Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we tell you about the incredible turnout at a pro-life rally in Philly, and where we go from here. Also, Mother's Day is now offensive, and I will discuss why. And I will field one of the most outrageous and offensive emails I've ever received.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we had our big pro-life rally here in Philly, and the turnout and reception was incredible.
00:00:06.820I want to tell you about it and talk about where we go from here with the pro-life movement.
00:00:12.200Was this the tipping point of some kind? And we'll talk about that.
00:00:15.540Also, Mother's Day is now offensive. We will discuss why.
00:00:19.340And I will field one of the most outrageous and offensive emails that I've ever received.
00:00:25.680I'll have to address today as well on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:30.000Well, I'm pretty blown away, honestly, by what I just witnessed.
00:00:38.060I'm coming from the rally here in Philly, the rally that, as I'm sure you're aware of, the genesis of it by now.
00:00:44.460But just to review, Brian Sims, the Democratic state lawmaker here in Philadelphia, had been harassing and accosting pro-lifers and filming himself doing it proudly.
00:00:56.880So we decided to hold a rally in support of the victims of his bullying and in defense, most importantly, of the unborn.
00:01:04.920And as I said, I'm just coming from the rally and the turnout was incredible.
00:01:11.640I mean, hundreds of people. The street was packed. There was barely room to stand.
00:01:16.060People came from all over. I personally talked to people who came from Texas, California, Ohio, all up and down the East Coast.
00:01:26.720I talked to one guy who drove in from Oklahoma, basically drove through the night to be here, on and on.
00:01:33.160And of course, there were a lot of local people here as well. Hundreds and hundreds of people.
00:01:37.620And, you know, what I was most excited about is that a lot of people that I talked to afterwards told me that they had never attended an event like this.
00:01:46.340They had never been to a pro-life event before.
00:01:48.660I heard that from a lot of people. And so there were there were plenty of pro-life veterans, plenty of of activists, you know, people who do this kind of thing all the time, which is great.
00:02:01.000But there was also a sizable number of people who have never stood outside of a clinic.
00:02:05.680They've never done this, never participated in something like this. And I'm I'm grateful for that.
00:02:11.660And I hope that it's in what many of those people told me is that this is they they planned for this to be the first of many such events that they will attend.
00:02:20.900And I hope that is the case. In fact, CBS reported that over.
00:02:25.760I was wondering what the I didn't get a headcount myself, but as far as the official I don't have an official crowd size number.
00:02:33.240CBS says that there were over a thousand people.
00:02:37.540And in fact, I'll let me I'll play their report, their report that they did on the rally just to give you an idea of the size.
00:02:43.860And also, because honestly, I'm I'm kind of shocked at the local CBS affiliate.
00:02:47.780First of all, they sent the helicopter to get a look at the crowd and then they accurately reported the size of the crowd, which I'm impressed by.
00:03:08.260Good afternoon there, Janelle and Jimmy.
00:03:10.440Yeah, more than a thousand people have gathered here in front of the Planned Parenthood Clinic at 12th and Locust Street.
00:03:16.460Take a live look at just how many folks are out here right now.
00:03:19.200Most of these folks are part of the pro-life movement.
00:03:21.560They're calling for an end to abortion, but they're gathering here today because of two videos posted by an elected state official.
00:03:28.040Now, the two videos went viral this week, but state representative Brian Sims recorded them in April.
00:03:33.380One video shows Sims approaching three teens and a mother prayerfully protesting in front of the clinic.
00:03:38.580He offers money to anyone who can identify the teens.
00:03:41.360The second nearly nine-minute video follows an elderly woman.
00:03:45.380She's also praying outside of the Planned Parenthood Clinic here.
00:03:48.540Sims calls the woman racist and says she's an old white lady.
00:03:52.500Now, back here live, if we take a look from our chopper, you can see just how large this crowd is.
00:03:57.740The videos received widespread criticism, as you can imagine, from both sides of the abortion debate.
00:04:03.360And this week, live action, a pro-life organization called for a rally outside the clinic.
00:04:08.520The crowd gathering here this morning calling for state rep Sims to resign and praying for those working and entering the facility.
00:04:14.980A heavy police presence surrounds this building, and at least a dozen Planned Parenthood volunteers stood guard outside to help escort, I should say, anyone inside the building.
00:04:25.860Most gathered here say this shows the power of the pro-life movement.
00:04:29.800We also did speak with one woman who was pro-choice.
00:04:33.940It shows the strength of the pro-life community, that the pro-life community here in Philadelphia and beyond will not back down to violence, bullying, and intimidation.
00:04:42.280We were overwhelmed just with the success of our fundraiser, where people were giving their own money in $5 and $10 and $25 increments.
00:04:49.820But the fact that people showed up, I know some people here traveled from such incredible distances to be here.
00:04:54.940It means so much to me and to my family.
00:04:57.500I'm out here to provide support for the volunteers that are coming to help people get services that they need.
00:05:03.480I wanted to just make sure that it felt like they felt safe.
00:05:09.180And back here live, you can just see how large this crowd is.
00:05:12.360It's basically closed down Locust Street between 12th and 11th Street here in Center City, a heavy police presence.
00:05:19.400And if we look to the left here, you can see some of the volunteers from Planned Parenthood.
00:05:22.700They're wearing the smocks, the orange and pink smocks, helping everyone or anyone who needs to enter the clinic here get through.
00:05:29.780Now, a lot of folks have called for Representative Sims to resign.
00:05:33.420He has not made any direct statement other than a video he released two days ago calling his actions aggressive.
00:06:39.140Um, and that's where this pretty much this entire event was organized just through not just me, but, um, many pro-lifers and conservatives and with, you know, a platform tweeting about it and getting people out.
00:06:54.900So this was, this is pretty much, this is a grassroots, uh, uh, organically organized through social media, mainly through Twitter.
00:07:25.380Um, you know, I get that face for, or when I'm tweeting, I assume that people read my tweets with that look on their face.
00:07:31.140I get that look for my wife a lot, um, uh, from all my family and loved ones.
00:07:35.520So I'm, I'm used to that face, but that was actually, see, she's making that face there because I, when I first got to the podium, uh, Lila tried to get me to take off my sunglasses because she said it was cloudy and rainy at the time.
00:07:47.300So there was no reason to have them on.
00:07:48.700Um, and, uh, I refused to take them off.
00:07:52.560Because they're prescription sunglasses and I'd be blind without them.
00:07:57.360So Lila, you know, arguably is discriminating against the visually impaired there.
00:08:02.040Um, and, uh, which, which is, which is terribly terrible.
00:08:05.920Honestly, after that moment, I had to keep the sunglasses on to hide my tears that I was shedding because I was so wounded by this discriminatory attack.
00:08:16.360Um, you might say that I could have worn regular glasses and that's true, but then what if the sun peeks out from the clouds suddenly and melts my eyeballs?
00:08:27.280Uh, so, so there's that, but aside from that one little hiccup, it was a remarkable and inspiring, motivating, uh, all around awesome event.
00:08:35.620And, and in all seriousness, aside from the sunglass shaming, Lila Rose and the people at Live Action deserve a ton of credit.
00:08:43.100Um, after I had this idea on Twitter, I, I immediately got in touch with Live Action because I know that if anyone could throw this together in four or five days, it would be them.
00:08:52.660And they did, um, and they, you know, they had to do quite a bit, uh, to, you got to get the permits, you got to get all the equipment, organize the speakers, you get to, you know, coordinate with the local, um, pro-life leaders, law enforcement.
00:09:10.100Now, people have been asking me if Brian Sims showed up.
00:09:14.780Um, and of course, no, he didn't, he did not show up.
00:09:20.720There was a little chance that he would, I would have loved to see him.
00:09:24.420I would have loved for him to come, but I didn't expect that he would, uh, Sims is a pariah now to Planned Parenthood, um, perhaps even more than he is in the pro-life movement.
00:09:36.300I think, I think Planned Parenthood probably hates him more now than they do us, um, because I'm sure they blame him for the fact that a thousand pro-lifers showed up to their front, you know, were standing in their front yard.
00:09:48.940We were on public property, but, um, they, the fact that there were a thousand pro-lifers outside of their building, they blame him for that, not without reason.
00:09:56.540And so he was never going to shut up, uh, show up.
00:09:59.960Um, and not only that, but it's, it's not just that Sims didn't come.
00:10:06.120Um, there were also almost no counter-protesters, which, which did not surprise me either.
00:10:36.320One, um, they don't want to engage, right?
00:10:42.280They can't defend their position and they know it.
00:10:46.060So they pick on the weak and the vulnerable.
00:10:48.620They, they, they pick on, they're like, you know, lions who are looking for the weak, injured gazelle to, like, separated from the pack, um, to go after.
00:10:57.300And I'm being way too flattering to them comparing them to lions because they're not at all, uh, maybe hyenas or something would be a better comparison.
00:11:03.860But they, they're looking, they, they, they'll come after you if you're by yourself.
00:11:09.040Um, and if they think that you're not going to be able to, if they think you, you won't be able to or won't be willing to defend yourself.
00:11:16.980So Brian Simpson was going after kids.
00:11:19.440Uh, he was going after the, the, the older woman who would have been perfectly capable of defending herself.
00:11:24.180But she decided to remain silent, which I think was a, which I think was a very good decision on her part.
00:11:29.180She let him basically, uh, you know, dig his own grave, as it were, uh, bury himself with his words.
00:11:36.140So she made the right decision and that's what they're looking for.
00:11:41.360If they think that, okay, there are going to be people there who will engage with me and, and argue with me and do so, um, you know, competently.
00:11:52.880Well, they don't want any part of that.
00:12:42.140The vast majority are indifferent, um, intellectually lazy, and they're, they're kind of in the middle.
00:12:48.420And that means they're going to go with the status quo.
00:12:50.800They're going to go with the way that, with the, just the direction that the water happens to be flowing.
00:12:55.580And, um, and so the status quo is abortion in our, um, society.
00:13:01.740But in terms of, uh, actually getting people, and that's the, that's the ace they have up their sleeve, is that they know, um, that, yeah, they don't have an energetic and large movement.
00:13:20.320But they also know that most people are just going to go with whatever they say.
00:13:25.540In terms of actually getting people mobilized, um, well, they could never do what we just did in a week.
00:13:50.220So, uh, as far as an, a, an event that explicitly deals with this issue, they're not going to do anything like what we did today, or what the March for Life does, or in many other kinds of similar events.
00:14:06.440Now, my point in bringing that up is that this is a, a, a huge advantage that we have, that we do have all the energy on our side.
00:14:21.260We have the ability and the willingness to mobilize, to get involved, um, and we also have the truth.
00:14:29.200You know, it, it, what we're defending is life, and, um, that really lends itself, you know, it, it, it, it lends itself to a rally or a march or giving a speech, uh, because what are you putting on the sign?
00:14:50.360You're saying, you're, you're putting things on the sign about life and love and liberty, and that's what we're, we're marching for.
00:14:58.200It's the kind of thing you could be proud to be a part of.
00:15:00.880And that's one of the other reasons that, that's one of the other problems that the pro-abortion movement has, is that, um, even people who are sympathetic to them,
00:15:09.240and even people who otherwise maybe would be willing to go out and be an activist, a lot of them are embarrassed and ashamed, uh, to be explicitly involved in this issue on that side of it.
00:15:27.960They don't want to be, they don't want to hold a sign saying, yay, abortion, right?
00:15:34.340They don't want that, uh, which is why if there's any hope of actually getting people, they need to say something, oh, it's a women's march.
00:15:43.180It's about all these other random issues.
00:15:45.540Uh, so sure, I'll hold a sign saying, yay, women, but we're not afraid to address the actual issue because we're not ashamed of our position.
00:15:55.220We know that it's right and it's good and it's just, and that's a huge advantage we have.
00:16:01.420So my hope is that what happened today is, um, the beginning of something.
00:16:29.520But I hope it's, it's a new thing for a lot of people who are sympathetic to the pro-life cause, who are pro-life.
00:16:35.560Uh, but up until this point, they're pro-life in their heads or maybe on the computer, not out in the real world.
00:16:43.340You see, what we did with this issue, what we did, it was very simple.
00:16:48.240We saw something that we didn't like, that was unjust and wrong.
00:16:55.000And we said, you know what, we're just going to show up.
00:16:58.700Yeah, we can send tweets and we'll do that and we can complain and all that.
00:17:02.300But we're also just going to show, we're just going to go.
00:17:05.380We're going to get on our feet, we're going to walk there and we're going to show up.
00:17:08.260And that's what we need to start doing, showing up, expressing our, um, point of view in the real world.
00:17:20.760We need to be doing a lot more of that.
00:17:25.420Nothing wrong with, uh, with complaining about injustice.
00:17:30.320But when we're complaining about it, the next question is, okay, what are you going to do about it?
00:17:34.780We did something here, and this might seem like a small thing, I don't know.
00:17:41.320But at the very least, you know, this guy, Brian Sims, he, he, this was, in him harassing pro-lifers, he'd been doing that for a long time.
00:17:48.280And filming himself doing it for a long time.
00:17:51.680The only difference is that we finally put our foot down and said, you know what, no, we're not going to let you do this anymore.
00:20:04.460So, as a believer in biology, uh, I confess, I, I do believe that biology is a thing, that it exists.
00:20:12.380So, as a believer in biology, I can define it.
00:20:14.740I would say that a woman, in principle, is a female of the human species who possesses two X chromosomes and female reproductive organs,
00:20:22.100as well as dozens of other, or even hundreds of other biological markers distinct to the female subset of the human species.
00:20:29.500That, that's how I would define the term.
00:20:31.240Um, and, and this will be the case for every female, barring sickness, mutation, or injury.
00:20:37.700So, there are going to be a few exceptions.
00:20:40.000But, uh, you know, for instance, women who don't have female reproductive organs, uh, not because they have functioning male reproductive organs,
00:20:47.740but just because they've, they've, you know, some sort of mutation, or, or there could have been a sickness.
00:20:51.960I mean, uh, but if, if it is an exception, it's because something has gone wrong physically, and that's very clear.
00:22:38.340And how am I not minding my own business?
00:22:40.300I'm just saying, what's, what's, what's the definition of this word?
00:22:43.180When someone asks for the definition of a word, if someone, you know, if your kid said to you, uh, you know, daddy, what, what does, what does, what does this word mean?
00:23:19.040All right, well, that's not really answering the question, but, uh, if that's the case, then you understand that it makes no sense for you to say, so-and-so is a woman.