Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 193

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope everyone has had a great week so far. Today we are going

00:00:07.100 to get to a few news stories. There's a lot going on. I want to talk to you a little bit

00:00:12.040 about the election and how the frontrunner Joe Biden is doing. Greta Thunberg is back in the

00:00:18.380 news. I think that's how you pronounce her last name, talking about the climate and things like

00:00:22.400 that. We're going to spend a little bit of time on that. And then I am going to give you some

00:00:26.820 good news in regards to abortion, which is extremely rare. But the New York Times ran

00:00:33.740 an article talking about how the left is losing on abortion. And that is something to celebrate

00:00:38.140 and for us to focus on because that subject in particular can be so distressing and discouraging

00:00:44.760 to us when we feel like we are fighting a losing battle. But all hope is not lost. Of course,

00:00:50.300 for Christians, we know all hope is not lost ultimately. But even in this temporal battle

00:00:54.900 for the lives of unborn children, all hope is not lost. Let's get into today's stories.

00:01:00.820 First, I want to talk about I think I want to get through the kind of mini stories really

00:01:05.820 fast. And then I want to get into this big abortion article in the New York Times. And

00:01:11.580 that's what I want to spend a lot of time on, because it is worth our analysis and worth

00:01:15.540 our celebration. And it also equips us to know kind of what the left is thinking on this particular

00:01:20.340 subject. So Joe Biden, he's a frontrunner, lit his polls, have him as a frontrunner. We've talked

00:01:25.540 about before that no one actually likes Joe Biden himself. Like no one is a Joe Biden stand. No one

00:01:31.820 is like, you know what, Joe Biden is going to make a great commander in chief. He's just kind of the

00:01:36.720 default candidate that isn't. Maybe people think on the left that he's not or some Democrats, I would

00:01:43.060 say more like corporate Democrats, more. I don't even know if I would say mainstream Democrats,

00:01:47.680 moderate Democrats. They think, OK, he's not insane. He might be able to win over blue collar

00:01:53.060 voters, people in middle America that Trump won so well over Hillary Clinton. He's the guy that's

00:01:58.760 going to be able to beat Trump. That's how people view Joe Biden. That's really the only reason I

00:02:04.820 think most people who support Joe Biden are supporting Joe Biden. No one listens to him and

00:02:09.360 is like, wow, he is really compelling. No one has watched any of the Democratic debates and said,

00:02:13.220 you know, Joe Biden just kills it every time. Most of the time, we can't really understand what

00:02:17.160 he's saying. And look, I just want to say this. I have been very hesitant to make fun of Joe Biden

00:02:23.980 and his senile behavior, because I just think it's I just think it's rude. There are a lot of

00:02:31.520 things to criticize Joe Biden on, especially policy wise and how really radical and progressive he's

00:02:37.140 been. And now he's trying to come in as a moderate. We can criticize him on all of that. I didn't like

00:02:41.400 it like Julian Castro, who is a candidate that maybe you didn't even know was running. He made fun of

00:02:46.720 him in one debate saying, oh, do you even remember what you said two minutes ago? I don't like the

00:02:51.520 jokes. Like, I think that that's rude. But but it is getting to the point to where I I think that

00:03:00.720 it's worth commenting on that Joe Biden says things that don't make any sense. And I'm not trying to

00:03:09.260 say that his age is a problem. He and Donald Trump are about the same age. I'm not trying to say

00:03:15.580 necessarily that he's senile. I'm certainly not trying to make a dementia joke. I think that that's

00:03:20.360 rude. When people have done that to Donald Trump, I think that it's absolutely terrible. That's a

00:03:24.700 cruel disease that we don't want to make light of. But I do think when someone is running for president

00:03:29.440 of the United States, we should talk about their fitness for office in the same way that people on the

00:03:33.780 left talk about Trump's fitness for office. Let's talk about it in a serious way. I want I will give

00:03:39.820 well, OK, I won't. I'm joking when I say this, but I will jokingly give you 500 million bajillion

00:03:48.000 dollars. If you can tell me at this rally what Joe Biden is actually saying. And by the way, you know,

00:03:57.420 I sit on the stand and it get hot. I got a lot of I got hairy legs that turn that that that that that

00:04:04.880 that turn blonde in the sun. And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down

00:04:12.800 so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They look at it. So I learned about

00:04:19.200 roaches. I learned about kids jumping on my lap and I've loved kids jumping on my lap. So I genuinely

00:04:25.400 don't know. I don't I don't I don't know. And I don't I fail to see how context would make this

00:04:33.620 video any better. It's it's weird. It's weird, especially with all of the like creepy stuff that

00:04:39.500 people have tried to highlight about Biden, his over touchy behavior. I mean, it's beyond that,

00:04:46.100 even though this is just like an odd thing to say. I don't I cannot follow the trail of reasoning.

00:04:52.480 And I really tried because it makes me sad. As much as I would never, ever support Joe Biden

00:04:57.260 politically, I don't really like seeing someone's mental state take this kind of downward spiral and

00:05:03.940 especially manifest itself publicly. There was this other video that was going around and I won't even

00:05:08.060 play it because it's not that interesting, but it was just weird where Joe Biden's wife,

00:05:13.200 I forget her name, was making a speech for him at a campaign rally and he bit her finger.

00:05:18.840 Sure. Why? Why? OK, like, I understand. Maybe you're trying to be like flirty and affectionate.

00:05:24.620 OK, there are possibly, probably, yes, different ways to do that, to show affection to your wife,

00:05:31.220 the biting her finger. She probably was so thrown off. But to her credit, she just kind of kept going

00:05:35.620 and was like, you know what, Joe, that's really weird. But I'm just going to keep going with my

00:05:39.740 campaign speech because I am going to be first lady one day and I'm not going to let

00:05:43.400 your senility get in the way of that. Also, his tour, Joe Biden's tour is called the No

00:05:49.860 Malarkey Tour. Now, I feel like I missed, you know, like when someone is you're you're with a

00:05:56.040 group of people and the group that you're with starts talking about an inside joke and you're

00:06:01.540 like, ha ha, please let me in. I must have missed this. Like I must have been in the bathroom when

00:06:05.380 this happened because now you're all laughing about something that I don't understand. That's how

00:06:10.400 I feel about the no malarkey thing. Please tell me. Did I miss something? Why malarkey? No

00:06:15.520 malarkey. Oh, who are you appealing to? That's what I want to know. Are you appealing to older

00:06:20.040 voters by saying no malarkey? Are you appealing to younger voters by saying no malarkey? Are you

00:06:26.700 trying to say like I'm a no nonsense candidate because we know that's not true? Everyone listened

00:06:31.340 to the video at the top of this podcast or a few minutes ago. So I'm confused. I'm just a little

00:06:38.140 bit confused by that. Like who in the Biden campaign was like, you know what? This this

00:06:44.840 is the tagline that we are going to use that is going to take us into the White House.

00:06:50.040 No malarkey. Like I always picture I have this like weird thing that I do really in all things.

00:06:55.900 And I kind of wish that I didn't because it fills my head so much. So whenever I am watching

00:07:01.600 a commercial or doing anything, I always think about the process that got it there. So even if I

00:07:09.240 am getting my nails done, if I'm getting my hair done, I'm thinking about like, oh, what was their

00:07:14.720 training like that made them make that decision? How did this person get here? What does what does

00:07:20.880 the instruction look like for this type of haircut? Like I'm constantly thinking about those things,

00:07:24.860 which is honestly really annoying. I wish I wouldn't. If I was getting a massage, I'd be thinking

00:07:28.700 about like, oh, why did they do this technique? Where did they learn that? Like, I don't know.

00:07:34.120 Anyway, I do the same thing about commercials. I can't just watch commercial. I'm thinking about

00:07:38.160 the process that took them to coming up, took them to come up with this particular commercial idea.

00:07:46.240 So I'm thinking the same thing about the Biden campaign. Like what was that meeting like when

00:07:50.280 they were sitting around the table and they were, you know, spitballing ideas. They were like,

00:07:54.300 okay, brainstorming meeting. They did like a Google calendar invite. They're like brainstorming

00:07:58.680 meeting 9am Thursday morning. We're going to talk about what our campaign is going to be or what

00:08:05.200 our slogan is going to be. And I want to know, I want to know how they came up with no malarkey

00:08:10.920 and how someone was like, yes, doggone it. That is it. Speaking of commercials. Okay. We're going to

00:08:17.620 go off of this for just one second because this was something funny that happened. Speaking of

00:08:23.160 commercials, Peloton. Did you guys see this? If you're on Twitter, you know that Peloton was trending.

00:08:28.200 This week. And the reason that it's trending is because the recent commercial with Peloton

00:08:33.420 is so painfully bad in no disrespect, no disrespect to the poor actress that got this part. He was

00:08:40.760 really excited to do the Peloton commercial. You know, you did a great job. It's not your fault.

00:08:45.420 You didn't write the commercial, but this Peloton commercial is so cringy. It's about this woman

00:08:51.880 whose husband gave her a Peloton last Christmas and her present to him this Christmas is, is taking

00:08:59.020 videos of herself all year round doing the Peloton and then giving him that, that present for Christmas.

00:09:05.820 First of all, that's a bad present, but also it was just so cheesy. I want you guys to go watch it.

00:09:11.680 And also look on my Twitter. I gave Peloton a really good idea for a Peloton commercial and people

00:09:17.040 were like, why are you doing this for free? Well, because I figured even if I emailed Peloton and was

00:09:23.000 like, Hey, I have a really good idea for your commercial, they probably wouldn't get back to me.

00:09:26.660 But now I know I can just have to have the satisfaction of knowing that if they see my

00:09:31.540 idea on Twitter and they use it, I can know that it was my idea that, uh, they decided, you know what?

00:09:39.300 Allie Stuckey has really good commercial ideas. That is my other, like if I ever get deplatformed

00:09:44.960 and I stopped doing this, that is my other talent is coming up with ideas for other people,

00:09:50.180 whether it be commercials, whether it be business ideas, business names, book ideas. I'm really good

00:09:55.900 at coming up with ideas for other people. I'm not really that good at executing, really good at

00:10:00.460 ideating, not good at executing. If I can just like give you an idea and you run with it and I don't want

00:10:06.440 to tell you how to do it, then that could be my other calling in life coming up with commercials

00:10:10.580 and campaigns. I am good at that. And I did that for Peloton. Okay. We got off of the road when it

00:10:16.940 came to the election, but I wanted to tell you, I think I got there from saying that the brainstorming

00:10:23.520 for the no malarkey slogan, it led me to think about the commercial and the Peloton commercial.

00:10:27.500 That was something that was trending. Speaking of trending on Twitter, we're going to take another

00:10:32.340 detour. So George Conway, uh, you know, Kellyanne Conway advisor to the president, George Conway,

00:10:38.800 they're married theoretically. He has been slamming her on Twitter for a few years now,

00:10:44.940 almost since the beginning of the Trump presidency. It has been really, really painful to watch. Like

00:10:50.080 it hurts. It hurts our soul because he will constantly not only deride the president, which

00:10:56.560 of course is his first amendment, right? Yes. He can criticize the president publicly and it's

00:11:01.780 as vehemently as he wants to, but it's a little weird when your wife works for the president,

00:11:07.500 even if you disagree, like hash this out at home, you can passionately, you know, disagree as much

00:11:13.500 as you want. It's really painfully, cringewly awkward to watch this. So the most recent, uh,

00:11:20.680 back and forth that happens was George Conway said, Oh, I lost it. So Kellyanne Conway said that,

00:11:29.400 uh, something about Joe Biden, like, Oh, we need Ukraine to beat this guy because Joe Biden is so

00:11:35.460 easily beatable. And then George Conway quote tweeted it and said, your boss seems to think so

00:11:41.540 and got like a hundred thousand likes and people were commenting saying, you know, this is really

00:11:46.800 weird. You seem kind of abusive and I can't necessarily give that accusation, but it's weird.

00:11:53.560 It makes me feel bad. I mean, they've got four kids. I hope and pray that their kids are not on

00:11:57.840 Twitter. I don't know how old their kids are. Maybe they're not old enough to have a Twitter,

00:12:00.780 but I can imagine if this is how he treats her publicly, how it goes privately. I mean,

00:12:07.200 I really, I should, I should pray for him because he seems to be a very miserable person. Um, and I

00:12:14.940 cannot imagine, even if you disagree with your spouse, if you even have a scintilla of respect for

00:12:20.540 your spouse, a scintilla of love for your spouse, that you wouldn't go down this trail of publicly

00:12:26.260 shaming them. I mean, you really, you have to hate someone, not just be apathetic towards them.

00:12:32.040 You have to hate someone. You have to hate your spouse in order to publicly drag them like this.

00:12:38.660 It makes me very sad. I hope that he, that they, that he gets some help because it's just so hard

00:12:45.820 to watch. And I feel very badly for Kellyanne Conway. Although I know that she's a very strong

00:12:49.460 person. She can handle it. It's fine. But I know that hurts. I know it hurts. I know it hurts.

00:12:55.680 And even if they would never talk about that, even if she would never talk about that,

00:12:58.760 I know it hurts. Of course, no one likes that, especially by someone that you at least

00:13:02.200 whatever. I don't want to go into all of that. It just makes me sad. And I didn't know if you

00:13:07.440 guys caught it. Okay. Next, I want to talk about Greta Thunberg. So Greta Thunberg, she, uh, is

00:13:15.880 back in the news. Like I said, she's talking about climate change. She did an op ed in Project

00:13:21.280 Syndicate with two other climate extremists. Yes. I call her a climate extremist because

00:13:26.060 sure. We can talk about climate change. We can talk about, uh, solutions to climate change.

00:13:31.040 You might be on the side that thinks it's a complete hoax. You might be on the side who

00:13:34.060 says, okay, you know what? There are some things that we can do better to steward the environment,

00:13:38.320 especially as Christians, we are called to responsibly steward the earth, uh, animals, creation,

00:13:43.240 all of that. I did do a podcast. If you haven't listened to it yet on a biblical perspective on

00:13:48.620 animals, how we should treat our pets and veganism and all of that. Um, a couple of weeks ago,

00:13:54.140 I think it's titled we're too obsessed with our pets anyway. So yes, we should steward the earth

00:14:01.480 responsibly, but she's an extremist because she says the world is going to end and fossil fuels are

00:14:06.960 the devil and they are going to end the world and they are choking us out. That is an extreme view.

00:14:13.980 That's an extreme view. And she showed the cards of climate extremists in this particular op-ed.

00:14:21.060 She says, after all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. There we go. We always

00:14:27.560 knew this. This is exactly why conservatives are skeptical about the whole movement. It is a crisis

00:14:32.500 of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of

00:14:39.360 oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no

00:14:45.000 longer shirk their responsibilities. So when the left calls us climate deniers, this is what we are

00:14:52.380 skeptical about. We're not skeptical about, at least, I mean, I'm speaking for the majority of

00:14:57.060 conservatives that I know, all of conservatives I know. I don't know any conservatives that are like

00:15:01.220 against recycling or against taking practical steps to caring for the environment. But I know a lot of

00:15:09.560 conservatives that think that the climate radicalism is really just a power grab and that it's not really

00:15:16.740 about the climate. And Greta Thunberg, in all of her wisdom, reveals that it is a crisis of human

00:15:21.840 rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression.

00:15:28.620 She also talks about how capitalism has created this, and we need to dismantle all of that.

00:15:35.560 So this really isn't just about the climate. This is about social change. This is about

00:15:42.740 fundamentally reversing a lot of the things that have made America great, like capitalism, like the

00:15:50.780 free market, like the freedom of speech, like the freedom of religious expression, the freedom to live

00:15:57.820 the life that you want to live and pursue the happiness that you want to pursue. All of these

00:16:02.640 things, I'm sure Greta Thunberg would say, are colonial and racist and patriarchal systems. Now, of course,

00:16:09.420 do I agree with her? And do I agree with all the people that say racism is bad and a problem? Of course.

00:16:16.020 And I believe that we should address instances of racism where they exist. But am I going to say that

00:16:21.360 all the systems that currently exist, capitalist systems, free market systems, are colonial and

00:16:26.400 racist and patriarchal and that they're systems of oppression? Of course not. Of course not. I do not

00:16:31.800 agree with her on that. This is a Marxist worldview of the oppressed versus the oppressor. And her brand

00:16:38.440 of leftism believes that everything needs to be flipped on its head, completely dismantled, completely

00:16:43.300 taken down, and that we need to rebuild things again. Barack Obama just the other day said that the

00:16:48.520 left has moved too far left, the Democrats have moved too far left, and that not everyone, the

00:16:52.960 majority of the country, doesn't believe that we need to break down every single system in order to

00:16:58.060 rebuild it, in order to make it better. And Barack Obama is right, even though it was his presidency that

00:17:04.440 led us exactly to where we are right now. This is why, by the way, Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal

00:17:12.140 had things about, you know, racial justice and all of that. It is not just an environmental stance. It is

00:17:20.540 a social stance. It is a political stance. This is about power. This is about them being in control,

00:17:26.580 being able to control the means of production, being able to redistribute wealth so that everyone

00:17:31.620 has equal outcomes. Well, guess what? This is what I'm sure Greta Thunberg believes and this brand of

00:17:39.020 leftism definitely believes. They believe that the wealthy should redistribute their wealth to the

00:17:44.660 poor so everyone is more equal. That's why you hear Bernie Sanders talking about wealth inequality

00:17:49.600 like it's this big problem. The left sees any inequality, any discrepancy between two groups

00:17:55.400 as proof of injustice, and that is just not always true. That's not to say that injustice doesn't

00:18:00.880 exist. That's not to say that discrepancies don't point to injustice. Sometimes they do,

00:18:06.740 but differences between groups, for example, the fact that Asian Americans, that they score higher

00:18:12.840 than white Americans do in general on SATs and ACTs, that there is a higher graduation rate,

00:18:20.220 high school and college among Asian Americans versus white Americans, Asian Americans excel in all of

00:18:27.180 those things on average and a lot more successfully than white people do. That gap doesn't necessarily,

00:18:35.120 or it doesn't point to any kind of injustice, any kind of bias towards Asian people and a bias against

00:18:42.620 white people. But the left sees any gap as some kind of proof of discrimination. Now, they wouldn't use that

00:18:50.980 example. They would use the example between white students and black students. They would say the fact that

00:18:56.400 white students are graduating at a much higher rate than black students, that shows some kind of inherent

00:19:03.380 discrimination and systemic racism. Well, if it doesn't show systemic racism in the case of Asians

00:19:10.760 excelling more than white people, then why does it show systemic racism in the case of white people

00:19:15.300 versus black people? So they're very picky and choosy about this. But the thing is, when you look at

00:19:19.760 something, you say, okay, there's a discrepancy in outcomes between these two groups. So that has to

00:19:24.320 mean injustice. So that means we need to redistribute the success or the wealth of one group and give it to

00:19:30.200 the other group or we need to elevate the lower group so that they're on the same level as the

00:19:34.520 upper group, whatever. It just doesn't work. Equality of outcomes just doesn't work except

00:19:39.740 through tyranny. That is why when you talk about socialism and you talk about inequality being a

00:19:47.060 problem and trying to redistribute things to make it even, it just doesn't work outside of

00:19:52.960 authoritarianism. And even then, it's just, it goes against human nature. If tomorrow, and I think it

00:20:00.540 was Thomas Sowell that once gave this example, if tomorrow you made it to where the government made

00:20:07.040 it to where everyone had $100,000. So no one had any more than $100,000. No one had any less than

00:20:12.640 $100,000. Next week, you would have people below the poverty line and you would have millionaires. Maybe

00:20:18.840 not next week, next year, whatever. You would have people below the poverty line and you would have

00:20:23.380 millionaires. Why? Because people make different choices. It is not possible to guarantee equality

00:20:29.900 of outcomes unless you stop people from succeeding and doing more. You have to. It's funny how equality

00:20:37.500 always brings the upper group down, never the lower group up. That's not to say systemic oppression

00:20:43.820 doesn't exist. It does, but it does not account for all the discrepancies in success in outcomes

00:20:49.620 that we see. And in order to make perfect equal outcomes, you have to have a tyrant in charge.

00:20:55.320 Okay. That went on another tangent. Now let's talk about some good news. Let us talk about this article

00:21:02.780 in the New York Times. It is by Elizabeth Diaz and Lisa Lehrer, and it's titled,

00:21:10.640 How a Divided Left is Losing the Battle on Abortion. The article describes the battle that

00:21:16.200 abortion supporters thought was fought and won in the 1970s with the decision of Roe v. Wade,

00:21:20.680 but has now been rekindled by an onslaught of abortion restrictions in states like Georgia and

00:21:28.320 Alabama. It is true that huge threats to abortion have risen up, especially in the past few years.

00:21:34.320 Republican-powered state legislatures, a judiciary that has been majorly reshaped for the

00:21:40.380 better under Trump, much thanks to Mitch McConnell, by the way, a conservative-leaning Supreme Court

00:21:45.060 and a pro-life administration on top of the on-the-ground work of pro-life groups. All of

00:21:51.240 these have been doing amazing work, not just in the halls of Congress, but also in shaping public

00:21:57.320 opinion. And then there are individuals like you and me who simply talk about this stuff. We talk about

00:22:02.220 what abortion is. We talk about the humanity of life in the womb. We give our arguments. We give our

00:22:07.260 own experiences. We challenge deception where we see it. That, too, has a significant impact.

00:22:13.660 There are protesters that go outside of Planned Parenthoods and abortion clinics and who share

00:22:19.100 the gospel and who pray with these women. That makes a difference. Here's what this New York Times

00:22:24.820 article says. In a six-month period this year, states across the South and Midwest passed 58 abortion

00:22:30.360 restrictions. Alabama banned the procedure almost entirely. Lawmakers in Ohio introduced a similar

00:22:35.340 bill shortly after Thanksgiving. And in March, the Supreme Court will hear its first major abortion

00:22:40.440 case since President Trump added two conservative justices and shifted the court to the right.

00:22:45.020 How it rules could reshape the constitutional principles governing abortion rights. As Planned

00:22:49.380 Parenthood and its progressive allies have rallied the resistance, the shift in fortunes in the

00:22:56.320 abortion wars has been mostly attributed to the right's well-executed game plan. True. True,

00:23:02.640 New York Times. It is not every day that the New York Times print something that is true, but

00:23:06.760 sometimes, sometimes they do. And in this case, I would say they are right. The goal for all of these

00:23:12.820 major pieces of legislation, state legislation that they're talking about, is to take it to the

00:23:16.680 Supreme Court. So we want the Supreme Court to relook at the egregious decision made in 1973 that

00:23:22.200 abortion is a constitutional right because it was always a poorly decided decision. Now, whether you are on

00:23:28.240 the pro-choice side, the pro-abortion side, or the pro-life side, you can criticize how the decision

00:23:34.400 was made in Roe v. Wade. There are pro-choice people who have done so. Side note, whenever you

00:23:41.700 hear a pro-abortion person argue that men should have no say in abortion, remind them that seven

00:23:47.320 justices on the Supreme Court were men and decided Roe v. Wade. All the more reason, of course, to overrule

00:23:54.560 it, right? The so-called right to abortion should have never been a Supreme Court decision. It should

00:24:01.700 have been left to the people to decide through a legislative process. Justices Byron White and

00:24:08.140 William Rehnquist joined in the dissent in Roe v. Wade. Here's what White said about the Roe decision.

00:24:13.720 I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the court's judgment. The

00:24:18.560 court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant women and with scarcely any reason

00:24:24.260 or authority for its action invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing

00:24:31.840 state abortion statutes. In my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the

00:24:38.600 power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this court. In 1973, an article by legal

00:24:44.980 scholar John Hart Eli was published in Yale Law Journal saying this, what is frightening about Roe is that

00:24:50.820 this super-protected right is not inferable from the language of the Constitution. The framers

00:24:55.680 thinking respecting the specific problem and issue in any general value derivable from the provisions

00:25:02.480 they included or the nation's governmental structure. The problem with Roe is not so much that it bungles

00:25:07.700 the question it sets itself, but rather that it sets itself a question the Constitution has not made the

00:25:14.300 court's business. Roe is bad because it is bad constitutional law, or rather because it is not constitutional

00:25:20.420 law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to beat Roe v. Wade and his companion case,

00:25:27.960 Joe v. Bolton, have always been vulnerable because of this, and pro-lifers have been doing a full

00:25:32.820 court press against abortion for decades, but especially in the last decade and especially

00:25:37.860 in the last few years. I think one reason is because Obama's presidency was the most leftward-leaning

00:25:43.440 presidency that we have seen in this generation, that we've seen in our lifetimes. We have also seen

00:25:48.300 Planned Parenthood become more aggressive. We've seen them gain ground. We've seen the strategy of

00:25:53.100 their PR campaign. We've seen them abandon safe, legal, and rare to an exchange for through nine

00:26:01.260 months on demand for any reason. Without apology, we have seen them shift from normalizing or allowing

00:26:08.100 abortion to glorifying abortion. As the Planned Parenthood director said in the congressional hearing

00:26:14.580 that I was a part of a couple weeks ago, quote, abortion is moral. You can buy t-shirts now that

00:26:19.740 say pro-abortion, pro-family. There's a billboard that caused a ruckus in recent weeks that said

00:26:24.860 abortion is self-care. A Planned Parenthood ousted its CEO, Leanna Wim, for not focusing enough on

00:26:30.820 abortion. Their tweet a couple weeks ago emphasized in all caps, you know, they really mean it when they

00:26:35.820 do this. They said it over and over again that abortion is health care. The reason they want to say

00:26:40.220 abortion is health care because Democrats' line right now is to say that health care is a human

00:26:44.300 right, aka taxpayers should pay for it. You will hear them, they talked about this in the hearing

00:26:49.240 too, overturning the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment says that taxpayer funds cannot directly

00:26:54.320 fund abortion, but if they overturn the Hyde Amendment, that means that our funds will be

00:27:00.120 directly, our taxpayer dollars will be directly funding abortion. Of course, we already have a

00:27:05.300 problem with our taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood because even if technically our

00:27:10.100 taxpayer dollars can't directly fund abortion, we know that money is fungible and we don't want to

00:27:14.240 be, we don't want our hard-earned money to go to Planned Parenthood at all, period. But

00:27:19.060 overturning the Hyde Amendment, which is what every Democratic candidate said that they would do

00:27:23.300 or said they want to do, would mean that we are directly funding abortion. So just so you know,

00:27:28.440 that is a part of the Democratic platform. In New York and Illinois, New Mexico, other states,

00:27:34.020 we have seen the pro-abortion side successfully push legislation that strips an unborn child

00:27:39.020 completely of personhood until he or she is outside the womb, allowing abortion for virtually

00:27:44.060 any reason through nine months of pregnancy. They will tell you that's not true. You can read the

00:27:49.840 bills yourself or the bills that have become law yourself. And yes, it is virtually for any reason

00:27:57.000 because Dovee Bolton specifies that it has to be for the health of the mother, but health of the

00:28:02.060 mother could be emotional health. So it could just be the well-being of the mother. Read for

00:28:06.960 any reason. This New York Times article goes on to say that the left has made serious miscalculations.

00:28:13.860 They have relied too heavily on Obama. They didn't think that Trump was going to win. I also think

00:28:18.420 that they didn't know that Trump was going to fight so hard on this. Trump in 2016, their

00:28:23.620 administration reinstated the Mexico City policy that it blocks federal funding for non-governmental

00:28:29.880 organizations that provide abortion counseling or referrals all over the world. In 2017, he appointed

00:28:35.940 Neil Gorsuch. In 2018, he appointed Brett Kavanaugh. And this was the big thing. In 2019, just a few

00:28:42.700 months ago, the Trump administration instituted a new rule regarding Title X family planning funds that

00:28:49.400 said if you are going to receive these funds, you have to financially and physically separate your

00:28:54.040 abortion services from the rest of your services. And you can't, um, encourage someone to get an

00:29:00.440 abortion. Planned Parenthood will call this a gag rule, but that is not what it is. Uh, Planned

00:29:06.020 Parenthood opted out from following that rule and chose not to receive Title X funds. According to

00:29:11.780 Planned Parenthood's own site, as President Trump has reshaped the federal courts, the efforts of abortion

00:29:16.720 opponents have shifted into high gear. Uh, there have been tons of abortion restrictions over the

00:29:22.780 past few years. You can read about them. Like I said, on Planned Parenthood's own website, uh, website,

00:29:29.780 the New York times piece says, uh, that Planned Parenthood is more concerned about political power

00:29:35.600 than helping local abortion clinics. That's part of their problem. It says this, the democratic party has

00:29:41.380 rejected the message that drove its politics since president Bill Clinton's administration, that

00:29:45.500 abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. And they've embraced abortion rights with few stipulations.

00:29:50.740 Every leading Democrat presidential democratic presidential candidate has fallen in line. So

00:29:55.980 this article argues that maybe it's too radical considering the people's views on abortion are

00:30:02.280 virtually unchanged since 1973. Unlike something like same-sex marriage, where the public opinion about

00:30:08.900 that has grown extremely favorable in the past few years before it was actually legalized abortion,

00:30:14.720 whether it's legal or not, people's views on it have drastically changed. Most people want abortion

00:30:19.920 to be restricted at least, um, at least to the first trimester. Uh, so as a reminder, uh, according

00:30:27.940 to, and this is what I think is important. I always want to bring this up because this is why,

00:30:34.000 this is why we are winning, or this is why at least right now we've got a good foothold. This is why we

00:30:41.360 are gaining ground. This is why they have a losing argument. This is all we have to do. And it's never

00:30:48.880 going to change. All, uh, pro-lifers have to do is say what an abortion is. Planned Parenthood,

00:30:55.900 the pro-choice side, the pro-abortion side, they won't say what it is. All they have are euphemisms.

00:31:01.800 All they have is this weird kind of philosophy about maybe when life begins and when life has

00:31:08.260 value, they even try to make this obscure theological argument from numbers five. And I

00:31:13.760 think most people, if they're undecided, they look at the one side, the pro-life side who says,

00:31:18.400 here's the facts. Here's what an abortion is. Here are the facts about fetal development.

00:31:22.900 Here's what a baby looks like at this time. And you get Planned Parenthood. Their reaction to that

00:31:26.640 is just anger. Their reaction to that is defensiveness. They have no response to it.

00:31:31.520 If you listen to the hearing that I was a part of a couple weeks ago on C-SPAN, you will see that

00:31:37.280 the abortionist wouldn't even say when viability is. Anyone who is pregnant, anyone who has access

00:31:42.160 to the internet, access to Google knows when in general viability is. She wouldn't even say that.

00:31:48.360 She wouldn't say what an abortion is. She wouldn't say what happens in a procedure. I was the only one to

00:31:52.760 say, I can tell you what a DNC abortion is. I can tell you what a DNE abortion is. I can tell you

00:31:57.700 what a DNX abortion is. Anyone can read it. You can read it on pro-abortion sites. I mean,

00:32:05.140 they say that they're neutral sites, but you can read about it on medical sites. But when it comes

00:32:09.500 to their PR, when it comes to being out in public, when it comes to their messaging on social media

00:32:13.580 and elsewhere, they won't say it. They won't say it. They shroud their arguments with all kinds of

00:32:19.360 vagueness and obscurities. And I think that if you are a bystander or if you are trying to decide

00:32:25.720 what is right and what is wrong, it's very hard to look at the side that won't even own up

00:32:32.460 to scientifically and medically what an abortion is and says, yeah, you know, that's probably,

00:32:37.500 that's probably the good side that I want to be on. So I just want to give you a reminder of what

00:32:44.000 an abortion is. I will give you a warning. This does get graphic. If you don't want to listen to this,

00:32:48.620 you can fast forward, you can stop listening. But I think it's important. I think it's important

00:32:52.080 for us to always remember what an abortion actually is. So this is according to Planned

00:32:56.200 Parenthood's own website. And in-clinic abortion in the first trimester is, quote,

00:33:01.040 a doctor or nurse uses medical instruments and gentle suction to remove the pregnancy from

00:33:05.880 your uterus. Remove the pregnancy. What are you pregnant with? Squash? Blinds? They don't say.

00:33:13.920 They just remove the pregnancy like a tumor. Or they say you take pills that end your pregnancy

00:33:19.020 and make your uterus expel the pregnancy tissue like an early miscarriage. They can't even say

00:33:24.500 fetus. They can't even say kill. They say pregnancy as if pregnancy is just a state of being and not

00:33:31.320 something that necessarily involves a human being. They say words like remove, end, expel. They can't

00:33:36.920 even describe what the procedure is in exact terms because they know that by recognizing the

00:33:41.880 scientific reality that there is a human being that is killed in abortion, people get scared.

00:33:47.100 They get queasy. They get really uncomfortable. And they don't want people scared because abortion

00:33:51.360 pays Planned Parenthood a lot of money. So just think about this. If you are on the side that can't

00:33:58.320 even say what this medical procedure is that you are claiming to be moral, don't you think there's

00:34:03.640 something a little sketchy about that? Don't you think that maybe you should take a step back

00:34:07.540 and say, okay, this is the party of science. This is the party that says that they care about

00:34:12.140 health care. They care about caring for women. They can't even use proper accurate terminology.

00:34:19.580 They can't even expel pregnancy tissue. What is pregnancy tissue? That doesn't even make any

00:34:25.440 logical sense. If you are on the side that is afraid to use medically accurate terminology,

00:34:30.680 you should maybe look at the validity of your stance. So that's the first trimester. And the first

00:34:35.860 trimester, by the way, your baby looks like a baby at 10 weeks. So whatever fantasies people have of

00:34:43.160 babies, it's clumps of cells. As soon as you see that baby at 10 weeks on an ultrasound, which is

00:34:47.960 exactly why Planned Parenthood doesn't show women the ultrasound picture. As soon as you see that baby

00:34:52.380 at 10 weeks gestation, those fantasies disappear. You see moving arms, legs, fingers, toes, brain,

00:34:58.000 of course, a beating heart, which has been beating for a long time. My baby at 11 and a half weeks was

00:35:02.840 flipping around, kicking. That is the first trimester. So when we talk about dismembering

00:35:09.600 a fetus or poisoning a fetus with an abortion pill, we're not expelling a glob of tissues. No

00:35:15.220 matter when an abortion is, by the way, no matter when after conception an abortion is. But if you

00:35:21.460 imagine in your head that an abortion in the first trimester is just a blob, it's just not factual.

00:35:29.740 It's just not true. No matter what stage of pregnancy someone gets an abortion, it is a

00:35:36.500 violent, brutal procedure. It is not just like a root canal. So you can get that out of your head.

00:35:43.200 That is just the first trimester. Second trimester, you can either do the dilation and extraction,

00:35:49.400 which is the drying up of the amniotic fluid and then dismembering the baby and crushing her skull

00:35:55.360 with forceps. So each part can be removed through the vaginal canal easily. This is according to the

00:36:01.280 American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, by the way, who are very poor abortion. You can tell

00:36:07.580 from the rhetoric on their site. You can also induce labor in the second trimester, which ACOG,

00:36:13.460 that's what I'm going to call American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, says is less

00:36:18.600 cost-effective and more dangerous. The doctor inserts drugs inside of you that causes an abortion

00:36:23.800 and induces labor. So you literally give birth to a dead child. That is legal in the United States in

00:36:29.660 the second trimester when the child can feel pain, by the way. ACOG also says this, in rare instances,

00:36:35.540 second trimester abortion may be performed by hysterectomy or hysterotomy. They don't mention

00:36:41.540 how the baby is actually killed in that case. All of these procedures can and are done well after the

00:36:46.740 mother has been able to feel the child move. ACOG describes the unborn child as a developing

00:36:52.340 organism. That's how they define fetus. They don't even say the word human, which tells you where they

00:36:57.260 stand. You know that we have become a post-truth society where medical organizations can't even use

00:37:03.200 accurate terminology as if we don't know what kind of organism is. Is it a human? Is it a fungus? ACOG

00:37:10.240 says they don't know. Here's what they also say about third trimester abortion. Abortion later in

00:37:16.160 pregnancy may also be necessary when complications severely compromise a woman's health or life

00:37:20.700 conditions, which may also reduce the possibility of fetal survival. What a bunch of dishonest

00:37:28.720 drivel. They know that abortion in the third trimester is far more dangerous for the mother

00:37:33.420 than inducing labor or giving birth. They know this. They know that because they already admitted

00:37:38.380 that the later an abortion is, the more dangerous it is for a mother. An abortion in the

00:37:43.220 second trimester carries significant risks. A third trimester abortion is never necessary.

00:37:49.180 Just logic tells us that. Common sense tells us that the solution is delivery, not abortion. If the

00:37:54.240 baby has to actually come out of you, there's no reason to kill it first. Third trimester abortion

00:38:00.340 involves an injection into the woman's abdomen and into the baby's heart. Of course, the doctor has to

00:38:05.500 actually be looking at the ultrasound screen while putting the needle into the woman's stomach to make

00:38:09.660 sure that he is hitting the heart of the baby. It would be at this point that a baby who has been

00:38:15.500 able to feel pain for weeks if we're in the first trimester or third trimester, this is a baby who

00:38:20.620 could survive outside the womb. And we know from firsthand accounts that the baby physically resists

00:38:25.420 the pain of the abortion needle. Imagine a needle going through your chest and into your heart. How badly

00:38:32.380 that would hurt. This is called induced fetal demise. If you don't believe me, you can look it up

00:38:38.000 yourself. Of course, pro-choicers, pro-abortioners say that this is all made up. This is hyperbolic.

00:38:43.400 It's not. Go read it for yourself. Now, it's hard to find because the internet Google doesn't want you

00:38:47.580 to read this. But it's true. You can find it on neutral sites. Pitocin and other medications are

00:38:54.000 used to induce labor. And the abortionist pulls out the dead baby and disposes of her little body like

00:38:59.760 medical waste. That is a third trimester abortion, which is very rare, but it does happen. And it is not

00:39:04.900 always in the cases of a health problem, which, as we know, that doesn't even make any sense because

00:39:10.900 the solution would be delivery, not abortion. Anyone who has had a baby full term or premature

00:39:16.920 who has held that baby on your chest, you know how precious, how real that life is. There's no denying

00:39:23.040 that. Now, what happens if a baby survives an abortion like that? Well, we know the governor of

00:39:29.040 Virginia, Ralph Northam, told us the baby would be put off to the side to struggle or to struggle

00:39:34.520 for breath while the mom and the doctor decided what to do, to give medical care or to, we don't

00:39:40.360 know, let the baby die or further, quote, induce demise. This is why conservatives say that they

00:39:46.800 are for infanticide. Of course. Of course. Have we heard anyone on the left say, wow, Ralph

00:39:53.300 Northam, that was really draconian. That was really terrible. That's awful. You know, that's

00:39:58.220 too far for me. Of course we haven't. They are for this. You will notice that pro-choicers

00:40:03.500 will say, oh, that's wrong. That's manipulation. That's misinformation. But they won't correct you.

00:40:09.760 They'll just say, oh, that's wrong. That's not true. You're lying. You're feeding lies to women.

00:40:14.720 But they won't say what's actually true. And so, okay, what is it? If I'm wrong about what an abortion

00:40:20.220 is, how an abortion happens, you tell me. You describe to me what an abortion is. Do you think

00:40:26.060 you just sprinkle fairy dust on the woman's womb and then all of a sudden the baby disappears

00:40:31.180 into la-la lands? Is that how you imagined an abortion happening? So please tell me, correct me.

00:40:37.260 There are firsthand accounts of utility closets in hospitals storing babies who survive abortions.

00:40:42.600 I don't have to tell you about Kermit Gosnell, who routinely killed babies as they were being

00:40:46.420 delivered by severing their spinal cord. Dr. Leah Torres is an OB-GYN in Salt Lake City.

00:40:53.020 And she tweeted that she cuts the vocal cords of babies as she is aborting them. So they don't

00:40:58.320 have the opportunity to scream. This is abortion. This is abortion. If you are so-called pro-choice,

00:41:06.200 this is what you are in favor of. It does not make sense to say that you're okay with someone

00:41:13.020 making this decision, even though you are against abortion personally. Are you against rape for other

00:41:18.860 people? Are you for rape for other people, but against rape yourself? Are you for murder for other

00:41:24.500 people, but against murder yourself? Oh, you don't feel like the government should have a say in that

00:41:28.820 that people should just make a decision to murder. People should just make a decision to rape. Is

00:41:32.980 that where you stand on that? I don't think that makes logical sense. I think that you probably know

00:41:37.140 better than that. In every case, at every stage, abortion is brutal. It is violent. It is killing.

00:41:43.560 There's no logical or moral or scientific or theological defense for it, period.

00:41:48.300 On the portions of its website talking about abortion, ACOG uses the term fetus, which they

00:41:55.860 describe as a developing organism. But on the portions talking about pregnancy uses the term

00:41:59.920 baby. Why? Because even though fetus means offspring, the word sounds more sterile and less

00:42:06.820 human. This is what George Orwell calls double think in 1984, which is defined as the acceptance of

00:42:13.840 mental acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the exact same

00:42:20.160 time, especially as a result of political indoctrination. If that doesn't describe the

00:42:25.440 pro-abortion side or even the if you're talking about transgenderism, it it definitely describes

00:42:32.640 that side as well. Being pro-woman and pro-feminist and also pro-boys can be girls and girls can be

00:42:38.320 boys. That is double think. This is why the pro-abortion side is losing. It is hard to keep up

00:42:43.620 with lies. It is hard to come up with new euphemisms to cover up what abortion is as science and

00:42:49.660 technology develop. Humanity inside the womb is undeniable. And they are having a hard time bending

00:42:55.920 over backwards to convince people that it's not. They can't even speak in factual, clear terms. You

00:43:00.580 guys remember that from the hearing that I was a part of. We are winning because all we have to do

00:43:07.540 to convince people that abortion is wrong is to say what it is. Because everyone is making

00:43:13.100 God's image, there still remains in most people this moral instinct that flinches at the description

00:43:20.140 of an abortion. Now, some people have been totally corrupted and they have become so numb that even

00:43:26.760 when they know what an abortion is, they're okay with it. But most people, most people cannot bear

00:43:32.160 to hear what happens in the procedure and it hurts them. So what do they do? They either change their

00:43:38.620 mind. They either in humility say, okay, I was wrong, or they tell us that we're lying. They get

00:43:44.460 defensive because they don't want to deal with those bad feelings. That's what we all do. We don't

00:43:48.040 want to deal with bad feelings. We don't want to admit that we were wrong and that our worldview has

00:43:51.260 been turned upside down. We get defensive. We say, oh, no, no, no, that's misinformation. We say that,

00:43:56.980 oh, no, you're exaggerating. They say, no, you're exaggerating. You're making it up.

00:44:00.620 They don't even, the pro-choice side, the pro-abortion side, they don't even tell their

00:44:06.000 patients what's going on because they operate under manipulation and misinformation. All we have to do

00:44:11.320 is tell the truth. And that's really easy. We don't have to keep up with anything. We don't have to

00:44:14.580 remember the lie that we told last week. All we have to do is tell the truth. And that's what I

00:44:19.700 encourage you to keep doing. Tell the truth. There have been two instances in the past week

00:44:24.280 of people on Instagram getting dragged for saying things that are just true. There was one

00:44:30.260 vegan YouTuber that is really popular that talked about her child at 15 weeks gestation and

00:44:36.520 everything just scientifically. What's going on with her child in the womb? A child develops rapidly.

00:44:42.020 She got dragged, dragged by her followers for simply saying, hey, this life, it's real. Here's

00:44:49.320 what's going on in development and life has value. Didn't say, hey, I'm against abortion. Just said,

00:44:55.420 hey, factually, here's what's going on. I mean, her, the people who follow her,

00:44:59.620 who won't even eat cheese because they think it's immoral, were stunned and shocked and appalled

00:45:06.380 and grossed out that this woman would believe that life inside the womb, that a baby inside the womb

00:45:12.040 actually has value. And even after she said all of the things that are happening with her child inside

00:45:18.020 the womb, you still had people saying, this is a glob of cells. I mean, when we read that Satan has

00:45:25.100 blinded the mind of unbelievers, that he is the prince of the power of the air, that he operates

00:45:29.960 in darkness, that he is the father of lies. So everything he says is deception. That's the only

00:45:35.100 way that people on that side of the issue, that's the only way their so-called logic makes any sense

00:45:40.740 when you realize that they are just so inundated with deception, which is why the gospel is so

00:45:46.400 important when it comes to this issue, because we can't expect people to fundamentally,

00:45:51.300 to really ultimately change their hearts and to change their minds on something like this

00:45:55.780 without the power of Jesus Christ, who is the author of truth, who is the giver of life,

00:46:02.220 who ascribes value to life inside the womb. So that's why it's so important for us to be on

00:46:09.200 the side of truth. And yes, in a post-truth society, we are going to be more and more unpopular.

00:46:14.960 There was a speech therapist who said, hey, I teach regular pronouns. I teach he, she, them as

00:46:22.220 plural. And I don't believe that God made mistakes. And if God made a boy, a boy, then he is supposed

00:46:28.240 to be a boy. And man, I've never, I don't know if I've ever seen someone on the internet dragged as

00:46:33.120 hard as she was. And we need to encourage these people who are, their jobs are being threatened,

00:46:38.920 their livelihoods are being threatened for stating basic biological truth. People get very

00:46:44.380 angry at truth when it upsets their feelings. And we need to be strong in that. Speaking the truth

00:46:49.080 in love, that doesn't mean that we don't, that we're not gracious, that we're not merciful and

00:46:52.740 that we don't serve these people. Of course we do. This is what people on the other side don't

00:46:56.860 understand is that we do love these people, but that doesn't mean we compromise on truth.

00:47:01.680 And so it's very, it's scary, but it's refreshing to be on the side of truth because you don't have to

00:47:05.880 keep up with a ton of lies. Like you don't have to be burdened by the latest cycle of outrage.

00:47:10.260 You stand on the word of God, which does not change. Jesus Christ is the same

00:47:14.000 yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever. And that is our steadfast hope. That is the anchor

00:47:19.780 for our souls. We don't have to be worried about keeping up with what culture is mad at and what

00:47:24.260 culture thinks is right and wrong. No, we stand on the truth, which does not change. That's my

00:47:30.740 entire message today. This is a long podcast, but hope you guys enjoyed it. And I will see you back

00:47:35.780 here on Friday. We're talking to Andrew Clavin from the Daily Wire. He was awesome. I'm so excited

00:47:39.680 to talk to him and you guys will enjoy our conversation too. See you then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 04, 2019

Ep 193 ｜ The Left Is Losing

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