After a new law was passed in Michigan this week, commercial surrogacy is now legal everywhere in the United States, even as it's banned in many other countries. We ll talk about why it s the most dehumanizing practice this side of slavery. Also, conservatives celebrate a Daily Show host for criticizing a prominent conservative commentator. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants to enter NATO, which will bring about a world war and the deaths of millions of people.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, after a new law was passed in Michigan this week, commercial surrogacy is now legal everywhere in the United States, even as it's banned in many other countries.
00:00:07.660We'll talk about commercial surrogacy and why it is the most dehumanizing practice this side of slavery.
00:00:12.600Also, conservatives celebrate a Daily Show host for criticizing DEI.
00:00:16.200That's because they didn't actually listen to his criticism.
00:00:18.860And Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants to accept Ukraine into NATO, which will bring about a world war and the deaths of millions of people.
00:00:25.220In our daily cancellation, a major news publication has figured out which group is the most affected by climate change, and it's a very oddly specific group.
00:00:32.760We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:53.660You know, it's not easy to find examples of practices that are legal everywhere in the United States, but also banned in Canada and most of Europe on moral grounds.
00:02:02.860Usually it works the other way around.
00:02:04.200Canada doesn't place any restrictions whatsoever on abortion, for example.
00:02:07.840The government will actually pay its citizens to kill their children at any point in the mother's pregnancy.
00:02:12.700But in the U.S., in many states at least, there are some limits on that kind of barbarism.
00:02:16.940Meanwhile, in Europe, as I discussed yesterday and in Canada, there's an extremely permissive attitude toward euthanasia.
00:02:23.420It's easy for young adults to get their doctors to kill them in, say, the Netherlands, even when they don't have any kind of terminal illness.
00:02:30.100But in the U.S., killing patients for no reason is still frowned upon most of the time by most major medical associations, for now, anyway.
00:02:39.400So in general, we are more restrictive when it comes to most immoral and unethical medical procedures, with some glaring exceptions.
00:02:47.400And Canada and Europe take the opposite approach most of the time.
00:02:51.860But there is, well, there's a few glaring exceptions to that rule, and here's one.
00:02:56.620It concerns commercial surrogacy, or the act of paying a woman to carry someone else's baby, usually via in vitro fertilization.
00:03:03.880And this is distinct from so-called altruistic surrogacy, where there's no profit motive,
00:03:08.620yet still nearly as many ethical problems with the altruistic variety, despite the name.
00:03:13.420And commercial surrogacy is legally equated with human trafficking by the EU,
00:03:18.260because it provides significant financial incentives for women to rent out their bodies to strangers.
00:03:23.720So they ban it, and the same is true in Canada.
00:03:27.980This week, the state of Michigan says that it became the last state in the Union to decriminalize commercial surrogacy.
00:03:33.300In other words, in all 50 states, you can now rent a woman's body and use it to carry your child without suffering any criminal penalties for it.
00:03:40.980That seems like it can't possibly be true, but it is, according to Michigan's governor anyway.
00:03:45.440Her office put out a statement saying that Michigan had been, quote,
00:03:47.720the only state in the nation to criminalize surrogacy contracts.
00:03:51.100And to be clear, there are still several states that say they won't enforce commercial surrogacy agreements,
00:03:55.640but broad criminal bans don't apply, as far as I can tell.
00:03:59.520And that's extremely good news for the surrogacy industry, which is worth around $14 billion as of 2022.
00:04:05.840In 10 years, a little more than 10 years, by 2033, analysts expect that the surrogacy industry will explode in value to $129 billion,
00:04:14.460an increase of about 900% in just a decade.
00:04:18.480Now, for perspective, the global weight loss market, which is obviously gigantic, no pun intended,
00:04:25.800So we're talking about surrogacy being roughly as big as the weight loss industry in just a few years' time.
00:04:32.820So you'll be seeing surrogacy ads as often as you see Ozempic commercials.
00:04:37.760Now, there are all kinds of reasons why the industry is doing so well.
00:04:41.240One of them is that infertility is on the rise.
00:04:43.300Roughly 1 in 10 men and women who are at childbearing age are infertile in this country.
00:04:47.820In the 1950s worldwide, each woman had an average of five children.
00:04:51.080That number is now down to two children, and it's falling further.
00:04:54.680Now, I've outlined some of the reasons for the infertility crisis in the past.
00:04:58.060Suffice it to say, it's something that most powerful left-wing activist groups in the country, including Planned Parenthood,
00:05:04.440have been hoping to achieve for quite some time explicitly.
00:05:06.940They explicitly want to depopulate the earth.
00:05:09.800So they welcome the fact that sperm counts, for example, have dropped 38% in a decade.
00:05:14.340They're happy to see more women killing their children, more men removed from the gene pool.
00:05:20.720But the problem here is bigger than infertility, because surrogacy is not an appropriate or moral or justifiable response to infertility in any event.
00:05:31.660Surrogacy, especially commercial surrogacy, is arguably the most direct form of human commodification this side of slavery.
00:05:40.220It is the purchasing and renting of human bodies, organs, and body parts.
00:05:45.340And that's true regardless of your motivation for doing it.
00:05:48.580And we don't allow that kind of transaction in almost any other context.
00:05:53.640Federal law prohibits you from, like, selling your organs on eBay.
00:05:57.900Virtually every jurisdiction in this country outlaws prostitution.
00:06:01.220People are not chattel, and we generally recognize that.
00:06:03.940But in this one case, it's allowed, because otherwise we're told that infertile couples and gay men wouldn't be able to have children.
00:06:12.120Therefore, it's worth the sacrifice of human embryos.
00:06:14.600It's worth turning a handful of poor countries like Georgia and Ukraine into surrogacy hubs.
00:06:20.460The women in those countries, you know, are selling their bodies for rent to foreigners who are looking for a lower rate compared to what they find in the United States.
00:06:28.220Because, you know, when you're looking to rent a woman's body, you shop around for the best deal you can find.
00:06:34.780And a lot of couples, particularly gay couples, are taking advantage of those discount offers.
00:06:40.940Now, you might remember that during the gay marriage debate, we heard the familiar line that two consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want.
00:07:03.220No matter how much propaganda you force on children, no matter how many times they hear the lie that having two fathers is completely normal and natural, they know it's not true.
00:07:12.080No matter how often we insist that, well, you can replace a mom with another man.
00:07:17.200A dad and a dad is the same thing as a mom and a dad.
00:07:21.000No matter how often we lie about that, it just, it is not true.
00:07:24.680There's a video circulating online right now that makes this point tragically clear.
00:07:29.700It's footage of a surrogate mother wishing her child a happy birthday.
00:07:33.740And this is a mother who apparently sold her eggs a few years ago to a couple of gay guys and only sees her daughter through an occasional video call.
00:08:43.340And yet this is done to children intentionally, and all for the sake of satisfying the wishes of gay couples.
00:08:49.020That clip, by the way, is from Surrogacy Concern, which is a group in the UK that opposes surrogacy.
00:08:55.000As I said earlier, in the UK, commercial surrogacy isn't generally allowed.
00:08:58.160Contracts for commercial surrogacy aren't enforceable for the most part.
00:09:00.940But they still allow so-called altruistic surrogacy, where surrogates don't accept any payment outside of the expenses that are incurred during the pregnancy.
00:09:09.960But as you can see from the video, this model isn't much of an improvement over the commercial model.
00:10:14.860I will be the first trans woman to have a successful uterus transplant, ovaries and eggs included.
00:10:22.120And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.
00:10:26.920I will let a doctor who has successfully transplanted a uterine complex before cut the organs out of a willing, healthy, transmasculine donor.
00:10:38.940I will devote myself, heart and soul, to their aftercare.
00:10:42.940I will have as much gay sex as it takes with as many trans women as it takes.
00:10:50.800And let the transphobes and homophobes scratch their heads, wondering what to make of it.
00:10:58.500And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.
00:11:04.280So he's grinning about killing a child and is quite excited about the possibility.
00:11:15.620And for the same reason that Leah Thomas grins while beating female swimmers and depriving them of their rightful accolades and opportunities.
00:11:24.120Although this is a much darker version of it, obviously.
00:11:27.240But the reason is the same, which is that he ascribes to an ideology of extreme pathological narcissism.
00:11:32.320It's reminiscent of the video of that WPATH expert that we played talking about turning people's genitals into abstract art.
00:11:37.880But above everything else, these people cannot tolerate being told no.
00:11:42.420They simply have to believe that they can do anything that they want.
00:11:45.960That they can be the victors, the champions over human biology.
00:11:51.960And in that sense, the underlying ideas behind trans ideology and commercial surrogacy aren't that distinct.
00:11:57.160They're both premised on the idea that human beings can be and should be gods.
00:12:02.860They think people can invent their own genders just as easily as they can invent new ways for two men to have a child, quote unquote.
00:12:10.000But humans don't have the power to create new genders.
00:12:13.460Two men don't have the power to create a child and never will.
00:12:17.520No one has the authority to end an innocent human life.
00:12:20.740The commercial surrogacy industry, like so many other movements we've been told to accept over the past decade,
00:12:25.980is yet another step towards a dystopia that embraces delusions instead of rejecting them.
00:12:30.540And as we've seen before, if this is allowed to continue, many children will be irreparably damaged by it, if not killed.
00:12:40.720They'll be forced to suffer in order to appease narcissists and psychopaths.
00:12:44.900And as with the trans movement, women, the very people who are supposedly empowered by this approach,
00:21:31.120That is the opposite of the point that we are making about DEI.
00:21:37.020He is making the opposite point of you.
00:21:39.840So if you're on the right and you have shared this clip, okay, and because you think he agrees with you, no, he's making the opposite point.
00:21:49.160It's not even just slightly different from your point.
00:21:53.900And in so doing, he's even calling you a racist.
00:21:56.840So he's saying you're totally wrong on this issue and you're a racist.
00:22:02.260So he disagrees with you absolutely and fundamentally on this issue.
00:22:06.760There is nothing here for us to applaud.
00:22:09.480I mean, this is like, it's like if somebody carjacks you and then his friend yells at the guy for carjacking you because he says that he should have stole your wallet also.
00:22:27.160That's why he's mad that, yeah, well, you carjacked that.
00:26:17.920A two-year-old proposal to ban menthol cigarettes may be delayed until after the 2024 election
00:26:23.900as President Joe Biden weighs a move that could risk eroding his support within the black community.
00:26:29.300The Food and Drug Administration first proposed banning menthols and flavored cigars in April 2022,
00:26:34.020but has since missed two deadlines for finalizing the rule, the second of which expired at the end of March.
00:26:39.020The agency said a statement, the FDA remains committed to issuing the tobacco product standards for menthol in cigarettes
00:26:47.620and characterizing flavors in cigars as expeditiously as possible, noting the process in its final stage.
00:26:53.820As we made clear, these product standards remain at the top of our priorities.
00:26:57.600But some observers say other priorities are behind the delay, namely the lack of support for the idea as the election sharpens into view.
00:27:04.280Biden's menthol ban has received praise from public health advocates who say it can save hundreds of thousands of lives.
00:27:09.460The tobacco industry is also accused of disproportionately targeting the black community with its marketing of menthol cigarettes.
00:27:15.900Now, you know, of course it's funny that a ban on menthol cigarettes is the thing that, you know,
00:27:23.300supposedly will turn the black community against the Democrats in November.
00:27:27.780As if there aren't already a hundred other reasons why that should happen.
00:27:32.180A hundred other reasons for the black community specifically to hate Democrats.
00:27:37.160And the biggest reason is that Democrat leadership has absolutely ravaged and destroyed pretty much every predominantly black neighborhood in the country.
00:27:46.280I mean, maybe we don't even need to qualify pretty much there.
00:27:49.980Every predominantly black neighborhood in the country.
00:27:51.840And I normally reject the disproportionate impact argument.
00:27:57.220But in this case, it's true that black communities are disproportionately ruined by Democrat policies.
00:28:07.080And of course, the rub is that this is happening because black people keep voting for leaders who promise to make their lives worse at every turn.
00:28:16.000So this is a self-imposed problem in many ways, but it is a major problem.
00:28:22.120And, you know, that's a very good argument for black people and all people to not vote Democrat.
00:29:08.000I guess whatever whatever brings about the result is, you know, is good.
00:29:14.080And putting the racial element aside for a moment, it's also just ridiculous that we are still talking about the dangers of tobacco products in a country with a drug overdose epidemic.
00:29:26.540Fentanyl all over the streets, weed legalized everywhere, you know, an obesity epidemic.
00:29:35.520And not just the obesity epidemic, but the fact that the very same people who rant and rave about tobacco products will tell us that we shouldn't be fat phobic and that we should be accepting of all body types.
00:29:46.140So all these various ways that the human body is being destroyed, and yet we're still supposed to see cigarettes as this special evil, I think is ridiculous.
00:29:59.400And with cigarettes, now you know that I don't often, I'm not often persuaded by the libertarian argument that, well, hey, this doesn't affect you, man.
00:30:14.840It's none of your business, it doesn't affect you.
00:30:16.380But the reason why I'm usually not persuaded by it is that in most cases, when the libertarians say, this doesn't affect you, or when the liberals say, this doesn't affect you, in most cases, it actually does.
00:30:30.240When we go back to what we talked about at the beginning, gay marriage, you know, one of the greatest examples of this.
00:30:36.260It doesn't affect you, well, it turns out that trying to redefine, but as a result obliterating, the fundamental societal institution of marriage, it has a devastating impact on all of society.
00:30:51.900So if something reshapes society in a fundamental way, as a member of society, yes, I am affected by that.
00:30:59.680Because I'm a human and I live here too.
00:31:01.520So most of the time, or, you know, when it comes to drug legalization, or as we've talked about recently, marijuana, like all these things, they have a, the effect of deteriorating these communities and society as a whole, which of course affects everybody that lives there.
00:31:20.260But with tobacco products in particular, this is one time when that argument would actually apply.
00:31:25.780It really doesn't, if you want to smoke cigarettes, it actually really doesn't have any impact.
00:31:32.560It genuinely has really no impact on anybody but you.
00:31:38.800The worst the rest of us have to deal with is the smell.
00:31:41.740But even that, I mean, the smokers are treated like such lepers these days.
00:31:46.540I mean, you can walk around smoking marijuana anywhere you want, vaping, whatever.
00:31:50.580But, you know, cigarette smokers in particular are, you know, if you want to smoke a cigarette, we'll carve out a little space for you out in the cold, way all over there.
00:32:00.080There's a little circle everyone has to huddle together.
00:32:02.700So even the smell thing isn't an issue anymore.
00:32:06.920So it really is, you know, that's, it's really your issue.
00:32:11.560And, and yeah, you know, probably suffer some health effects for it down the, down the line.
00:32:16.920But this legitimately is an, is, is an area where I don't see why it should be any interest of mine or the government's, whether someone wants to smoke cigarettes or not.
00:32:46.920Allies will do everything that they can to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine,
00:32:54.100an aggression that gets worse with every passing day.
00:33:08.740Article 5 of NATO's treaty states that an armed attack against one or more NATO members in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.
00:33:18.020Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in February that NATO countries must, in the end,
00:33:22.240understand that all this truly threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and, therefore, the destruction of civilization.
00:33:28.580Okay, well, this is obviously total lunacy.
00:33:34.060The United States needs to leave NATO if Ukraine joins.
00:33:44.940I mean, this is like supervillain levels of evil.
00:33:47.220Our government is run by people who would risk or directly bring about the deaths of millions of people, millions of Americans, for no reason, for no good reason anyway.
00:35:22.400There's already a military recruitment crisis in this country.
00:35:25.600What happens when joining the military means going over to die in a battle over some country that nobody in this country really cares about?
00:35:33.380And I don't care how many Ukraines in bio, you know, how many bios have Ukraine flags in it.
00:35:44.920Going overseas to die for some country nobody cares about, like, it wouldn't be the first time, obviously.
00:35:50.500But at least with the pointless wars in the Middle East that, you know, we suffered through for the first two decades of this century,
00:35:59.720there was at least the claim that we were defending ourselves against terrorism or whatever.
00:36:05.660It wasn't true, but there was the claim, okay?
00:36:10.580In this case, they aren't even making that claim.
00:36:13.740When you ask them, why should we do anything?
00:36:17.400Why should we lift a finger to help Ukraine?
00:36:19.840They don't even really, you know, sometimes they might try to make some really tortured argument about how it's in the best interest of our national security or whatever.
00:36:26.360But most of the time, they don't even say that.
00:36:29.220They just say that, oh, Ukraine should be free.
00:36:32.800Hey, the poor Ukrainians need our help.
00:37:17.160My sons aren't going to die on foreign soil at the behest of these damn psychopaths for the sake of some foreign government, some conflict that they have nothing to do with.
00:38:36.060It's one thing, you know, I hate it when, obviously, politicians lie to us.
00:38:40.000But at least when they lie to us, and there are plenty of lies being told about Ukraine, but at least when they lie to us, there's a certain amount of respect that they feel like they have to, right?
00:38:54.360Because they're worried to some extent about us finding out the truth.
00:38:57.280It's even worse when they don't even bother to lie in some ways.
00:39:00.440And so, that's the thing with Ukraine shipping.
00:39:05.520We've shipped, of course, billions and millions of dollars over there already.
00:39:10.260It's like they're, they haven't even come up with a compelling lie to explain to us.
00:39:15.500I don't know, we, in order for you to be safe, and for your family to be safe, we have to do this.
00:39:22.320Maybe eventually they'll come up with that lie, but they haven't, they haven't yet.
00:39:26.600Instead, it's all just, yeah, it's for their sake.
00:40:02.340If it wasn't for the internet and the media obsessing over it, if Ukraine just like was invaded by Russia and ceased to exist as a country, you'd live your whole life and never know it.
00:40:11.960You would never know that it happened because it has zero impact on you.
00:40:15.640And anyone who says that, well, that's cruel, how could you not care?
00:40:21.480You've got countries all over the world being invaded constantly, fighting over borders and stuff, countries, you know, ceasing to exist, countries coming into existence.
00:40:34.980If you're a mainstream media consumer, you only care when the media comes along and says, you know, all those conflicts and everything, people dying and all these terrible things happening all over the globe every single day.
00:42:38.580And it is, needless to say, going to be not only the greatest thing The Daily Wire has ever done, but many people are already saying it looks like it's going to be the most important television program that's ever been produced.
00:42:58.080And I've heard many people, I couldn't give you specific examples, I've just heard it.
00:43:03.960I've been out and I've heard a lot of people saying this.
00:43:07.460Well, it's just, you just hear it, you know.
00:43:09.540But there have been a few who have had some criticisms of the new show, even though they haven't seen it yet.
00:43:21.160Matthew says, the most hilarious part of this is that these are the same people who say judges that rule against Trump and his cronies are making a mockery of the judicial system.
00:43:29.760Well, yes, those people are making a mockery of the judicial system, Matthew, but you're obviously implying that that's what we're doing with this show.