Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 17, 2020


Ep 289 | Trump vs. Biden 2020: Abortion


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

170.51978

Word Count

9,387

Sentence Count

546

Misogynist Sentences

33

Hate Speech Sentences

27


Summary

There are only 12 Mondays until Election Day and today we are talking about abortion and why it matters to me and why I think it should matter to you. I also talk about the gaffes that both sides make when it comes to Donald Trump and Joe Biden and why you should vote for them.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a great weekend. So I've
00:00:15.940 got a really scary, crazy fact to tell you. There are, including today, 12 Mondays. Only
00:00:24.880 12 Mondays until Election Day. I was looking at my calendar and I was counting the Mondays for the
00:00:31.740 reason that I'm about to tell you. And I could not believe it. I just kept counting. I went right
00:00:36.480 past 12 and I said, wait, wait, wait, I've got to back up November 3rd. Oh my goodness. There's
00:00:41.280 only 12 Mondays until Election Day. So what I'm going to do until Election Day every Monday is I
00:00:47.360 going to go through one issue and I am going to compare Trump and Pence versus Biden and Harris.
00:00:55.860 And today we are going to talk about abortion. In the future, I will talk to you about the other
00:01:00.540 issues that matter to me. And I will make a case for why I think they should matter to you,
00:01:05.740 especially if you are a Christian. So today we'll talk about the issue of protecting unborn life,
00:01:10.700 which is paramount for me, the cohesion of the family. So that means any policy that encourages
00:01:15.720 or discourages the strength and togetherness of the nuclear family. That's of particular interest
00:01:20.860 to me. That's a subject we'll be talking about on a future Monday. We'll be talking about religious
00:01:25.480 liberty. I will also lump together other First Amendment issues as well on that episode, like
00:01:31.860 free speech. We'll be talking about school choice. We'll be talking about foreign policy,
00:01:36.060 especially in regards to China and why that's important and how the two tickets compare.
00:01:41.160 I will be talking about impartial and righteous justice. This includes the actions of the DOJ.
00:01:47.260 It includes policing. It includes law and order. It includes policies that affect our prison system
00:01:52.400 and how prisoners, criminals and victims are treated. We'll be talking about the economy,
00:01:57.540 especially as it pertains to small businesses and entrepreneurship and how the two sides and
00:02:02.440 their policies match up. We'll be talking about the Second Amendment. We'll be talking about
00:02:06.540 immigration. We will also talk about science and truth. So that means I am going to prioritize,
00:02:13.640 I'm going to prioritize the issue of objective reality and believing in science. And as you guys
00:02:20.340 know, I'm going to lean toward the politicians that acknowledge biological reality. And so we will be
00:02:26.300 talking about those things and we will be talking about health care as well. And there will be,
00:02:31.360 I think that leaves a couple more Mondays that are still available. And I haven't decided
00:02:34.860 what issues we are going to talk about. You already know where I'm coming from. So I'm not hiding that
00:02:40.940 from you guys. If you have followed me for any amount of time, if you have listened to my podcast
00:02:44.720 for any amount of time, you know that I'm a conservative evangelical who voted for Donald
00:02:49.020 Trump in 2016. But you also know that I've been critical of Donald Trump when needed. There are indeed,
00:02:56.020 as you guys know, things about Trump that I think are worth criticizing. There are things that I wish
00:03:01.460 that he didn't say. There are things that I wish that he didn't do. And I am totally fine with
00:03:07.360 criticizing him and holding him accountable for the things that I think that he needs to be
00:03:11.860 held accountable for. But you guys also know that he and his administration represent the values,
00:03:18.980 represent the policies that I think are best for the country. And so we distinguish between Trump's
00:03:25.900 personality and the policies that he and his administration represent. And by the way, I just
00:03:31.020 want to make a side note. Both sides do this. So the Democratic side, they point to Trump and the
00:03:36.320 things that he has said and the things that he has done. And they say, look, he doesn't represent any
00:03:40.660 good values at all. He said and done all of these stupid and bad things and look at his past. And we
00:03:48.160 over here say, yeah, you know, that's true. And I'm not going to deny that I don't like some of the
00:03:52.040 things that he has said and done. I'm certainly not electing a savior. I'm not even necessarily
00:03:56.960 electing a role model. And while it is ideal to have a president who represents all the values and
00:04:03.560 the morals and the decency and the tact that you want him to, policies affect people's lives much
00:04:09.720 more than Trump's tweets do and much more than his personality does and much more than his gaffes do.
00:04:15.320 And yet on the other side, they say the same thing and they don't recognize that they are making
00:04:21.760 the same justifications for Biden that we are making for voting for Donald Trump. And yet they're
00:04:26.800 pointing fingers to us saying, how can you vote for this guy? You are voting for him, basically
00:04:31.300 saying that racism is OK, saying that sexism is OK. All of these things that they accuse Donald Trump
00:04:37.300 of due to sometimes decontextualized quotes, sometimes just complete speculation. And sometimes
00:04:45.040 it's actually true. The things that he says are not wise, but they point fingers at him and they say,
00:04:49.680 how can you be OK with this? And yet they don't point the same fingers at Biden, who has made
00:04:54.500 several gaffes, especially recently, that have been completely derogatory towards black people,
00:04:59.160 saying that all black people think the same, unlike Hispanic people, saying that if you don't vote for
00:05:03.980 him, then you ain't black. I mean, he's made a lot of gaffes recently and just throughout his political
00:05:11.500 history. Remember, several years ago when he was campaigning against Mitt Romney alongside Barack Obama,
00:05:18.760 he said to a group of black people that Mitt Romney is going to put y'all back in chains.
00:05:23.440 I mean, how condescending can you possibly be? And of course, a lot of progressives,
00:05:27.660 a lot of people on the left also don't like his record on criminal justice and how, quote,
00:05:33.520 tough on crime he was in the 90s and even before that. So you are also turning past all of the things
00:05:42.820 that you could accuse Biden of doing that you could characterize as racist. You are also overlooking
00:05:50.800 the fact that he was accused by one of his staffers, Tara Reid, of sexually assault, of sexually
00:05:56.120 assaulting her. You are also looking past the many accusations of sexual harassment and you are looking
00:06:02.440 past the fact that he is in cognitive decline. So we can just both, can we just both recognize for a
00:06:08.440 second, that both of us are looking past some flaws that both of our candidates have and we are
00:06:16.340 accepting the fact that their administration is going to represent policies that we believe in.
00:06:22.620 I just think it's highly hypocritical to say that conservatives are doing that with their candidate,
00:06:27.340 but the Democrats aren't doing that with their candidate. We both are to a degree. Now,
00:06:31.680 I personally believe that Democrats are actually doing that more than Republicans are in regards to Trump.
00:06:36.300 But let's just agree with the fact that neither of us have perfect candidates. Like, if we drew up a
00:06:44.000 candidate, we would probably, a lot of us, maybe choose someone differently on both sides, perhaps.
00:06:50.520 But we are both going to vote for the person that we believe is going to implement policies,
00:06:57.920 vouch for policies that we think are best for the country. So let's just acknowledge that both sides
00:07:03.640 are doing that, that any accusations coming from the left to the right saying that you're ignoring all
00:07:08.440 of these character flaws and gaffes and Trump. Well, so are you. So are you. And you are ignoring
00:07:13.020 very real accusations of sexual assault from one of his staffers, not when he was a young guy,
00:07:19.560 but while he was a senator. So let's just acknowledge that fact, okay? We're voting for the policies.
00:07:26.420 We're voting for the administration. We're voting for the judges and the justices that are going to be
00:07:30.740 nominated. Let's just acknowledge that. So all of that said, I just wanted to go down that rabbit
00:07:36.540 trail. You guys know where I'm coming from, and I'm not trying to hide that fact. I believe that
00:07:43.580 conservative principles and conservative policies are best for every demographic, for every socioeconomic
00:07:48.800 class, for every ethnicity in the country. And so that is why I stand behind them. And so I am not
00:07:56.520 going to approach these 12 Mondays coming up as someone who doesn't have that perspective. However,
00:08:03.480 however, my goal is to give you the best and most comprehensive assessment of these issues that I
00:08:11.500 possibly can. My desire is not to give you half-truths. It is not to exaggerate, even though
00:08:16.520 you know from the top that I don't support Biden or Harris. Know that I am going to try to do my best
00:08:24.180 to represent them accurately and explain as well as I can why I cannot vote for them. So if you
00:08:30.800 listen to this and there is something that I say that is factually incorrect, then I want you to
00:08:37.220 tell me. You have to articulate why it's factually incorrect. You have to actually point me to the
00:08:41.900 source that tells me it's factually incorrect. I'm not just talking about a different opinion than
00:08:46.280 mine. You can share that with me too. But if you tell me something that is factually incorrect
00:08:51.180 that I say or a description that I give, then I want you to tell me why I'm wrong, to point me to
00:08:57.040 the source that proves that I'm wrong. And then I will correct myself on air because I do not. My
00:09:02.820 desire is not to lie. It is not to cover up the truth. It is not to manipulate you. It is not to
00:09:07.760 deceive you. That is not how I want to present these cases. Even knowing who I am, what I believe,
00:09:14.860 what my worldview is, and my plans to vote for Donald Trump, still my desire is to give you the
00:09:20.820 most factual rendering of these issues and of the positions that I possibly can. That is being charitable
00:09:28.040 where I can, but also being harsh where I have to. And on this particular subject, on abortion, there's
00:09:34.420 going to be a lot of harshness. And I'm just going to warn you, it's going to be a little bit graphic. I know
00:09:38.860 we talked a lot about this on Friday too, but it bears repeating. And because this is the first
00:09:44.260 Monday in this series, I have to talk about abortion first because it is my first priority.
00:09:49.420 It is at top of mind whenever I am looking at a politician and whenever I am considering my vote.
00:09:57.160 So it's going to be a lot today. And I don't have a whole lot of charity to give to Biden and Harris
00:10:03.720 on this subject simply because there isn't any there. There's no benefit of the doubt to offer
00:10:11.940 on this particular subject. But in the future, where I can offer that charity, where I can offer
00:10:16.920 that benefit of the doubt, I promise I will. My desire isn't to fear monger. Now that doesn't mean
00:10:20.780 that you won't be afraid, but my desire isn't to purposely, emotionally manipulate you or anything
00:10:26.000 like that. I am going to try to be as factual as I possibly can. And also, because this is a Christian
00:10:31.400 podcast, I'm going to try to give you a biblical perspective of things as well. I'm mostly talking
00:10:36.740 to Christian women, and I am going to make the case for voting for Trump and Pence, at least from
00:10:45.180 my perspective. I understand there are a lot of people who are still going to disagree with me.
00:10:50.100 I'm just going to lay out the truth. I'm going to lay out the facts. I'm going to lay out what both
00:10:54.420 sides think, and then my view of these things in a biblical perspective, as I said.
00:11:09.540 So before I say why I care about abortion and why I believe Christians should care about abortion,
00:11:15.740 let's just talk again very plainly about what abortion is. Abortion purposely kills a living baby.
00:11:23.340 It really is that simple. There is no philosophical or moral nuance to add to that. Now, if you are a
00:11:31.760 pro-choice person, maybe your friend sent you this episode and you're listening with bated breath and
00:11:36.740 you're already mad, you are already frustrated, and you are anticipating your disagreement with me,
00:11:41.740 you probably take issue with describing abortion how I just described it. And I understand you would
00:11:48.200 prefer me to say something like zygote or fetus to be more, you might say, scientific or accurate,
00:11:54.380 but a zygote or a fetus is a baby in the same way that an infant is a child. Infancy is a stage of
00:12:03.100 childhood, just as being a zygote or a fetus are stages in the life of a baby. So no, these are not
00:12:10.220 inaccurate words that I'm using. And it's also not inaccurate to say fetus or zygote when they're used
00:12:16.500 in the correct way when talking about the correct stage in a pregnancy. So I have no problem with
00:12:21.380 people using those words, even if they don't say baby, but realize that they are typically words
00:12:28.580 that are used by pro-choice activists, not for the sake of accuracy, not for the sake of being
00:12:33.720 scientific, but in an effort to sanitize and dehumanize. The word baby immediately elicits
00:12:40.540 emotions and for most people, some sort of compassion, some sort of soft heartedness.
00:12:47.220 So in order to make abortion more palatable, that term, the term baby is typically avoided
00:12:55.280 by abortion activists. You will notice on websites like Planned Parenthood, they won't say any of these
00:13:01.580 words at all, actually. Instead, they use terms like pregnancy tissue or just tissue. Some websites
00:13:07.400 will say like the contents of the uterus. This is a way of completely disregarding what the procedure
00:13:13.980 actually is and who is involved. The more they can make you forget about or disregard the fact that
00:13:20.640 abortion isn't just a trip to the dentist, but is actually the intentional killing of a living baby,
00:13:26.540 the easier it is for them to market the procedure as empowerment, as autonomy, and as choice. The easier
00:13:32.680 it is for them to convince mothers who are often very vulnerable that they should get an abortion,
00:13:39.940 that it's no big deal, and then they can take their money. It is the same reason why you cannot
00:13:45.120 get an abortion activist or even an abortion provider to tell you specifically, at least publicly,
00:13:50.840 what happens in an abortion. They refuse to describe the procedure. I sat next to the head of the Planned
00:13:58.240 Parenthood in St. Louis when I was testifying before Congress last November, and the congressman kept
00:14:05.060 pressing her to say, what exactly happens in an abortion? How do you accomplish an abortion? And she
00:14:10.960 would not do it. She wouldn't describe the procedure that she believes is just no big deal. That alone
00:14:18.360 should just give you pause. It should just make you wonder when the people who advocate for a procedure
00:14:24.240 won't even tell you how it works or exactly specifically what happens in the procedure,
00:14:30.440 not just to the woman, not just to the uterus, but to the baby that is being killed. When they refuse to
00:14:36.200 acknowledge the scientific fact that abortion involves two human beings, when they rely on euphemisms
00:14:42.440 and emotionalism like reproductive freedom and things like abortion is healthcare and bodily autonomy,
00:14:48.320 that should tell you that what you're hearing is not science. It is propaganda.
00:14:53.900 propaganda. As the far leftist Noam Chomsky rightly said, the whole point of good propaganda is that
00:15:00.380 no one knows what it means because it doesn't mean anything. And that is true about phrases like
00:15:05.780 reproductive freedom or bodily autonomy. They are nonsense when it comes to things like abortion, which is
00:15:11.940 killing another human being. That's what abortion is. The abortion industry is propped up on propaganda.
00:15:18.760 It has been extremely clever, extremely effective in manipulating our lexicon in their favor to make
00:15:28.240 it sound like somehow killing babies in the womb is the moral and the righteous and the liberating and
00:15:33.720 the right choice. So since these pro-choice activists, though, logically, just to point this out,
00:15:41.120 pro-choice is pro-abortion. And I understand, again, if you consider yourself pro-choice that you
00:15:45.920 probably take issue with that. But if you are against a certain kind of atrocity, you are not
00:15:51.640 for the choice to do that thing. Like if you are against, as we all should be, if you are against
00:15:57.360 rape, if you are against murder, if you are against assault, if you are against anything that hurts
00:16:03.940 someone else, that hurts an innocent person, a victim, then you are not going to be for the choice
00:16:09.380 to do that thing unless you are actually for that thing. So pro-choice is another, again,
00:16:14.820 euphemism or sanitized way to say that you are pro the choice of abortion. You are pro-abortion.
00:16:20.820 No, maybe you're not the kind of person who celebrates abortion. Maybe you're not the kind
00:16:24.380 of person that's excited about abortion, but your position to vote for people that advocate for abortion
00:16:31.360 and the freedom of abortion is a pro-abortion position. It just is. Now, these pro-choice
00:16:38.880 activists, these pro-abortion activists, since they will not tell you what actually happens in an
00:16:47.040 abortion, what goes on in these procedures in the first, second, and third trimesters, I will do that
00:16:53.920 for you. Very rarely do you hear this. And I'm about to tell you it is, or I'm going, I'm telling you
00:16:59.980 now that it is about to be a little bit graphic, unfortunately. And I've done this several times
00:17:05.740 on my podcast, and I try to do it every couple months or so, just because I think it's important
00:17:11.700 for this to be pressed into our hearts and minds, this reality that is happening thousands of times
00:17:17.380 every day in this country. First trimester abortion is typically done by medication. Usually it is a
00:17:24.160 three-step process. The first pill kills the baby by blocking progesterone, which is the hormone
00:17:29.740 in a woman's body that keeps her pregnant. So if it blocks progesterone, that makes the uterus
00:17:34.340 basically unlivable for the unborn child. The unborn child is basically starved and is unable to live
00:17:41.740 because the medicine breaks down the lining of the uterus, making it impossible for the baby to
00:17:49.840 survive. A baby's heart starts beating, by the way, at latest six weeks. So we are talking about a
00:17:56.560 baby with a beating heart being killed chemically. The second pill that the mom takes expels the baby
00:18:01.980 from her uterus. Then she goes to the doctor to make sure the baby is out. If the baby isn't
00:18:08.580 completely out of her womb, then the doctor or the abortion provider, it's not always a doctor,
00:18:14.760 they will suction out the rest of the baby out of the uterus. Abortion in the second trimester.
00:18:21.220 Now, the second trimester is after 12 weeks. Sometimes between 12 and 15 weeks, a chemical
00:18:29.820 abortion is still possible. Now, I just want to remind you, for everyone who has never been
00:18:34.880 pregnant before, if you get an ultrasound at 10 weeks, you will see a baby with a head, eyes,
00:18:42.600 beating heart, arms and legs kicking and moving around. So for people who have never been pregnant
00:18:47.620 before, like you might just picture this kind of lump that is there until like 20 weeks and then
00:18:54.680 all of a sudden it looks like a baby. No, this looks like a baby very early on. Yes, that first
00:19:00.820 ultrasound that you get, they kind of look like a jelly bean, but they have that beating heart. The
00:19:05.600 next ultrasound that you get, it's typically around 11 or 12 weeks. You got a moving, kicking
00:19:11.680 around, tiny little baby flipping around. So that is the baby that we are talking about very often,
00:19:17.260 even in the first trimester, 10, 11 weeks being killed chemically, being basically poisoned or
00:19:23.940 starved out chemically. So we're not talking, not that it matters to me morally, but we're not talking
00:19:29.500 about just this clump of cells that abortion activists like to pretend that babies are. It's
00:19:36.320 never just a clump of cells, but even babies in the first trimester, they look like babies by the end of
00:19:43.880 the trimester. But by the second trimester, they are significantly bigger. And so it is much more
00:19:49.080 difficult to kill them through a medical abortion or a chemical abortion. So what happens is something
00:19:55.740 typically called a DNE, a dilation and evacuation. The abortionist dilates the cervix, inserts something
00:20:04.320 called liminaria to dry up the amniotic fluid in the uterus, which is what the baby needs to survive.
00:20:10.120 Then the baby is either sucked out with a vacuum, or if the baby is too big to be sucked out in the
00:20:17.180 vacuum, so probably around 15 weeks, she will be dismembered with forceps. So if the skull is too
00:20:23.800 big, so they start taking out the arms and the legs by dismembering this baby with forceps. If the
00:20:28.560 skull is too big to fit through the cervix, the abortionist will actually crush the skull with the
00:20:33.880 forceps to be able to remove this baby from the womb. Now, if the baby is big enough to live
00:20:40.820 independently from the mother, they have to, quote, ensure fetal demise is what they call it in a
00:20:45.900 different way. They first have to take a needle that is filled with a chemical mixture, sodium chloride,
00:20:51.960 and they go through the woman's abdomen into the baby's heart or umbilical cord. This poisons the baby
00:20:58.040 and causes her to have a heart attack and die. Now, this is a very tricky procedure because babies at
00:21:03.680 this gestation age are moving a lot and they can feel pain. So instinctively, the baby flinches at
00:21:10.260 the prick of the needle, naturally tries to move away from the needle. And so the doctor has to make
00:21:17.320 sure that the needle goes straight into the heart, straight into the umbilical cord. They might just
00:21:22.800 fill the amniotic fluid with this poison so the baby eventually dies. But this is supposed to cause
00:21:28.620 a heart attack so that the baby dies. After the baby is killed, he or she is then removed. This is
00:21:35.940 typically the same procedure for third trimester abortions as well. I understand people say,
00:21:41.840 oh, well, that's so rare. Most abortions are done in the first trimester. Sure, most abortions are done
00:21:47.840 in the first trimester. One, that doesn't make it right. Number two, there are abortions that exist
00:21:54.200 that happen in the second trimester, in the third trimester, every day, every year. And so when people
00:22:01.920 say, well, it's typically for, you know, the health of the mother, it's typically for the health of the
00:22:07.800 child, they found out that the child isn't going to be viable. Tell me, tell me the justification
00:22:12.760 that you make for murder in any other circumstance outside of the womb. Why is murder justified just
00:22:19.060 for unborn babies in a way that we don't justify it towards babies outside of the womb? Because
00:22:23.760 they're voiceless, because they're defenseless, just because they're located in the mother's womb.
00:22:29.020 In the third trimester, there is no medical reason for a woman to have an abortion for her health
00:22:33.840 because a baby is viable after 24 weeks, has a hard time surviving at 24 weeks, but up to 28 weeks,
00:22:40.600 that baby has a really good chance. Or after 28 weeks, that baby has a really good chance of
00:22:45.000 surviving outside the womb. So if a mom is sick, if there's something wrong with the mom, anytime
00:22:49.880 after 24 weeks, even probably a little bit before that, you deliver the baby. If you need to get the
00:22:55.680 baby out, you need to get the baby out. You don't have to kill the baby. Either way, the baby's coming
00:22:59.520 out. So why would you have to kill the baby, which is often even more dangerous for the mother
00:23:05.180 instead of just delivering the baby? So this myth saying that sometimes babies have to be aborted
00:23:11.420 after 24 weeks after that far along in the second trimester for the health of the mother, it's just
00:23:16.820 a lie. It's a complete and a total lie. Abortion provider Leroy Carhart explained how he performs
00:23:23.640 third trimester abortions by injecting the poison digoxin into the baby's heart and inducing labor a few
00:23:30.680 days later so that by the time the dead, limp baby exits the mother's womb, he is like, quote,
00:23:37.920 meat in a crockpot. Infamously, abortionist Kermit Gosnell admitted to delivering full-term viable babies
00:23:47.160 by inducing labor and then snipping their spinal cords as they were exiting the birth canal. So we're
00:23:55.740 talking about babies that can feel pain. By the way, a baby can feel pain early in the second
00:24:02.860 trimester, possibly before that. You might remember a couple years ago, an abortionist in Illinois
00:24:08.080 died and upon his death, authorities found more than 2,000 fetal remains, 2,000 babies that he had
00:24:15.840 aborted. These people, they're not well. A renowned bioethicist, Peter Singer, acknowledges the logical
00:24:21.660 slope of pro-choice, pro-abortion arguments. He says that killing a newborn baby is justifiable,
00:24:30.420 this is what Peter Singer says, if the infant is not, quote, loved and cherished by their parents.
00:24:35.540 So the fact is, none of the arguments that are used to justify abortion is unique to pre-born babies.
00:24:41.780 Therefore, inevitably, they leave our society vulnerable to the dehumanization of not just
00:24:48.520 the pre-born, but of people outside of the womb as well. That's just the logical conclusion to all
00:24:54.120 of this eugenics. That's why the person who started Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger,
00:24:59.440 was a eugenicist. It is still that way today. It is still the same logic. We have seen this logic
00:25:05.900 manifest itself in abortion-centric rhetoric and even legislation. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
00:25:12.040 declared last year that a baby who survives an abortion would be, quote, delivered,
00:25:16.160 kept comfortable, and resuscitated if that is what the mother and the family desired. Otherwise,
00:25:22.500 you leave that baby off to the side to die cold and alone, struggling for breath, instinctively
00:25:29.440 reaching for his mother. Instead, Ralph Northam, the current governor of Virginia, said that you leave
00:25:36.080 the baby off to the side to die rather than giving it life-saving care. In 2005, a mother attempted to
00:25:44.500 undergo an abortion at 23 weeks gestation at EPOC Clinic in Orlando, Florida. She delivered her
00:25:51.620 living, moving son in a toilet. She begged the staff to help, and they not only refused to help,
00:25:57.260 but they turned away paramedics. She cradled her son and sang to him for 11 minutes until he died.
00:26:03.060 So Gloria Williams saw an abortion in 2006. She delivered her 23-week baby at GYN Diagnostic
00:26:11.660 Center in Halea, Florida. When he began breathing and moving, the owner of the clinic reportedly
00:26:17.580 quickly cut the umbilical cord and sealed the child in a biohazard bag still alive. Abortion clinic
00:26:24.240 owner Belkis Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord and zipped him into that biohazard bag. When Jill Stenak,
00:26:32.760 a former registered nurse, testified before the House Judiciary Committee working in the labor
00:26:37.560 labor and delivery ward of Christ Hospital in Oaklawn, Illinois, she described what it was like
00:26:43.640 to discover that babies who survived abortions were being placed in a utility closet to die.
00:26:48.960 She said this, quote,
00:26:50.720 I was traumatized and changed forever by my experience of holding a little abortion survivor
00:26:56.100 for 45 minutes until he died, a 21, 22-week-old baby who had been aborted because he had Down
00:27:02.800 Syndrome. Only six states require reporting of children who survive abortions. So that means
00:27:09.560 that this is happening a lot more than we know. The CDC estimates that between 2003 and 2014,
00:27:15.420 there were at least 143 babies who died after being born alive after an abortion procedure.
00:27:21.920 There is a significant probability, like I said, that that number is much higher. Republicans
00:27:27.140 presented the Born Alive Infant Survivors Protection Act in the Senate. It criminalizes the failure
00:27:34.520 of an abortion provider to provide medical care to a baby who survives abortion. So it requires them
00:27:41.640 to treat that baby who survives an abortion just like they would any other patient. The bill was blocked
00:27:47.760 by 44 Democratic senators in the House of Representatives. Democratic leadership refused
00:27:52.700 Republicans' 80-plus requests to bring the bill to the floor. The attitude on the pro-abortion side
00:27:59.440 of this debate has shifted drastically in the past two decades from safe, legal, and rare, that's what
00:28:04.940 Hillary Clinton used to say, to on-demand through nine months without apology. That is the current
00:28:11.480 Democratic platform. Radical state abortion legislation presented under the guise of, quote,
00:28:16.260 reproductive health have been passed in states like New York, where it is now legal to kill a baby in
00:28:21.600 the womb until the point of birth as long as the reasoning for abortion falls under the qualification
00:28:26.860 of the, quote, life or health of the mother. Under Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, a life or health
00:28:34.460 can really mean anything. It can mean mental health. It can be emotional health. It can be has a bad
00:28:39.340 family situation. So read, for any reason in New York, if you want to get an abortion late in pregnancy,
00:28:46.380 it is legal to do so. And I know people say, oh, that is so rare. It doesn't matter that it's rare.
00:28:50.280 If it's so rare and we agree that it's grotesque, then let's criminalize it. Let's make sure that
00:28:55.660 it's not legal. In Illinois, the state legislature passed the Reproductive Health Act, which not only
00:29:01.360 strips pre-born babies of all gestational ages, of all of their legal rights, but also repeals the
00:29:06.760 state's Abortion Performance Refusal Act, which protected providers and hospitals who have moral
00:29:12.020 objections to abortion from performing them. So it forces them to do it even if they don't want to.
00:29:18.060 Last year, Virginia state legislator Kathy Tran pushed a bill that would allow abortion per her
00:29:24.160 own recorded admission in a video, even as a mother is in labor. Tran's bill brings into focus
00:29:33.620 the barbarism of lax abortion law, that it dehumanizes life inside the womb through all stages. America is
00:29:42.200 included on a list of only seven countries, including China and North Korea, to allow abortion after 20
00:29:47.640 weeks gestation after a child inside the womb, like I said, is known for sure to feel pain.
00:29:55.120 Organizations like Abortion AF, Shout Your Abortion, advocates for youth in the Creative Council at the
00:30:00.920 Center of Reproductive Rights claim to work to, quote, destigmatize and, quote, normalize abortion
00:30:06.920 to boost support of their movement. A piece published by New York Magazine in May titled,
00:30:11.120 Abortion is Morally Good argues for the full embrace of a woman's so-called right to choose at every stage
00:30:18.780 of pregnancy. An abortion rights organization in Texas created an advertisement for a billboard that
00:30:23.780 read abortion is self-care. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country.
00:30:30.540 According to its own reports, it's responsible for ending the lives of over 300,000 children of the
00:30:36.380 over 900,000 children that are aborted every year. The organization recently fired their CEO,
00:30:42.760 Leanna Nguyen, because as she explained in a New York Times op-ed, she, quote, did not prioritize
00:30:48.540 abortion enough. Democratic Pennsylvania lawmaker Wendy Ullman made headlines last year when she
00:30:55.120 described an early miscarriage as nothing more than, quote, mess on a napkin. While her comments
00:31:01.420 did draw outrage from both sides, thankfully, if we're honest, her rhetoric, her logic is totally
00:31:07.200 consistent with the current mainstream Democratic platform. There are mothers, we should acknowledge
00:31:13.260 this, who face very grave challenges when it comes to childbearing, when it comes to child rearing.
00:31:20.240 This is due to their socioeconomic status, their relationship status, sometimes their immigration
00:31:25.320 status or the status of their health care coverage. There are disparities between the
00:31:31.180 ethnicities when it comes to birth. The CDC found that the United States' already poor record on
00:31:36.540 maternal health is especially bleak for Black women who are 3.3 times more likely to suffer a pregnancy
00:31:42.800 related death than white women. Furthermore, there are circumstances such as rape and incest that may
00:31:49.920 make continuing the pregnancy feel impossible. Pro-lifers do not ignore these facts. We simply do not
00:31:56.360 believe abortion is the answer to them. These are all issues that I care about, that other pro-lifers
00:32:03.340 care about. We hear this myth constantly that we're just pro-birth, and that could not be further from
00:32:09.860 the truth. We talked about this on Friday. Pro-lifers have dedicated, we dedicate our time,
00:32:16.360 our energy, our resources, thousands and thousands of dollars every year to helping moms in need
00:32:21.360 with food, with clothing, with baby items, with shelter, with parenting classes. The centers for
00:32:26.660 these moms in crisis are not run by abortion activists. They are run, in large part, by pro-life
00:32:33.000 Christians. The left tries to equate caring for moms and caring for these babies with agreeing with all of
00:32:39.500 their leftist policy prescriptions, and that's just a false equation. I'm not buying that. Like, I will
00:32:45.020 believe that you care for moms in crisis when you reach into your own pockets to help them, rather than
00:32:50.140 relying on bureaucrats, on the government to do the job that you should be doing. That is when I will
00:32:57.300 know that you care about the women that you claim to care about more than pro-lifers who are spending
00:33:03.420 all their time and energy and resources making sure that mothers and babies are cared for.
00:33:07.560 We want the best for women and their children. We are more than willing. I am more than willing. I can't
00:33:13.080 speak for everyone. I am more than willing to come to the table and discuss solutions to the
00:33:17.780 obstacles, to the disparities, to the travesties that are unfortunately being suffered by a lot of
00:33:25.040 women in this country that don't involve the solutions that I'm interested in, don't involve
00:33:32.720 pitting mothers against their babies. We simply believe that both of their lives are worth fighting
00:33:38.180 for. We believe that women and children in the womb deserve better than abortion. That is what
00:33:43.520 pro-lifers believe. God is very clear about this in his word. He is very clear about the value of all
00:33:50.560 human beings, including those he created with care in the womb. God tells Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1 5,
00:33:57.040 before I have formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born, I consecrated you. That
00:34:02.360 tells us something very obvious. God is doing the formation of babies in the womb, that he is sovereign
00:34:08.260 over their lives, over their conception, over their formation, in their mother's womb. He knows
00:34:15.120 everything about every baby in utero. They matter. Baby lives matter. They matter to God, period.
00:34:23.300 Psalm 139, 13 through 16 says this,
00:34:26.100 For you formed my inward parts. You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you,
00:34:31.360 for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well.
00:34:36.140 My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of
00:34:41.540 the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance. In your book were created, were written, every one of
00:34:47.780 them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. God creates, God crafts.
00:34:54.200 He especially cares for babies in the womb. They are his creation. They are his gift. Every time we see
00:35:02.080 reproduction in the Bible, every time we see a woman becoming pregnant, it is seen as a blessing.
00:35:09.960 Jesus, of course, said, let the little children come to me. He cares for the most vulnerable. It's
00:35:15.140 just amazing that the people who say that they advocate for the voiceless, they talk about Jesus
00:35:19.540 coming for justice and Jesus coming for the oppressed. Do you not see that the most vulnerable,
00:35:23.940 the most defenseless, the most voiceless, the most oppressed class in our country are unborn babies?
00:35:31.100 Please. Jesus cares about them. God created them. He crafted them. He cares for them. In Exodus 21,
00:35:39.260 22 through 25, God demands the death penalty for people who even accidentally hit a pregnant woman
00:35:45.040 and caused the baby inside of her to die. So that simply shows that God sees that life as equal in
00:35:50.900 value to any other life outside of the womb. A lot of people quote a passage in Numbers to say that
00:35:55.740 justifies abortion somehow. It doesn't. I encourage you to go to gotquestions.org and you can actually
00:36:02.260 ask that specific question about that passage in Numbers and what it's actually talking about,
00:36:06.600 and it will explain it very well. Abortion is murder. It's murder to God. And if we had any
00:36:11.920 decency as a society and in our laws, it would be murder to us too. The Bible is clear that thou shalt
00:36:17.960 not murder. But unfortunately, seven men in 1973 decided that somewhere deep and hidden in the cracks
00:36:23.860 in the crevices of the Constitution, there is a secret, magical, unarticulated right to abortion.
00:36:30.380 It's just interesting how no uterus, no opinion apparently doesn't apply to the Supreme Court
00:36:36.260 justices that decided on Roe v. Wade. So that's interesting. So what does all of this mean about
00:36:42.140 my position on all of this? That means that I want pro-life Congress people who will actually work
00:36:48.260 toward ensuring our tax dollars are no longer helping fund Planned Parenthood, who make plenty
00:36:55.300 of money on their own. They don't need the millions and millions, the hundreds of millions of dollars
00:36:59.620 that they get from taxpayers every year. We unfortunately don't have a whole lot of Republicans
00:37:04.440 that have the spine to do that right now. That is something that I care about. That's something that
00:37:10.780 I want and someone that I vote for. I want an administration who protects the Hyde Amendment,
00:37:15.300 which gives at least a little protection for the taxpayer by saying that our money can't directly
00:37:21.000 fund an abortion, although there have always been ways, unfortunately, that abortion clinics have
00:37:26.100 gotten around that. It means that I want pro-life federal judges and justices, which are nominated
00:37:31.260 by the president, approved by the Senate, who will ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade. Overturning Roe v.
00:37:37.660 Wade would not abolish abortion. It would allow the state to decide whether or not they're going to
00:37:42.640 allow abortion. So right now, because of Roe v. Wade, a state cannot ban abortion outright. And there
00:37:49.360 are also, because of other Supreme Court cases, limits to the restrictions they can impose. But
00:37:55.400 the people of a state should be allowed to decide if they want to treat abortion differently than they
00:38:01.660 treat other kinds of murder by allowing it. That is what it means when you say you want to overturn
00:38:08.400 Roe v. Wade. I want the end of abortion forever. But before that happens, I want to ensure that my
00:38:13.660 tax dollars don't support it. And I want it to go back into the hands of the states. Is that ever
00:38:17.980 going to happen? I don't know. But I want to elect people that will make that more likely. According to
00:38:24.460 Pew Research, Trump has confirmed 194 currently active judges. That is 24% of all active judges. The
00:38:31.380 judges nominated by Barack Obama account for 39% of all active judges. So you see, elections have
00:38:37.980 major, major consequences. Trump has nominated constitutionalists for the most part, and Obama,
00:38:43.580 for the most part, nominated leftist activists. The Trump administration changed a Title 10 rule
00:38:49.300 that makes it harder for abortion providers to receive federal funds. NPR said this, quote,
00:38:54.540 the Trump administration has issued its final draft of a rule that makes sweeping changes to Title 10,
00:39:00.620 the federal program that provides birth control and other reproductive health services, a.k.a.
00:39:05.620 abortion, to millions of low-income Americans. So under the new rule, this is according to the HHS
00:39:12.200 website, if a woman is pregnant, a Title 10 provider may provide a list of comprehensive health
00:39:18.360 care providers, including prenatal care providers, including some but not the majority who perform
00:39:23.580 abortion as a part of a comprehensive health care practice. However, this list cannot serve as a
00:39:29.860 referral for nor identify those who provide abortion. So under that new rule, any organization
00:39:36.060 that provides or refers patients specifically for abortions is ineligible for Title 10 funding. That is
00:39:42.800 a really good thing. So Planned Parenthood decided that they no longer wanted to receive Title 10 funding,
00:39:49.760 which is really good news. So good job to the Trump administration. This is just meant to maximize
00:39:56.040 choices and information for women rather than funding organizations like Planned Parenthood,
00:40:00.700 who often present abortion as the only or the best option with very little information to their
00:40:06.040 clientele. This is not a gag rule. As a lot of them have said, it's simply ensuring that women actually
00:40:11.640 get all the information that they need. So this is partly defunding these abortion clinics, which
00:40:16.500 obviously is a very good thing. Now, Susan B. Anthony lists tracks what the what the president and his
00:40:25.940 administration have done in the way of pro-life wins. And here are some of the things he's appointed
00:40:30.500 pro-life judges. Like I said, permitted states to defund Planned Parenthood of Title 10 funds like I just
00:40:37.700 described. He stopped tax dollars funding abortion overseas. President Trump not only reinstated the Mexico
00:40:44.700 city policy, but expanded it to the new protecting life in global health assistance program. This new
00:40:50.780 policy ensures that our tax dollars are protected from funding the abortion industry overseas across
00:40:56.040 all global health spending. This is something that Democrats, every Democratic president has repealed,
00:41:02.660 has overturned the Mexico city policy since Ronald Reagan. But Republicans always reinstate it and
00:41:10.060 President Trump reinstated that. And then he also expanded it. He defunded the pro-abortion UNFPA.
00:41:16.780 The UNFPA, according to Susan B. Anthony list, has long been complicit in China's oppressive
00:41:21.540 population control activities, and they help fund abortion and support abortion around the world.
00:41:27.740 The Trump administration required health insurance companies to disclose if plans cover abortion.
00:41:33.420 So that's important for people to know when you are signing up for an insurance company or an
00:41:37.520 insurance policy to know what you are essentially subsidizing. There is a new rule issued by the
00:41:44.360 departments of HHS, Treasury and Labor that exempts private employers and educational institutions that
00:41:51.020 have sincerely held religious beliefs or moral objections against providing contraceptives or
00:41:57.040 abortifacient drugs. The previous administration, the Obama administration, they tried to make that
00:42:02.840 mandatory that even religious organizations had to cover birth control or abortifacient drugs that did
00:42:12.580 not align with their religious beliefs. But Trump's HHS, their new rule exempted these religious
00:42:19.680 organizations from doing so. Strong pro-life appointments to key positions, including Vice President Mike Pence,
00:42:25.480 Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. New Office for Conscience
00:42:31.320 Protection Protection at HHS. In May 2019, the Trump administration finalized new regulations to strengthen
00:42:36.780 enforcement of federal laws protecting the conscience rights of health care workers who do not want to
00:42:42.320 participate in abortion, allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds. The Obama administration
00:42:49.880 attempted to prevent states from defunding Planned Parenthood of Medicaid dollars, issuing guidance claiming this may be a
00:42:57.080 violation of federal law. In January of 2018, the Trump administration rescinded this guidance, allowing states to
00:43:02.480 defund Planned Parenthood of Medicaid dollars as they see fit. Cut Planned Parenthood's tax funding by up to
00:43:08.220 $60 million, allowed Texas to fund a health program that does not send funds to abortion businesses, canceled huge
00:43:15.620 contract for taxpayer-funded experimentation with body parts of aborted babies. In June 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and
00:43:23.580 Human Services under Trump and the National Institutes of Health announced they would not renew a major
00:43:28.480 contract with the University of California, San Francisco to fund research using the body parts of aborted
00:43:34.400 babies. You would think that would be obvious, but of course, Democrats were not for that. Took action against
00:43:39.280 California for violating conscience protections. In January 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
00:43:45.060 Services announced that it will take action against California for violating the Weldon Amendment by
00:43:50.260 discriminating against organizations that do not cover abortion in their health care plans. He clarified
00:43:56.080 that abortion is not a civil right. In June 2020, the Trump administration finalized a new rule to
00:44:02.740 clarify that the federal definition of sex discrimination under Obamacare, the ACA, does not
00:44:08.580 include abortion. Proposed last year, the new rule brings ACA regulations into compliance with longstanding
00:44:14.360 conscience protection laws. Of course, we know that he is also the first president to speak at the
00:44:19.940 March for Life. So as far as policies go, whatever he has ever thought personally about abortion,
00:44:25.660 because he was at one point pro-choice, as far as policies go, the Trump administration has been
00:44:31.540 extremely pro-life, even more pro-life than the Reagan administration. And that is saying a lot
00:44:36.720 because Reagan was probably the most personally pro-life president that we've ever had. And Donald
00:44:41.360 Trump policy-wise, his administration is the most pro-life anti-abortion administration that we have ever
00:44:48.800 had. Let's talk about quickly what Kamala Harris and what Joe Biden think of abortion. So Kamala
00:45:05.380 Harris has been touted now for the past few days as a conservative, as someone who is tough on crime, as
00:45:12.860 someone who is a moderate. That could not be further than from the truth. A 2019 YouGov study found that
00:45:20.640 according to her votes, she was the most liberal member of the Senate in 2019, even further to the
00:45:27.180 left than self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders. The most, according to her votes, liberal senator in
00:45:34.840 2019, she is not a moderate. There is a national review article titled Kamala Harris's abortion
00:45:42.160 absolutism by Alexandra DeSinctis. And it says this quote, she is without question, the most radically
00:45:49.440 pro-abortion candidate to run for president or vice president in the history of our country. As a
00:45:55.040 senator, Harris has co-sponsored the most aggressively pro-abortion piece of federal legislation ever
00:45:59.740 introduced, the Women's Health Protection Act, which would override state restrictions on abortions in
00:46:05.180 the last three months of pregnancy well after fetal viability. The bill would invalidate any state law
00:46:10.880 that prohibits, quote, abortion after fetal viability when, in the good faith medical judgment of the
00:46:15.700 treating physician, continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant woman's life or
00:46:20.900 health. Again, life or health, according to Doe v. Bolton, can mean anything related to emotional or
00:46:26.660 mental health. So again, that means for any reason. The article in National Review goes on,
00:46:33.380 Harris, it is worth noting, seems to have little problem with allowing newborns to die of neglect
00:46:38.440 should they survive an abortion procedure. She has twice voted against the Born Alive Abortion
00:46:43.860 Survivors Protection Act, which would require doctors to provide the same care to infants who survive
00:46:50.240 abortions as they would to any other newborn. The legislation would also make it impossible for states to
00:46:56.100 enact or enforce informed consent laws and waiting period requirements, which have often been upheld
00:47:02.820 by courts as permissible under our current abortion jurisprudence. So this legislation presented by
00:47:08.520 Kamala Harris would make it impossible for states to say, hey, if you're going to provide an abortion to
00:47:14.080 someone, you have to tell them what it is. You have to actually inform them of the procedure. You have
00:47:18.120 to actually give them their options. You have to give them a period of time to where they can think about
00:47:22.880 it. Kamala Harris wants to make that illegal so much for federalism. As the article says, there's an
00:47:29.360 article in The Federalist that says this, quote, David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical
00:47:35.220 Progress, released explosive undercover videos that led to House and Senate investigations. The 2016
00:47:40.860 removal of Planned Parenthood from the Texas state Medicaid program, the prosecution of tissue
00:47:46.320 procurement companies, needless to say, it was a poor PR moment for the single largest abortion
00:47:51.500 provider in the U.S. What David Daleiden found, of course, is that Planned Parenthood in California
00:47:57.940 is harvesting and selling aborted baby parts. In 2016, Kamala Harris launched an investigation. She
00:48:04.680 was attorney general of California on Daleiden, and the current attorney general saw the investigation
00:48:09.840 through. Daleiden was slapped with nine state felony charges, and a federal jury in San Francisco
00:48:15.440 delivered a $2.2 million verdict against Daleiden and fellow investigator Sandra Merritt for conspiring to
00:48:21.340 commit fraud and violating state and federal recording laws. In 2016, Daleiden's apartment was
00:48:26.920 raided, and the CMP said Harris's office seized video files from Daleiden's apartment, as well as
00:48:32.920 personal information. Of course, this should be, his speech should be protected by the First Amendment, but
00:48:38.280 apparently Harris doesn't care about that. She had a secret in-person meeting when she was a senator with
00:48:45.160 Planned Parenthood executives in Los Angeles, including witnesses in her investigation to discuss
00:48:50.460 issues in the investigation as part of Planned Parenthood's political agenda in California.
00:48:54.980 Two weeks later, Daleiden's home was raided by the California Department of Justice. So that is Kamala
00:49:01.580 Harris. Harris has called for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which, as we have already discussed,
00:49:07.400 protects taxpayers from being forced to fund abortion. She supports codifying Roe, which would prompt
00:49:13.340 Congress to establish an affirmative and statutory right to abortion, prohibiting states from enacting
00:49:18.640 restrictions. Harris also promotes a plan that would force states and localities to seek prior
00:49:23.740 approval and clearance through the U.S. Department of Justice before placing any limits, any limits or
00:49:29.720 restrictions whatsoever on abortion. So she believes that states should have to go through the Department
00:49:37.580 of Justice. And of course, when she is VP, I'm sure that she will unfortunately have much sway and
00:49:45.400 she will they will have to get approval from the Biden-Harris DOJ to place any limits or restrictions
00:49:54.480 on abortions. That is what Kamala Harris is for. She has received 100 percent rating from pro-abortion
00:50:00.580 group NARAL. She believes she has said that abortion is health care, but she has also said that health care
00:50:06.420 should be single payer, aka it should be paid for completely by the taxpayer. She doesn't believe
00:50:11.420 that we should have any private insurance at all. She actually said in a town hall when she was
00:50:17.260 campaigning back when she thought that she was going to become president, she said that, you know,
00:50:23.300 we should just cut through all of the stress of going through insurance companies and everyone should just
00:50:27.660 be on the same public plan as if as if going through bureaucracy, going through the government
00:50:35.420 is going to go more smoothly than going through a private health insurer. Just to remind you,
00:50:43.480 single payer health care is a terrible idea. We have done an entire episode labeled or titled health
00:50:48.980 care. We will do another one in the lead up to the election, but you don't get any choice. You don't get
00:50:53.920 any choice in your quality of care. You don't get any choice in the kind of doctor that you want.
00:50:58.700 Everyone is brought down to the lowest common denominator and we are all on the same health
00:51:03.800 care. If so, if she believes that abortion is health care, that health care is a human right and
00:51:07.880 that health care should be paid for by the taxpayer and that we shouldn't have any private insurance.
00:51:12.280 Everyone is on single payer health care, which has always been a disaster, by the way.
00:51:17.640 Then that means that she believes in forcing you and I to pay for abortion, which we know.
00:51:23.920 Joe Biden, he is also for repealing the Hyde Amendment. He will fight to make sure that
00:51:28.980 even religious organizations are forced to cover abortion screenings and birth control,
00:51:33.520 just like Obama did, endorsed by NARAL, endorsed by Planned Parenthood. In 2006, he voted no to the
00:51:40.240 Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would require abortion providers to inform parents
00:51:45.740 of minors that their child is attempting to get an abortion out of state. Extremely pro-abortion for a long
00:51:52.480 time. Last year, he was denied Holy Communion by a Catholic Church in South Carolina for his rabid,
00:51:58.780 radical stance on abortion. His administration, the justices, the judges that he nominates, the executive
00:52:05.400 orders that he issues will be radically, will be rabidly in support of making it as easy as possible
00:52:12.820 to slaughter unborn babies and as difficult as possible for states to place any common sense
00:52:18.160 restrictions on that. They will codify Roe v. Wade so that states will never be able to restrict
00:52:23.060 abortion in any way, and this will be celebrated. Let's not pretend that most of the left sees abortion
00:52:29.300 as some kind of necessary evil or some sad thing. It is a key part of their platform. It is why at
00:52:35.500 women's marches, people are wearing I Heart Abortion and Abortion AF t-shirts. And if you're not down with
00:52:41.820 that, if that's not you, if you are not down with the party and the platform that celebrates and glorify
00:52:48.180 baby murder, then maybe it's time to reconsider your political affiliation. I know what you're
00:52:55.460 thinking. You're thinking, what about XYZ with Republicans? What about Trump doing this? What about
00:52:59.420 what's happening at the border? What about social justice and racial justice and police brutality? We're
00:53:04.100 going to get to all of that. Don't you worry. Now, this is enough for me. Like, if this were the only
00:53:10.360 issue on the table, this would be enough for me at least not to vote for Democrats. I will never,
00:53:16.720 ever, ever vote for a politician or a party, Republican or Democrat, I don't care what letter
00:53:21.640 is by their name, who supports the slaughter of unborn babies. I just won't do it. It matters
00:53:28.660 too much to me. It matters too much to God. It is too grotesque and brutal to think that we allow that,
00:53:35.400 that there's an entire political party that celebrates that. And then there's another
00:53:40.600 political party that in large part, at least in Congress, is too spineless to do anything about
00:53:46.200 it. It's amazing. It's amazing. So again, as I've said before, you know, I love this country. I love
00:53:52.860 the values that we were founded upon. But you don't have to tell me that this country doesn't necessarily
00:53:57.460 mean liberty and justice for all when we are killing thousands of babies every day. I know it. And I am
00:54:02.340 always going to elect the person that believes in doing whatever we can and preventing that and
00:54:10.080 making that as illegal as possible. It's murder. Of course it should be illegal. Okay. That is it for
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00:54:36.860 who have joined Allie's book club or women's book club with Allie Stuckey on Facebook. We will be
00:54:41.520 discussing that starting this Sunday. So that is super exciting. A lot of you have gotten the book
00:54:49.260 and you sat down and you literally just finished reading it that day or listening to it on Audible
00:54:53.560 that day, which is just so amazing. I will have a study guide available for you guys. And I'm so excited
00:54:57.760 for you to have that. I will be posting about it soon. Okay. I will be back here on Wednesday.