. So however long that is, I think it's 108 years or something. He has always supported the Hyde

00:21:53.520 Amendment, has always said, you know, I support a woman's right to choose, but I don't believe that

00:21:57.880 taxpayers should be forced to fund abortion. Well, he has totally reversed that. He has reversed 40 years

00:22:03.500 of support for the Hyde Amendment, or he's really, yes, for the Hyde Amendment. And he has decided,

00:22:11.680 you know what, this is what he said. He said, if I believe in health care is a right as I do,

00:22:16.100 I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's zip code. So what

00:22:21.420 they're trying to do is they're trying to make this about equality and justice and income inequality

00:22:26.880 and things like that, when it really has nothing to do about that at all. And this is, of course,

00:22:31.760 is what AOC said when she was on the news the other day. She said, that's really what the Hyde

00:22:36.660 Amendment is all about. The Hyde Amendment isn't about abortion per se. Another genius line of

00:22:42.540 reasoning from AOC. The Hyde Amendment, she says, is truly about equality of health care and health

00:22:47.720 care access for low income women and women of color and women that get caught in our mass incarceration

00:22:52.840 system. And so the Hyde Amendment is about income inequality and it's about women's health care and a

00:22:57.860 system of income inequality. So I think we need to repeal it. What?

00:23:01.760 What absolute garbled nonsense. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The Hyde Amendment is

00:23:08.940 only about abortion. Homegirl just says whatever she wants to say and she tries really desperately

00:23:16.360 to make it sound somewhat coherent. And whenever she's on a leftist news show, they just nod their

00:23:21.840 head and say, yes, yes, AOC. That is absolutely right. She's not even saying anything logical.

00:23:28.260 I mean, if there's one smart thing about this girl is that she does not go on any networks that would

00:23:34.080 ever argue with her. She does not go up and debate against anyone that she knows is smarter than her,

00:23:39.100 which is about 99 percent of the country. And so she is just able to say these ridiculous things

00:23:44.580 without getting any pushback and feel like a hero. I mean, it's really crazy. It's really crazy what

00:23:51.680 she's able to get away with. But unfortunately, so much of the pro-choice side is so indoctrinated

00:23:57.220 with this euphemistic nonsense that they really just kind of let it go. Now, what I will say,

00:24:03.020 though, is that the majority of the majority of pro-choicers, I think the majority of pro-choicers

00:24:08.900 actually are not on board with what people like AOC and other Democratic politicians,

00:24:16.060 people at NARAL, people at Planned Parenthood, celebrities, they're not on board with their

00:24:21.760 absolute enthusiasm for abortion. I don't think they are. I'm pretty sure that the majority of

00:24:27.300 Americans still see abortion as something that's that isn't that they probably see it as a necessary

00:24:33.320 evil. Now, I don't think it's necessary at all, but I think a lot of people see abortion as a

00:24:38.300 necessary evil, but not something to be celebrated. There was an NPR poll that says even though the

00:24:44.260 majority of Americans don't want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, they do want significant

00:24:48.600 restrictions in place. So the poll says that 61 percent said that they were in favor of a

00:24:54.560 combination of limitations that included allowing abortion in just the first three months of

00:24:58.880 pregnancy, only in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman, or only to save the

00:25:05.200 life of the woman. So those were the restrictions that they had an option to choose from. And 61

00:25:10.140 percent chose one of those limitations. And so this whole idea that women want abortion through

00:25:16.760 all nine months on demand without any questions asked just is not supported by the polls. And I think

00:25:23.740 the Democratic politicians are completely out of touch when it comes to this. Now, they might be

00:25:28.340 successful in moving, moving the dial. They might be successful in moving people to the left on

00:25:33.980 abortion by being so radical and extremist or, and this is what I hope happens, it backfires and

00:25:39.960 people realize, hey, hey, hey, hey, hang on just a second. This this used to be a safe, legal and rare

00:25:48.040 thing. And now this is something that we are celebrating as a sacrament. I'm not sure I'm on

00:25:53.920 board with this. Chelsea Handler actually posted a picture of her and some other people wearing shirts

00:26:00.060 that said abortion AF on it over and over again. And I was actually extremely encouraged by the

00:26:06.680 comments that I read from pro-choicers who said, OK, hang on, I'm for a woman's right to choose,

00:26:12.720 but this is not something that we need to be celebrating. This is in total poor taste. And

00:26:17.840 this is not something that we need to be lifting up in glorification. This is a difficult choice for

00:26:26.260 many women. And even though we're for freedom, we're not for abortion. Now, I still think that

00:26:32.060 they're wrong. I still think that their perspective that abortion is necessary in any case is wrong.

00:26:38.940 However, I am heartened by the fact that they still may see it as a necessary evil and not as a

00:26:45.640 necessary good as so many on the left seem to. And so I think that there is hope in reaching into

00:26:52.920 the image of God that is in some people and reminding them the humanity of life inside the

00:26:58.420 womb, because that's really been lost in all of this, is that you're talking about a second life,

00:27:03.580 whether you want to believe that or not. Biologically, you are talking about a second

00:27:08.880 life. And I've never heard. I've never heard a good argument for why that second life doesn't matter

00:27:15.400 for why it's OK to kill them. I've never heard a good argument for it. There's just not.

00:27:21.420 Which is why they deny that it exists, because it's much easier to build an argument on autonomy

00:27:26.560 on women's rights than it is on the fact that killing an unborn child is somehow OK.

00:27:32.700 Now, I knew I was going to talk about that for a long time. I didn't know I was going to talk

00:27:36.460 about it for that long. But I do want to get into a couple more things, and maybe I'll just skim

00:27:40.060 over them really quickly. So I do want to get into Kyle Kashuv. He is pro Second Amendment advocate.

00:27:45.160 He was a Parkland shooting survivor. I don't know Kyle very well at all. I think I've met

00:27:51.060 him a couple of times. We've spoken at the same kind of event. So I can't vouch for Kyle's

00:27:55.300 character. But so, well, let me tell you what happened. So a couple of years ago,

00:27:59.960 he was in, I think it was like a gaming chat room, and he said the n-word over and over again. And

00:28:04.680 someone recently released screenshots of that. And he had already been accepted into Harvard,

00:28:09.900 but he just heard this past week that because of the screenshot of him saying the n-word several

00:28:14.260 times that his acceptance has been rescinded. Now, it is totally within Harvard's right to

00:28:21.380 rescind his acceptance. But it's also a question of, okay, are you now going to go through every

00:28:28.660 single teenager that you accept as a freshman? Are you going to go through all of their social media

00:28:34.680 history, or not even all of their social media history, because I think that's fair game,

00:28:38.520 all of their private conversations? Are you going to go through all of their private

00:28:42.900 conversations to make sure they've never said anything racist or anything inappropriate?

00:28:47.520 I think that we can question Harvard on that and still say what Kyle said was wrong. And I get it.

00:28:53.620 It was only a couple of years ago. It's not like it was 10 years ago. It was only a couple of years

00:28:57.540 ago. And so it might be fair for people to say or to ask, okay, is this a part of who he is? But also

00:29:03.720 at the same time, how many of us said really stupid stuff that we wish that we didn't say when we

00:29:09.940 were 16. Now I'll just go ahead and say, because I said on Twitter, you know, a lot of these people

00:29:15.080 who are condemning him are acting so self-righteous as if they've never said anything that they don't

00:29:19.400 regret. And of course you had left to saying, oh, that means you used to say this too. That means

00:29:24.200 that you're a racist. No, my friends and I never used this word. It wasn't a word that we use as a

00:29:29.920 joke. It wasn't a word that we thought was funny. I have always known every single day of my life,

00:29:35.360 since I knew what this word was, this was a word that you never used. It would never be a part of

00:29:40.720 my vocabulary. So you can just get off me with that accusation. But have I and everyone else

00:29:48.540 probably, I don't even know, but we probably all said stupid stuff that we regret, especially when

00:29:54.820 we were 16. And if we're all to be held by the standards of the things that we said, we were 16,

00:30:00.360 we're screwed. We're all screwed. So I think that we need to give people when we can a little bit of

00:30:08.200 grace for the things that they said as kids. Yes, it was only a two years ago for him, but two years

00:30:13.460 ago, he was 16 and 16 is really young. Like your brain isn't even developed until you're 25. And so

00:30:22.240 we do, and we say stupid stuff. That's why a driver's insurance when you were 16 years old is so high.

00:30:28.760 It's not because necessarily you can't drive. It's because you make stupid decisions. 16 year

00:30:34.000 olds make stupid decisions. They say stupid things. That's not justifying or excusing anything

00:30:39.900 that he said, but it is to say, okay, maybe all of us can kind of step off our soapbox for a second,

00:30:46.240 get off our high horse and realize none of us has been perfect our entire lives. And if we were held

00:30:52.320 by the standards of every private conversation that we had when we were 16, we'd all be pretty embarrassed.

00:30:57.220 And most of us would probably be disqualified from taking part in the public conversation.

00:31:02.100 I am willing to give him grace on this and give him the benefit of the doubt. Unless there has been

00:31:08.040 something that's come out recently, uh, that shows that demonstrates that he is a racist. Then I think

00:31:15.300 that we should all be a lot more merciful, realizing that we probably don't have a place, uh, to be casting

00:31:21.660 stones. I just think that that's probably true. Even if you are, even if you have been absolutely,

00:31:27.200 perfect or close to perfect in your life, I still think that there's a place for grace.

00:31:30.860 And I'm not just saying that because he's pretty much on my side of the aisle or else I,

00:31:34.960 I assume he is on my side of the aisle on most things. Um, I would be saying this about anyone

00:31:40.020 who was getting dragged for something they said when they were 16. So that's my stance on that.

00:31:44.920 I want to say also with the flag burning thing, because I know I disagree with some people on my same

00:31:50.140 side. So president Trump, uh, tweeted all in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an amendment

00:31:56.140 for a strong ban on burning our American flag, a no brainer. And then you had a lot of conservative

00:32:01.180 commentators come out and support that and say, absolutely. But I don't support this at all.

00:32:05.940 I do not support this at all. Like I said, on Twitter, the indestructible nature of the flag

00:32:11.940 is that it can be burnt. Like that is the amazing thing about America is that the flag represents free

00:32:18.700 speech. The flag represents our values. The flag represents that, uh, something bigger than the

00:32:26.560 flag. A lot of people are saying, well, the military fought and died for this. Like, no,

00:32:30.320 they didn't. They fought for your right to destroy the flag. If you wanted to. Now I'm not saying it's

00:32:35.940 right. If I saw you destroy the flag, there'd probably be, I would have a really hard time not

00:32:40.680 punching you in the face. It is the most disrespectful thing you can do to this country,

00:32:44.980 or it's not the most disrespectful. It's one of the most disrespectful things that you can do to

00:32:49.420 an important symbol of this country. But do I think that it's punishable, uh, by law? No,

00:32:56.380 I don't because I believe in free speech and I believe that it qualifies as freedom of expression.

00:33:00.500 And so does the Supreme court, by the way. And so I am more for personal liberty, for individual

00:33:06.340 liberty than I am for holding on to, uh, the holding on to the sanctity of the American flag by telling

00:33:14.480 people you are not free to burn it. Now, if you burn my flag, obviously that's a problem. That's

00:33:19.320 my personal property. But if you burn your flag, I mean, I think that you're an idiot, but go for it.

00:33:24.460 I don't think that you should get thrown into jail for that. I think that if you hate this country,

00:33:28.280 you shouldn't be living here, but, but do I want you to be free to do that? Do I want you to be free

00:33:34.160 to hate this country? I do want you to be free to hate this country in America. That's the beauty

00:33:38.860 of American liberty. That's the radical nature of American liberty is that you are free to hate

00:33:43.100 this country. You are free to talk badly about our president, about our lawmakers. You are free

00:33:48.240 to talk badly about our founding fathers, about our constitution. I mean, the existence of the

00:33:53.380 left in America is actually the perfect representation of just how radical American freedom is because

00:34:00.500 they hate so much of what America stands for and they voice it all of the time. And yet they're free

00:34:06.160 to do so. Uh, we are willing to allow that kind of dissent. We are willing to allow that kind of

00:34:14.220 debates because that's what America is. Now we could get into the fact that they also want to shut down,

00:34:20.080 uh, anyone who disagrees with them, but we won't. So the American flag represents something so much

00:34:25.860 bigger than the material itself. It represents a radical value of individual liberty that is

00:34:30.720 encompassed in one of our fundamental rights, which is free speech and burning the flag, whether you

00:34:36.600 like it or not is an expression of free speech. So that's where I stand on that. Okay. That's all

00:34:42.520 we really have time for. Uh, we could talk about how Christian should have sex. It's that New York

00:34:47.100 times opinion piece, but I actually did. So you can go and read it, but I did an episode, episode 81,

00:34:54.140 uh, called purity culture and purity culture. That episode really covers a lot of what she is saying.

00:35:00.720 And refutes a lot of what she is saying. She talks about how bad and terrible purity culture is

00:35:04.800 growing up. Um, I agree with some of it, but I still think we should take a biblical approach to

00:35:09.400 it, which is what I did in episode 81. So if you're interested in listening to that and you haven't

00:35:12.900 already, I encourage you to, if you've got any questions, please email me, Allie at the

00:35:16.960 conservative millennial blog.com. Of course, follow me on social media. If you so choose subscribe to

00:35:21.760 YouTube, you can watch my videos there if you don't already. And I will see you guys back here on Friday.

00:35:30.720 Bye.

00:35:32.720 Bye.

00:35:33.720 Bye.

00:35:34.720 Bye.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 19, 2019

Ep 127 ｜ All Hail Abortion

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