A new investigation reveals that Planned Parenthood is shipping gender-affirming drugs to children across the country. This raises the important question, among others, why exactly are we funding these people? And of course, then, the major news: a new Pope. What do I think of the Pope? What is my analysis of his papacy? And yet another parent has been criminally charged for violence committed by their children. This seems to be happening more and more, but there s a certain pattern with these prosecutions that we need to discuss. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a new investigation reveals that Planned Parenthood is shipping gender transition drugs to children across the country.
00:00:06.660This raises an important question, among others, why exactly are we funding these people?
00:00:12.140And of course then, the major news, a new pope.
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00:02:08.000We've spent a lot of time on this show discussing psychiatric drugs like SSRIs, and the problem with these drugs is that they're incredibly potent, potentially dangerous, and they affect the mind in ways that the doctors prescribing them don't fully understand.
00:02:21.620And all these problems are compounded by the fact that they are increasingly easy to obtain.
00:02:26.420In fact, as the problems with psychiatric medications become more evident, the barriers to access those drugs only become lower.
00:02:33.300You know, it seems that, you know, things should be working the opposite way, but that's not how it goes.
00:02:38.900And if you want to get a highly potent, dangerous, mind-altering drug these days, you can get it.
00:02:45.520In fact, you probably don't even have to leave your house to get it.
00:03:00.120It will require all kinds of legislation to fix.
00:03:02.000But there are some steps we can and must take immediately to address this problem, address the problem of fraudulent life-altering drugs being handed out in large quantities to young people in particular, basically on demand.
00:03:13.640One of those steps is to defund some of the largest distributors of these life-altering drugs, which is something that should have happened a long time ago, of course.
00:03:22.460If we can't ban these people from operating outright, then at the very least, we should stop giving them money and we should stop giving them tax breaks.
00:03:29.820What's happening is a genuine crisis, and it's not limited to SSRIs.
00:03:35.300They extend to a whole host of other drugs as well.
00:03:37.860And a new investigation by Live Action, the pro-life nonprofit, has just brought renewed urgency to this crisis and how completely out of control the problem really is.
00:03:46.760What I'm about to play is part of an undercover investigation by Live Action where they contacted various Planned Parenthood locations posing as a 16-year-old girl.
00:03:54.580And in these conversations, Live Action's 16-year-old girl requests, quote-unquote, gender-affirming care, including cross-sex hormones.
00:04:02.540And Planned Parenthood responds by saying that this is completely fine.
00:04:05.600They say that they'll do it virtually over, you know, Zoom or something like that.
00:04:09.600And then they suggest that if the girl goes to a clinic in person, she does not need to be accompanied by her mother in the examination room.
00:05:47.780So unless you have TRICARE insurance, it would not be required.
00:05:51.200Now, this footage is part of an extensive investigation by Live Action into Planned Parenthood.
00:05:57.220And the full report was just released this week.
00:06:00.040To put things in context, Planned Parenthood is the leading abortion mill in the country.
00:06:03.560They commit roughly 40% of the abortions in this country all by themselves.
00:06:07.380And they receive something like $700 million from taxpayers every single year.
00:06:12.960So what exactly is that money buying, aside from abortions and irreversible drugs for children?
00:06:19.760Well, according to Live Action, citing various investigations, it's allowing Planned Parenthood to traffic in human body parts,
00:06:25.000commit all kinds of health code and privacy violations, engage in anti-white racism at all levels of the operation.
00:06:31.940And I'm not going to go through the entire report now.
00:06:33.680It's online if you want to view it, and you should.
00:06:35.400But I will highlight this one particular section.
00:06:40.200Quote, at least 40,000 patients went to Planned Parenthood for gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, in 2023 alone,
00:06:46.940a number that has risen tenfold since 2017.
00:06:50.720The largest proportion, about 40%, were 18 to 22-year-olds.
00:06:55.300According to Live Action, 45 out of Planned Parenthood's 49 affiliated facilities provide this so-called care.
00:07:01.720And Planned Parenthood is now the second largest provider of so-called gender-affirming hormones in the entire country.
00:07:08.860The report continues, Planned Parenthood targets minors for gender-affirming care by disseminating pro-transgender ideology online and in schools.
00:07:16.220It's also stated that it would like to expand its gender-affirming care to a greater number of minors.
00:07:20.780The report cites a video from Planned Parenthood in which the organization claims that puberty blockers are, quote,
00:07:27.700like a stop sign that pauses puberty without any potential side effects, which is completely false.
00:07:34.680Planned Parenthood also provides sex education materials to elementary schools, according to this report,
00:07:38.880including, quote, information about puberty blockers and graphics of pubic hair art.
00:07:43.840Now, in some cases, Live Action notes that Planned Parenthood was caught referring a 14-year-old undercover actor to gender-affirming treatments at another organization
00:07:54.200so that he could hide his so-called transition from his parents.
00:07:59.600Every page of this report is extremely difficult to read, and it's all very damning.
00:08:04.520Even if you put all the baby murder to the side, which you can't because that's still obviously the most evil thing this organization does or any organization does on the planet.
00:08:15.500But even if you did somehow forget about that, Planned Parenthood still remains one of the most evil organizations in the country.
00:08:21.940Their explicit goal is to permanently alter the lives of young people with surgeries and hormones long before they're able to consent to anything like that.
00:08:30.220And as the report outlines, half the time, they don't even follow their own protocols as limited as those protocols already are.
00:08:37.200Now, what's left unanswered in all of this is why Planned Parenthood still receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
00:08:47.980Republicans, as you may know, control Congress and the White House.
00:08:53.320So why the hell are we still sending all this money to these butchers?
00:08:57.480To be clear, as Live Action's report outlines, you probably don't even need legislation to stop this funding.
00:09:03.700There are dozens of violations listed in this report which document Planned Parenthood's issues with patient privacy, fraud, trafficking of fetal remains, and so on.
00:09:12.020All of these problems by themselves are grounds for an executive order shutting down the funding immediately.
00:09:17.920But that hasn't happened yet, and Congress hasn't done anything either.
00:09:23.500Nor have they done anything about the mass prescription of SSRIs.
00:09:26.520Now, to be clear, Planned Parenthood should be forcibly shut down by law.
00:09:33.300I mean, the entire organization should just be, the whole organization should be banned, and all of its executives and employees at every level of the company should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.
00:09:42.920There should be a Nuremberg for Planned Parenthood executives, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon, unfortunately.
00:09:50.920There are a lot of things that should happen but won't, and this is probably number one on that list.
00:09:55.660So what I'm saying is that defunding them is the bare minimum.
00:10:00.060I mean, it's not even close to the full extent of what should be done to shut down these butchers and child abusers and bring them to justice.
00:10:42.900What the activists will scream and sing protest songs in the street?
00:10:48.040Now, that last bit is pretty painful, I admit, but is any of that enough to override the great moral necessity of defunding an organization that kills and castrates children?
00:11:16.300We might as well give them something real to cry about.
00:11:19.980Now, that's not to say that Republicans in Congress haven't done anything at all.
00:11:23.760They're technically still showing up to work.
00:11:26.480Later in the show, we'll talk about what they accomplished this week, though, spoiler alert, it's not exactly groundbreaking stuff, although it is good.
00:11:36.200But it's well past time for elected Republican representatives, along with the White House, to take decisive action on the ghouls and butchers who call themselves health care providers.
00:11:45.820You know, last time Republicans controlled the entire government, nothing was done about Planned Parenthood funding.
00:14:02.100Well, you know, he's been pope for precisely one day, so it's a little hard to assess his papacy at this juncture.
00:14:18.840And I will say that it's been very strange to be on social media, especially on X, over the past 24 hours as a Catholic, because this is the first time that a pope has been chosen.
00:14:32.220And then immediately people start combing through the pope's old tweets.
00:14:39.540And I get that if you're not a Catholic, it doesn't seem strange to you because you see the pope as essentially a political figure because you're viewing it from the outside.
00:14:51.600But as a believing Catholic, you know, that's not how we see it.
00:15:03.740And we're doing the screenshots of the old tweets.
00:15:06.660And, you know, because people are many people are treating the selection of a pope as if he's as if he'd just been nominated to be a cabinet secretary or something.
00:15:17.880And it's, as I said, sort of a strange thing to say to see.
00:15:22.500Now, as for his old tweets, and you've probably seen some of them, there are some red flags there.
00:15:29.600I mean, there's some cause for concern.
00:15:31.480And he's taken moderate or left-leaning stances on things like immigration, things like climate change.
00:15:38.300He was critical of J.D. Vance, which is very unfortunate.
00:15:41.480He's been critical of Trump's immigration policies, along with amplifying other people who've criticized him, retweeting.
00:15:52.220So people are going through and finding the pope's retweets.
00:16:44.360Some people have pointed out that this pope wore the traditional papal vestments when he first came out to address the crowd, which Francis did not.
00:16:55.760That's a nod towards tradition, which is also good.
00:16:58.120And that's, again, a lot of what you're seeing in the pope analysis is it's why a lot of it is like cross purposes, because, again, if you're not I'm not saying that if you're not Catholic, you shouldn't talk about it.
00:17:09.720Or, of course, everyone, it's a it's a it's a major world event.
00:17:14.440And also as a Catholic, I'm proud of that.
00:17:16.560I'm proud of the fact that I'm part of the Catholic Church.
00:17:20.140And when we get a new leader, it's a it's a it's a fact that matters to everybody.
00:17:26.760Right. So I have no objection to people outside the church offering their analysis, but you're just looking at it from a very different lens.
00:17:35.740And so we end up talking sometimes at cross purposes.
00:20:49.120And it would be different if he was the president.
00:20:55.780You know, if he was elected president of the United States, then his stance on American sovereignty would be of much greater importance.
00:21:05.080Which isn't to say that it's of no importance for the pope, but we have to see these things in a certain perspective.
00:21:11.680Now, that said, you know, the pope supporting or calling for mass migration, the invasion of the third world into the first world, you know, the third world invasion in first world countries.
00:21:24.040If the pope calls for that or supports it, that's a huge problem.
00:21:41.180If this pope does things as pope that I personally think are objectionable or harmful or wrong, I'll say so.
00:21:47.740My track record on that is very clear.
00:21:50.520But I also want to give him a chance, and I think that's reasonable.
00:21:53.440So, you know, if eight months from now, Pope Leo XIV comes out and condemns American immigration policy and declares that we have a moral duty to accept an unchecked flood of third world immigrants.
00:22:11.740And if that were to happen, you don't have to come back to me and say, see, Matt, I told you so.
00:30:17.400Hey, Jasmine, I mean, you said that conservatives are violent, but BLM, you know, they burn whole city blocks and murder people in the streets, smash cops in the heads with cinder blocks.
00:30:51.260Who haven't done anything or been seen anywhere in years, really.
00:30:56.620And who, by the way, through the whole course of their existence, committed less violence cumulatively and collectively than BLM did at one single riot in one single city on one single night.
00:31:07.360So she says them and then the KKK, which essentially doesn't exist.
00:31:12.720The last one's the last time the KKK was a relevant force in American life.
00:31:19.120When's the last time you had to worry about the KKK?
00:31:25.680So the KKK has not been a relevant force in America since I've been alive, since way before I've been alive.
00:31:30.580Very few people who no one listening to this and very few people who could listen to this have lived in a country where the KKK was a thing that anyone had to worry about.
00:34:43.060It's OK to discriminate in this case because the end result is greater inclusion of racial minorities, which they see as an objectively positive result.
00:34:54.020And the flip side of that is that a bad end automatically means that the thing that was done to achieve that resulted in the bad end is wrong.
00:37:22.660And so it's the kind of thing that you can only justify if you believe, number one, the ends justify the means.
00:37:29.300And number two, that human life has no intrinsic value.
00:37:35.140And number three, if you believe that there's, that there's a certain value in and of itself to dismantling and destroying.
00:37:43.600If you see civilization in particular as a thing that needs to be dismantled and destroyed, then again, then what will, then a riot makes a lot of sense, actually.
00:37:52.540A riot is a random, just random destruction of whatever happens to be around.
00:37:55.960So, that's why the left is actually violent and will always be the much more violent political movement.
00:38:17.780I'm hesitant to discuss this story, this next story, only because I might want to do a longer monologue on it next week and I don't like to repeat myself.
00:38:25.960Which may come as a shock because I repeat myself all the time, but I just, I didn't say I don't repeat myself, I just said I don't like to.
00:38:31.460So, but speaking of repetition, stop me if you've heard this one before.
00:38:36.200The parent of a school shooter has been charged in connection with the shooting.
00:38:40.480This is the third such case by my count in just the last year or so.
00:38:46.700The third time that a parent has been charged with a crime that his child committed.
00:38:51.740And so, let me read a little bit of this story and the details, and then we'll talk about it.
00:38:59.720And I'm going to have to read more of this article than I normally would, but there are just important details here so that we can offer any kind of coherent analysis.
00:39:08.880Wisconsin prosecutors have charged the father of a teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting last year with allowing her to access the semi-automatic pistol that she used in the attack.
00:39:20.040The criminal complaint against 42-year-old Jeffrey Rupno of Madison details how his daughter, 15-year-old Natalie, struggled with her parents' divorce, showing her anger in a written piece entitled War Against Humanity.
00:39:32.440Her father tried to bond with her through guns, the complaint said, even as she meticulously planned the attack, including building a cardboard model of the school and scheduling the shooting to end with her suicide.
00:39:44.840Prosecutors filed the complaint Wednesday, but didn't unseal until after Jeffrey Rupno was arrested.
00:39:49.780He faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18, causing death, and contributing to the delinquency of a child.
00:39:57.020Jeffrey Rupno told investigators that his daughter lived with him but had been struggling with his divorce from her mother in 2022, saying she hated her life and wanted to kill herself.
00:40:08.920He said she used to cut herself to the point where he had to lock up all the knives in his house.
00:40:12.700She had been in therapy to learn how to be more social until the spring before the attack.
00:40:16.620Her mother, Melissa, told executives that the, or rather detectives, that the therapist told her that Natalie was suffering post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from the divorce.
00:40:24.760One of Natalie's friends told investigators that Jeffrey Rupno was frequently verbally aggressive and that he was a drinker.
00:40:33.640Jeffrey Rupno told investigators that he took Natalie shooting with him on a friend's land about two years before the abundant life attack.
00:40:44.580She enjoyed it, and he came to see guns as a way to connect with her, but he was shocked at how her interest in firearms snowballed.
00:40:49.760He kept Natalie's pistols in a gun safe, telling her that if she ever needed them, the access code was his social security number entered backwards.
00:40:57.440About 10 days before the school attack, he texted a friend and said that Natalie would shoot him if he left the fun safe open right now.
00:41:05.940Okay, and then after the attack, he sent a letter, a message to detectives saying that his biggest mistake was teaching Natalie how to handle a gun safely and urging police to warn people to change their gun safe combinations every two to three months.
00:41:27.160And so that was his warning, okay, so there are two things we need to talk about here.
00:41:36.000First of all, as to the merits of these charges and allowing for the fact that there might be details that, I mean, there certainly are details we don't know.
00:41:44.020There might be very salient and important details that detectives and investigators know that we don't.
00:41:48.460They haven't told us yet, they haven't told us yet, and so if I'm judging just based on what we read, this could change if there's more we weren't told that comes out, and then maybe it will change my analysis of this.
00:41:59.960But based on what we know, well, it's in that article, I would say that I don't think he should be charged with a crime.
00:42:08.800In fact, based on what we just read, I think that it seems like a gross miscarriage of justice to charge him with a crime.
00:42:16.160Now, did the father make mistakes here?
00:42:34.560Therapy is very often useless and makes things worse, but again, he's doing what he thought was the right thing.
00:42:39.540Taking her shooting, because it's, you know, as the father, the daughter lives with him, which is a very interesting detail.
00:42:49.140That's unusual to have a divorce and the daughter lives with the father rather than the mother.
00:42:55.300So there's all kinds of backstory there that we don't know about, but the daughter lives with him.
00:43:01.580So he, as a now single father, he's trying to bond with his daughter, and so he's doing it in the only way that he knows how as a man with bringing her into his sort of masculine activities.
00:43:12.820And for him, he's really into shooting, and so he brings her into that.
00:43:15.640Okay, he notices her spiraling, he keeps the guns locked up, and then it, one important thing I think I skipped over as I was skimming is that he, a couple days before the shooting, let me see if I can find it.
00:43:35.080He took a gun out to clean it so that Natalie could clean it, but then he got distracted, and he wasn't sure if he put the weapon back in the safe or not.
00:43:44.740Okay, so that was like the biggest mistake of all.
00:44:30.560What we do see is a father with a daughter spiraling mentally and emotionally who doesn't know how to handle, and he, as the father, doesn't know how to handle that.
00:44:38.440And we see that, you know, if there was one action taken by the parents that we could connect directly and most directly to this crime, it was the divorce.
00:44:48.280The divorce is what, by all accounts, made everything start crumbling down.
00:44:52.820If they hadn't got divorced, probably this never happened.
00:44:56.540Are we going to arrest every parent who gets divorced after their child goes and commits a violent crime?
00:46:06.600They want to go to their room, or you send them to timeout, and they refuse to go.
00:46:10.060You can pick them up and bring them there.
00:46:11.560Like, you can, in that sense, control them, but especially as they get older, you can't literally directly control everything they do, say, and think, obviously.
00:46:26.500So when we say control, what we really mean is influence.
00:46:30.300As parents, there's a little bit of direct control that goes into it.
00:46:34.060When they're very young, there's a lot.
00:46:35.760As they get older, there's less and less of it, of direct, like, physical control of what they're doing.
00:46:42.320As they get older, there's less of that, and then the influence becomes more important.
00:46:46.040And so when we say kids out of control, what we really mean is that they have not been properly influenced by their parents.
00:46:54.220Their parents are not influencing their behavior at all, or their parents are influencing their behavior in the wrong kind of way.
00:46:59.980But, and so in this case, you know, this is a child who was not being influenced the right way, who was, the father apparently was trying to influence her, trying to bond with her.
00:47:23.560And that wasn't connecting, it wasn't working, or it was, or it was, it was, it was being interpreted in the wrong way.
00:48:20.400You fail, you, that's a failure as a parent if they, if you've, if you've lost influence over them.
00:48:25.600But if that translates to criminal charges, if this is enough to hold him criminally liable,
00:48:32.380then the question is, how in God's name can you justify not also charging the parents of literally thousands of violent criminals who are in prison right now?
00:48:47.940Every damn day in this country, there are kids in the street committing violent crimes, including murder and including with guns.
00:48:55.240Guns that the parents, usually the mom, because in this scenario, the dad is completely absent.
00:49:01.800These are guns that the parents either know about or don't know about because they're incredibly neglectful and not monitoring their children at all.
00:49:09.980You know, we, so we could say, oh, well, so the father should go to jail here because it was his gun.
00:49:14.680Um, okay, well, so if it's a 14 year old kid running around the streets of Baltimore with a gun that he got from somewhere else and, and the mom doesn't even know about it, is that better?
00:49:30.220Is she, is she off the hook even more?
00:49:32.500I'd say if anything, that's like worse.
00:49:35.500If you're, if your kid's going out on his own and getting a gun at the age of 13 or 14 and you don't even know about it, you're at least equally as neglectful.
00:49:47.960So, um, but none of those parents are ever charged.
00:49:55.160You know, they, you have these kids who, who kids, teens, young adults also committing crimes and, and, uh, and the parents through their inaction, through their recklessness, through their lack of parental oversight, allowed it to happen.
00:50:14.420Every day this happens every single day, every single day, right now, as we are speaking, there is a 15 year old kid out in the street in some city about to take out a gun.
00:50:28.720And rob a liquor store and his mom is a block away at home.
00:50:56.460So, look, people don't like it when I say it, uh, but the only parents who are charged in these kinds of cases are middle-class white parents.
00:51:08.060And, uh, you know, people are going to say, oh, Matt's making it about race again.
00:51:31.480There, there are thousands of violent criminals in cities all across the country with awful, terrible parents who have done nothing to raise their kids properly.
00:51:40.560And, and none of those parents are ever charged ever, ever, ever, not ever.
00:51:44.640And so what do you want me to do with that?
00:51:47.600Oh, I'm just going to pretend it's not happening.
00:54:34.840But also, one of the ways to discover whether a standard is prudent, whether it is just, whether it makes sense, is to consistently apply it.
00:54:47.280If you're taking a standard and only applying it in a minority of random arbitrary cases, then you might, there might be a lot of problems with that standard that you're not going to really discover because you haven't expanded the scope of it in the way that you should.
00:55:00.880And I think that, and I think that this is a perfect example of that.
00:55:04.960Take that standard, apply it universally, and see where we're at.
00:55:09.600And if it's a standard that applied universally means that we have to go out right now and build 600 more prisons to put all the parents in, then we might say to ourselves, well, I just don't, you know, I don't think we can do that.
00:55:25.280And then, by the way, like, those parents all have other kids who are now orphans, and what are we going to do about that?
00:55:32.760So, but you've got to apply the standard equally, and this is a conversation that we just have to have.
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00:58:10.700When you spoil a child, so to speak, you take away from them the opportunity to develop their own competence by doing too many things for them.
00:58:19.300The consequences of his abdication of thought is that other people think for him.