00:00:47.000So, yesterday, Representative Alexander Ocasio Cortez of New York announced her run for the presidency.
00:00:51.000Now, you'll remember that basically she's only in Congress because she won a primary against Joe Crowley.
00:00:55.000She, of course, is one of the bluest districts in America, but she has wooed Bernie Sanders for the past several years, and she is indeed his heir apparent.
00:01:03.000Well, yesterday, she basically announced for the presidency.
00:01:07.000She didn't do so by coming out and saying she's forming an exploratory committee or anything, but she did two critical things that shows she wants to run.
00:01:13.000One, she announced, first off, that she would be indefinitely delaying her reproduction by freezing her eggs.
00:01:19.000And then she went on national TV and explained all that, and also explained that woke 1.0 just went a little too far.
00:02:47.000Real girl bossing is when you inject yourself with hormones on Instagram Live to start a process that will cost legitimately tens of thousands of dollars.
00:02:55.000To take control of your own life because biology is unfair and mean.
00:03:00.000And if a man comments, then that is because he is sexist in some way.
00:03:05.000Now, again, she's the one who chose to make this public.
00:03:07.000Okay, it's an obvious trap, and this is the game that she is playing.
00:03:18.000It's a really stupid game, but she's also doing it publicly because, again, she is saying something kind of important about American society.
00:03:26.000So, again, she injected herself with hormones on Instagram Live for the egg freezing.
00:04:40.000And then she suggested that this is all because of men, you see, because men run for office and people don't wonder if they want to.
00:04:47.000Well, number one, most men running for office, like higher office, already have a family because they're mostly in their 40s and they've married for a while and they have families.
00:05:18.000But this is just not something that men deal with.
00:05:23.000You know, men run for office, or frankly, they interview for jobs, and people don't think in the back of their mind, okay, this guy's running for office.
00:06:02.000I mean, like women work differently than men.
00:06:05.000Nobody is asking whether a man is going to get pregnant during his campaign because men, contrary to the left, cannot get pregnant.
00:06:11.000Now, again, I don't have a problem if she wants to get pregnant during her campaign, she can.
00:06:14.000My wife did full on medical residency, multiple years of it.
00:06:18.000While being pregnant, we had full on three children while she was in medical training and then medical residency.
00:06:27.000And she took some breaks, but like you can do those things.
00:06:29.000And by the way, the number one feminist thing she could do if she really wanted to be totally feminist is she would run for president and she would be pregnant at the same time because then she could say, okay, why are you bothering me just because I'm pregnant?
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00:07:17.000The problem for me is I can't get a lot of sleep because we got a newborn.
00:07:20.000And right now, I'm kind of sleeping on the floor of my kid's room because You know, my wife's up all hours of the night feeding the newborn and all the rest of that sort of stuff.
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00:08:33.000And this is the face tattoo syndrome I talk about all the time, which is you go to the Starbucks, some dude, or maybe a lady now, has a gigantic face tattoo.
00:08:42.000And then you're like, having a hard time not looking at the face tattoo.
00:08:45.000And they're like, what are you even looking at?
00:10:00.000If you didn't want people to talk about it, I have a really easy solution.
00:10:03.000Don't put it on camera and live stream it.
00:10:06.000Any so called right to privacy goes right out the window when you film yourself injecting hormones into your ovaries on Instagram and then post it for millions of people to see.
00:10:14.000So, this gets to why is she doing this publicly?
00:10:16.000Well, obviously, number one, because she's running for president.
00:10:19.000This is her announcement that she's putting natural biology on hold in order to pursue the presidency.
00:10:28.000That is why she is doing it, which, again, is actually kind of weirdly sexist because theoretically, she could pursue the presidency while actually just having the natural way babies.
00:11:32.000It may be necessary for people who are infertile.
00:11:34.000We'll get to, you know, the morality of it in a second.
00:11:36.000Cause, you know, frankly, I kind of see all sides of this particular issue, but we should not pretend that the process is super simple, that it's, This is something the left likes to do, by the way, with medical procedures that they find politically useful, right?
00:11:48.000Transing the kids medically simply, just a little snip, snip, you're done.
00:12:29.000That's a trigger injection of HCH or a GNRH agonist, depending on the protocol.
00:12:37.000And that induces maturation of the egg.
00:12:39.000And then egg retrieval is scheduled like 36 hours later.
00:12:42.000And then there's the actual egg retrieval, which requires like a full anesthetized procedure where the physician uses a transvaginal ultrasound guided needle to enter the follicles, aspirate the contents.
00:12:52.000And then the embryology lab examines the fluid, identifies the eggs.
00:14:06.000Of those who actually do have fertility issues and are pursuing this process for medical reasons.
00:14:12.000And this is not a decision to feel empowered, unless by empowered, we somehow mean that biology itself is an obstacle to living your fullest life, which again is a left wing idea.
00:14:24.000The left wing idea that biology itself, when you're not talking about actual unhealth, you're not talking about an actual biological condition, that biology itself, like normal maturation, is unfair and cruel.
00:14:33.000This is something that the left truly believes.
00:14:35.000This is why they treat puberty for kids as some sort of biological obstacle.
00:14:39.000It's why they are now treating pregnancy as some sort of biological barrier for women to overcome.
00:14:44.000By the way, again, can't think of anything more anti woman than the idea that pregnancy is a biological burden on women that is something horrible to be overcome.
00:15:02.000And demeaning that so that you can compete in a man's world, like, I don't even understand how that's feminist.
00:15:06.000I think you have a better feminist case for pregnant women should be able.
00:15:10.000To run for president, then women should have to put off the reproduction for years and years and years and years in order to run for president.
00:15:40.000All righty, coming up, AOC says she wants to normalize the conversation about freezing your eggs or something, which is a weird thing to do.
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00:17:07.000Because the idea is once you start separating off the process of making a baby from the baby making, then you end up carving up the process and bad things result.
00:17:17.000There's a little bit more play in the rules with regard to Judaism.
00:17:21.000I'm generally against IVF because of the inherent problem of creating human life with potential and then discarding it, which is what happens as a process of IVF.
00:17:29.000But again, I certainly understand and sympathize with the counter argument that without IVF, certain babies just won't be born.
00:17:36.000Again, two things can be true at once.
00:17:38.000I can be genuinely overjoyed a child exists who otherwise wouldn't exist, while simultaneously being saddened by the morally questionable methods used to bring a child into existence.
00:17:48.000It's entirely possible to wish that a specific decision had not been made while still being grateful for the results of that decision.
00:17:57.000But I'm not totally Catholic on this sort of thing because, again, if a husband and a wife are struggling with infertility, And choose to create, say, a single embryo to carry to term or implant all the embryos.
00:18:06.000I don't personally see a huge moral problem with that.
00:18:09.000But none of that is what's happening here.
00:18:10.000This is a perfectly optional procedure she is pursuing because she wants to pursue her presidential run.
00:18:15.000And she is doing this publicly because she is making a statement that has society wide consequences.
00:18:23.000Seriously, the system that has God created, the cosmic system itself, nature is unfair.
00:18:29.000And that's why she is doing it publicly because the personal is political.
00:18:32.000Now, that phrase, the personal is political, that was originally coined by this feminist named Carol Hanish back in 1969.
00:18:38.000And her point was that your personal choices are inherently political.
00:18:42.000Abortion is personal, she says, but it's actually political.
00:18:46.000And there's truth to that because the personal can remain personal when it's personal.
00:18:51.000But when it becomes a societal standard, it now becomes political.
00:18:54.000And the left has done this with every single supposed privacy issue, every single one.
00:18:59.000How fast did we move from abortion is between you and your doctor to shout your abortion?
00:19:05.000We need to encourage abortion as a form of birth control.
00:19:07.000How fast do we move from, why can't you leave us alone in our bedrooms to, we demand government benefits for what we do in our bedrooms?
00:19:14.000How fast do we move from, we just want treatment for gender dysphoric youth to, we just want to teach your kids that boys can be girls, and then we want to penalize you in the workplace for saying the opposite?
00:19:30.000She's making the point pretty obviously biology is unfair, womanhood is inherently unfair.
00:19:36.000And that there is no moral issue with fertilizing embryos you will discard or delaying having kids or any of that, not because of infertility, but out of pure choice.
00:19:53.000It is super weird to announce your presidential run by saying, I promise not to get pregnant for the next 10 years, which is why I'm having my eggs removed.
00:20:00.000That is a weird thing to do, but that's where we are.
00:20:05.000It was interesting to see you kind of open up and, you know, and, Instagram Live, I believe it was.
00:20:10.000So tell me what it was and why you said that.
00:20:12.000Yeah, you know, I think it's important for us to normalize these conversations, especially in this political environment.
00:20:22.000So, I have decided to start the process of freezing my eggs.
00:20:27.000And in this political environment where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy, I think it's important for us as leaders to have these conversations and share these processes, especially for working women across the country and normalize them.
00:20:52.000Working women across the country cannot afford these processes.
00:20:55.000Again, that is going to be the next step is going to be everyone should have this paid for by the government.
00:20:58.000That's where she's going to go with this.
00:20:59.000But pretending this is like a working class issue is not true.
00:21:05.000Overwhelmingly, the people who have IDF are people who are at the upper end of the income spectrum.
00:21:11.000And more broadly, when you treat life as though it's an elective flexible commodity, you end up with this sort of Frankenstein morality.
00:21:18.000Babies are a beautiful and normal part of life.
00:21:21.000Biology is a beautiful and normal part of life.
00:21:24.000When you decide That babies are a commodity to be created when convenient and that biology can be manipulated at will, that has some pretty significant societal consequences.
00:21:32.000This is a point that Ross Duthat, formerly of the New York Times, now moving over to CBS News, made when he had a discussion with a founder of a company called Orchid, which is about IVF, named Noor Siddiqui.
00:21:47.000A man and a woman make love, and by making love, they bring a new life into the world that they haven't sculpted or engineered in any way, that is given to them out of the self giving from each other.
00:21:59.000That forms this profound connection between sex, the way you love your partner, and the family that you've brought into being.
00:22:08.000And again, this, you know, allowing that we're in a world where people have genetic disorders and there are all kinds of reasons that people would consider other ways of having children, you're imagining a future where that just sort of goes away.
00:22:22.000And I'm wondering if you think anything would actually be lost if that goes away, if 90% of babies are born through IVF.
00:22:30.000And having sex and having a baby out of that becomes this weird thing that the Amish do.
00:22:35.000Aren't you pushing some really intimate and important aspect of human experience out of human experience?
00:22:47.000Okay, and she looks totally puzzled by this particular question.
00:22:50.000Because again, the complete disconnect between sex and procreation, which really happened and was pushed by the left in the 60s and it came along with the birth control pill, has now come to its fullest fruition here.
00:23:00.000Well, it promotes a casual attitude toward reproduction as if there are no societal consequences or even personal consequences for just hitting an indefinite pause button on biological reality.
00:23:11.000And of course, all of this glosses over the fact this is an incredibly expensive, physically demanding, medically much riskier procedure than natural processes that is nowhere near a guarantee of a healthy child.
00:23:22.000But we're framing this now as a positive, empowered good, which creates another permission structure for young women to delay motherhood based on the idea that biology is somehow unfair or sexist and that this is, you know, just a really, really good First option, not even a backup option, like a good first option.
00:23:38.000The biggest problem in our society is that we have adult men and women who are putting off the key choices in life.
00:23:45.000That is a major problem in our society.
00:23:47.000Marriage, having kids, we're putting it off.
00:23:52.000But again, it isn't to the left because the idea of the left for generations at this point has been to replace actual biology and actual consequences with presumptively at some point government interventionism, which Again, this is where this is going to go.
00:24:31.000And to talk about this, there will be now blowback, right?
00:24:33.000Because if you take issue with her personal decision, a decision that she is announcing to the entire world with the intent of making it public and political, then she will portray it as anti woman.
00:24:43.000But once again, it seems to me far more anti woman to proclaim that womanhood itself, meaning like, Getting pregnant, having a baby for healthy people must be delayed indefinitely in order to compete with the men.
00:24:57.000We all have to make all sorts of decisions bound by reality.
00:25:01.000It's not government's job to fix reality.
00:25:04.000And struggling against reality, you are bound to lose.
00:25:06.000A society in which women indefinitely put off reproduction for career purposes is a worse society, is a society that does not function properly.
00:25:13.000A society in which children are viewed as accoutrements and not as the core of the future, like the most important thing you do, is a worse society.
00:25:21.000And it is not the fault of men that men's biological contribution to baby making is far less time consuming and rigorous and difficult than women's.
00:25:36.000A society in which IVF is not a medical solution to a fertility problem, but an option for rich ladies who just don't want the inconvenience of reality, is a worse society.