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00:00:00.000As the Supreme Court considers dumping Roe vs. Wade, abortion fanatics on the left prepare to go crazy, Omicron hits New York, and Joe Biden tries to brag about his economic success with the world's dumbest chart.
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00:01:40.000Alrighty, so the Supreme Court is currently considering whether to overrule Roe versus Wade.
00:01:44.000I actually think that what the Supreme Court is likely to do in this particular case is uphold the Mississippi law that would essentially bar abortion after the 15th week.
00:01:52.000I don't think they're going to overrule Roe v. Wade.
00:01:54.000I think you're going to end up with a split decision.
00:01:56.000In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, you really never ended up with a solid majority decision.
00:02:00.000We had a majority for certain principles and then you had four justices voting for one thing and four justices voting for another thing.
00:02:06.000I think that what emerges from this case is likely to be a mess.
00:02:10.000I think that it is not going to be something as clear as even viability, which is an unclear and stupid standard.
00:02:16.000I think it'll be less clear than that.
00:02:18.000I don't think it's going to be the trimester framework of Roe versus Wade.
00:02:23.000I do think that we are optimistic on the pro-life side if we think that Roe vs. Wade is going to be completely overturned, even though that ought to be the outcome here.
00:02:31.000Even if Roe vs. Wade is overturned, the law in New York is not going to be the same as the law in Mississippi.
00:02:37.000And everybody who studies law understands this because that was the case before Roe v. Wade.
00:02:41.000California had some pretty liberal abortion laws.
00:02:43.000New York had some pretty liberal abortion laws.
00:02:45.000And Texas had some pretty strict abortion laws before Roe v. Wade went into place.
00:02:49.000Nonetheless, the fact that the Supreme Court is now considering the possibility of disestablishing a constitutional right to abortion, which again, does not exist.
00:02:58.000It was made up out of whole cloth and an entire line of cases stretching all the way back to Griswold, through Eisenstadt v. Baird, all the way up through Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
00:03:06.000That supposed constitutional right to abortion was made up directly out of the colons of Supreme Court justices who had political leanings in favor of a pro-choice position.
00:03:16.000Even if it were overruled, if ladies wanted to get abortions, all they have to do is not be in Texas.
00:03:21.000They could go over the border to New Mexico, and presumably they'd be able to get an abortion there.
00:03:26.000They could go over to California, get an abortion there.
00:03:28.000Listen, I would prefer a nationwide regime wherein no one can get an abortion, except in cases where the mother's life is in danger, but That's not the way the federalist system works.
00:03:37.000And because of that, that means that there will be state differences in how abortion law is applied.
00:03:45.000And the reason they're losing it is because once you remove the constitutional right to abortion, once you say that there is no constitutional right to abortion, this brings back into play the rules of nature.
00:03:55.000And this is something that the left has been fighting very hard, as I pointed out yesterday.
00:03:58.000For the left, equality of outcome is the only metric of success in a society.
00:04:03.000And there are certain natural barriers to equality of outcome in every arena of life.
00:04:07.000And some people are taller, some people are shorter, some people are dumber, some people are smarter.
00:04:10.000One of the great obstacles to equality of outcome in life are physical differences between men and women.
00:04:16.000Men and women do not operate the same way.
00:04:17.000Their bodies do not operate the same way.
00:04:19.000And women very often make choices that are dependent on their ability to bear and rear children.
00:04:26.000And they like those choices for the most part.
00:04:28.000This has been the greatest superpower of women since time immemorial is that women are capable of bearing children and then feeding the children with their own body and bringing those children up.
00:04:37.000And by the way, when women are given the opportunity to take time off from the workforce to spend time with children, they are far more likely to do so than fathers are.
00:04:46.000So the attempt to Crack down on motherhood, which has been an aspect of the far left, has now taken over the entire left.
00:04:54.000So the left used to say that abortion used to be, it should be rare in very circumscribed cases because, you know, it's really a bad thing and you need to allow it to be legal because you never know something really bad could happen.
00:05:06.000Now it is a centralized aspect of femininity that abortion be there.
00:05:10.000It is central to womanhood that you be able to terminate your pregnancy.
00:05:14.000This is a very different position than the position that the left used to hold even as late as the 1990s, pretty consistently.
00:05:19.000Now the position is that in order for women to achieve the same outcomes as men, women have to be able to, for any reason, rid their bodies of a human life with potential.
00:05:30.000And so the fact that the Supreme Court is now considering getting rid of the quote-unquote constitutional right to abortion, means that the left has lost its mind.
00:05:39.000And they're going to spout nonsense and craziness and make arguments that have no internal logic to them.
00:05:46.000And this is what happened all day yesterday.
00:05:49.000All day yesterday you got from the media just the craziest positions, unsustainable, illogical, insane, immoral positions being spouted by the left on a regular basis.
00:05:58.000So one of the questions that you should be asking yourself when it comes to the left's perspective on abortion is why they feel this way about abortion particularly.
00:06:18.000But abortion as a method of birth control is something that was opposed By even wild leftists in the 1920s, 1930s, when Margaret Sanger was a prominent political figure in the United States.
00:06:27.000And birth control is now widely available in the United States.
00:06:29.000It's universally available in the United States.
00:06:32.000It is not difficult to obtain birth control.
00:06:34.000In fact, the West has gotten so good at birth control that we are depopulating ourselves out of existence.
00:06:39.000Every Western country, with the exception of Georgia, in Europe, and Israel, has a below-replacement-rate population problem.
00:06:46.000We are producing fewer children than there are parents in the population.
00:06:50.000In order to reproduce at replacement rates, you have to have at least 2.1 children per family.
00:06:55.000Right now, most of the West is at 1.7, 1.8, and Italy 1.3.
00:06:58.000So we're very good at avoiding having babies, as it turns out.
00:07:02.000So why exactly is abortion such a necessity?
00:07:05.000And the answer is, because in order for the left to maintain that equality of outcome is the only thing that matters, they have to say that every step along the way, the only thing that matters is the outcome for the woman, not the outcome for the baby.
00:07:18.000They have to say that for every step of the way, right?
00:07:21.000They cannot limit the principle to birth control.
00:07:24.000The obligation for a woman It never exists, according to the left, because if there's an obligation for a woman that a man does not have, it's unfair.
00:07:32.000Even if that obligation was created by basic mammalian biology.
00:07:36.000And so you end up with the specter of people on the left arguing that pregnancy itself is some sort of enemy.
00:07:43.000Because after all, women can get pregnant, but men cannot.
00:07:46.000Although the left takes a conflicting position about this.
00:07:47.000Now they say that men can get pregnant.
00:07:49.000So this really should obviate the abortion debate, really.
00:07:51.000Because if the left's idea is that pregnancy is an inherent bad because it makes men and women fundamentally unequal, well, problem solved.
00:07:59.000Men can get pregnant now and women can have balls, according to most of the left.
00:08:03.000But they get rid of that argument the minute that it becomes inconvenient, because after all, it just happens to be a biological fact that only women can get pregnant, of course.
00:08:10.000And they have to acknowledge that in the context of abortion.
00:08:12.000It's weird how fast that language, pregnant people, went away.
00:08:15.000And no more chest-feeding around here.
00:08:17.000That lasted purely as long as we were attempting to castigate Republicans as bigots.
00:08:22.000But the minute we're talking about abortion, it's back to pregnant women, and only women should have an opinion on abortion, and only women can get pregnant.
00:08:29.000Okay, so, we begin yesterday with Nancy Pelosi.
00:08:32.000Nancy Pelosi seems to- it is amazing to hear the party of science declare that babies in the womb don't exist.
00:09:08.000But the left tries to claim that the reason they are pro-abortion is because they are pro-science, which is a complete lie.
00:09:13.000So here's Nancy Pelosi lecturing us on the birds and the bees, which, by the way, I gotta tell you, Nancy Pelosi lecturing people on the birds and the bees might end the practice of sex permanently.
00:09:23.000Like, no one should be forced to watch this clip because no one will ever want to have sex again after listening to Nancy Pelosi talk about going after it.
00:09:33.000From what they have said about not respecting precedence at stare decisis, all of that is troubling.
00:09:41.000And what they have said about, sometimes I think they need a session in the birds and the bees for some of the kinds of statements that they make.
00:10:28.000Actually, it turns out that for all of human history, and again, all of mammalian history, sex has led to pregnancy.
00:10:34.000It is only since the 1960s that we've been able to scientifically disconnect sex from pregnancy in any sort of consistent way.
00:10:41.000I mean, if you go all the way back to the 1940s, for example, what you will see is that the plurality of marriages in the United States happened post-pregnancy, meaning that there were a lot of seven-month babies happening in the 1940s, a lot of shotgun marriages happening, because sex was connected to pregnancy, as it always has been, and for most of the world still is, by the way.
00:10:58.000And it's only in the West that we've been able to scientifically uncouple sex from pregnancy, I think in many ways to our great moral detriment.
00:11:05.000But then, it's not just Nancy Pelosi lecturing us about how sex works, it's Joy Behar.
00:11:09.000Again, I gotta say, the people who are being brought forth by the Democrats to lecture Americans on how sex works, it's disturbing, and whatever is the opposite of a turn-on, this would be it right here.
00:11:24.000It's a very interesting schism that goes on here, because on the one hand, sex sells everywhere.
00:11:30.000I mean, you can't see an aspirin commercial without somebody having sex.
00:11:34.000You cannot turn on any program, especially on streaming, where people are having sex.
00:11:46.000And yet when it comes to the reality of pregnancy, this particular group of people on the right in this country and these religious zealots do not understand the reality of what happens when you have sex.
00:12:13.000So, like, I have to say, I'm absolutely bewildered by the perspective of the left that people on the right don't understand sex because they believe in human life in the womb.
00:12:23.000I'm pretty sure you guys don't understand sex.
00:12:25.000Because it seems like you think that sex is basically like kissing.
00:12:29.000And that it doesn't transmit any sort of risk of pregnancy sex.
00:12:34.000Or that the product of sex, the natural product of sex... By the way, the entire evolutionary biology reason that sex exists, okay?
00:12:41.000Sex does not exist as an evolutionary biological phenomenon predominantly in order so that people can stimulate each other's nerve endings.
00:12:47.000It exists predominantly as an evolutionary biological phenomenon in order for the procreation of species.
00:12:53.000That is the dominant biological drive, right?
00:14:32.000Okay, so the weakness of the so-called pro-choice position, it's extremely weak, especially considering the possibility of contraception via birth control.
00:14:39.000And so, argument number one is, conservatives somehow don't understand sex.
00:14:43.000And the people who make that argument are people who simply do not seem to understand that sex and procreation are necessarily intertwined.
00:14:59.000Especially, again, coming from the same people who say that women can have balls and men can have uteruses.
00:15:04.000You cannot simultaneously hold the position that trans men are men, trans women are women, and also that only biological women get to have an opinion on abortion.
00:15:16.000Do any of you men have any eggs or the possibility of carrying a fetus?
00:15:18.000How dare you talk about what a fetus wants?
00:15:20.000a sutra of political positions, any position you want, anytime. Here is Whoopi Goldberg lecturing us all on why only women should be able to speak about abortion. Even this makes no sense.
00:15:29.000Do any of you men have any eggs or the possibility of carrying a fetus? How dare you talk about what a fetus wants? You have no idea.
00:15:41.000I'm fine if you disagree with abortion.
00:16:51.000You have been a fetus, would be Goldberg.
00:16:53.000It turns out every single human living on Earth has at one point been a fetus.
00:16:57.000Male, female, all of the 300,200 genders.
00:17:02.000All of us have been fetuses at some point.
00:17:04.000So all of us could have a perspective on what a fetus would want.
00:17:07.000Also, I don't feel like it's such an assumption as to what the fetus wants.
00:17:12.000I will grant you that I may not know what a fetus might want in terms of, say, food taste.
00:17:17.000But I feel like a baseline thing a fetus doesn't want is to have somebody chop their head up in the womb and suck them into a sink.
00:17:23.000I have a feeling that seems like a real easy one.
00:17:27.000Mainly because I'm not sure that any living creature is super interested in having somebody jab a syringe into them and pump poison into their veins so that they die and then are flushed down the toilet.
00:17:35.000I'm pretty sure there are not a lot of living creatures at all who are interested in that.
00:17:40.000So I don't think I have to be a woman to understand what a fetus wants.
00:17:43.000I think all I have to be is a baseline human being with a shred of decency to understand what a fetus wants.
00:17:49.000Again, not to have your body chopped up would be like number, that's not number 10 on the list.
00:17:53.000That one's like number one with a bullet on the list.
00:18:01.000They just have rage at the world and rage at biology and rage at the reality that there are certain burdens to being a woman that do not exist for men.
00:18:07.000And one of those burdens is and when I say burden, I mean blessing one of those massive blessings.
00:18:12.000The greatest blessing in life is the capacity to bear and rear children.
00:18:16.000That is the it is literally how the human species It is how we move forward.
00:18:22.000It is the greatest, the degradation of what women are by the left to, well, you know, you're just treating women as incubators.
00:18:29.000No, you are treating women as incubators.
00:18:32.000I'm treating women as wholesome human beings who have a magical superpower to generate children, which is the greatest thing in life.
00:18:40.000Honestly, God, I think that men should be jealous of women that they get to do this.
00:18:44.000You talk about God giving gifts and abilities.
00:18:49.000Having watched my wife be pregnant three times, give birth to all three of our children, it is an experience unlike any other.
00:18:58.000And I'll tell you something, my wife, who had real pregnancy, morning sickness, and she had a hard birth the last couple of times, I can tell you, she is grateful for every moment of it, including the pain, because we got the kids at the end of it.
00:19:11.000And because it's an unbelievable thing.
00:19:13.000The degradation of pregnancy to it's just a bad thing that happens sort of like a bad bowel movement is so disgusting and dismissive of what women are and what babies are.
00:19:21.000It really is a degradation of what life is.
00:19:23.000But this is if your view of humanity is that true equality is women have to give up what makes women uniquely human.
00:19:33.000That women should give up what makes them uniquely human.
00:19:37.000And that any imposition on a woman such that she is not allowed to kill her own child in the womb is somehow an undermining of her autonomy, then your perception of autonomy is sick.
00:19:49.000There is something deeply wrong with your perception of autonomy.
00:19:52.000We're not talking about what she can do with her own body.
00:19:53.000We're talking about what she can do with the child inside her own body.
00:19:56.000Pramila Jayapal, for her part, was in panic mode.
00:19:58.000The progressive congresswoman from Washington state.
00:20:01.000There she was yesterday, freaking out over the Supreme Court.
00:20:05.000It was a devastating hearing for millions of women across this country, for millions of people across this country who are watching the Supreme Court actually look like they are going to overturn Roe v. Wade and take us back into the days of back alley abortions.
00:20:23.000I am one of the one in four women in America who has had an abortion.
00:20:28.000It was a very difficult choice for me to make, but it was my choice, Jose.
00:20:32.000And that is what we need to preserve for every person across the country that has to be in that situation.
00:20:41.000No, that is not what we have to preserve.
00:20:43.000Because in no other area of life, period, do we say that your choices with regard to other human beings' lives, whether they get to be preserved or not, is your choice.
00:20:54.000The fundamental position of the left For forever has been and the right by the way of any humane person has been that you are not supposed to other types of human beings.
00:21:05.000You're not supposed to say this group of human beings is not fully human and therefore we can treat them however we want.
00:21:09.000That is legitimately what the left does with unborn human beings.
00:21:12.000They say this group of people are not people.
00:21:14.000They are not people so we can flush them down a toilet.
00:21:16.000It is the greatest othering that is possible to happen.
00:21:46.000It's really scary because it puts a lot of people in immediate physical danger.
00:21:49.000And I just don't want to see that happen.
00:21:55.000It's putting women in physical danger to give birth to babies, as opposed to the 100% danger that is presented by killing the child in the womb.
00:22:05.000That is not a risk of danger for the child in the womb.
00:22:09.000Okay, in just a second, we'll see how far the left is willing to go here, because they are willing to go so far in pursuit of abortion, in pursuit of their equality of outcome, despite the baseline biology.
00:22:19.000It's incredible how far they're willing to go.
00:22:21.000They're now willing to basically say that adoption is bad in order to make an excuse for abortion.
00:23:58.000And now, you get to the argument that the leftists, they've forced themselves into a corner by embracing abortion as a moral good.
00:24:05.000Again, their early argument, which is that abortion is tragic and sad and is necessary on rare circumstances, it's not good enough for them.
00:24:11.000And the reason it's not good enough is because you can legislate around that.
00:24:14.000You can say, well, what circumstances are we talking about?
00:24:16.000And then you can weigh, as a legislative body, whether the circumstances we are currently discussing Make some sort of excuse or justification for abortion in particular cases.
00:24:26.000Whether there ought to be legal dispensations, for example, for abortion in cases where a mother's life is in danger.
00:24:31.000Which pretty much all pro-lifers agree there should be.
00:24:35.000But because they want abortion across the board, like beginning to end, two points of birth, in the case of Ralph Northam in Virginia, sometimes beyond, because that is what they want out of this policy debate, they then have to downgrade all other possible choices.
00:24:48.000So we have to pretend, number one, that contraception doesn't exist, which of course it does.
00:24:51.000If you want to avoid pregnancy, I have a great pro-choice position for you.
00:24:54.000Either one, don't have sex outside the bonds of marriage.
00:25:15.000But as somebody who did wait until marriage to have sex, and so did my wife, and now we have three beautiful children within the context of a stable and healthy marriage, I can safely say that the sacrifice was worth it because we have a stable and healthy marriage with beautiful children.
00:25:29.000But that is one way that you downscale the risk of pregnancy is don't have sex outside of a context in which you are okay having a baby.
00:25:57.000They have to pretend those don't exist.
00:25:58.000The only option for women is apparently to get pregnant and then use the murder of the subsequent child as the backup form of birth control.
00:26:07.000Okay, but then there's another argument, right, which the right makes, correctly, which is, well, there is another option.
00:26:13.000If you don't want to have the baby, in the sense that you don't want to take care of the baby, you think that it's going to ruin your life, you think that you want to pursue those 2,200 billable hours, you think you're too poor, you think you don't have your life set up, there's another option, and that is you could not kill the kid, and you could let the kid be adopted.
00:26:30.000This option is taken by literally hundreds of thousands of people every year.
00:26:35.000And now the left has to downgrade that.
00:26:37.000That's how far they've gone in this direction.
00:26:39.000There's an absolutely delusional and insane psychotic article today from Elizabeth Spears, who's a democratic digital strategist.
00:27:13.000On Wednesday, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from state attorneys seeking to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, Justice Amy Coney Barrett kept getting at one question.
00:27:22.000Why was abortion necessary when women who do not want to be mothers can simply give up their babies for adoption?
00:27:27.000Again, this is an op-ed in the New York Times.
00:27:29.000As an adoptee myself, I was floored by Justice Barrett's assumption that adoption is an accessible and desirable alternative for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant.
00:27:38.000She may not realize it, but what she is suggesting is that women don't need access to abortion because they can simply go do a thing that is infinitely more difficult, expensive, dangerous, and potentially traumatic than terminating a pregnancy during its early stages.
00:28:11.000And you know, I got to say, it's really dehumanizing to say that maybe the baby should live and go to another family, says Elizabeth Spears.
00:28:17.000And this is, she's writing as an adopted kid.
00:28:21.000Because if her mother had made that choice, as Ronald Reagan used to say, The only pro-choice people who exist are people whose mothers chose otherwise.
00:28:31.000As an adoptive mother herself, Justice Barrett should have some inkling of the complexities of adoption, and the toll it can inflict on children as well as birth mothers.
00:28:38.000But she speaks as if adoption is some kind of idyllic fairy tale.
00:28:41.000My own adoption, actually, was what many would consider idyllic.
00:28:44.000I was raised by two adoptive parents, Alice and Terry, from the time I was an infant, and grew up in a home where I knew every day I was loved.
00:28:51.000A few years ago, I found my biological mother, Maria, and three siblings I didn't know I had via a DNA test in Facebook.
00:28:57.000The first time I spoke to Maria on the phone says Elizabeth Spears.
00:29:00.000She lives in Alabama, not too far from my parents.
00:29:45.000Okay, we'll get to more of it in just one second.
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00:30:57.000Okay, so back to this piece, again, in the New York Times, about a woman who was adopted, but thinks adoption is not the option when it comes to adoption versus abortion.
00:31:05.000Quote, Both Maria and my mom, Alice, oppose abortion on religious grounds.
00:31:19.000The anti-abortion movement likes to invoke Nobel Prize winners who might never have materialized or potential adoptees who might have cured cancer if they hadn't been aborted at eight weeks.
00:31:27.000I'm no Nobel Prize winner, but I still resent being used as a political football by the right.
00:31:31.000I noticed that you're here to resent it.
00:32:17.000On behalf of Maria, who found the choice she made traumatizing and still feels that pain 44 years later, even when an adoption works out well, as it did in my case, it is still fraud.
00:32:26.000You are alive to resent the adoption of you on behalf of your mother, who wanted to give you up for adoption and is happy she gave you up for adoption and feels morally blessed that you are alive and that she didn't murder you.
00:32:42.000That you're alive on behalf of the mother who was happy to keep you alive so that you could lead a good life where you end up as a democratic strategist pumping out garbage like this for the New York Times.
00:32:52.000Honest to God, this is like a bizarre time loop from Back to the Future 2 in which you're alive to complain about the fact that you are alive.
00:33:00.000When I echo Maria in saying she gave me up, the language always rankles adoptive parents because it introduces an unpleasant complexity.
00:33:06.000Implying that my birth mother was not completely happy with her choice.
00:33:24.000I feel like when the options are, woman can keep child, and struggle through the difficulties of raising a child as, say, a single mom, or a woman can give up child to a two-parent family that is more prosperous and struggle with that decision.
00:33:42.000The choice that's bad is the one where you just kill the kid.
00:33:47.000So you have two choices, both of which have some costs on a personal level, and both of which have some benefits, but both of which have a pretty major upside, which is that you didn't murder the kid.
00:33:58.000That's like... Do you understand the insane moral delusions you have to go through to come to a pro-choice position via this article?
00:34:07.000And yet this is in the New York Times?
00:34:09.000If the court overturns Roe v. Wade, says Elizabeth Speier in the New York Times, many women will be forced to give birth to children they did not want and did not feel they could afford to support.
00:34:16.000Well, you know, they're forced to give birth.
00:34:19.000The language of forced to give birth to children is so bizarre.
00:34:23.000Again, forced to get pregnant is one thing, because typically we call that rape.
00:34:28.000If somebody is forced to get pregnant, that is a grave moral sin.
00:34:31.000Forced to give birth, you mean like your body goes through the process that normally happens when a baby is conceived?
00:34:43.000Forced to give birth assumes that there is another natural option.
00:34:48.000The intervention is the termination of the pregnancy.
00:34:53.000It's sort of like saying, water runs downhill, okay?
00:34:57.000And so if you take water and you put it on top of a hill, and it goes to the bottom of a hill, and I don't stop that water from running downhill, the water was forced to reach the bottom of the hill.
00:35:08.000No, if you re-channel the water, you're performing the intervention.
00:35:12.000There's a massive logical fallacy right here.
00:35:18.000Just as no one forces you to have a digestive tract that processes food, you're not... Like, what are we talking about here?
00:35:26.000But this does go to the baseline idea that there's a fundamental underlying idea, which is that biology is force.
00:35:32.000These folks believe that there is a spirit in the machine and that any threat to that spirit of autonomy is an act of force and must be defeated.
00:35:41.000This is what unites the pro-abortion movement and the transgender movement, is the idea that biology is an obstacle to your greatest dreams and to your free-floating autonomy that is disconnected from your biological reality.
00:35:53.000But, says Elizabeth Spears, while pregnant, women will undergo the bonding with a child that happens by biological design as an embryo develops into a living, breathing, conscious human, and then that child will be taken away Wait a sec!
00:36:16.000While pregnant, women will undergo the bonding with the child that happens by biological design as an embryo develops into a living, breathing, conscious human.
00:36:22.000And then that child will be taken away.
00:36:24.000Um, not taken away, you're giving it up for adoption.
00:36:27.000It's your decision, you could keep the child.
00:36:28.000Two, you know what takes the child away also?
00:36:57.000The Right likes to suggest that abortion is a traumatic experience for women, a last resort, a painful memory.
00:37:02.000But adoption is often just as traumatic as the Right thinks abortion is, if not more so, as a woman has to relinquish not a lump of cells, but a fully formed baby she has lived with for nine months.
00:37:11.000Again, that's her decision as to whether she wishes to give the baby up for adoption.
00:37:16.000But the complete denial that there is another character in this story is the part that's truly galling.
00:37:22.000I'm a mother myself, says Elizabeth Spears to an adorable six-year-old self-proclaimed Fortnite expert, and is often the case.
00:37:27.000I did not know I was pregnant with him until the usual symptoms appeared a few weeks into the pregnancy.
00:37:31.000As anyone who has gestated a human will tell you, that's a romantic way of talking about pregnancy, gestated a human.
00:37:37.000There's a vast difference between the fourth week of pregnancy and the 40th.
00:37:40.000By the 40th, you're familiar with your baby's regular rhythms of kicking and moving.
00:37:43.000When I awoke, my son would wake up shortly after, I'd feel him turning and stretching, or less pleasantly, jamming his precious little foot into what felt like my cervix.
00:37:50.000This is one of the paradoxes of pregnancy.
00:37:52.000Something alien is usurping your body and sapping you of nutrition and energy, but you're programmed to gleefully enable it, and you become desperately protective of it.
00:37:59.000It's a kind of biological brainwashing.
00:38:01.000And this often happens whether you want to be a parent or not.
00:38:22.000By the way, I assume that she's an abortion-on-demand fanatic, which means that even at the 4th- She says there's a difference between the 4th week and the 40th week.
00:38:29.000But I assume she doesn't want any legislation to protect the child at the 40th week.
00:38:38.000It's so crazy to describe pregnancy as an experience where your biology takes over and forces you to love this this mewling evil leech inside your body.
00:38:50.000Are there a lot of women who feel this way about their kids?
00:38:55.000I've yet to meet one who feels that the child growing inside of her, at week 30, when she feels the baby kicking, and she knows it's a baby, that that is a leech, she loves it, but she wishes she didn't love it.
00:39:32.000Justice Barrett is well aware of the kind of biological brainwashing that occurs during pregnancy.
00:39:36.000She gave birth to five children, and yet she blithely seems to assume that a mother can simply choose not to bond with the child she's gestating solely on the basis she's not ready to be a mother, or believes she's unable to provide for the child.
00:39:47.000Um... No, you assume that because you assume she can kill it!
00:39:52.000She assumes the mother will be supported financially and otherwise throughout the pregnancy, even in a country where maternal mortality statistics are abysmal.
00:39:59.000She assumes that children surrendered for adoption will find a home and not a bed in the foster care system.
00:40:03.000No, she doesn't assume any of these things.
00:40:05.000Adoption systems should be revamped and made better.
00:40:07.000But no, she probably assumes these things because she cannot fathom being in this position herself.
00:40:13.000It should be noted that Justice Barrett has two adopted children.
00:40:24.000having never needed an abortion and perhaps the assumption that women who do have something that that do have done something wrong and must face the consequences. Well yes I do believe that women who have abortion have done something morally wrong. Yes that is true. That's the only part of this article I agree with. In my experience some on the right believe that the trauma adoption inflicts is a consequence of irresponsibility but unexpected pregnancy is not a de facto function of bad decision-making.
00:40:50.000Like 99% it is a function of bad decision-making.
00:41:07.000In like the last couple of decades, by the way.
00:41:10.000Like before that, all of human history, the notion that you should only have sex in contexts in which you are willing to get pregnant, that was a baseline moral motion for literally all of human history.
00:41:20.000It can be a failure of contraception, the product of a rape.
00:41:22.000That's literally the only circumstance that you can talk about, by the way, in which it is legitimately, in which pregnancy literally has no relation to the activity of the woman, right, is rape.
00:41:33.000Which is why it's the most controversial aspect of abortion law.
00:41:36.000Wait, who's talking about inflicting harm on babies?
00:42:20.000It is such a sacrosanct issue to them that they are literally willing to say that it is better for a baby to be killed in the womb than to be given up to a happy family for adoption.
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00:43:35.000Alrighty, we'll get to more on the insanity of the pro-abortion crowd first.
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00:44:41.000Alrighty, so just to complete this article from Elizabeth Spears, because the depth of delusion and insanity that Democrats are willing to go in order to preserve abortion is totally So there's this article in the New York Times we're talking about, in which she argues that adoption is bad.
00:44:59.000This is how far they're willing to go.
00:45:00.000In order to preserve abortion, adoption is now bad.
00:45:45.000These seem like slightly more traumatic things than relinquishment trauma.
00:45:50.000Says Elizabeth Speer, I probably got off easy in that respect, in part because I did spend a few months with my biological mother before I was adopted, but that had the unintended effect of traumatizing my older siblings, who remember me as a baby who was there and then suddenly was gone.
00:46:01.000This was driven home to me by my older sister, Bobbie, whose first encounter with me was over Facebook.
00:46:06.000All I can say is I remember you, she wrote, and I have loved you and missed you my entire life.
00:46:10.000As opposed to if you had been murdered, in which case you guys never would have met at all.
00:46:15.000Again, I think that the unique political narrative is that adoption in all of these cases is better than killing somebody.
00:46:20.000and not to be taken lightly. It often causes trauma, even when things work out. It's a disservice to adoptees and their families, biological and adopted, to pretend otherwise in service of a neat political narrative. Nope. Again, I think that the neat political narrative is that adoption in all of these cases is better than killing somebody.
00:46:38.000The left has now said contraception is not enough.
00:46:41.000You need to be able to kill a baby in the womb.
00:46:43.000They've said that sex is not connected to childbearing, which of course is very silly.
00:46:47.000They've suggested that the actual imposition is your biological process taking place.
00:46:53.000They've suggested that adoption is a worse option than abortion.
00:46:58.000All of these things are things they are willing to suggest in pursuit of an end goal, which is that men and women have to be physically equivalent in every way, which is unbelievably degrading to women.
00:47:24.000You will bear the consequences of living in that sort of world.
00:47:27.000But at least fewer babies across the country will have to suffer death at the hands of people who believe these sorts of delusional things.
00:47:36.000The arguments that the left has been forced to make in pursuit of their totalitarian anti-life position Truly astonishing, astonishing stuff.
00:47:46.000And should be humiliating to them if they had one ounce of humiliation left in them.
00:47:50.000These are shameful, anti-human arguments.
00:47:53.000These are shameful, immoral arguments that are being made here.
00:47:56.000And they're taken as perfectly natural and normal and in fact morally good by the left.
00:47:59.000I don't know how twisted you have to be in order to believe that these are morally good arguments.
00:48:03.000That these are morally superior arguments and the people who wish to preserve human life are the baddies in this particular scenario.
00:48:10.000Alrighty, meanwhile, COVID has now reached New York.
00:48:14.000And when I say COVID, I mean Omicron is in New York.
00:48:36.000So Kathy Hochul, who is the governor of New York, she inherited the office after Andrew Cuomo could not keep his hands off the asses of other women.
00:48:45.000So Kathy Hochul took over and now she has declared that, oh, Macron is in New York.
00:49:21.000So, the New York Times runs a piece today called, Prior infection is little defense against virus variants, scientists say.
00:49:28.000Evidence from South Africa, where the Omicron variant already dominates, shows a high rate of reinfection of people who have already had the coronavirus.
00:49:54.000I don't care because it's just a cold.
00:49:55.000And that's called being a human and sometimes you get sick.
00:49:58.000The question is, am I going to have to go to the hospital, and am I going to die?
00:50:01.000And if the answer is no to either of those questions, don't care.
00:50:05.000So, there's a very long piece in the New York Times, it is a very long piece, about how vaccines are not going to protect you against Omicron, and neither apparently will past infection.
00:50:15.000Quote, a past coronavirus infection appears to give little immunity to the new Omicron variant rippling across the globe, Southern African scientists warned on Thursday.
00:50:23.000Potentially tearing away one layer of defense humanity has won slowly and at immense cost.
00:50:27.000Just a week after its existence was revealed to the world, the heavily mutated variant, which scientists fear could be the most contagious one yet, is already by far the dominant form of the virus in South Africa and spreading fast.
00:50:37.000Top European disease experts said Thursday it could be the dominant form in Europe within a few months.
00:50:43.000Scientists have known since early in the pandemic the immunity gained from a coronavirus infection is not total and probably not permanent and some people are reinfected.
00:50:51.000Even so, with a huge number of people already infected and recovered, about 260 million worldwide, and in reality far more according to experts, whatever protection they had looks like an important layer in the world's defenses.
00:51:01.000The new variant calls that into question.
00:51:05.000Scientists in South Africa have reported a sudden sharp rise in November in COVID cases among people in that country who had already been infected.
00:51:12.000The authors noted there is no such upswing when the beta and delta variants emerge.
00:51:29.000So basically we're all supposed to panic because you might get a disease that is less likely to hospitalize or kill you according to the data that we currently have.
00:51:40.000They lie because they say that they're willing to understand the reality, which is that zero COVID is not going to happen and that this will become an endemic virus and in fact already is an endemic virus.
00:51:50.000And then the actual goal that the media are pursuing is zero COVID.
00:51:54.000Because if you spend all day worrying about getting COVID and getting sick for like three days and not going into work and then being okay, I don't know what to tell you.
00:52:27.000So President Biden is now ushering in a bunch of new restrictions.
00:52:33.000He announced yesterday, by the way, that Anthony Fauci is the real president, which is frightening to, I think, everyone, or should be frightening to everyone.
00:53:01.000Fauci is the president, which is both very poorly for us, considering that Anthony Fauci is wild and crazy and self-conflicting on all of this stuff and highly political.
00:53:11.000By the way, Anthony Fauci came out yesterday, and he said that fully vaxxed Americans with boosters are still going to need to wear masks.
00:53:16.000So basically, mask up until the end of time.
00:53:20.000Everyone's been talking about what to do if you're unvaccinated or without a booster, but what should someone who has all three shots do to protect themselves against the Omicron variant?
00:53:33.000What you do is exactly what we were saying, and that is to be prudent and careful.
00:53:38.000And one of the things that's very clear is that if you have to be in an indoor congregate setting in which you're unsure of what the vaccination status is of the people around you, wear a mask.
00:54:06.000It includes hundreds of vaccination sites, boosters for all adults, new testing requirements for international travelers, and free at-home tests.
00:54:15.000The reason it's not going to stop COVID is because there are lots of people who don't want to get vaccinated.
00:54:20.000Even the vaccinated are still passing this to other vaccinated people, by the way.
00:54:24.000And boosters are not necessary for all adults.
00:54:27.000The CDC ruling is contradicted by the WHO, but the data tend to show is that if you're over the age of 60, you probably should get a booster because the immunity to hospitalization and death begins to wane from the 90% down to the 70%.
00:54:38.000But if you're 30 and you're healthy, Then your immunity, in terms of hospitalization and death, is pretty durable.
00:54:46.000You're talking about a very marginal increase for the price of a booster shot.
00:54:50.000Literally, I had my physical yesterday, talked to the doctor about it.
00:54:53.000This is what he told me, confirming what I already knew, obviously, and what I've been talking about on the show every single day.
00:55:38.000It's just about the control at this point.
00:55:40.000There's a couple of more tools in our quiver here, which include, for example, and which is something I've been advocating for, which is I don't think anyone should be allowed on an airplane, domestic or international, or a train, without being able to prove they've been vaccinated.
00:55:59.000To me, that's really the only way, in addition to testing, that we're going to get better control over the situation we currently have, Nicole.
00:56:08.000More restrictions, more restrictions, more restrictions.
00:56:10.000Meanwhile, Jen Psaki is saying nothing is off the table from the White House press office.
00:56:40.000People in the economy are not afraid of COVID.
00:56:43.000They're afraid of the reaction to COVID.
00:56:44.000JPMorgan said as much yesterday, and the media are pressing this forward.
00:56:47.000So Joy Reid was just freaking out about this yesterday because it's a day ending in Y and Joy Reid has to freak out about something.
00:56:52.000So here she was with the Surgeon General freaking out over Omicron.
00:56:57.000By the way, five confirmed cases of Omicron in New York, all of them alive.
00:57:01.000I have to say, so far the most embarrassing thing about Omicron is that the person who apparently spread it in New York was at an anime convention.
00:57:08.000How would you like that to be your day?
00:57:09.000You're revealed as patient zero in New York, and that's not the most embarrassing thing about you.
00:57:14.000It's that you were at an anime convention.
00:58:04.000I think he's talked about this on air.
00:58:06.000And his kids are very young, which means they're fine.
00:58:09.000He was freaking out about this yesterday as well.
00:58:11.000The Constitution does still exist, despite the headwinds that we've had in the last two years and the encroachments on the Constitution.
00:58:17.000It still does exist, so that we do have rights.
00:58:19.000It's the First Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, protecting us against federal mandates like this, the 14th Amendment, and the reality is, Joe... The rights are that you can't kill my mother!
00:58:27.000The rights are that you can't... The right is that you do not have the right... I'm not killing her mother.
00:58:33.000And if she has the vaccine, those risks are mitigated, and we're seeing that in most likely cases, your mother will not die if she's vaccinated.
00:58:42.000You don't have the right to kill my mother.
00:58:43.000Honestly, if this is the way that the left is going to view living in a society, then we're all in real trouble here.
00:58:48.000Because as it turns out that if your mom is elderly and immunocompromised, then we all have to wear masks at all times.
01:00:08.000Okay, but the DCCC has to... They have to brag about something, by the way.
01:00:12.000Let me just note how much of a failure these policies are, by the way.
01:00:16.000When we talk about jobs being added, Complete failure.
01:00:18.000The Wall Street Journal reports the unemployment rate in October hit the lowest on record since 1976 in West Virginia, Georgia, Oklahoma, Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Idaho, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Alabama, Montana, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
01:00:31.000I've noticed that all of those places are red.
01:00:36.000Meanwhile, the states that have massive unemployment rates, California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Connecticut, Hawaii, Michigan, and Alaska, all have Democratic government trifectas, except for Michigan, which has a GOP legislature, and Alaska, which is red.
01:00:49.000And as far as regaining jobs, the states that have regained jobs at the fastest clip are all red.
01:00:55.000The states that have not regained jobs are all blue.
01:00:59.000So the Biden administration has to come up with some sort of narrative as to how they're fixing this thing.
01:01:06.000Because I have to take a moment to just admire the incredible stupidity of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that put this together.
01:01:22.000So Matt Iglesias, who now writes over at Substack, he's a left-leaning guy.
01:01:25.000He put out a chart mocking the Biden administration's push for the notion that they've curbed inflation.
01:01:34.000And the chart that he put out showed that over the course of the last couple of weeks, the price of gas had gone down on average by two cents.
01:01:40.000And I'm supposed to be mocking them for their talking about it.
01:01:43.000So the DCCC took it seriously and they turned it into a chart.
01:01:46.000I just want to note the incredible, just every aspect of this chart is glorious.
01:01:52.000So it says US regular, all gas, all formulations, gas price.
01:01:56.000And it shows on the Y axis, dollars per gallon.
01:02:58.000They didn't just stretch the y-axis so that it looks so they can pretend that there was an actual gas price decrease that is meaningful for people.
01:03:03.000They also put an arrow at the end of U.S.
01:03:42.000This chart is a chart of the actual Inflation in the gas price over the last 18 months.
01:03:50.000So basically, since November of 2020, beginning November 20th, 2020, you're looking at a gas price on average of about $2.13 a gallon, somewhere in that neighborhood.
01:04:06.000Then you have a consistent and steep rise all the way up to $3.42.
01:04:37.000They have a doddering old president who doesn't know how to handle this thing and who's just gonna keep throwing restrictive measures at the American people and all that's gonna do is sink the economy.