00:00:17.000And it has been excerpted by Vanity Fair.
00:00:20.000In her book, Daddy Issues, she publicly recounts having an abortion in 2023 after her departure from Call Her Daddy.
00:00:27.000And it's worth going through what she says at length because it says something about the moral language that we now lack because we have emptied out.
00:00:34.000The reality of life for the vast majority of people in the United States.
00:00:39.000Again, it turns out that men and women were made for each other.
00:00:42.000And it turns out that man, woman, baby is the natural state of humanity.
00:00:46.000When you break all of those bonds, what you end up with is people who are deeply confused and they don't even have the language to speak to their own spiritual lack.
00:00:54.000That's what is happening here with Sophia Franklin.
00:00:57.000So here's what she says There's no right way to talk about this.
00:01:01.000I share a lot in this book, but this is hard for me to say even now.
00:01:03.000Having an abortion isn't like having a public scandal, nor is writing about it.
00:01:07.000I can usually reconcile the dark corners of my past, but my feelings around my abortion are in many ways still pending.
00:01:12.000And frankly, it still feels very wrong to share publicly.
00:01:14.000But I hope putting myself out there will free me from the self imposed exile and shame.
00:01:19.000So she's going to talk publicly about her abortion in order so that she feels better, which again is a very strange thing to do.
00:01:25.000Quote When you have an abortion, the take home packet gives you explicit instructions on what to do if you bleed through two pads per hour.
00:01:32.000But nowhere does it include guidance on the emotional bleep that's to come.
00:01:35.000Well, I mean, some of us have been warning about that.
00:01:39.000But even the cause of the emotional response to abortion cannot be acknowledged by Sophia Franklin or anyone else on the left.
00:01:46.000The reason that a lot of women experience emotional turmoil in the aftermath of an abortion is because there is something that you do spiritually when you decide to terminate your own child.
00:01:54.000There's an actual spiritual cost to that thing.
00:01:56.000And because we don't talk about that, because we as a society have decided to pretend that nothing actually happens except the removal of a polyp, no woman has ever had an emotional response to the removal of a polyp.
00:02:07.000And yet we've been told that essentially the termination of an unborn child. Is the same thing as the removal of a polyp, and it should bother you just about as much.
00:02:16.000And so when you have an emotional response to something that very clearly deserves a significant emotional response, you don't know where to put it.
00:02:24.000In the same way that the Cornell 7 girl who consented to being degraded, that's what happened in the Cornell 7 case.
00:02:31.000There was a girl who openly consented to what she called herself a gangbang, degraded herself, degraded her soul, sullied herself, sullied her character.
00:02:42.000All of those feelings, and so she put them into an accusation of rape that is un evidenced.
00:02:47.000The same thing happens here with regard to abortion.
00:02:49.000People do this, many of them feel terrible about it, and then they don't know where to put all of that.
00:02:56.000She says, I took the pills at home, and weeks later, I couldn't recognize myself in the mirror, physically or mentally, and I couldn't figure out why.
00:03:10.000At that time, all I have are Reddit threads and an offhanded comment my friend made to check my hormones months after.
00:03:14.000Getting some answers, no matter how disparate, Made it less scary.
00:03:17.000So again, what she was experiencing is almost certainly a spiritual malady because when you do something that has real spiritual impact on yourself, moral impact on yourself, you experience something on the other side of that.
00:03:28.000But instead, channel it into talk about physiological and hormonal and neurological chains.
00:03:34.000Now, again, that is engaging in a sort of bizarre dualism that is not real, meaning that when I say that you've had a spiritual problem, that will manifest as brain function, obviously, because the way that your spirit Interact with your physicality is via the brain.
00:03:49.000I mean, that is the way that it works.
00:03:52.000And there's not kind of like a ghost in the machine, so to speak.
00:03:55.000The ghosts in the machine are the same thing.
00:03:57.000But to treat all of this as a physiological problem as opposed to a moral or ethical or spiritual problem is the category error.
00:04:05.000And you have to do it because you refuse to acknowledge that what you actually did was something that is morally questionable, morally difficult, morally problematic.
00:04:13.000Quote, daddy issues is fundamentally a story about being a girl, about being a girl in the world.
00:04:18.000And I wrote this chapter because I want women to feel less insane, less alone.
00:04:22.000I want women to know that other women are having abortions.
00:04:24.000They're not just talking about it.1.00
00:05:03.000Again, if you're told it's a polyp and then you react in a way that says it's not a polyp and you don't know what to do with that, you were lied to.
00:05:09.000But perpetuating the lie is not the solution, obviously.
00:05:11.000You're not going to do anything more important today than helping to save a life.
00:05:15.000That's what preborn does every single day.1.00
00:05:16.000So a lot of women, and they don't know what to do.0.99
00:05:18.000They get pregnant and they go into some sort of clinic, and that clinic is not a preborn clinic.
00:05:23.000And instead of being offered an ultrasound and more information and knowledge, they're just told, hey, terminate the pregnancy.
00:05:48.000We've been working with preborn for years, helping to save lives.
00:05:51.000You should go help them out right now.
00:05:53.000Again, no better cause on planet Earth than helping a woman make the best possible decision about her baby, which is to have that baby and give that baby the gift of life.
00:06:02.000Donate securely at preborn.comslash Ben.
00:06:24.000We trend down from number one, an impossible standard to maintain for everyone but Alex Cooper's new call her daddy.0.85
00:06:30.000She talks about Alex Cooper, who again went on to do this terrible, toxic, feminine show called Call Her Daddy, which we've talked about on the show before.
00:06:36.000Sophia Franklin says, Alex follows her the truth about call her daddy video with an episode called The Funeral, a 50 minute plus monologue on all the reasons I'm the greedy, lazy, male centered puppet she's made me out to be.
00:06:46.000Any creative muscle I still have is paralyzed by the unshakable notion that everyone hates me.
00:06:50.000I'm starting to hate myself just as much.
00:06:53.000I don't want to do anything at all.0.87
00:06:54.000Sometimes I'm able to craft a skeleton of a segment on my notes app, but as soon as it's time to press record and speak it out loud, anything I thought was interesting or worthwhile now seems dumb and empty.
00:07:03.000Up in the literal clouds on the 57th floor in my apartment, I get a ping that a comment I made.
00:07:07.000On a podcast made it to Fox News, quote, I've asked the last three dudes I've dated for their bank account info on the first date.
00:07:12.000I think I have every effing right to be like, hi, are we on the same level or am I wasting my time?
00:07:16.000This is how I sound now cold and bitter yet still provocative or at least trying to be.
00:07:20.000There's a disconnect happening disconnect from my life, disconnect from my show, disconnect from myself.
00:07:25.000I'm so used to being misunderstood that I let it rock, but I won't accept defeat, so I dissociate.
00:07:30.000I interview guests I don't care about, say things for clickbait, flirt with AZ list personalities to score a collab.
00:07:35.000I hire a talent booking agency that charges 60 grand for a six month retainer to get celebrities on my podcast.
00:07:41.000Living dissociated is like walking through the world half asleep.1.00
00:07:43.000So she has a meaningless life because all she's been doing is promoting this toxically feminine view of the world in which women don't need men, in which men are to be used as tools, in which babies don't exist.1.00
00:07:55.000Or if they do exist, you're basically supposed to get rid of them so you can take a trip to Italy, which is what she does.0.99
00:07:59.000Quote I let my boyfriend Aiden baby me.
00:08:02.000He holds my hand through this half life, a boy to my physical self company without making me confront my past, my direction, or anything really at all.
00:08:09.000You know what you would call a partner who helps you confront the things in your life?
00:08:13.000You might call that partner a husband.
00:08:16.000Yeah, the same thing for men and wives.
00:08:18.000One of the best phrases in the book of Genesis, there are a lot of them, is the idea that a woman to a man is supposed to be azer kenegdos, the way it's described in the Bible in the original Hebrew.0.72
00:08:53.000After an hour in the initial waiting room, a nurse takes me to a room where she draws my blood and hands me a cup for my urine sample, which confirms the pregnancy.
00:09:09.000They're able to squeeze me in the following morning at 10 a.m. while my mom and brother are on a flight to New York, the first stop in an incredible non refundable family only trip to the Amalfi Coast for my birthday.
00:09:18.000It was very important that she get her abortion before she went to Positano.
00:09:23.000When I finally tell my mom, she says, once a 21 year old pregnant with me, I feel guilty for being 30 and getting rid of it within 48 hours.
00:09:29.000I think about the so called life I'm protecting by not having a baby, the partying, the numbing, the running.0.79
00:09:34.000How can I bring new life into the world when I don't live a life worth keeping myself?
00:09:37.000Again, the backwardness of a life that has been deprived of its moral content is so evident in this quote.
00:09:43.000How can I have a baby when I haven't created the life worth keeping myself?
00:09:47.000Is it possible the baby is the life worth keeping yourself?
00:09:50.000Is it possible all your priorities are screwed up and that's why you feel empty?
00:09:53.000That actually, maybe you should have married your boyfriend.
00:10:24.000You know, she was actually taking pictures on behalf of a new brand while she was doing this, which is the real reason that she did this.
00:10:30.000She says, It has become impossibly clear to me how much Alex has eclipsed me the riches, the Forbes cover, the refined beauty, the celebrity guests, the skims campaign that keeps popping up when I'm mid bedtime routine, the Mew Mew flats, the husband, the Pinterest perfect wedding covered by Vogue, the breeded dogs.
00:10:42.000Her hiring Bella Hadid's stylist irks me the most for whatever reason.
00:10:46.000She's entirely surpassed our history, a mere blip on the timeline of her meteoric rise.0.54
00:10:49.000I know I can't compete with her anymore.
00:11:04.000Why don't you live the moral life you were supposed to lead?
00:11:09.000Why don't you reckon with the fact that maybe the thing that you were feeling in the aftermath of the abortion was a mourning, not only for the life that you should be leading, but a mourning for the thing that you lost?
00:11:19.000You want to have an honest conversation?
00:11:21.000That would be an honest conversation, not the conversation about how you had hormonal changes after you took some form of abortion pill or something.
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