00:01:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:15.000It's phenomenal to be here in the heartland of the country and um Portland Michigan, which is really nice, and I just want to say first thank you to the amazing organizers of this event.
00:02:25.000We traveled all the way across the country for this.
00:02:28.000I spoke here a couple years ago and you know the fight for the unborn is the most important fight that we have to fight for those that um, do not have a voice and you know, kind of goes to this question of when does life begin and what is a human life.
00:02:42.000And this church and the leadership of this church have done such a phenomenal job, and if we had a thousand churches like this one, America wouldn't be, it would be in a much better place.
00:02:52.000I'll tell you what truly so I want to.
00:02:57.000I want to talk about a couple different things here, and then I think we're going to do a fun panel.
00:03:02.000I have some good news that I want to share, because it seems as if there's not a lot of that.
00:03:06.000Uh, one of the reasons why I was late is because we live in a third world country.
00:03:08.000Now, if you haven't noticed where, if you book a flight it's, It's Russian roulette.
00:03:13.000You don't know if you're going to get canceled or you're going to go to Seattle instead of Denver and total redirection.
00:03:27.000And it feels as if everything is going in the wrong direction.
00:03:30.000And I'm not going to be here to tell you that policy-wise it isn't.
00:03:35.000But I will tell you, though, that the other side, the collectivists, the statists, the people that are in support of abortion, I think they're, I think the ruling class of this country is getting demoralized.
00:03:48.000And I think they thought this would be a lot different coming into October of 2021.
00:03:55.000And instead of giving up, after a lot of us were, I think, very disappointed after what happened when the current regime was implemented, not elected.
00:04:58.000We as Christians are commanded to reject self-pity.
00:05:01.000We are saved because of Jesus Christ and thanks to Jesus Christ.
00:05:05.000And we should have that kind of cheer and joy in everything we do every single day.
00:05:09.000And so, but it's easy to want to kind of be involved in self-pity, especially when you start to see things go in a direction you've never seen them go before, where you have results come in the middle of the election night, mail-in ballots going in every single direction.
00:05:25.000And then you see a regime start to implement ideas and policies that are not just unpopular, but it seems as if they don't care about the political consequences associated with it.
00:05:37.000So in a typical kind of presidency, when you become president or win the presidency, you tend to care about what the people think.
00:05:47.000This current regime has a 36% approval rating.
00:07:12.000The next thing I'm going to say is new thinking.
00:07:15.000We all know that they probably have no intention of running him for office again, but that's incredibly dangerous because it's uniquely un-American.
00:07:21.000The ultimate check and balance on power is the fact that we're going to vote you out of office.
00:07:27.000What happens if the president says, I don't care, I'm only going to serve out one term to run the country into the ground.
00:08:08.000And what is our administration, what's their top priority?
00:08:13.000The Department of Justice issues a memo saying that moms and dads showing up to school board meetings across the country are domestic terrorists.
00:08:20.000That they need to use the Patriot Act that was designed to go after people that are associated with al-Qaeda.
00:08:25.000If you show up to school board meetings and complain that your children are learning about pornographic curriculum or they're learning about abortion on demand or they're learning about racist critical race theory.
00:08:35.000Merrick Garland signs an order saying that I'm going to use the Department of Homeland Security, we're going to use the FBI, and we're going to use the DOJ to go and create a new commission to monitor, to spy on, infiltrate moms and dads showing up and complaining at local education areas, local educational institutions, voicing their opinion.
00:08:55.000Turning Point USA, the organization that I founded and that we run, was listed in that letter saying that what we are doing as our school board watch list is contributing to the targeting of school board officials across the country.
00:09:10.000And, you know, that's kind of no, you know, when you're doing a great job, when the Department of Justice decides, you know what, murders up 30% last year.
00:09:19.000No memo, by the way, from the Attorney General on murders going up 30%.
00:09:23.000No memo on the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are coming into our country without any sort of testing, any sort of background, just coming straight into the interior of the country.
00:10:04.000And you see this reflected in a variety of different ways.
00:10:07.000And so the question is, how is that going for them?
00:10:11.000And here's actually the really good news.
00:10:12.000And I kind of mentioned this: is that they thought we would give up.
00:10:17.000And so as we are now in mid-October and we're in this kind of situation where we're seeing the country unfold, the Zuckerbergs, the Bezos, Zuckerberg, who spent $420 million, by the way, to support Biden and the implementation, unprecedented amount of outside money in this last election.
00:10:36.000How is this going for Francis Collins and for Fauci, who should have been fired on day one, by the way?
00:10:41.000And for all of these deep state government bureaucrats, they're looking at it and they say, huh.
00:10:46.000And this is why the DOJ memo about moms and dads showing up to school board meetings is so incredibly important to focus on.
00:10:53.000They don't understand why we're growing in number and resolve.
00:11:34.000He coined this term called anti-fragile.
00:11:36.000It is groups that actually get stronger the more stress you put on them.
00:11:42.000Very few groups in human history are anti-fragile.
00:11:45.000The American revolutionaries that founded our country are anti-fragile.
00:11:49.000The more they threw at our founding fathers, the stronger they got.
00:11:52.000They couldn't understand where the people were coming from.
00:11:54.000The more churches they burned down, the more people enlisted in their ranks.
00:11:58.000The more public hangings they did, the more people wanted to defeat the British.
00:12:02.000And so you look around, you look at the conservative movement, they can't understand that the more they call us domestic terrorists, the more they spy on us, the more they put people that walk into the Capitol and take a selfie and put them in solitary confinement because they were there on January 6th, the more they punish and penalize us, the more they say it's the big lie.
00:12:21.000All of a sudden they're like, why are these rallies growing in size?
00:12:25.000Why are moms and dads now not doing the self-pity party, but they're showing up and they're telling the school board member, you're going to be out of office soon?
00:12:33.000And here's the reason, is that thanks to President Trump and the conservatives around him, all of a sudden there's a new conservative movement in town.
00:13:27.000That's not enough to save the Republic, and we know it.
00:13:30.000Instead, all of you, and I want to compliment you and encourage you, your activity, your prayers, your intervention into the spiritual domain of all this.
00:13:40.000All of a sudden, the ruling classes, I don't get it.
00:13:43.000This is why Francis Collins is resigning.
00:13:45.000This is why Jon Stewart is coming up and he's saying, huh, it looks like they're going to take back power soon.
00:13:51.000And I'm not going to make this Republican versus Democrat because that's not what this is about.
00:15:09.000And so for those of you that said, don't give up hope in January, thank you.
00:15:13.000For those of you in February that showed up to school board meetings and you kept the fight going, thank you.
00:15:18.000That mattered more than you could ever imagine because now the ruling class, they thought they could shock and awesome and blitz-krieg us into submission.
00:15:25.000They thought that it would be June and July and the country would be in such terrible shape and we'd say, okay, you know what?
00:15:33.000Let's have Liz Cheney run the Republican Party.
00:16:23.000Outside of the ballot stuff, the fact what big tech did to intervene in the election, the fact of changing the election laws, the fact the media did not cover Hunter Biden or Tony Bobulinsky, the fact that social media did not allow these stories.
00:16:36.000So you guys can get into the machine stuff, whatever.
00:16:57.000I think that if we don't focus on how the most powerful people on the planet declared war on you, the United Auto Worker, you know, United Auto Worker member that earns $65,000 a year and has a couple kids, like somehow you're the existential threat to the country.
00:17:16.000And Mark Zuckerberg comes in worth $125 billion and spends $420 million.
00:17:22.000Like, no, excuse me, that's a threat to democracy.
00:17:26.000And we have to say, how did this happen?
00:17:28.000And we're not going to let it happen again.
00:17:30.000And so now we're at this point where the people in charge, they have done nine months of trying to obliterate your resolve.
00:17:41.000And when, and if you kind of think of this in metaphorical war terms, what are you always trying to do to the people that you want to destroy if you're the more powerful power?
00:17:50.000And I know this is hard for you guys, for some people to admit, but we are kind of outdunned right now.
00:18:22.000And for whatever reason, they're not giving up.
00:18:25.000And here is what, here's why we are going to win if we keep this up, is that the people that win these sorts of struggles always goes towards the anti-fragile.
00:18:36.000And so this is the best way I can explain it.
00:18:38.000If you might not be tracking all of this, who's going to win?
00:18:41.000The side that is offended because you call them the wrong gender pronoun?
00:18:46.000Or the side that is willing to get fired and lose their career after 30 years because they don't want to take a vaccine.
00:19:02.000But at some point, all of a sudden, you're going to realize there's more of us than them.
00:19:07.000They're going to realize that this regime did everything they possibly could to demoralize you and keep you in place and try to make you give up.
00:19:16.000And actually, the opposite is occurring.
00:19:19.000And so people then say, Charlie, what do I do?
00:19:31.000Your prayer, living obediently to the scriptures, understanding what God commands you for this time is incredibly important.
00:19:38.000Do not take your eye off the ball that everything you see physically is a manifestation of what is happening spiritually.
00:19:46.000And especially right now, where you're going to start to see some of the forces of darkness start to get very, very worried that they're no longer going to have a monopoly on what's happening around them.
00:19:58.000Remember, our struggle is not against flesh and blood.
00:20:01.000It says that very clearly in the scriptures.
00:20:03.000And so it says in Jeremiah 29, 7, one of my favorite scriptures in the whole Bible, the Lord is speaking to Jeremiah and to the people through Jeremiah and to the people of Israel who are actually in exile, where he says, demand the welfare of the nation that I have sent you in, because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
00:20:22.000We are commanded to care about what's happening around us politically, also governmentally, culturally, and otherwise.
00:20:30.000We are not called as Christians to just kind of say, hey, you know, we have the truth.
00:21:28.000Someone in this room right now, I'm sure, is going through a tough season right now, being persecuted because of your faith, because of your worldview, because you won't take a vaccine that, quite honestly, is not even a vaccine, but that's a whole different thing, which is more like a treatment than it is a vaccine.
00:21:42.000And if you're pro-vaccine, whatever, if you're anti-I don't take a position on that, no one should be forced to take a vaccine against their will.
00:21:48.000And also, stop fooling yourself, is that when you take the polio vaccine, you don't have to wear a mask to prevent yourself from getting polio, okay?
00:21:55.000Is that it's like somehow we've been wildly propagandized into this whole kind of new set of circumstances.
00:22:02.000Well, it actually lowers the chance you're hospitalized.
00:22:05.000That's a completely different argument.
00:22:07.000If we were worrying about lowering the chance of hospitalization, we should have been talking about hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, azithromycin, vitamin D, and all these things sent the very aspirin and all these other things.
00:22:16.000Anyway, didn't mean I always lose some people with that topic.
00:22:29.000You can only govern human beings in two ways.
00:22:32.000You can govern them through speech or you can govern them through force.
00:22:35.000Speech is what God gave us to be able to govern ourselves.
00:22:38.000We are made in the image of God, mind, body, soul, or spirit, just like the Trinity, Father, the Son, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:22:47.000Also, what does it say in Genesis 1 and John 1?
00:22:50.000The two creation stories in the scriptures.
00:22:52.000Now, some people say they say things completely different.
00:22:55.000It says, in the beginning, God created the heavens of the earth, Genesis 1.1, one of my favorite scriptures in the entire Bible, continues to say that God spoke it into existence.
00:24:25.000But if you ever want to see what the other side believes, and honestly, the spiritual dynamics of that, I think you could see it was absolutely out of control.
00:24:31.000And but if it's not your DNA, it's not your choice.
00:24:36.000If it's not your DNA, it's not your choice.
00:24:39.000The other side, the pro-abortion side, you guys have heard the acronym SLED, size, level of development, environmental degree of dependency.
00:24:46.000Those are the four arguments for the abortion lobby uses.
00:24:50.000But the other one that they use really is sovereignty.
00:25:09.000Most people are afraid to actually get to root causes.
00:25:12.000Why are there 3,000 abortions every single day in America?
00:25:15.000The real reason is because we are not open and clear enough with young people about how God designed, how God designed people to have sexual relations.
00:25:25.000Is that extramarital sexual relations is what drives people to have 3,000 abortions a day.
00:25:52.000I'm not here to make you feel sorry for yourself.
00:25:54.000But if we do not point, not sorry for yourself, but have you feel guilty is what I mean.
00:26:00.000Instead, what I'm saying is that there must be an ideal that we as Christians hold up and say that you will live an abundantly blessed life if you save yourself for the right human being.
00:26:42.000And the truth has a way of contending itself when you release it.
00:26:45.000And so I think we're fooling ourselves if we don't get to some of the root causes of what actually causes the abortion industry to be able to profit and succeed in this country.
00:26:54.000The second thing of which I am a very outspoken critic of, which is gender dysphoria craze turned into transgenderism.
00:28:05.000And in a college campus, you go to a college campus, they'll say, well, I'll tell you what, you know, you get to kind of have your own journey in your own way, whatever makes you feel.
00:28:14.000And this is one of my biggest critiques of Christianity, is that feelings comes from a Greek word pathos, right?
00:28:20.000And we've always in the scriptures, there's an underemphasis on pathos, always, because your feelings can mislead you.
00:28:26.000And I think all of us know that if you get into kind of a road rage type incident, that's not your feelings leading you to good and terrific things.
00:28:34.000Instead, God gave us the spirit of the Lord to be able to have what?
00:28:39.000Self-control is a fruit of the spirit.
00:28:41.000And we must understand that just because you feel a certain way does not make you that certain way.
00:28:45.000Just because you feel as if the laws of gravity can go into suspense does not make it so.
00:28:50.000And therefore, we as Christians must be very clear that men should go in the men's locker room, girls should go in the girls' locker room, and men should never compete in female sports.
00:29:52.000Those are the four that are reflected in the scriptures.
00:29:54.000Phileo, brotherly love, Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, storge, mother, father, mother, daughter, or mother, son-type love, or a parental child-type love that is storge.
00:30:06.000And then eros, romantic type love, a love that you have for your romantic partner.
00:30:10.000And finally, agape, which is sacrificial or replacement love.
00:30:13.000And so in John 3, 16, it does not say, for God so eros to the world, for God so phileoed the world, or for God so storgeed the world.
00:30:22.000He cared so much that he wanted to bring his own son in replacement for you, sacrificially laying down his life so that you might live free.
00:30:29.000But the ultimate act of love is not tolerating evil.
00:30:40.000If you have a tumor, if you have a bad diagnosis, you don't want to be loved in a sense where they cover up what is true.
00:30:46.000The way to truly love somebody is to look them straight in the eyes and tell them what they're doing wrong.
00:30:51.000We as Christians have gotten away from this.
00:30:53.000We say, well, loving people means that we must just accommodate ourselves to everything to the rest of the world.
00:30:58.000Now, of course, we're all sinners, obviously, and there are three different types of sin.
00:31:02.000There are private sin, there's a secret sin, private sin, and public sin.
00:31:06.000And so you'll never know somebody's secret sin.
00:31:08.000But if somehow a close friend of yours is repeatedly revealing themselves in secret sin, you have a moral obligation as a Christian to correct them back into alignment.
00:31:17.000And if you have a friend that is engaging in public sin that is saying, you know what?
00:31:21.000I'm an abortion doctor and I'm proud of it.
00:31:23.000You have a moral obligation to go to them and say, you understand what you're doing, right?
00:31:26.000This is a life and that, and you might lose that relationship.
00:31:28.000And I use that example because it's so extreme.
00:31:40.000Jesus told us that if you do not follow me, eternal damnation.
00:31:44.000It says in Luke 15, I did not come here to unite the world, but to divide the world, to turn father against son, to turn brother against brother.
00:32:00.000And then the final thing that I'll say, the final thing that Christians should all be able to agree on, and this is kind of more illuminated in the last year and a half since we actually had this wonderful gathering, which is I'm guessing why we got postponed, which is why the church should never be forced to shut down again while abortion clinics, marijuana stores, and strip clubs remain open.
00:33:33.000So the point is that we view politics too often as a spectator sport.
00:33:41.000No matter what chair you sit in, no matter what special jersey you wear, no matter waking up on Thanksgiving morning, hoping the Lions will win, which they won't.
00:34:23.000You guys can find our podcast on every single phone.
00:34:25.000It blesses us if you were to subscribe to it.
00:34:28.000Charlie Kirk Show, we do two podcasts today, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.
00:34:31.000If you don't know how to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, I saw a nine-year-old around here somewhere that would be more than happy to walk you through it.
00:34:37.000The greatest man to live in the 20th century was Winston Churchill.
00:37:54.000But I mean, I would say that I, I mean, I guess I have a different story because I sort of was shot into the media because of that lawsuit.
00:38:09.000And so I guess I sort of have a different story.
00:38:12.000But, you know, I think, you know, it's sort of hit or miss.
00:38:17.000I mean, the media just sort of picks up on things sort of just as they do.
00:38:21.000But I think that it's, I tell people all the time, many people have a story.
00:38:29.000And I think that all of our stories are important to share with someone.
00:38:35.000And I think especially surrounding abortion, there are so many people.
00:38:39.000The pro-life movement is made up of converts.
00:38:42.000And so many of us have stories to share about whether we were people who laid on that table and had abortions or we drove someone to the clinic and paid for an abortion or whatever it was.
00:38:53.000And as long as we keep those stories in, Satan controls them.
00:38:57.000And so I think sharing our stories, sharing our experience is a very important part of the human condition and who we are.
00:39:04.000And so I think sharing, you know, starting small is important and sharing with your local community is important.
00:39:11.000Sharing with your family, sharing with your local church is a great way to start.
00:39:16.000Not everybody is going to have, you know, what we have up here.
00:39:23.000And let me tell you something, you don't want it necessarily.
00:39:28.000But, you know, it's certainly a calling.
00:39:32.000And I would just say, you know, follow that calling and God will continue to open doors as he sees fit.
00:39:47.000I've told this story before about that scenario in front of the Supreme Court building where, you know, I was more or less accosted just because of what I was wearing.
00:39:55.000And I knew at that moment that I better get in the game.
00:40:00.000And I knew by virtue of the call as a pastor that I already had a box, in a sense, to stand on.
00:40:07.000And I already had, by God's grace, his word of God, which is the truth.
00:40:11.000So in one sense, there was no fear of going into it.
00:40:14.000But at the same time, there has to be a recognition that it's not something that I think as a pastor, I'm speaking maybe from a pastoral perspective, we're not looking for it.
00:40:25.000It can't be a self-promotion kind of thing.
00:40:28.000It's something that will find you, and God will provide for you, as he promises, those opportunities to be who it is that you are as his called servant, to speak faithfully.
00:40:38.000It just so happens that by doing that, God has seen fit to, at least for this congregation, to bring to us folks who want to who are in alignment with this, who want to move the ball down the field, who want to do these things.
00:40:53.000And we're so grateful to have those partnerships.
00:40:56.000But again, on the other hand, even as Abby just said, I don't, you know, I don't appreciate sometimes the things that come with, you know, speaking publicly.
00:41:07.000I mean, being on lists, you know, from folks in the government here in Michigan, it can be a struggle.
00:41:16.000I mean, that's the way that that also is part of it, too.
00:41:20.000So in the end, faithfulness, humility, keeping your eyes on the fact that Christ is your identity, as has been said by others here on the stage, and know that God's going to use you where he needs you in these arenas.
00:41:34.000Just be ready to speak and be faithful.
00:41:38.000John Smith from Hillsdale County Republican Party.
00:41:54.000My question is: with several states that are trying to attempt to do this forensic audit, we are running into some roadblocks, if you will.
00:42:04.000And a lot of that roadblock, be honest with you, is with resourcing, being able to actually let people know that this is going on, finance.
00:42:13.000Just a petition alone costs $3 million in the state of Michigan.
00:42:17.000The audit itself is going to cost well over $6 million.
00:42:20.000These are things that we're going to be running into.
00:42:23.000Is there a way for people that are doing these type of things to not necessarily ask for money directly?
00:42:30.000We're looking for teaching Amanda Fish, if you will, because a lot of us on the team don't have the experience of marketing or different things of that nature.
00:42:38.000We need to share these type of resources if possible.
00:42:41.000And I was wondering if that's something that we could do here.
00:42:45.000Yeah, so in Arizona, where I live now, and we did do an audit, we found that there are anywhere between 55,000 to 70,000 illegally administered ballots.
00:42:55.000And that's just the beginning of the audit findings, not to mention all the other laws that were broken in the sequence of it.
00:43:48.000But you need to audit your elections, everybody, especially here in Michigan.
00:43:53.000And like, forget, like, there's two different types of categories.
00:43:55.000You'll find out ballots that should not have been counted.
00:43:58.000And then you'll find laws that were broken in the counting of the ballots, which is the administration of actually the election itself.
00:44:05.000I just want to encourage you, though, that auditing these elections in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia are so incredibly important.
00:44:12.000And you can see how important by how the media is trying to smear these efforts.
00:44:25.000I have a two-part question about our public school system.
00:44:29.000First one is, is there any difference between what was and is happening in our universities and what's happening in our public schools today?
00:44:38.000And how pervasive are organizations like Planned Parenthood in our public schools today?
00:44:48.000Planned Parenthood is deliberately trying to get into every single public school in the United States.
00:44:55.000And unfortunately, they are funded by the public school systems in our country.
00:45:03.000And like I said earlier, their goal is to get into kindergarten.
00:45:08.000Their sex education starts in kindergarten.
00:45:12.000And so with the Title 10 now being refunded, Title X clinics are, or Title X funds at Planned Parenthood are primarily used for teen clinics because Title X funds do not require parental consent.
00:45:30.000And so Trump had defunded Planned Parenthood from Title 10 money.
00:45:34.000Now Biden, of course, has refunded abortion facilities to receive Title 10.
00:45:40.000So what Planned Parenthood uses that money for is for primarily teen clinics.
00:45:45.000That means that now Planned Parenthood can go into a public school system.
00:45:51.000They can open up a clinic inside of a public junior high and a public high school.
00:45:58.000And so that means that our kids can get on birth control starting at 10, 11, 12 years old.
00:46:05.000They can get on a birth control that has a high human error rate.
00:46:09.000Now, I'm not a fan of birth control anyway, but just stay with me here.
00:46:12.000They can get on a birth control method that has a high human error rate, knowing that Guttmacher already says their own research arm already says that 54% of women who have abortions were using contraception at the time that they got pregnant.
00:47:28.000There are kids that are still sitting in public schools that need to be protected from these predators.
00:47:34.000They need to be protected from these grooming efforts of Planned Parenthood and other abortion entities that are going into our private school.
00:48:46.000I think you were asking if there's a difference between the university level and the public school system.
00:48:51.000And no, they're both state-funded and state-controlled by the government.
00:48:55.000And I would encourage people to read a book called Inside the Education System.
00:49:01.000It was written by Thomas Sowell, and he really will help you understand how Planned Parenthood infiltrated and when this sex education began and how it was really built upon a lie.
00:49:14.000A lie meaning that the idea that kids were all just doing it when in fact they weren't, the rates of children that were graduating with their virginity in the 70s was the majority until they invoked sex education.
00:49:25.000And it's really, you really kind of have to understand how it was engineered if you ever want to make an effort to reverse engineer.
00:49:32.000And to add on to what Abby was saying, I want, and I want to go back to the idea that I do think that change does start in the home and primary individual basis, family to family.
00:49:42.000So do what you can to pull your children out before you turn to the community.
00:49:47.000Once you have, you know, successfully protected your child, we as Christians should always go into the community and do what we can to help our neighbors who may be existing under these same delusions.
00:49:58.000I do not think that there is a path forward in which the public education system can be transformed.
00:50:05.000You know, I have been a passionate advocate alongside Charlie for years for the abolishment of the Department of Education.
00:50:17.000And, you know, I've been looking in Tennessee at micro schools, which is something that people should be familiar with, and really going back to the beginning, which began with homeschools on a parent-to-parent basis.
00:50:27.000Again, the individuals looking up with the neighborhoods and the community establishing networks that work to raise up children the right way.
00:51:10.000Is that reaching the abortion-minded women?
00:51:12.000Is it actually helping to promote the pro-life values?
00:51:16.000Yeah, so yeah, that is a great question.
00:51:19.000And yeah, we have found some evidence that shows that that actually does help.
00:51:25.000So, you know, it's all risky behavior, right?
00:51:30.000So, and that's why Planned Parenthood does not offer gunnery and chlamydia tests because they care about the STD rates in your community, okay?
00:51:39.000They offer SCD testing because they want to have that first touch point experience with people in their community that are participating in risky behavior.
00:52:02.000And Marketing 101 is going to tell you that if you've already had that first touch point experience with Planned Parenthood for your STD test, where are you going to go back to when you have that unplanned pregnancy?
00:52:12.000Planned Parenthood, where you had that first touch point experience.
00:52:15.000That's why they provide STD testing, okay?
00:52:18.000It's not because they care about your STD rates.
00:52:20.000So, the purpose of pregnancy resource centers offering those services early on is so that they can have that first touch point experience with that woman.
00:52:31.000So, there has been some data to show that if we can intercept those clients early on, and if we can start talking to those women and men early on, and we can help curtail that risky behavior, that number one, not only will we help reduce the unintended pregnancy rate, because really, if you want to reduce crisis pregnancies, then you've got to reduce the crisis pregnancy rate, right?
00:52:58.000So, you've got to, you've got to say, I mean, if you want to reduce abortions, you've got to reduce the crisis pregnancy rate, right?
00:53:04.000So, you just make it so that people aren't getting pregnant.
00:53:08.000And so, you've got to intervene at that moment, that earlier moment.
00:53:12.000And so, that's what some of the research is saying: that like we want to get to them before the crisis pregnancy even occurs.
00:53:19.000One of the ways to do that is to intervene during the risky behavior.
00:53:23.000And that's what the STD testing is allowing people to do.
00:53:29.000I'm sorry, if we can just leave it to one person, we got a really finite amount of time.
00:53:41.000I wanted to speak to all of you about what I've seen in the latest legislative session in Texas.
00:53:49.000So, we had about eight or nine abortion-related bills, and all of them made it through except for one, House Bill 3326 by Brian Slaying.
00:54:02.000So, I met with Mr. Slaying personally, and for some reason, his bill never passed committee because his bill would actually abolish abortion.
00:54:11.000So, what I wanted to bring to your attention is there's a game going on with the pro-life movement.
00:54:19.000So, they're pushing bills that regulate abortion, but never end it.
00:54:24.000House Bill 3326 would have actually ended it.
00:54:27.000And Stephanie Click, the committee chairwoman, we spoke to her staff.
00:54:33.000They supposedly didn't have time for it or they were busy with the other bills.
00:54:37.000So, I think you guys with the platform, the followers you have, can maybe address the game that's going on.
00:54:45.000These pro-life organizations are really just in it for the money, in my opinion.
00:54:49.000So, there's a group of abolitionists, abolished abortion in Texas, Freedom States, and Oklahoma.
00:54:55.000So, I think this needs to be brought to your attention.
00:54:57.000Me, one person I can tell everybody, but you guys can maybe, especially Abby, you're in Texas, just like I am.
00:55:03.000I don't know if you supported that bill or if somehow you'd be willing to meet with Mr. Slayton.
00:56:43.000I mean, like, it's, I mean, look, it's very simple.
00:56:45.000The more religious the Jew is, the more conservative they are.
00:56:48.000The less religious the Jew is, the more liberal they are.
00:56:50.000And it's not, you don't have to overcomplicate it.
00:56:52.000Dennis Prager has the greatest commentary on this, I think, of anyone.
00:56:56.000And yes, it's incredibly frustrating for people that, you know, that are supposed to be believers in the law, then are, you know, as the Torah as an ultimate value, kind of like the Jewish, the big Jewish big three values are God, Torah, Israel.
00:57:13.000And they have a party or they support a party overwhelmingly that doesn't read the Torah, hates Israel, and doesn't believe in God.
00:57:37.000I'm also a known domestic terrorist in my community.
00:57:41.000I did pull my kids from school and I'm homeschooling them.
00:57:45.000And Abby, you just took the words out of my mouth and you said that.
00:57:49.000And I've been trying to say to my Christian friends that even if you pull your kids from school and even if you put them in the private schools, I equate it to the same thing as defending all those lives at the abortion clinic.
00:57:59.000The us parents still need to go to the school board meetings and defend those children that are helpless to stand up for them.
00:58:06.000But my question to you, Abby, is with being a pro-life warrior and going to the abortion clinics and going to Planned Parenthood, we're able to stop them from getting the abortion pill there and we're able to do side-ruck counseling there.
00:58:18.000But I'm concerned about what you just shared today because I was unaware of that, that they were able to do these appointments online and to be able to get these medications from the other countries.
00:58:28.000Is there anything that we can do or anything that you know of that I can take back to my ministry to be able to combat that in any way?
00:58:36.000Like, how do we reach those women that are getting the medication in that form?
00:58:41.000Okay, so yeah, I mean, because this is a new battle, because we're on like a new front here with the medication abortion and the online accessibility of medication abortion, the only way that we can fight this is through the internet.
00:58:56.000So we can fight this through Google AdWords, we can fight this through geofencing.
00:59:30.000Generally, to have a successful Google Ad Camp, and this is just FYI, to have a successful Google AdWord campaign to fight medication abortion, online medication abortion, they need to be paying at least about $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
00:59:56.000It's expensive, but lives are on the line.
00:59:59.000And this is the only way that we can fight it.
01:00:01.000You know, I mean, this is not, yes, we've got to go out to the clinics because yes, we've got to still be there for those surgical abortion patients.
01:00:09.000But over 50% are now receiving abortions online.
01:00:47.000I have like two burning questions, but I know we can only do one.
01:00:50.000So my first, my one burning question is like, I go to a community college and this is my first year there and I've been homeschooled my whole life.
01:00:59.000And my question is, how can you reach out to like people and like even teachers who are like really very liberal and have different opinions than you do?
01:01:11.000And like, how can you like, how can I contradict to what they have to say to help them to come to Christ?
01:01:20.000You know, I think this goes in line with the question that I was answering earlier.
01:01:24.000I was talking about how leading by example and standing firm in your truth and standing firm in truth and in righteousness is sometimes enough.
01:01:33.000And I think one of the things that we sometimes get wrong is expecting immediate results.
01:02:21.000uh, 18 years of being told the lie and telling them the truth is not necessarily going to be immediate um, but I think standing firm in the truth and leading by example, as I said earlier, and showing people um, that the ways that they're invested are not actually bringing them happiness, planting seeds sometimes, is enough, and so I think i've sort of reset my expectations and I think, when i'm in every room uh, every contradictory room rather, every contrarian room uh, how many seeds can I plant today?
01:02:52.000Right, you may be planting a lot of seeds.
01:02:54.000Don't get discouraged by the fact that you're not seeing the full plant that's supposed to sprout out.
01:03:00.000Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to say this is the part of the evening where everybody gets to hate the mc, because I get to give the bad news that our time has come to an end.
01:03:10.000Can we have one more great big round of applause for all great speakers?
01:03:22.000Thanks so much for listening everybody.