Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 12, 2023


Ep 921 ｜ To the Texas Mom Suing to Abort Her Baby


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

152.68579

Word Count

7,885

Sentence Count

519

Misogynist Sentences

47

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

A Texas woman is suing the state in order to have an abortion after receiving a tragic diagnosis for her baby. Also, Shane Dawson, a controversial YouTuber, has welcomed twin boys with his partner, Fia Surrogate. We ll also comment on both of these things.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A Texas woman is suing the state in order to have an abortion after receiving a tragic
00:00:07.180 diagnosis for her baby. Is this justified? Also, Shane Dawson, a controversial YouTuber,
00:00:16.560 has welcomed twin boys with his partner, Fia Surrogate. You know, I've got a lot to say about
00:00:25.060 both of these things. We'll also comment on a few other stories. This episode is brought to
00:00:29.880 by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com. Use code Allie at checkout. That's
00:00:34.700 goodranchers.com, code Allie. Hey, y'all. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Yes, it's Tuesday.
00:00:50.980 Hope everyone's having a wonderful week. If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode with
00:00:55.880 John Cooper of Skillet. It was awesome. Those of you who did listen to it or watched it loved it.
00:01:03.580 I got your feedback on that. So if you haven't done that, go ahead and listen to it. All right. We've
00:01:08.320 got so much to cover today. This week is the last week that we are filming before Christmas. We've
00:01:15.600 got some episodes that are coming out over the next few weeks. But the three weeks of our Christmas
00:01:22.440 New Year's break, we will not be putting out new episodes every day. Just a little holiday break
00:01:29.360 for the Relatable team before we start back in full force in 2024. Oh my gosh, it's an election year next
00:01:39.160 year. I'm crying about that. I can't believe it. I can't believe it's already an election year.
00:01:45.620 And we are about to go into the craziest election season of our lives. And yes, we've been saying
00:01:53.480 that for the past few election seasons. But that's because it's getting crazier and crazier.
00:01:59.460 And so Relatable is going to be here, y'all. It's going to be here four days a week bringing
00:02:03.660 you the craziness. We're not going to be in the thick of politics and polls all the time.
00:02:08.100 That's just not how we do. Of course, we'll be talking about it. But we're also going to do
00:02:12.780 our best to bring you redemptive stories every week. Stories, testimonies of how the Lord is
00:02:19.860 saving people, good news of things that are happening. We're going to wade through the
00:02:24.180 craziness and the chaos because we have to do that. That is our responsibility here at Relatable. But
00:02:29.540 we're also going to try to make you laugh, make you praise the Lord. Remember that God is good and
00:02:34.360 sovereign over all things because it'll be very easy to get sucked into the madness. And we don't
00:02:40.420 want to do that. We don't want to do that. We want to go into the madness and then come back out
00:02:44.460 and remember that God is in control and that there are still things to laugh about and be joyful
00:02:49.760 about. So we got to take a little breather as the Relatable team over the next few weeks. So until
00:02:56.560 then, though, because we've still got the new episodes today, tomorrow and Thursday, we've got a
00:03:01.420 lot to talk about, a lot to get through before we take our break. Okay, so I first want to talk about
00:03:08.180 this story that so many of you have sent me that I've seen all over social media, and that is about
00:03:13.200 this Texas woman whose name is Kate Cox, who is seeking an abortion at 20 weeks, halfway through
00:03:19.160 her pregnancy, saying that she will leave the state for the procedure and courts are currently
00:03:27.360 weighing her case. You might have heard that the courts granted her so-called right to have
00:03:34.000 an abortion, but the battle is still ongoing. This is a kind of complicated case because Texas has
00:03:41.280 banned most abortions. But there is an exception in Texas for the life or the health of a mother,
00:03:51.080 of the mother. This is what section 170A.002 says. It prohibits a person from performing,
00:04:00.860 inducing, or attempting an abortion. There is an exception for situations in which the life or
00:04:05.000 health of the pregnant patient, it says, is at risk. In order for the exception to apply,
00:04:10.880 three factors must be met. A licensed physician must perform the abortion. The patient must have a life
00:04:16.640 threatening condition and be at risk of death or substantial impairment of a major bodily function.
00:04:22.840 If the abortion is not performed, the physician must try to save the life of the fetus unless this would
00:04:29.000 increase the risk of the pregnant patient's death or impairment. So that's what the law says
00:04:34.940 post Dobbs v. Jackson in the state of Texas. And so why is this woman, Kate Cox, suing the state in
00:04:44.380 order to have an abortion in Texas? Well, her child, her baby, was diagnosed with something called
00:04:51.960 Trisomy 18. Some people might pronounce it Trisomy 18, a rare chromosomal disorder, which is usually,
00:05:03.140 but not always, fatal. It's a disorder in which babies are born to three copies of the 18th chromosome
00:05:09.720 instead of two. So this is according to the NIH National Library of Medicine. Five to 10% of children
00:05:18.560 with this condition, which is typically screened prenatally, so in the womb, live past their
00:05:25.500 first year and often have severe intellectual disability. Despite the well-known infant mortality,
00:05:33.580 approximately 50% of babies with Trisomy 18 live longer than one week outside of the womb. Five to
00:05:40.640 10% of these children live beyond the first year. But the major causes of death when it comes to these
00:05:48.500 children diagnosed with this condition include central apnea, cardiac failure due to cardiac
00:05:54.580 malformations, respiratory insufficiency due to hypoventilation, aspiration, or upper airway
00:06:01.380 obstruction, and likely the combination of these and other factors. Upper airway obstruction is likely
00:06:09.480 more common than previously realized and should be investigated when full care is opted by the family
00:06:14.540 and medical team. So that's according to this finding. So there is a high mortality rate when it comes
00:06:25.140 to these children. So obviously this diagnosis in the womb is devastating for a parent because
00:06:32.660 your child, your wanted child that you are so excited about birthing, excited about raising,
00:06:40.720 is either going to die pretty quickly after death or is going to have a severe disability if the diagnosis
00:06:50.600 is correct. And so I can sympathize with this mother that she is devastated over this diagnosis. Of course,
00:06:59.000 she had hopes and dreams for this child and those hopes and dreams have come crashing down since she was
00:07:04.560 told that her baby has trisomy 18. What I cannot sympathize with is her intent to get an abortion,
00:07:13.860 her desire to abort her child at 20 weeks gestation and beyond, and that she is so passionate about being
00:07:22.100 able to abort her child that she is actually suing the state of Texas and she is being hoisted up as a
00:07:28.440 hero, as a representation of all women of bodily autonomy in her pursuit to abort her child. Now,
00:07:37.420 you might be wondering on what grounds is she suing the state? If the state already has an exception for
00:07:43.760 the health and the life of the mother, what justification is she and are her lawyers presenting
00:07:51.700 to the state to say, hey, she should be able to abort her child. Well, I will tell you that and then I
00:07:58.960 will do my best to debunk their reasoning in just one second. Okay, so Cox and her husband
00:08:18.520 sought a court order to block Texas's abortion bans from applying to her case. She said that she was
00:08:24.960 stunned when her doctor told her that she wouldn't be able to legally have an abortion. Now, why does
00:08:30.260 she want to have an abortion? She wants to have an abortion because she doesn't want to birth a child
00:08:35.420 with these special needs because she doesn't, I guess, want to go through the process of holding her
00:08:43.040 child, of caring for her child, of seeing her child, of loving her child in those first few moments of
00:08:49.740 that child's life. She instead wants to go through a procedure called a D&E, a dilation and extraction,
00:08:56.560 where her cervix would be dilated and her child at this point in gestation is so big that she would
00:09:04.760 actually have to be dismembered before she is removed from her mother's womb. And so a doctor would go in
00:09:11.460 with forceps and would take apart the child's body, ripping the child's arms and legs from the torso,
00:09:19.780 removing the head from the torso in order to be able to remove this child piecemeal from this mother's womb.
00:09:27.300 This is the procedure that this mother is suing the state
00:09:31.560 to be able to access.
00:09:34.880 And so I know that we're told that we're supposed to have a bunch of sympathy for this.
00:09:41.220 And again, I do have sympathy for anyone receiving a terrible diagnosis for their child.
00:09:46.160 I do not have sympathy for the desire to dismember your child.
00:09:50.680 I simply don't.
00:09:52.280 Now, here's an interesting tidbit,
00:09:55.400 is that according to the Center for Reproductive Rights,
00:09:59.880 the Center for Reproductive Rights Court Documents,
00:10:02.000 the Center for Reproductive Rights is the organization that is representing this Texas woman.
00:10:08.680 She is arguing that she wants to be able to have an abortion for her health,
00:10:14.740 even though the doctors have told her,
00:10:16.860 hey, your life is not at risk here.
00:10:18.960 And so you don't qualify under Texas law as someone who can legally receive an abortion.
00:10:25.380 She is saying, well, but my health is actually at risk.
00:10:29.480 And here's what she says,
00:10:31.460 or here's what her lawyers at the Center for Reproductive Rights are arguing.
00:10:36.480 Ms. Cox's physicians explained that some families with a trisomy 18 diagnosis
00:10:41.140 choose to continue their pregnancies while others choose abortion.
00:10:43.840 She was told that in her case,
00:10:45.020 there was virtually no chance that their baby would survive to birth or long afterwards.
00:10:49.180 So Ms. Cox asked about termination.
00:10:51.740 By the way, doctors are very often wrong.
00:10:54.360 Like there is a limit to these diagnostic tests.
00:10:59.120 They are not always right.
00:11:00.820 Even if even if they are right,
00:11:02.900 obviously it doesn't justify murdering an innocent image bearer of God.
00:11:07.540 But very often they're wrong, by the way.
00:11:09.820 But she was told her baby probably wouldn't survive at all.
00:11:12.740 Ms. Cox was shocked when her physician told her that due to Texas abortion bans,
00:11:16.640 as long as her baby had a heartbeat,
00:11:18.600 she would not be able to obtain an abortion in Texas.
00:11:20.860 All they could do is continue to monitor the baby for cardiac activity.
00:11:24.980 If the baby's heartbeat stopped, they could offer her a labor induction.
00:11:28.860 But because of her prior C-sections,
00:11:30.900 induction carries a serious risk of uterine rupture.
00:11:35.120 It carries about a 2% risk.
00:11:37.340 So I'll say that as someone who had a VBAC,
00:11:40.160 a vaginal birth after cesarean,
00:11:41.800 after two C-sections,
00:11:43.320 I am pretty familiar with the risks there.
00:11:47.140 If you use pitocin,
00:11:48.500 which is what is used in a labor induction,
00:11:50.840 the synthetic form of oxytocin,
00:11:52.700 which is necessary for the uterus to contract,
00:11:55.320 then you increase your risk of uterine rupture.
00:11:57.960 You have that scar in your uterus.
00:11:59.640 There's a chance of it opening up.
00:12:01.240 It's about a 2% risk.
00:12:02.500 So a 98% chance that that will not happen.
00:12:06.780 But there's a 2% risk that it will happen.
00:12:09.200 I'm not saying that's not a risk at all.
00:12:11.040 And by the way, uterine rupture is actually much more dangerous
00:12:14.160 for the baby in the womb than it is for the mother.
00:12:16.760 Again, I'm not saying it's nothing,
00:12:18.460 but the risk is still very, still very low.
00:12:23.140 But they go on to say this.
00:12:25.280 If the baby survived to term,
00:12:27.060 Ms. Cox could receive an induction or a C-section.
00:12:30.200 But it was clear to Ms. Cox, not her physicians,
00:12:33.360 it was clear to Ms. Cox that C-section
00:12:34.920 was the safer option for her health
00:12:38.220 because of the risk of uterine rupture
00:12:40.320 with induction given her prior two C-sections.
00:12:43.860 Yet, Ms. Cox's physicians also explained
00:12:46.420 that a C-section at full term
00:12:48.220 would make subsequent pregnancies higher risk
00:12:51.020 and make it less likely that she would be able
00:12:53.520 to carry a third child in the future.
00:12:55.480 So let me break this down for you
00:12:56.840 as someone who has had these conversations before,
00:12:59.420 as someone who, again, had a VBAC,
00:13:02.240 a vaginal birth after cesarean,
00:13:03.680 after two C-sections.
00:13:04.960 So she's had two C-sections.
00:13:06.600 She is being told,
00:13:07.600 if you have a third C-section with this child,
00:13:10.080 if you bring this child to term,
00:13:11.640 that is going to increase the risks
00:13:13.620 of your future pregnancies.
00:13:18.320 That risk is very low.
00:13:20.960 Now, I understand wanting to avoid those risks.
00:13:23.740 That's why I had a vaginal birth after two C-sections
00:13:26.380 because the more C-sections you have,
00:13:29.100 you increase your risk of things like placenta accreta,
00:13:31.920 where the placenta attaches to the scar tissue,
00:13:34.720 which can be very dangerous.
00:13:36.500 You just don't want to have a huge number of C-sections.
00:13:39.280 But look, there are women that have three C-sections,
00:13:41.280 four C-sections.
00:13:42.080 My grandmother had three C-sections back in the 60s,
00:13:45.700 and she was okay.
00:13:47.220 There are women who have eight C-sections.
00:13:49.840 And so she is using a very negligible risk
00:13:53.480 to justify her pursuit of an abortion.
00:13:58.360 And so she's given a lot of options here.
00:14:00.080 She's told by her physicians,
00:14:01.880 look, if your baby dies tragically inside the womb,
00:14:04.360 we can induce your labor.
00:14:06.440 And she would be fully monitored.
00:14:08.600 She would be monitored in that case.
00:14:10.740 If there were any emergency situation,
00:14:12.880 they would take care of her very quickly.
00:14:15.780 And in that case,
00:14:17.320 she would be able to birth her baby whole.
00:14:19.640 Or they said, look, we can,
00:14:21.040 if you don't want to go through the risk
00:14:22.940 of having an induction,
00:14:25.520 then we can give you a C-section.
00:14:27.240 We can give you a C-section if your baby dies.
00:14:29.400 We can give you a C-section if your baby survives to term.
00:14:34.160 We can induce you if the baby survives to term.
00:14:36.560 These are all options in order to keep her baby intact
00:14:40.620 and to protect the life,
00:14:42.920 to protect the body of her baby
00:14:44.620 so she'd be able to meet her baby
00:14:46.160 and hold her baby,
00:14:47.260 whether the baby was alive or not at the point of birth.
00:14:51.060 But because of the very low, relatively,
00:14:53.680 the very low risks that both induction bring
00:14:58.260 and repeat C-section bring,
00:15:02.680 she's saying no.
00:15:03.860 She doesn't want to carry those very low risks
00:15:06.560 to her own body.
00:15:07.960 And so she wants to sacrifice her child's body
00:15:11.800 on her behalf.
00:15:13.580 That's the decision that she's making.
00:15:15.520 Her doctors have given her all kinds of alternatives
00:15:17.960 and she's said no because she is intent
00:15:20.900 upon dismembering her baby's body.
00:15:24.460 I don't have sympathy for that.
00:15:27.040 I'm sorry.
00:15:27.840 I don't.
00:15:28.600 I don't have compassion for that.
00:15:30.300 I don't have empathy for that.
00:15:31.820 I don't have understanding of that.
00:15:33.860 You have the options,
00:15:35.220 several options on the table
00:15:36.900 to be able to meet your child safely,
00:15:40.100 to be able to hold your child,
00:15:41.440 to see your child's face,
00:15:42.940 whether they are born dead or alive
00:15:46.300 and you are choosing brutal murder
00:15:48.340 and you are so intent upon brutal murder
00:15:51.300 that you are suing the state for it
00:15:53.140 and that you're being hoisted up
00:15:55.720 as some kind of media icon,
00:15:57.720 some kind of champion
00:15:58.980 of so-called reproductive rights.
00:16:02.380 Look, there are women
00:16:03.700 who receive these tragic diagnoses every day.
00:16:07.780 They had all kinds of hopes for their child
00:16:10.400 and those hopes are dashed
00:16:11.620 when they are told that their child
00:16:12.840 will not either live to term
00:16:14.880 or live long past the point that they are born
00:16:18.720 and they make the difficult decision
00:16:20.700 and all parents are called
00:16:22.160 to make difficult decisions
00:16:23.240 where we lay down our desires,
00:16:26.940 our wants,
00:16:27.600 even in some cases our safety
00:16:29.580 and our health for the sake of our child.
00:16:33.200 They make that difficult decision
00:16:35.020 to carry their child to term
00:16:37.480 and to see their child face to face
00:16:39.860 and to give their child the love
00:16:41.620 and the dignity that that little image bearer deserves.
00:16:46.240 It is not necessary for this woman
00:16:48.480 to have an abortion.
00:16:49.300 She just wants an abortion.
00:16:51.840 I guess she does not want
00:16:53.420 to be able to hold her child whole.
00:16:56.700 Because look,
00:16:57.560 either way,
00:16:58.360 this child is delivered.
00:17:00.320 She's acting like
00:17:01.380 if she chooses an abortion,
00:17:02.740 she mitigates all risk.
00:17:04.020 that the risk is only on the side
00:17:07.560 of delivering this child
00:17:08.700 via C-section
00:17:09.500 or vaginal birth
00:17:10.540 with an induction.
00:17:11.780 That's not true.
00:17:12.800 Either way,
00:17:13.300 the child has to come out.
00:17:15.240 There are going to be risks
00:17:16.720 to prematurely
00:17:18.120 dilating your uterus
00:17:20.300 at 20, 21 weeks
00:17:22.020 or dilating your cervix, rather,
00:17:24.380 at 20, 20 weeks gestation.
00:17:28.520 There is going to be risk
00:17:30.420 to that abortion.
00:17:31.520 There is going to be a risk
00:17:33.360 to dismembering that child
00:17:34.920 with forceps
00:17:35.660 and removing them
00:17:36.860 from your uterus.
00:17:37.720 There is going to be a risk
00:17:39.440 to removing your placenta
00:17:42.060 prematurely
00:17:44.040 if you've got a scar
00:17:45.960 on your uterus
00:17:46.860 or even if you don't.
00:17:48.280 There are risks
00:17:49.060 to the abortion procedure.
00:17:51.780 You just want an abortion.
00:17:54.220 Just say that.
00:17:55.560 It's not about your health.
00:17:58.020 It's not about
00:17:59.180 the well-being of your child
00:18:01.340 either way
00:18:02.140 that child's got to come out.
00:18:04.020 Either way,
00:18:04.760 there is some risk to you.
00:18:06.440 There's some risk
00:18:07.540 to your uterus.
00:18:09.120 There's some risk
00:18:10.020 to your body.
00:18:11.860 Either you can
00:18:12.680 take that risk on
00:18:14.240 and allow your child
00:18:16.020 to honor your child's
00:18:17.620 dignity
00:18:18.980 or
00:18:20.580 you can
00:18:22.180 take the risk
00:18:23.000 of an abortion
00:18:23.600 and not honor
00:18:24.920 or dignify your child.
00:18:26.320 Those are the two choices here.
00:18:27.740 So people are sending
00:18:30.160 this to me
00:18:31.100 wondering what I would say.
00:18:32.920 That's what I would say.
00:18:34.340 That's what I would say.
00:18:36.700 Beware
00:18:37.220 of toxic empathy.
00:18:40.500 Empathy says,
00:18:42.060 good empathy says this.
00:18:44.180 I understand
00:18:45.000 this mother's pain,
00:18:47.420 how difficult
00:18:47.940 it must have been
00:18:49.220 to hear that diagnosis.
00:18:52.620 That's empathy.
00:18:53.760 I understand that.
00:18:54.820 I can put myself
00:18:55.840 in her shoes.
00:18:56.360 I feel that pain
00:18:57.260 and gosh,
00:18:57.580 I feel for her so much.
00:18:59.300 How can I be there for her?
00:19:00.820 How can I speak life to her?
00:19:02.040 How can I encourage her?
00:19:03.240 What can I do
00:19:04.140 to comfort her
00:19:05.380 and remind her
00:19:06.400 of God's goodness
00:19:08.240 and love
00:19:09.200 and care
00:19:09.780 and plan for her?
00:19:13.200 Toxic empathy says,
00:19:14.840 I feel for you
00:19:17.020 and I will affirm
00:19:19.020 whatever choice you make
00:19:20.820 because I feel for you.
00:19:22.740 Oh,
00:19:23.200 you are sad
00:19:24.140 that you have this diagnosis,
00:19:25.920 you want an abortion.
00:19:27.300 I will celebrate that.
00:19:28.540 I will affirm that.
00:19:29.600 I will agree with that.
00:19:32.820 That's toxic empathy.
00:19:34.200 Toxic empathy says,
00:19:35.660 only focus on your feelings,
00:19:38.020 on her feelings.
00:19:39.200 Don't think about
00:19:40.340 the vulnerable victim
00:19:41.480 inside the womb.
00:19:42.200 Don't think about
00:19:42.880 the reality of abortion.
00:19:44.100 Don't think about
00:19:44.700 the morality
00:19:45.980 of killing
00:19:47.100 an innocent child.
00:19:48.420 true love says,
00:19:51.700 I understand
00:19:53.320 how this mother feels
00:19:56.000 and I understand
00:19:57.320 that the baby
00:19:58.500 inside her womb
00:19:59.540 is an image bearer of God.
00:20:01.860 I understand
00:20:02.560 both of these things.
00:20:03.980 And so,
00:20:04.480 in love,
00:20:06.140 I am going to have
00:20:07.840 compassion
00:20:08.460 for both parties here.
00:20:11.200 I am going to
00:20:12.560 speak truth
00:20:13.700 and I am going
00:20:15.780 to advocate
00:20:17.320 for the life
00:20:18.580 and the well-being
00:20:19.580 of both of these parties.
00:20:21.700 That is the Christian
00:20:22.580 stance on this.
00:20:23.480 That is the compassionate
00:20:24.420 stance on this.
00:20:25.680 That is the biblical
00:20:26.540 stance on this.
00:20:29.320 There is no justification
00:20:30.420 for this woman
00:20:31.400 to kill her child.
00:20:33.920 Her sweet,
00:20:35.420 image-bearing
00:20:36.380 child.
00:20:37.560 There's just not.
00:20:38.980 She's just being used
00:20:40.700 as a tool,
00:20:42.780 as a prop
00:20:43.780 to try to show,
00:20:45.360 wow, see,
00:20:46.440 this tragic case,
00:20:47.380 abortion is necessary.
00:20:49.180 No, it's not.
00:20:50.860 Murdering this child
00:20:51.800 is not necessary.
00:20:53.340 Either way,
00:20:53.940 she will be delivered.
00:20:55.040 This mother has the choice
00:20:56.280 between delivering
00:20:57.560 her child whole
00:20:58.760 or delivering
00:20:59.620 her child dismembered.
00:21:00.940 And she is choosing
00:21:01.880 the latter.
00:21:03.040 We do not
00:21:03.920 have to have empathy
00:21:04.920 for that decision.
00:21:10.700 Okay, let's talk
00:21:19.820 about Shane Dawson.
00:21:22.220 Must we?
00:21:23.300 Yes, we must.
00:21:25.000 So we've talked
00:21:25.720 about him a few times.
00:21:26.780 If you follow me
00:21:27.340 on Instagram,
00:21:28.000 you've probably seen
00:21:28.800 some of my commentary
00:21:29.760 or maybe some of my commentary
00:21:31.240 on Twitter or X.
00:21:34.300 I've really got to get
00:21:35.440 used to saying X.
00:21:38.180 You've probably seen
00:21:39.240 some of the things
00:21:39.860 that I've said about this
00:21:41.500 because this story
00:21:43.080 makes me very,
00:21:44.680 very, very sad.
00:21:46.460 So YouTubers Shane Dawson
00:21:48.100 and Ryland Adams,
00:21:49.660 a gay couple,
00:21:50.540 welcome twin boys
00:21:52.100 via surrogate.
00:21:53.540 So let me back up
00:21:54.600 a little bit
00:21:55.560 and tell you about
00:21:56.700 this couple.
00:21:57.240 We've talked about them.
00:21:58.100 I think we've done
00:21:58.540 a couple episodes on them.
00:21:59.660 We can link those episodes
00:22:00.700 if you want to go
00:22:01.440 listen to them.
00:22:04.300 But they are,
00:22:06.960 Shane Dawson
00:22:07.640 is,
00:22:08.520 has been a YouTuber
00:22:09.240 for a very long time.
00:22:10.520 He's got a ton
00:22:11.320 of followers,
00:22:12.060 a really big platform,
00:22:13.100 and he's been in hot water
00:22:14.420 several times
00:22:15.140 for things that he said.
00:22:16.800 The most disturbing things
00:22:18.460 that he said
00:22:19.200 have had to do
00:22:21.260 with pedophilia.
00:22:22.880 He has joked about
00:22:24.720 looking up
00:22:25.560 child sex abuse material,
00:22:27.620 what's typically referred to
00:22:28.800 as child porn.
00:22:30.920 And he said that he thought
00:22:32.920 that it was sexy.
00:22:34.300 he has talked about
00:22:36.020 11-year-old girls
00:22:37.920 on social media
00:22:39.260 that he's seen
00:22:40.220 that he thought
00:22:41.060 were sexually attractive.
00:22:44.080 He has made jokes,
00:22:45.460 so-called,
00:22:46.260 about bestiality.
00:22:48.220 So he's made
00:22:49.480 a lot of
00:22:50.480 very disturbing comments
00:22:52.500 and enough comments
00:22:53.980 that are pedophilia-related
00:22:55.420 for anyone to wonder
00:22:57.220 what is really going on.
00:22:59.680 Just to ask the question
00:23:01.240 of what's on the hard drives there,
00:23:03.200 I think that's
00:23:04.600 very reasonable
00:23:05.520 to be curious about
00:23:07.220 based on the things
00:23:08.540 that Shane Dawson
00:23:09.360 has said.
00:23:10.480 And now he has
00:23:11.600 bought his children.
00:23:13.060 Now he's bought his children.
00:23:14.400 And he and his partner,
00:23:16.240 Ryland Adams,
00:23:17.160 have been documenting
00:23:18.040 this experience
00:23:18.940 on YouTube,
00:23:19.740 of course.
00:23:20.440 Gotta monetize it.
00:23:21.700 Gotta monetize the babies
00:23:23.020 that they're buying.
00:23:23.920 Gotta make that
00:23:24.540 money back somehow.
00:23:27.460 And they have joked,
00:23:29.700 again,
00:23:30.240 quote-unquote,
00:23:30.880 joked about buying
00:23:32.680 the biological mother
00:23:34.880 of their children
00:23:36.080 in a catalog
00:23:37.020 and doing the same thing
00:23:39.040 for the surrogate
00:23:40.160 of their children.
00:23:41.440 And as we've talked
00:23:42.100 about many times,
00:23:42.900 that's how the process goes.
00:23:44.820 If you're buying
00:23:45.760 an egg donor,
00:23:46.840 there are services
00:23:47.580 that you can employ
00:23:50.020 that you can hire
00:23:51.800 to help match you
00:23:53.080 with the egg donor
00:23:53.940 of your choice.
00:23:55.020 And you basically
00:23:55.820 look through a catalog.
00:23:58.200 What eye color
00:23:58.840 do you want?
00:23:59.340 What hair color
00:23:59.900 do you want?
00:24:00.380 What ethnicity
00:24:00.880 do you want?
00:24:01.820 What socioeconomic
00:24:02.880 background do you want?
00:24:04.100 What are you thinking
00:24:04.720 as far as education,
00:24:06.640 IQ,
00:24:07.500 all of that?
00:24:08.160 You want that,
00:24:08.900 you know,
00:24:09.440 premium DNA,
00:24:10.600 like you're buying
00:24:11.260 a cut of meat.
00:24:12.860 And they buy
00:24:14.060 these eggs
00:24:14.520 from the woman.
00:24:15.180 Now,
00:24:15.960 an interesting thing
00:24:16.920 that I only started
00:24:17.680 thinking about
00:24:18.600 a few months ago
00:24:20.920 was this phrase
00:24:22.820 egg donor,
00:24:23.800 egg donation.
00:24:25.040 I'm like,
00:24:25.600 why are they calling it
00:24:26.620 egg donor,
00:24:27.400 egg donation,
00:24:28.180 when that's not
00:24:29.340 really what's happening?
00:24:30.460 Obviously,
00:24:31.000 these women
00:24:31.460 who are harvesting
00:24:32.500 their eggs,
00:24:33.080 they have to go
00:24:33.540 through an intense
00:24:34.240 medical process
00:24:35.340 to do that,
00:24:36.540 by the way,
00:24:37.080 to stimulate
00:24:37.740 their eggs
00:24:39.460 and then to harvest
00:24:40.300 them and all that.
00:24:41.720 They're making
00:24:42.380 a lot of money
00:24:42.900 from that.
00:24:43.520 That's why they do it.
00:24:44.600 It's not altruistic.
00:24:45.920 It's not out of the goodness
00:24:46.620 of their heart.
00:24:47.180 They're making money
00:24:48.080 by selling their DNA,
00:24:50.100 selling their future children.
00:24:52.740 It's called egg donation
00:24:54.020 because it's actually
00:24:54.720 illegal to sell
00:24:56.240 your own human tissue.
00:24:58.180 And the United States.
00:24:59.840 And so they're technically
00:25:01.340 donating their eggs,
00:25:03.720 but being paid
00:25:04.740 for their time
00:25:05.700 and effort.
00:25:06.540 Isn't that cute?
00:25:08.880 How they're able
00:25:09.880 to kind of get around that.
00:25:10.940 Of course,
00:25:11.200 it's the same thing
00:25:12.180 for sperm,
00:25:13.560 sperm donation.
00:25:14.840 I've started to try
00:25:15.740 to say egg selling
00:25:16.820 and sperm selling
00:25:18.120 because that is really
00:25:19.380 what it is.
00:25:20.100 Obviously,
00:25:20.840 the people buying
00:25:21.880 these things
00:25:22.420 are buying the DNA.
00:25:24.080 They're purchasing
00:25:24.700 the DNA.
00:25:25.400 That is really
00:25:25.920 what they're paying for.
00:25:26.680 So they went
00:25:28.880 through the catalog.
00:25:29.900 They decided
00:25:30.460 who their egg donor
00:25:31.360 was going to be.
00:25:32.400 And then the egg donor,
00:25:34.440 the biological mother,
00:25:36.000 is separate
00:25:36.800 from the surrogate.
00:25:38.420 The surrogate
00:25:38.900 also has to be chosen
00:25:40.300 based on the background
00:25:41.520 and based on
00:25:43.080 what characteristics
00:25:43.960 that you are looking for.
00:25:45.980 There's another service
00:25:47.040 that can give you
00:25:48.260 the catalog
00:25:48.840 of surrogates
00:25:49.760 to choose from.
00:25:50.640 Sometimes the surrogate
00:25:51.820 is someone
00:25:52.440 that a couple knows.
00:25:54.260 Again,
00:25:54.860 whether it's two men
00:25:55.840 or whether it's a man
00:25:56.640 and a woman
00:25:56.980 seeking a surrogate,
00:25:57.940 but a lot of times
00:25:58.700 it is a complete stranger.
00:26:00.580 Now,
00:26:00.820 why is the egg seller
00:26:02.220 and the surrogate,
00:26:04.080 why are they separate?
00:26:06.080 Typically,
00:26:06.500 this is a legal requirement
00:26:07.920 to try to separate
00:26:09.540 the bond
00:26:10.720 that the woman
00:26:12.860 would have
00:26:13.500 with the child.
00:26:14.720 It's like we understand
00:26:16.900 that that is
00:26:18.280 the natural relationship
00:26:20.260 that is supposed
00:26:21.060 to be formed.
00:26:22.420 When you take the egg
00:26:23.720 from one woman
00:26:24.560 and you put it
00:26:26.300 in the womb
00:26:26.800 of another woman,
00:26:28.000 you are severing
00:26:29.220 that bond
00:26:29.820 that's created,
00:26:30.600 at least for the women,
00:26:31.580 not for the child,
00:26:32.520 by the way.
00:26:33.020 The child
00:26:33.540 is still creating
00:26:34.800 that bond,
00:26:35.500 creating that natural
00:26:36.620 and instinctive relationship
00:26:38.120 with the woman
00:26:40.320 that is carrying them.
00:26:42.040 He knows her sounds.
00:26:43.220 He knows her heartbeat.
00:26:45.140 He knows her voice.
00:26:46.180 He knows her smell.
00:26:47.340 He knows how
00:26:47.860 she feels.
00:26:49.160 He longs for her
00:26:51.340 the second
00:26:52.020 that they take him
00:26:52.580 out of the womb.
00:26:53.120 He wants that skin-to-skin.
00:26:55.140 He craves her milk.
00:26:56.760 And yet,
00:26:57.620 in worse treatment
00:26:58.600 than we give to puppies,
00:27:00.000 we rip that child away,
00:27:01.880 both from the biological mother
00:27:03.440 and from the woman
00:27:04.840 who carried him,
00:27:06.220 and we give him
00:27:07.720 to the two strangers,
00:27:11.300 to, in this case,
00:27:12.300 two males
00:27:12.840 that they don't know
00:27:14.100 who sounds
00:27:14.800 and smells
00:27:15.500 and sights.
00:27:17.260 they are completely
00:27:18.280 unfamiliar with,
00:27:19.900 and we hope
00:27:21.560 for the best.
00:27:22.780 So, we force children
00:27:24.000 into this social experiment,
00:27:26.460 and we hope
00:27:27.780 for the best.
00:27:29.080 So, that's what's
00:27:29.920 happening here.
00:27:30.940 They got two boys
00:27:31.960 out of this process.
00:27:33.520 They've talked before
00:27:34.380 about how they,
00:27:35.640 that's a picture of them
00:27:36.540 if you're watching
00:27:37.600 on YouTube.
00:27:38.940 There's lots and lots
00:27:39.780 of likes on Instagram,
00:27:40.660 which is just
00:27:41.620 really soul-crushing.
00:27:44.040 They've talked about
00:27:44.920 how they have
00:27:45.500 12 embryos
00:27:47.780 that they created.
00:27:50.280 Obviously,
00:27:50.800 they are not going
00:27:51.660 to bring
00:27:52.640 all of those embryos
00:27:53.900 to fruition,
00:27:54.900 so most,
00:27:56.300 if not all,
00:27:57.160 the rest of those embryos
00:27:58.340 are going to be
00:27:59.340 discarded.
00:28:00.440 This is a problem
00:28:01.220 with anyone
00:28:01.840 using IVF,
00:28:03.280 by the way,
00:28:04.020 not just
00:28:05.200 this couple.
00:28:06.540 They've talked about,
00:28:07.580 oh, it's cheaper
00:28:08.300 by the dozen.
00:28:09.360 They even have made
00:28:10.260 comments about,
00:28:11.260 oh, we don't like
00:28:12.020 playing God
00:28:13.000 by choosing
00:28:13.900 our embryos,
00:28:15.840 but of course,
00:28:16.440 that is exactly
00:28:17.420 what they're doing.
00:28:18.620 That's exactly
00:28:19.400 what they're doing.
00:28:21.040 So what's going
00:28:21.880 to happen
00:28:22.220 to those little embryos?
00:28:23.560 I'm not sure,
00:28:24.500 but now
00:28:25.680 they have
00:28:26.520 their two boys
00:28:27.520 from buying
00:28:28.840 the eggs
00:28:29.440 from one woman,
00:28:30.320 renting the womb
00:28:31.020 of another woman,
00:28:32.520 robbing these children
00:28:33.560 of the opportunity
00:28:34.640 to know their mother,
00:28:36.840 to know half
00:28:37.440 of their DNA,
00:28:38.280 but also robbing them
00:28:39.420 of the love
00:28:40.540 of any mother,
00:28:41.240 the love
00:28:42.060 of any woman.
00:28:44.040 And just to show
00:28:45.460 just how dystopian
00:28:46.760 and women
00:28:48.080 replacing
00:28:48.820 this whole situation
00:28:49.880 is,
00:28:50.280 I'll put up
00:28:50.680 this picture
00:28:51.520 that they decided
00:28:52.520 to post.
00:28:53.820 And this picture
00:28:54.680 is Ryland,
00:28:55.800 and he's laying
00:28:56.900 on the hospital bed,
00:28:58.600 obviously very
00:28:59.580 exhausted
00:29:00.900 from labor,
00:29:02.400 right next
00:29:03.340 to the little baby
00:29:05.300 in their bassinets.
00:29:07.040 And he is,
00:29:08.800 I mean,
00:29:09.060 this is just
00:29:09.480 so ridiculous.
00:29:10.200 He's laying
00:29:10.780 on the hospital bed
00:29:11.920 sleeping.
00:29:13.780 He's on what's
00:29:14.680 called a chuck pad.
00:29:16.100 And that's
00:29:16.920 the little pad
00:29:18.760 that they put
00:29:19.440 underneath women
00:29:20.600 who have given
00:29:21.400 birth to absorb,
00:29:23.220 just to be a little graphic,
00:29:24.360 to absorb the
00:29:24.980 postpartum bleeding.
00:29:26.740 And I say that
00:29:27.440 to emphasize
00:29:28.180 like what we go,
00:29:29.580 what we women
00:29:31.440 go through,
00:29:32.280 what the surrogate
00:29:33.200 went through
00:29:33.940 in giving birth.
00:29:35.160 And he's laying
00:29:36.040 there cosplaying.
00:29:37.780 He's laying there
00:29:38.820 like he's so
00:29:39.560 exhausted
00:29:40.440 on a hospital bed
00:29:41.720 on the chuck pad
00:29:42.800 after having done
00:29:44.040 nothing except
00:29:45.020 for coughing up
00:29:45.900 some cash
00:29:46.820 to buy this baby.
00:29:49.800 It's disgusting.
00:29:51.320 It's dystopian.
00:29:54.200 Brave new world,
00:29:55.060 but make it gay.
00:29:56.380 That's what this is.
00:29:57.540 That's what this is.
00:29:58.560 It is,
00:29:59.180 I'm sorry,
00:29:59.700 but buying
00:30:00.460 these children
00:30:01.200 is a form
00:30:02.900 of human trafficking.
00:30:04.480 Yes, it is.
00:30:05.460 It is.
00:30:06.520 It's like prostitution
00:30:07.980 and human trafficking
00:30:09.040 all in one.
00:30:10.020 Super fun
00:30:10.700 because you're
00:30:12.000 buying the bodies
00:30:12.920 of women
00:30:13.480 and you are
00:30:14.980 purchasing
00:30:15.760 these children
00:30:16.920 by purchasing
00:30:19.340 their eggs,
00:30:20.340 purchasing half
00:30:20.960 of their DNA
00:30:21.620 from a woman
00:30:22.460 and without
00:30:24.040 their consent
00:30:24.720 carrying them
00:30:25.360 through this very
00:30:26.180 unnatural process
00:30:27.540 all to rob them
00:30:28.520 of a mother.
00:30:30.980 Yikes.
00:30:32.080 Yikes.
00:30:32.920 How could we ever
00:30:33.540 praise this?
00:30:34.320 How could we ever
00:30:35.020 justify something like this?
00:30:36.340 How is this even legal?
00:30:37.440 By the way,
00:30:37.840 it's not legal
00:30:38.640 in most places.
00:30:40.200 People think
00:30:40.960 that I'm so extreme
00:30:41.900 and so radical
00:30:42.720 for saying this.
00:30:43.600 Look,
00:30:43.860 most of the world,
00:30:45.380 even liberal countries
00:30:46.920 like Canada
00:30:48.320 and like European countries
00:30:50.020 are on my side
00:30:51.940 when it comes to this.
00:30:52.780 America is the wild,
00:30:54.260 wild west
00:30:55.200 when it comes
00:30:56.080 to the reproductive industry
00:30:57.340 and the reason
00:30:58.220 that it is
00:30:58.940 so accessible
00:31:00.720 is because
00:31:01.220 it makes money.
00:31:02.840 It makes a ton
00:31:03.640 of money
00:31:04.080 and the medical
00:31:05.420 industrial complex
00:31:06.640 in the United States
00:31:07.520 is second to none.
00:31:09.240 There's a lot
00:31:09.620 of great innovation
00:31:10.440 that comes out of it
00:31:11.280 but there is
00:31:12.040 a lot of sketchy stuff
00:31:13.660 whether you're looking
00:31:14.200 at the destruction
00:31:14.840 of bodies
00:31:16.520 through gender ideology
00:31:17.740 or whether you're looking
00:31:18.700 at the reproductive technology
00:31:20.280 that we allow
00:31:21.440 like with any,
00:31:23.300 without any mitigation
00:31:25.240 or restriction
00:31:25.960 whatsoever.
00:31:26.440 And let me just say
00:31:28.860 once again
00:31:30.000 how this is different
00:31:30.860 than adoption.
00:31:32.220 This is different
00:31:33.260 than adoption
00:31:33.860 because adoption
00:31:35.220 redeems a broken situation
00:31:37.460 that already exists
00:31:39.080 and surrogacy
00:31:41.720 slash egg
00:31:42.940 and sperm donation
00:31:43.920 create a broken situation.
00:31:47.220 In this case,
00:31:48.480 you are creating
00:31:49.520 the child
00:31:50.340 with the intention
00:31:52.300 of severing
00:31:54.180 the natural bond
00:31:55.480 between one of their
00:31:57.420 biological parents
00:31:58.620 and the natural bond
00:32:01.420 between them
00:32:02.120 and the woman
00:32:03.440 who carried them.
00:32:04.500 You are creating
00:32:05.720 that brokenness.
00:32:06.720 You are creating
00:32:07.980 these embryos
00:32:08.780 with the intention
00:32:09.780 of bringing them
00:32:11.280 into the world
00:32:11.960 in a way
00:32:12.440 that is going
00:32:13.120 to inflict
00:32:14.100 a primal wound
00:32:15.880 upon them.
00:32:17.920 With adoption,
00:32:19.640 the child
00:32:20.300 is already created.
00:32:21.460 maybe not
00:32:23.240 in an ideal
00:32:23.800 circumstance,
00:32:24.340 but for whatever
00:32:25.200 reason,
00:32:26.080 the mom and dad
00:32:26.840 cannot take care
00:32:27.880 of that child.
00:32:29.920 And so loving parents
00:32:31.640 in an ideal
00:32:32.520 adoption situation,
00:32:34.080 loving parents
00:32:34.720 come in
00:32:35.160 and they give
00:32:36.020 that child
00:32:36.560 the home
00:32:37.140 that they need.
00:32:38.300 The process
00:32:39.060 is entirely different.
00:32:40.820 The adoptive parents
00:32:41.840 are not picking
00:32:42.960 the biological parent
00:32:44.160 out of the catalog
00:32:45.280 in order to find
00:32:49.660 the prettiest
00:32:51.240 and brightest
00:32:51.860 and richest mom.
00:32:54.580 They are taking
00:32:55.160 the child
00:32:55.760 that needs help.
00:32:58.020 Also,
00:32:59.200 in adoption,
00:33:00.580 in adoption situations,
00:33:02.000 there is an extensive process.
00:33:06.640 There is an extensive
00:33:07.620 investigation
00:33:09.840 of your background
00:33:11.520 that is required
00:33:13.000 to adopt
00:33:13.900 a child.
00:33:14.800 That is not
00:33:15.920 the case
00:33:16.420 when it comes
00:33:17.080 to buying
00:33:18.780 eggs
00:33:20.460 and renting
00:33:20.920 wombs.
00:33:21.800 That is not
00:33:22.380 the case
00:33:22.780 when it comes
00:33:23.220 to surrogacy.
00:33:24.320 Trust me,
00:33:25.040 Shane Dawson
00:33:25.640 would not,
00:33:26.800 would not
00:33:28.120 have passed
00:33:28.780 a background check
00:33:29.700 when it comes
00:33:31.140 to this
00:33:31.520 if it came
00:33:31.980 to adoption.
00:33:33.180 There's no
00:33:34.240 such regulation.
00:33:36.360 There are
00:33:36.960 very few
00:33:37.860 requirements.
00:33:39.400 There are
00:33:39.600 very few
00:33:40.100 things
00:33:40.480 that you
00:33:40.780 have to
00:33:41.120 prove
00:33:41.500 when it
00:33:41.820 comes
00:33:42.080 to
00:33:42.520 buying
00:33:43.600 children
00:33:44.000 in this
00:33:44.420 way.
00:33:46.220 They're
00:33:46.780 totally
00:33:47.100 different.
00:33:47.540 They're
00:33:47.660 totally
00:33:47.920 different
00:33:48.220 ethically.
00:33:48.960 They're
00:33:49.080 totally
00:33:49.380 different
00:33:49.780 morally.
00:33:51.340 It's
00:33:51.480 redemption
00:33:52.040 versus
00:33:52.520 exploitation.
00:33:53.840 That's
00:33:54.100 what's
00:33:54.280 going on
00:33:54.740 here.
00:33:56.880 I'm
00:33:57.440 very
00:33:57.620 concerned
00:33:58.160 for these
00:33:59.120 poor
00:33:59.480 boys.
00:34:00.580 We,
00:34:00.820 of course,
00:34:01.540 need to
00:34:01.880 pray for
00:34:02.260 them.
00:34:04.120 These
00:34:04.600 little
00:34:04.800 boys,
00:34:05.500 of course,
00:34:06.120 have just
00:34:06.420 as much
00:34:06.720 worth and
00:34:07.080 value
00:34:07.560 as anyone
00:34:08.380 else.
00:34:08.860 They're
00:34:09.740 the
00:34:09.940 innocent
00:34:10.380 victims
00:34:10.980 in this
00:34:12.280 situation.
00:34:14.260 And they
00:34:15.320 are made
00:34:15.720 in the
00:34:16.000 image of
00:34:16.440 God.
00:34:17.020 They
00:34:17.140 matter.
00:34:17.820 I mean,
00:34:18.080 we should
00:34:18.400 pray for
00:34:19.040 Shane and
00:34:19.720 Ryland,
00:34:20.300 that they
00:34:20.600 know Christ,
00:34:21.420 that they
00:34:21.740 are able
00:34:22.220 to repent.
00:34:23.060 But gosh,
00:34:23.580 pray for
00:34:24.720 these sweet
00:34:25.660 boys.
00:34:27.060 Pray for
00:34:27.820 the children
00:34:30.000 who are
00:34:30.560 victims of
00:34:31.320 forced
00:34:31.700 fatherlessness
00:34:32.540 and forced
00:34:33.560 motherlessness,
00:34:34.940 who are
00:34:35.520 required to
00:34:36.760 sacrifice their
00:34:38.060 need for
00:34:38.800 a mom
00:34:39.320 and a
00:34:39.840 dad because
00:34:41.600 their parents
00:34:43.120 wanted
00:34:43.900 something.
00:34:45.920 Sacrifice their
00:34:46.760 own needs
00:34:48.660 for their
00:34:49.060 parents'
00:34:49.660 wants.
00:34:50.140 What do we
00:34:50.520 always say?
00:34:51.120 That children
00:34:51.480 are always
00:34:52.480 the unconsenting
00:34:53.780 subjects of
00:34:54.600 progressive social
00:34:55.560 experiments.
00:34:56.740 This is a
00:34:57.220 progressive social
00:34:58.100 experiment.
00:34:59.040 Whether it's
00:34:59.860 abortion,
00:35:00.460 whether it's
00:35:00.740 gender ideology,
00:35:01.900 whether it's
00:35:02.260 forced
00:35:02.520 masking and
00:35:03.900 lockdowns,
00:35:04.800 children are
00:35:05.380 always the
00:35:06.240 primary
00:35:06.700 unconsenting
00:35:07.760 victims,
00:35:09.860 the
00:35:10.000 unconsenting
00:35:11.000 parties in
00:35:13.380 these
00:35:13.800 progressive
00:35:14.640 social
00:35:15.100 experiments.
00:35:16.500 Very,
00:35:17.080 very sad.
00:35:19.080 Thank you
00:35:19.780 to those of
00:35:20.320 you who
00:35:20.580 have told
00:35:20.940 me that
00:35:21.740 your mind
00:35:22.900 has changed
00:35:24.480 or your
00:35:24.800 thinking has
00:35:25.400 been impacted
00:35:26.220 by us talking
00:35:27.520 about this so
00:35:28.260 much.
00:35:28.600 That really
00:35:28.920 means a lot
00:35:29.480 to me.
00:35:30.000 I am on
00:35:30.880 this journey
00:35:31.340 with you.
00:35:32.100 I didn't
00:35:32.560 think about
00:35:32.980 this either
00:35:33.460 a few years
00:35:34.040 ago.
00:35:34.660 It's not
00:35:34.900 like I'm
00:35:35.400 the first
00:35:35.740 person who
00:35:36.300 has been
00:35:36.680 championing
00:35:37.440 the conversation
00:35:38.200 about ethics
00:35:38.900 surrounding
00:35:39.380 reproductive
00:35:39.920 technology.
00:35:40.940 Not at
00:35:41.480 all.
00:35:42.660 There was
00:35:43.360 just a
00:35:43.700 spark inside
00:35:45.420 me a few
00:35:46.000 years ago
00:35:46.720 and I
00:35:47.700 decided,
00:35:48.460 wow,
00:35:48.900 this is not
00:35:49.440 being talked
00:35:50.000 about enough.
00:35:50.840 We need to
00:35:51.220 talk about
00:35:51.620 these children
00:35:52.240 too.
00:35:53.340 If we care
00:35:54.100 about life
00:35:54.860 from the
00:35:55.360 moment of
00:35:55.780 conception
00:35:56.220 onward,
00:35:56.960 we need to
00:35:57.520 care about
00:35:57.920 these children
00:35:58.440 too.
00:35:59.180 And as
00:35:59.500 always,
00:36:00.040 shout out
00:36:00.440 to Katie
00:36:00.820 Faust,
00:36:01.280 Jennifer
00:36:01.540 Lall,
00:36:02.120 and all
00:36:02.680 the other
00:36:03.000 people who
00:36:03.440 have been
00:36:03.740 doing this
00:36:04.200 work for
00:36:04.680 a very
00:36:05.160 long time.
00:36:17.560 Okay,
00:36:18.220 so I was
00:36:18.660 going to
00:36:18.920 talk about
00:36:19.580 maybe I'll
00:36:20.600 just like
00:36:21.000 very briefly
00:36:22.720 talk about
00:36:23.920 this
00:36:24.340 Claudine
00:36:24.920 gay thing
00:36:25.780 because I
00:36:26.280 actually want
00:36:26.740 to talk
00:36:26.980 about this
00:36:27.380 other story
00:36:27.980 a little bit
00:36:28.380 more that
00:36:28.920 is that
00:36:30.120 better ties
00:36:30.960 into everything
00:36:31.940 else that
00:36:32.360 we've been
00:36:32.680 talking about
00:36:33.340 but let
00:36:34.140 me just
00:36:34.440 mention this
00:36:35.020 because it's
00:36:35.500 in my notes
00:36:36.000 and everyone's
00:36:36.640 talking about
00:36:37.280 it.
00:36:37.580 So the
00:36:38.580 Harvard
00:36:39.000 president
00:36:39.940 Claudine
00:36:40.520 gay
00:36:40.960 she is
00:36:42.700 she is
00:36:43.780 in hot
00:36:44.260 water right
00:36:44.760 now because
00:36:45.300 she is being
00:36:46.180 accused of
00:36:46.760 plagiarism.
00:36:47.560 Christopher
00:36:47.880 Rufo,
00:36:48.700 a journalist
00:36:49.080 whom we've
00:36:49.600 had on
00:36:50.020 several times,
00:36:51.260 he has
00:36:52.800 uncovered
00:36:53.660 her plagiarism.
00:36:57.100 She's the
00:36:57.660 president of
00:36:58.280 Harvard that
00:36:58.780 you probably
00:36:59.580 just saw
00:37:00.200 give a
00:37:00.580 congressional
00:37:00.980 testimony
00:37:01.540 unable to
00:37:02.340 say whether
00:37:03.300 calling for
00:37:03.940 the genocide
00:37:04.500 of Jews
00:37:06.400 on campus
00:37:07.300 constitutes
00:37:07.880 as harassment.
00:37:09.080 This is
00:37:09.360 what all
00:37:09.880 of the
00:37:10.460 major
00:37:11.100 Ivy League
00:37:11.980 presidents
00:37:12.400 said who
00:37:13.100 were in
00:37:13.460 that congressional
00:37:14.120 hearing that
00:37:14.800 they can't
00:37:15.520 say whether
00:37:16.240 or not
00:37:16.920 that constitutes
00:37:18.180 as harassment.
00:37:18.920 Isn't that
00:37:19.260 insane?
00:37:20.060 It's insane.
00:37:20.720 It's just
00:37:20.980 because they're
00:37:21.480 scared of the
00:37:22.080 progressive activists
00:37:23.040 on campus.
00:37:24.220 They know the
00:37:24.760 answer to this
00:37:25.620 but on the
00:37:26.440 intersectional
00:37:27.260 totem pole
00:37:27.900 somehow like
00:37:29.400 Hamas is
00:37:30.540 higher than
00:37:32.360 Jews.
00:37:33.260 It's insane.
00:37:34.760 And so they
00:37:36.200 wouldn't say
00:37:36.800 whether that
00:37:37.280 constitutes as
00:37:37.920 harassment.
00:37:38.480 A lot of
00:37:38.780 people have
00:37:39.160 been calling
00:37:39.760 for the
00:37:40.200 resignation of
00:37:41.080 these presidents
00:37:41.720 including
00:37:42.380 Claudine Gay.
00:37:43.800 So she was
00:37:44.420 already in the
00:37:45.080 midst of
00:37:45.380 controversy.
00:37:46.320 Now she is
00:37:47.240 in the midst
00:37:47.560 of controversy
00:37:48.200 even more
00:37:49.600 so because
00:37:50.720 she plagiarized
00:37:52.780 several things
00:37:55.860 several things
00:37:57.740 over the
00:37:59.080 years.
00:37:59.940 So this
00:38:00.980 is what
00:38:01.980 Christopher
00:38:04.000 Ruffo
00:38:04.920 found.
00:38:05.960 He said
00:38:06.400 that I
00:38:06.940 have obtained
00:38:07.580 documentation
00:38:08.300 demonstrating
00:38:08.860 that Harvard
00:38:09.360 President
00:38:09.740 Claudine Gay
00:38:10.200 plagiarized
00:38:10.720 multiple
00:38:11.160 sections of
00:38:11.900 her PhD
00:38:12.380 thesis
00:38:12.800 violating
00:38:13.680 Harvard's
00:38:14.340 policies on
00:38:15.320 academic
00:38:15.980 integrity.
00:38:17.720 So he
00:38:18.920 gives an
00:38:19.340 example.
00:38:20.360 She lifted
00:38:21.040 an entire
00:38:21.640 paragraph
00:38:22.160 nearly verbatim
00:38:23.140 from a
00:38:23.460 paper by
00:38:24.500 Lawrence,
00:38:25.000 Bobo,
00:38:25.240 and Franklin
00:38:25.780 Gilliam
00:38:26.780 while passing
00:38:27.380 it off
00:38:27.980 as her
00:38:30.240 own.
00:38:31.500 And then
00:38:32.020 also he
00:38:33.480 said that
00:38:33.820 she repeats
00:38:34.400 this violation
00:38:35.020 of Harvard's
00:38:35.920 policy throughout
00:38:37.660 her document
00:38:38.800 again using
00:38:39.520 work from
00:38:40.040 Bobo and
00:38:40.500 Gilliam as
00:38:40.960 well as
00:38:41.220 passages from
00:38:42.020 Richard Shingle,
00:38:42.780 Susan Howell,
00:38:43.700 and Deborah
00:38:44.140 Fagum.
00:38:45.040 She reproduces
00:38:45.980 nearly verbatim
00:38:46.940 not giving her
00:38:48.100 any credit
00:38:49.000 at all.
00:38:49.980 She also
00:38:51.040 lifted material
00:38:52.040 from scholar
00:38:52.800 Carol Swain.
00:38:53.820 Carol Swain
00:38:54.400 is a
00:38:55.500 conservative
00:38:56.100 commentator
00:38:59.320 and author
00:39:00.120 and she
00:39:01.960 lifts her
00:39:02.760 material and
00:39:03.940 her writing
00:39:04.720 again without
00:39:05.440 giving Swain
00:39:06.440 any credit.
00:39:07.860 This is,
00:39:08.780 of course,
00:39:09.680 plagiarism.
00:39:11.140 And so
00:39:11.560 it's proven
00:39:12.740 right there
00:39:14.260 out in the
00:39:14.980 open.
00:39:15.980 She has
00:39:16.680 absolutely
00:39:17.440 no credentials
00:39:18.620 that have
00:39:20.200 earned her
00:39:20.940 this spot
00:39:21.440 as Harvard's
00:39:21.980 president except
00:39:22.540 that she
00:39:22.980 ticks the
00:39:23.500 intersectional
00:39:24.220 boxes as
00:39:25.540 a black
00:39:25.940 woman.
00:39:26.700 That's it.
00:39:28.320 She doesn't
00:39:29.360 have the
00:39:30.860 same resume
00:39:31.880 that previous
00:39:33.620 Ivy League
00:39:35.020 presidents have
00:39:35.840 had, but it's
00:39:36.800 more important
00:39:37.700 that they meet
00:39:38.780 their diversity
00:39:39.480 quota than they
00:39:40.340 have someone who
00:39:41.220 is actually
00:39:41.600 qualified for the
00:39:42.420 job.
00:39:42.680 And in fact,
00:39:43.020 she's actually
00:39:43.500 it's not just
00:39:44.100 that she's not
00:39:44.500 qualified.
00:39:44.960 She's actually
00:39:45.540 unqualified.
00:39:46.600 She should be
00:39:47.020 disqualified from
00:39:48.120 this position
00:39:48.700 based on her
00:39:49.780 plagiarism because
00:39:50.760 I guess she is
00:39:51.680 intellectually unable
00:39:52.860 to come up with
00:39:53.580 these thoughts
00:39:54.420 herself.
00:39:55.360 And yet Harvard
00:39:56.100 sent out a
00:39:58.240 memo reaffirming
00:40:00.200 their support
00:40:00.840 for her,
00:40:01.860 reaffirming
00:40:03.160 their support
00:40:03.700 for President
00:40:04.200 Gay's continued
00:40:04.880 leadership of
00:40:05.960 Harvard University.
00:40:07.440 Their extensive
00:40:08.060 deliberations,
00:40:09.100 they say,
00:40:09.440 affirm their
00:40:10.220 confidence that
00:40:10.980 President Gay is
00:40:11.460 the right leader
00:40:12.060 to help our
00:40:12.560 community heal
00:40:13.180 and to address
00:40:14.240 the very serious
00:40:15.220 societal issues
00:40:16.260 that we are
00:40:16.740 facing.
00:40:17.120 So this is
00:40:18.120 just a reminder.
00:40:19.060 We don't have
00:40:19.480 time to get
00:40:19.960 into all of
00:40:20.520 this,
00:40:20.780 but this is
00:40:21.200 just a reminder
00:40:21.940 that honestly
00:40:23.780 at this point,
00:40:25.140 I think having
00:40:26.620 an Ivy League
00:40:27.640 degree anytime
00:40:29.520 after,
00:40:30.500 I don't know,
00:40:31.520 2014,
00:40:32.660 I'll give that
00:40:33.140 the cutoff since
00:40:33.800 that was the
00:40:34.200 year I graduated.
00:40:35.300 I graduated
00:40:36.280 college,
00:40:37.100 not Ivy League,
00:40:38.020 but you know,
00:40:39.040 I think it
00:40:40.520 actually is a
00:40:42.080 point against
00:40:42.840 you.
00:40:43.300 I think it
00:40:43.800 actually works
00:40:45.460 against you if
00:40:46.700 you have a
00:40:47.200 degree from
00:40:47.780 one of these
00:40:48.280 universities because
00:40:49.260 I'm going to
00:40:50.260 assume that
00:40:51.360 you are just,
00:40:52.620 your brain is
00:40:53.100 infested with
00:40:54.680 worms,
00:40:55.360 with brain worms,
00:40:56.880 like that you
00:40:58.060 have a terrible
00:40:58.960 worldview and
00:40:59.800 that you might
00:41:00.260 actually be stupid
00:41:01.320 in some really,
00:41:02.280 really important
00:41:02.920 ways.
00:41:03.440 Like you probably,
00:41:04.940 probably don't have
00:41:06.120 a low IQ,
00:41:07.260 but I am actually
00:41:08.360 going to assume
00:41:10.320 that you are
00:41:13.040 unable to
00:41:14.840 discern truth
00:41:15.900 from a lie
00:41:16.680 if you graduated
00:41:17.620 from some of
00:41:18.260 these universities.
00:41:19.700 You would have
00:41:20.260 to prove to me
00:41:21.040 otherwise,
00:41:21.760 but gone are
00:41:22.320 the days,
00:41:22.820 I think,
00:41:23.820 where you're
00:41:24.320 able to say,
00:41:25.000 I went to
00:41:25.340 Harvard,
00:41:25.760 I went to
00:41:26.300 Yale,
00:41:27.160 and that it's
00:41:28.200 just assumed
00:41:29.060 that you are
00:41:30.140 actually smart.
00:41:31.480 It certainly
00:41:32.000 shouldn't be
00:41:32.540 assumed that
00:41:33.280 you're wise
00:41:34.400 in any way
00:41:35.180 or that you're
00:41:36.120 competent.
00:41:36.560 So that's
00:41:38.860 what's happening
00:41:39.920 is that these
00:41:40.760 presidents,
00:41:42.300 and honestly,
00:41:43.460 like the
00:41:43.900 ridiculous
00:41:45.580 diversity schemes
00:41:46.760 of these
00:41:47.600 universities,
00:41:48.120 are bringing
00:41:48.680 the universities
00:41:49.340 into disrepute.
00:41:50.580 I think America
00:41:51.300 is much better
00:41:51.860 off if we
00:41:52.540 regard these
00:41:53.160 Ivy League
00:41:53.680 universities
00:41:54.280 as just
00:41:55.460 centers for
00:41:57.020 communism
00:41:57.640 training,
00:41:58.460 rather than
00:41:59.960 centers of
00:42:02.740 serious
00:42:03.680 intellectual
00:42:04.940 challenges
00:42:05.720 debates
00:42:07.320 and
00:42:08.560 intellectual
00:42:09.100 formation.
00:42:10.640 So that's
00:42:11.000 what's happening.
00:42:11.660 That's what's
00:42:12.020 happening in
00:42:12.540 academia right
00:42:13.560 now,
00:42:14.340 which,
00:42:15.600 again,
00:42:16.040 it's pretty
00:42:16.740 sad,
00:42:17.180 but at the
00:42:17.520 same time,
00:42:18.120 maybe it
00:42:18.580 leads us
00:42:19.060 to a
00:42:19.360 better place
00:42:20.720 where we
00:42:21.120 just ignore
00:42:22.280 the track
00:42:23.100 altogether of
00:42:23.920 having to
00:42:24.380 go from
00:42:25.120 high school
00:42:26.200 to college
00:42:27.080 and trying
00:42:27.520 to get into
00:42:28.020 these Ivy
00:42:28.600 League
00:42:28.800 universities
00:42:29.340 and instead
00:42:30.720 pursue things
00:42:32.060 that actually
00:42:32.840 build character
00:42:33.700 and that
00:42:34.460 actually make
00:42:35.100 you smarter
00:42:35.680 and more
00:42:36.220 competent
00:42:36.740 and more
00:42:37.560 productive
00:42:38.100 and responsible
00:42:38.840 citizens.
00:42:39.520 That would
00:42:40.620 actually be
00:42:41.080 amazing if
00:42:41.840 instead of
00:42:42.520 sending our
00:42:43.540 kids to
00:42:45.040 these incubators
00:42:46.380 for progressivism,
00:42:47.900 that they could
00:42:48.620 actually go out
00:42:49.240 into the world
00:42:49.900 and learn real
00:42:51.300 life principles
00:42:52.080 and how the
00:42:52.560 world actually
00:42:53.000 works.
00:42:53.340 I think that
00:42:53.720 would make
00:42:54.040 them a lot
00:42:54.460 smarter and
00:42:55.060 of course
00:42:55.460 more conservative
00:42:56.220 because that's
00:42:56.940 how it goes.
00:42:58.060 All right,
00:42:58.580 enough depressing
00:42:59.360 stuff.
00:42:59.920 Let's take a
00:43:00.560 little bit of
00:43:01.520 a white pill,
00:43:02.560 if you will.
00:43:03.160 That means look
00:43:03.960 at something
00:43:04.360 that's positive,
00:43:05.180 something that
00:43:05.560 was surprisingly
00:43:06.440 positive to me
00:43:07.840 and this is a
00:43:09.460 rare The Cut
00:43:10.580 W, a rare W
00:43:12.520 for The Cut,
00:43:13.560 which is an
00:43:14.940 online outlet
00:43:15.760 that typically
00:43:16.560 leans progressive
00:43:17.280 as most do
00:43:18.500 and here is
00:43:20.000 the headline.
00:43:21.120 Don't let
00:43:21.740 climate anxiety
00:43:22.940 stop you
00:43:23.940 from having
00:43:24.400 kids.
00:43:25.040 What?
00:43:26.140 What?
00:43:27.260 Don't let
00:43:27.880 climate anxiety
00:43:28.580 stop you
00:43:29.080 from having
00:43:29.460 kids.
00:43:30.420 Game changer
00:43:31.100 for me.
00:43:31.740 I was so
00:43:32.180 scared of
00:43:32.720 global warming.
00:43:33.640 I was going
00:43:34.060 to stop it.
00:43:35.000 I don't know.
00:43:35.480 Kid number
00:43:35.860 seven.
00:43:36.300 Now I'm
00:43:36.560 going to keep
00:43:36.900 going.
00:43:38.120 And here's
00:43:39.160 the subheading.
00:43:40.160 The battle
00:43:40.440 to save the
00:43:40.900 planet shouldn't
00:43:41.600 be waged over
00:43:42.700 the bodies
00:43:43.480 of women.
00:43:45.400 Agree.
00:43:46.520 Agree.
00:43:47.000 Antinatalism
00:43:48.740 is a huge
00:43:50.600 movement right
00:43:51.420 now.
00:43:52.100 A huge
00:43:52.520 movement.
00:43:52.840 In fact,
00:43:53.300 if you look
00:43:53.880 at any
00:43:54.360 popular video
00:43:56.180 on Instagram,
00:43:58.060 something that's
00:43:59.040 gone viral
00:43:59.620 that's gotten
00:44:00.100 a lot of
00:44:00.540 traction and
00:44:02.160 it's about
00:44:02.980 kids or
00:44:03.920 about motherhood
00:44:04.920 or anything
00:44:05.460 like that,
00:44:06.040 if you look
00:44:06.480 at the
00:44:06.700 comments,
00:44:07.720 the comments
00:44:08.220 are all,
00:44:08.520 this is so
00:44:08.980 irresponsible.
00:44:09.840 This is so
00:44:10.280 terrible.
00:44:10.860 I'm so glad
00:44:11.360 I'm never
00:44:11.760 having kids.
00:44:12.660 This seems
00:44:13.040 awful.
00:44:13.520 I can't
00:44:13.760 believe you
00:44:14.100 have to go
00:44:14.460 through this
00:44:14.760 inconvenience.
00:44:15.420 I can't
00:44:15.680 believe that
00:44:16.040 you have to
00:44:16.360 wake up
00:44:16.680 early.
00:44:17.000 I can't
00:44:17.280 believe that
00:44:17.620 you have
00:44:17.800 to stay
00:44:18.060 up late.
00:44:18.600 I can't
00:44:18.980 believe that
00:44:19.480 you have
00:44:19.860 to do
00:44:20.500 blah,
00:44:20.880 blah,
00:44:21.080 blah,
00:44:21.320 blah,
00:44:21.520 blah.
00:44:21.740 All of
00:44:22.180 these
00:44:22.520 selfish,
00:44:24.020 vapid
00:44:24.460 people
00:44:25.000 commenting
00:44:25.980 on someone's
00:44:27.180 choice to
00:44:27.580 have
00:44:27.740 children.
00:44:28.960 That is
00:44:29.780 the growing
00:44:30.980 sentiment.
00:44:31.980 It's because
00:44:32.800 we're told
00:44:33.360 we need to
00:44:33.840 be scared
00:44:34.300 of climate
00:44:34.840 change.
00:44:35.500 It's because
00:44:35.860 we are told
00:44:36.500 that we need
00:44:36.920 to be scared
00:44:37.380 of the fall
00:44:37.760 of democracy
00:44:38.440 because of
00:44:38.960 scary
00:44:39.400 Christian
00:44:40.400 nationalism
00:44:41.360 fascism.
00:44:42.640 It's because
00:44:43.100 we're told
00:44:43.500 the most important
00:44:44.160 thing that you
00:44:44.640 can do is
00:44:45.160 love yourself
00:44:45.860 and be happy
00:44:46.680 and be
00:44:47.060 comfortable
00:44:47.500 and never
00:44:48.120 inconvenience
00:44:48.780 yourself.
00:44:49.200 It's because
00:44:49.780 we're told
00:44:50.180 being a
00:44:50.660 girl boss
00:44:51.420 is more
00:44:54.240 important and
00:44:54.840 more fulfilling
00:44:55.480 than having
00:44:56.860 children.
00:44:57.620 All kinds of
00:44:58.220 reasons.
00:44:58.680 I mean,
00:44:59.020 fundamentally,
00:44:59.600 it's godlessness.
00:45:00.800 It is the
00:45:01.580 created order,
00:45:02.440 the natural
00:45:02.820 order being
00:45:03.520 inverted.
00:45:04.780 That is
00:45:05.520 where really
00:45:06.780 the anti-natalist
00:45:09.320 movement is
00:45:09.840 coming from.
00:45:10.500 It's coming
00:45:11.040 from Satan
00:45:12.260 who hates
00:45:12.820 children and
00:45:14.620 hates the
00:45:15.080 family and
00:45:15.820 hates marriage.
00:45:16.920 That's where
00:45:17.340 it's coming
00:45:17.640 from.
00:45:18.140 That's where
00:45:18.400 these comments
00:45:18.820 are coming
00:45:19.100 from,
00:45:19.340 whether they
00:45:19.680 know it
00:45:19.940 or not.
00:45:20.400 And so
00:45:20.680 imagine my
00:45:21.800 shock when
00:45:22.680 I see a
00:45:23.460 headline like
00:45:23.960 this from
00:45:24.540 a generally
00:45:25.160 progressive
00:45:26.420 outlet.
00:45:27.240 OK, so
00:45:39.880 here's what
00:45:40.180 the article
00:45:40.500 says.
00:45:41.480 Anya
00:45:41.920 Kemenitz,
00:45:42.780 whose writing
00:45:43.120 focuses on
00:45:43.720 the climate
00:45:44.460 crisis and
00:45:45.600 how people
00:45:45.960 are responding,
00:45:46.740 says she had
00:45:47.080 coffee with a
00:45:47.620 friend in her
00:45:48.000 early 30s who
00:45:49.040 told her most
00:45:50.180 people her age
00:45:50.740 are resigned to
00:45:51.460 never have kids
00:45:52.180 because of the
00:45:53.340 climate.
00:45:54.200 And then she
00:45:54.720 says,
00:45:55.040 as a mother
00:45:55.460 of two,
00:45:55.840 I have to
00:45:56.060 confess that
00:45:56.460 when I
00:45:56.820 read pieces
00:45:57.620 arguing against
00:45:58.620 having children
00:45:59.240 for the sake
00:45:59.640 of the planet
00:46:00.160 or hear these
00:46:01.140 arguments,
00:46:01.860 it feels like a
00:46:02.540 slap in the
00:46:03.060 face.
00:46:03.540 I wanted to
00:46:03.980 ask my friend,
00:46:04.680 where does the
00:46:05.140 show of concern
00:46:05.640 leave my kids?
00:46:06.620 Not to mention
00:46:07.340 your nieces and
00:46:08.060 nephews and
00:46:08.660 the hundreds of
00:46:09.300 thousands of
00:46:09.800 children being
00:46:10.300 born into this
00:46:10.900 potential hellscape
00:46:11.780 every day.
00:46:12.780 You plan to
00:46:13.300 live out your
00:46:13.980 life carefree,
00:46:15.080 unbothered by
00:46:15.660 what happens to
00:46:16.280 the planet after
00:46:16.880 2060 because
00:46:17.800 none of your
00:46:18.380 DNA will be
00:46:19.780 left on it?
00:46:20.720 The author
00:46:21.020 expresses frustration
00:46:21.960 that the
00:46:22.340 conversations that
00:46:23.160 climate scientists
00:46:23.880 and activists have
00:46:24.760 are always about
00:46:25.420 whether to have
00:46:26.280 kids or arguing
00:46:27.080 to not have
00:46:27.840 them and never
00:46:28.680 around those
00:46:29.480 who have
00:46:31.000 already had
00:46:33.000 them.
00:46:33.620 The hard
00:46:34.020 truth is that
00:46:34.460 parent or no,
00:46:35.540 there is no
00:46:36.180 shirking your
00:46:36.680 responsibility to
00:46:37.640 build a better
00:46:39.000 future.
00:46:40.380 Here's her
00:46:40.840 response to
00:46:41.400 those questioning
00:46:41.960 whether to have
00:46:42.860 children because of
00:46:43.540 the climate.
00:46:44.000 Having kids is
00:46:44.540 both selfish and
00:46:45.940 self-sacrificing,
00:46:46.960 optimistic and
00:46:47.860 fatalistic because
00:46:48.880 children belong to
00:46:49.700 their parents and
00:46:50.580 to all of us.
00:46:51.440 no, my
00:46:53.460 children don't
00:46:53.860 belong to you
00:46:54.540 at all.
00:46:55.820 There is no
00:46:56.400 future without
00:46:57.160 them or for
00:46:58.800 anyone at all.
00:47:00.160 True.
00:47:00.900 Realizing you
00:47:01.520 can't guarantee
00:47:02.120 your kids a safe
00:47:03.000 and happy life is
00:47:04.100 the hardest truth
00:47:04.880 of becoming a
00:47:06.000 parent.
00:47:06.420 If you decide to
00:47:07.760 have a child,
00:47:08.440 you will see your
00:47:09.060 love for that
00:47:09.520 child is terrifyingly
00:47:10.600 vast, big enough
00:47:11.580 to hold the whole
00:47:12.280 planet.
00:47:12.820 True, girl.
00:47:13.960 And if you
00:47:14.420 decide not to
00:47:15.120 have a child, I
00:47:15.720 know your love
00:47:16.220 for this fragile
00:47:16.740 world will be no
00:47:18.220 less great and no
00:47:19.880 less painful.
00:47:21.360 I can predict
00:47:22.580 that this is
00:47:24.040 Anya's path to
00:47:26.180 being red-pilled.
00:47:27.800 What she will
00:47:28.700 realize, and I
00:47:29.740 hope and while it
00:47:31.180 seems like this
00:47:31.800 doesn't include her,
00:47:33.000 is that most
00:47:33.980 climate activists
00:47:34.840 are actually
00:47:35.560 anti-human.
00:47:37.400 Not just pro-
00:47:38.380 planet, but
00:47:39.040 anti-human.
00:47:40.380 Why don't they
00:47:40.920 address the people
00:47:41.880 who already have
00:47:42.780 kids?
00:47:43.280 Because a lot of
00:47:44.500 them, I'm not
00:47:45.080 saying all of
00:47:45.620 them, but a lot
00:47:46.040 of them hate
00:47:46.580 those kids.
00:47:47.760 They see humans
00:47:48.800 as a,
00:47:49.560 as people who
00:47:52.460 drain our
00:47:53.100 resources, as a
00:47:54.860 problem, as a
00:47:56.000 burden, and
00:47:56.600 actually they are
00:47:57.640 okay with
00:47:59.160 thinking of the
00:48:00.240 planet being
00:48:00.880 human-free, being
00:48:03.180 free of
00:48:03.740 civilization, free
00:48:05.440 of people to
00:48:06.380 suck resources.
00:48:07.300 There's like this
00:48:08.080 very romantic
00:48:08.880 vision of us
00:48:09.600 going back to
00:48:10.360 some tribal
00:48:11.040 time, this idea
00:48:12.440 that Native
00:48:13.740 Americans and
00:48:14.580 all indigenous
00:48:15.180 people, that
00:48:16.020 they had this
00:48:16.780 beautiful relationship
00:48:19.160 with nature and
00:48:19.860 with each other
00:48:20.380 and everything
00:48:20.820 was peaceful
00:48:21.760 and awesome
00:48:22.400 until the
00:48:23.140 mean white
00:48:23.780 man came
00:48:24.880 along and
00:48:25.580 civilized everything
00:48:26.740 and capitalism
00:48:27.780 and all that
00:48:28.780 stuff.
00:48:29.440 There is this
00:48:30.540 mentality that if
00:48:31.920 we just got rid
00:48:33.020 of all this, if
00:48:33.780 we just got rid
00:48:34.580 of humans, then
00:48:35.320 things would be
00:48:36.360 better.
00:48:37.100 That is what is
00:48:37.840 driving the
00:48:38.500 anti-natalist
00:48:39.960 movement.
00:48:40.760 And maybe Anya
00:48:41.380 doesn't realize
00:48:42.340 that, but that
00:48:43.460 is the ideology
00:48:44.860 that's underneath
00:48:45.620 it.
00:48:46.000 And I hope
00:48:46.960 that things
00:48:47.600 are beginning
00:48:49.700 to become
00:48:52.360 more clear
00:48:52.900 for her.
00:48:53.800 I hope that
00:48:54.380 she is starting
00:48:54.780 to open her
00:48:55.720 eyes to what
00:48:56.860 this movement
00:48:57.320 is.
00:48:57.900 People weren't
00:48:58.500 buying it, by
00:48:59.020 the way, in
00:49:00.580 the comments.
00:49:02.840 I mean, some
00:49:03.900 people are funny.
00:49:04.700 Who wrote
00:49:05.120 this?
00:49:05.500 Big child.
00:49:06.820 What they're
00:49:07.340 trying to say
00:49:07.900 is like, you
00:49:08.520 know, like big
00:49:10.180 government, big
00:49:11.100 corporations, big
00:49:12.060 tech, big
00:49:13.820 child, like some
00:49:15.020 kind of entity
00:49:15.820 that is pushing
00:49:17.660 propaganda.
00:49:20.660 So someone
00:49:22.020 also said
00:49:22.420 capitalism, scared
00:49:24.560 by the idea of
00:49:25.500 a dwindling
00:49:26.160 workforce.
00:49:27.100 A lot of
00:49:27.420 people are
00:49:27.760 accusing her
00:49:29.260 of saying, oh,
00:49:30.340 we just need
00:49:31.040 kids because of
00:49:31.860 capitalism.
00:49:34.420 Someone else
00:49:35.360 echoing that
00:49:36.360 sentiment, forget
00:49:37.080 about the
00:49:37.500 planet.
00:49:38.020 Who will
00:49:38.320 work the
00:49:38.700 minds if you
00:49:39.360 don't have
00:49:39.780 children?
00:49:41.260 Someone said,
00:49:41.740 is this
00:49:42.140 propaganda?
00:49:43.120 Someone else,
00:49:43.620 respectfully, shut
00:49:46.020 up.
00:49:47.100 Someone else,
00:49:48.160 let's be honest,
00:49:48.800 having kids is
00:49:49.360 not this big
00:49:49.980 selfless act that
00:49:51.100 you do for the
00:49:51.540 betterment of the
00:49:52.120 world as many
00:49:52.680 parents make it
00:49:53.360 out to be.
00:49:53.880 Parents are
00:49:54.180 building a
00:49:54.680 mini-me who
00:49:55.360 will propagate
00:49:55.980 their genetics,
00:49:56.860 beliefs, and
00:49:57.680 name into the
00:49:58.280 world and future.
00:49:59.000 It's inherently
00:49:59.820 self-centered.
00:50:02.240 Okay, you're
00:50:03.560 right.
00:50:04.400 You, person who
00:50:05.560 spends your entire
00:50:06.520 time consuming and
00:50:07.960 thinking about
00:50:08.740 yourself, you're
00:50:09.720 the selfless
00:50:10.340 one.
00:50:11.280 I'm not saying
00:50:12.080 that you have to
00:50:12.660 have children to
00:50:13.320 be compassionate
00:50:13.880 and selfless and
00:50:14.680 productive, but to
00:50:16.280 say that being a
00:50:17.920 parent is being
00:50:18.900 selfish is just
00:50:20.700 wrong.
00:50:21.600 It's just wrong.
00:50:22.460 It grows your
00:50:23.060 compassion and your
00:50:23.780 empathy and your
00:50:24.320 understanding and your
00:50:24.980 love and, yes, your
00:50:25.880 stake in the future
00:50:26.860 so much.
00:50:28.200 It helps you care
00:50:29.420 about the planet,
00:50:30.120 not in the same way
00:50:31.560 that climate activists
00:50:32.340 do, but it helps you
00:50:33.260 care about the future
00:50:34.200 because you have a
00:50:36.040 stake in it because
00:50:36.940 this person, these
00:50:37.980 people that you love
00:50:38.860 more than anything
00:50:39.880 else in the whole
00:50:40.720 universe are going to
00:50:41.640 be there.
00:50:42.520 So you care much
00:50:43.920 more than you do
00:50:45.720 if you are, if all
00:50:50.420 you can think about
00:50:51.220 is your own life and
00:50:52.400 your own comfort and
00:50:53.360 your own well-being.
00:50:54.620 So good job, the
00:50:55.940 cuts.
00:50:56.640 Keep going this
00:50:57.500 direction.
00:50:58.620 Become a pro-natalist
00:51:00.060 activist.
00:51:01.080 That's what we should
00:51:02.300 be.
00:51:03.020 But also caring about
00:51:04.660 how these children are
00:51:06.200 conceived and the
00:51:08.000 ethics surrounding that
00:51:09.080 and reproduction.
00:51:11.160 Pro-life, when it
00:51:13.200 comes to children,
00:51:15.000 unborn children,
00:51:16.000 encompasses more
00:51:17.200 than abortion.
00:51:18.500 I don't mean that in
00:51:19.160 the progressive sense
00:51:19.960 that it's got to
00:51:20.560 cover immigration and
00:51:21.860 justice issues and all
00:51:22.940 of this, but it is
00:51:24.260 all about the
00:51:25.040 dignity of children,
00:51:27.260 of unborn children,
00:51:28.020 and we have to care
00:51:30.020 about that and be
00:51:30.740 thoughtful about that.
00:51:32.580 All right.
00:51:33.700 That's all I've got
00:51:34.500 for today.
00:51:35.960 We will be back here
00:51:37.400 tomorrow with much
00:51:38.320 more.