Choosing Lifeļ¼ The Racism of the Pro-Abortion Movement - Star Parker
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In this episode, Starr Parker talks with Dr. Kelly about abortion, the abortion industry, and the abortion culture in the United States. Dr. Parker is a pediatrician, author, and public policy analyst who has dedicated her life to fighting poverty and restoring dignity through messages of faith and personal responsibility.
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This conversation involves graphic discussions related to abortion and the abortion industry.
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Please consider turning off the episode if children are present, and continue listening with caution.
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Planned Parenthood has been true to its mission from day one,
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and its mission was to annihilate what Margaret Sanger believed was human weed.
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She was a racist, she was a eugenicist, and she did not want this population of new, freed former slaves growing in America.
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So Planned Parenthood deliberately, even to today, targets poor communities, poor women,
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which are disproportionate African American and Latino, to make sure that they do not produce children.
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Now, they can spin it any way that they want to, but that is the reality.
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It is true to their mission that we want these population numbers low.
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The problem that they have with the Latino community is it's a growing community
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rooted still in a lot of Catholic belief systems, so they are still producing their children.
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But make no mistake, Planned Parenthood is in their schools, in our hard-hit zip codes,
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pushing their ideas to keep abortion alive, to keep your children numbers low.
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For all that the left loves to talk about anti-black racism, leftists never seem to want to discuss
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the single most direct and lethal attack on black people in America today, abortion.
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In New York City, more black babies are aborted than born.
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The single most dangerous place for a black person in New York is in his mother's womb.
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And this disproportionate harm toward black people is not a bug of the abortion system.
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It's a feature that has been baked in from the very beginning, as Starr Parker learned
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when she began to investigate the deepest causes of the breakdown of the black family.
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I'm Starr Parker. We fight poverty and restore dignity through messages of faith, freedom,
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and personal responsibility here in Washington, D.C. through a policy institute called CURE.
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We work on welfare reform and all related issues. We call it hee-hee. We work on health issues. We work
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on education issues. We work on housing issues. And we work on economic issues. We're trying to break
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the cycle of poverty. So most of our focus is on our most distressed zip codes in the country,
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but we're trying to change the laws here in Washington, D.C. so that people living in those
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zip codes can live free. And you've talked quite a bit about abortion in the United States. What
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first brought that topic kind of onto your radar? What brought the topic onto my radar is that when
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I had a born-again experience and people started talking about public policy, I grew up a business
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that was involved in a lot of public policy issues. Of course, abortion was one of those issues. So I
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started talking publicly about my own experiences of buying the lie of the left, that abortion was just
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a convenience, that it was a blob of tissue and everything else that you kind of heard coming out
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of the 70s and going into the 80s about life and where it begins and all of the questions that people
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are asking. So I brought my own personal experiences to the table that after the fourth time, I went into
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one of their so-called safe legal rare clinics is when I started really thinking about the decisions
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that I was making, had a gut instinct way down deep inside that there must be something wrong with
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killing your offspring. I mean, all the messages in society said it was just fine. And I had actually
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got caught up in the culture that knew we were pregnant. I knew I was pregnant. So you just stay
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pregnant as long as you could so you can get a welfare check and then you go kill what God calls
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his reward. But after that fourth time, it started to bother me. And then after my born again
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experience, I stopped doing it altogether. And then doors started opening for me to make my story
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public. And so it's one of the things that we fight here at CURE against abortion being legalized
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because it feeds a narrative that women are victims, that they can't control their sexual impulses,
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which makes our job harder to diminish the welfare state government overreach in our most distressed
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zip codes. So I think everyone, you know, right, if they were to look at you right now,
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they'd be like, oh, she's probably always been pro-life, you know? Oh, she's probably always had
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this view. But, you know, that wasn't always the case for you. So can you kind of take-
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Oh, no, I wasn't always pro-life. In fact, I was like most Americans who just believe anything.
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You kind of get lost in the culture and a culture of moral relativism. I was doing whatever I wanted to
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do. I believed all the lies of the left, that my problems were someone else's fault because I was
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African-American, that America was racist, I shouldn't mainstream, that I could do whatever I want to
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because I was poor and others were wealthy. So I blamed them for my distress. And you can get just
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very lost in decisions. So after early decisions, teenage decisions of criminal activity and drug
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activity, sexual activity was next. Sexual activity led me in and out of abortion clinic after clinic
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until I ended up on the welfare state. Then a Christian conversion changed my life. So I just stopped
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doing those things. Went to college, got a degree, started a business. And after that business was
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destroyed during the 1992 Los Angeles riots is when I started focusing on these types of issues,
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including abortion and what it has done mostly to our most distressed communities, which means
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disproportionately to the black community. And correct me if I'm wrong and tell me if you don't
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want to talk about this, but you did have a couple abortions early on in your life, correct?
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Like four. Yeah, oh, I was reckless. And in fact, one of the times I don't even think I was really
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pregnant. So I just count that one because, you know, now when you're living that kind of reckless
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life in the middle of South Central Los Angeles, you're running into the abortion clinic, the same
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guy's there. Of course, he's just going to pretend you're pregnant because he gets a big fat check from
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the taxpayers of California. So can you, you know, what would you say to a young woman who is, you know,
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really struggling, not knowing what to do? She feels, you know, kind of trapped. She's pregnant.
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Maybe she feels pressure from others to get an abortion, but, you know, she just doesn't know
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what to do. What do you say to that woman? I would say that she's a mother now and mother is just the
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most precious place to be. If she herself cannot raise that child until they're 18 years old, then
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maybe she should allow someone else that beautiful benefit of raising that child. But she is a mother.
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Once you're pregnant, you're a mom and somebody wants to call you mom and that person is going to love you
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dearly. Yes, there will be adjustments in her life, your life, if I can speak directly to her. But those
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adjustments can be handled. She has the ability to handle them. And motherhood is precious.
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One of the one of the arguments that the pro-abortion movement uses is, you know, if abortion is
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illegal, thousands of women will die a year trying to, you know, perform unsafe abortions.
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You know, it's interesting that the pro-choice movement has always used fear tactics and scare
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tactics to keep people from becoming parents, to keep women from having children, to keep them from
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being successful in their life or procreating. But when you think about will women today go into
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back alley abortions using clothes hangers and all the other things that they have distorted and lied
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about for the last 48 years, the answer is no. And in fact, this is the same people who push chemical
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abortion into our society. So what the real question on the table becomes is, is this sin?
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Is this moral? Is it good for a society, a civil society to allow for its offspring to be aborted?
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You know, when you think about right now, the challenges in our society, because we are in
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crisis when it comes to marriage rates, fertility rates. This is something that those that keep lying
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about the activities of women to support an idea that they've had, that people are better off without
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children so that we can save the environment. We need to have that discussion because it's rooted
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in a lie and it is hurting us. It's hurting our entitlement programs. In the next 15 years,
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our society will have more people over 65 years old than under 18 years old. This is not healthy for a
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society. When you think about fertility rates and what it means to procreate for that generation that
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we have promised entitlements, social security, Medicare. So the pyramid will collapse if we continue
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with these low fertility rates. And we are at the crisis level as a society right now. In order to
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reproduce yourself, you have to be at 2.1. Right now, we're like 1.6 when it comes to reproducing ourselves.
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What about the argument that the pro-life movement is just a bunch of religious zealots who want to
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force their beliefs on the rest of the country? Well, this is interesting. If the religious community
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is making an argument that we need to procreate, that we need to have a society, that we need to
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have a civilized society that has measurements and moral frameworks over what we're going to do with
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offspring, then yes, we can call them zealous if possible. In fact, I'm glad that we have what's
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called a religious zealot population to say that it's basically immoral to kill your offspring. And
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in addition to it being immoral to kill your offspring, we have other implications that rise
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as a result of marriage collapse and infertility rates collapsing. Marriage collapsing, for one,
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we have now a reckless generation of young men because they have not been socialized through
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marriage. And that escalates crime rates. It escalates low educational rates and many,
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many other, other social ills that we have to deal with just because of abortion.
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Let's, let's jump to that topic because that is something that I really want to talk about.
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You know, I think the pro-choice movement often says that it is a woman's right to have bodily
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autonomy and that, you know, it's just men forcing women to, to, you know, be pro-life and to,
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you know, try to keep the baby. That's men forcing that to happen. Is, is that true? Or is the opposite
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true? That it's, it's oftentimes women who are driving the pro-life movement and that, you know,
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the fathers of these children are oftentimes pressuring women to try to get abortions.
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I think biology is driving this discussion. When you think about the difference between male and female,
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females' bodies tell them it's time to reproduce. Once a month, their body tells them it's time to
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reproduce so that we can maintain society, so that we can maintain humanity. Now, if you're asking,
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does marriage socialize men? Let me put it this way. If we're asking ourselves, if marriage is a
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social stabilizer to where when men and women attach in marriage and procreate, it's this much more
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healthy environment for children to be raised in, the answer is yes. The question that pro-choicers
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need to ask themselves is if they believe that people should have children. And this is where
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you're going to find much discussion within those pro-choice circles that they don't believe it. They
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really believe that children are a drain on society. They want a perfect world and, and they want an
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environment clean of what Margaret Sanger used to call human weed. So they target particular
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communities of poor people to not have children. Yeah. So I guess last question on this before we
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get to that topic, um, does abortion in some ways let men off the hook and, and kind of, you know,
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allow them to avoid responsibility? I think abortion has not only collapsed marriage, but it's created a
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tremendous challenge socially with men. Men now are not marrying. Women are not demanding marriage before
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sexual activity. What birth control did and abortion did is allowed women autonomous in sexual activity,
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but men get the most advantage for that because now they can hop around. They don't have to be
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responsible. And if a woman does decide she's going to have that child, they are less likely to take care
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of that child because they think that abortion was one of the options that she should have perhaps
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taken. Often you find the men are forcing the women to take the option of abortion and pressuring them
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to kill that offspring because they've had that promiscuous sexual life and encounters outside of
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marriage. So yes, marriage has collapsed. So men now are free to be promiscuous. And the challenge that we
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have as a society is promiscuous men are often producing dangerous men because unmarried men are not, uh, the, the,
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the products of unmarried men are the ones that we're seeing in our criminal activity. 75% of the young boys in our
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criminal justice system come from single headed households. 95% of the men that are in our, our
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prison systems on a federal level have no relationship with their dad. So abortion has collapsed
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traditional family life and it's created all types of other social ills.
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So let's, let's go back to the 1960s and, you know, you, you mentioned this, you know, I know you've
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mentioned this in various tellings of your story. Um, but you know, what, what's happening in the 1960s,
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uh, just societally and how does that, you know, how did that impact you personally as a young
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woman? I think in the 60s, it's interesting when you look back at that time up until, uh, this
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emphasis of connecting ourselves to, I guess you could say, um, uh, enlightenment. Uh, we were a
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moral society. Our, our laws were rooted in Judeo-Christian heritage and ethics. And so you had
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people that married before they had sexual encounters and then they produced children.
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So you interrupt this in the 60s. FDA said, you know what, let's disconnect sexual activity from
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marriage by, uh, having the pharmaceuticals produce birth control. Fast forward, what happens? Mid
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60s, you have marriage unraveling real quickly. Keep in mind that in the 60s, by the time we were to
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the mid 60s, 75% of the adult population was married. Today that's less than 50%. And in black
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communities who got hit hardest because they were most vulnerable during those 60s, marriage rates
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are now 30% of the adult population, which is tragic. It's why the young men are just lawless.
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They don't know what to do because they have not had that formal, uh, and stabilized family life.
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So couple that. So first you have this attack on religion that says, well, you know what,
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we can disconnect marriage and sexuality. Then you have marriage collapsing. Well, there's nothing
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really wrong with this. Women need to be free from men anyway. Then you have, well, but if there are
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any natural consequences, we'll have a welfare state. So now we're paying people to not marry
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and we have the results today. So how did, how did the sexual revolution and everything that kind
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of happened in the sixties into, you know, the early seventies, how did that influence your life?
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I think that by the time I came of age, uh, the, the norms, the, the traditional norms of society
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were already unraveling. I mean, my parental household had books called I'm okay. You're
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okay. We were already starting to see society not have any type of moral framework. And when you don't
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have a moral framework, you start making choices on your own. And when you start making choices on
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your own, you can be led down some paths of, of, you know, least resistance, shall I say? So, uh,
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in my own personal life, as I mentioned, it has just started unraveling, uh, into all types of
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activity, criminal activity, drug activity, sexual activity, in and out of abortion clinic after
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clinic, welfare activity, just absolute lawlessness. And what's interesting though, is when you think
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about the sixties, the activities that I was engaged in it by the seventies, weren't even being called
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lawless anymore. We were starting to go into an environment to where promiscuity was just, uh, the norm.
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And when you have normal living, promiscuous living that you can do anything you want to live in,
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you're not going to have formation of healthy families. And in my community, it began to hit
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hard. By the time Dr. King died five years later, Roe v. Wade was national law. So when you're unraveling
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all of your traditional norms and you're now having a civil rights movement that ends in all of the
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cities around the country erupting in violence, people got very lost. It was an opportunity for
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Roe v. Wade to pass into federal law and the people that got hit hardest were the most vulnerable.
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You know, I'd love to, I'd love to jump into a little bit of the history, um, pre, you know,
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pre Roe v. Wade to, to whatever extent you're, you're comfortable talking about it. You know,
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one of the, one of the big arguments that I've seen Planned Parenthood make lately, uh, is,
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you know, abortion's always been accepted societally. If you go back to the, you know,
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as early as the 1600s, whether, whether you're talking about Native American tribes or, uh, you
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know, early colonists of, of what would become the United States in Europe, everyone was fine with
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abortion before what was called quickening. Can you, are you comfortable talking at all about,
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you know, that argument? Cause it's, that seems like a relatively new argument, trying to normalize
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it kind of back into the past. Right. Right. I think you've always had people that were secular
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who didn't mind killing their offspring. And in fact, if you remember some of the gods of old,
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they would bring their children, even after they were born and, and, and worship, you know,
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as a part of worship, they would have their children killed. This was one of the ways that
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they were able to be prosperous, if you will. So you've always had this discussion between morality
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of the God, the creator, and, or those that worship the creation and in, in and of itself.
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And so when people talk about being enlightened, when they talk about, um, what is the value of
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children, whose responsibility is it, whether they're going to live or die. We've always had
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these discussions in society, but you've got this moral sacred thread that says, no, this is not your
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call. Once you're pregnant, you're a mother. So tell me a little bit about Margaret Sanger.
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When we think about the history of African-Americans in this country and moving then into an adoption
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of the country, leaving slavery to now be adopted, the worst thing that could have happened to black
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life is Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist entering into this opportunity for people to live free,
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4 million former slaves to adjust to a new life of freedom in a brand new country for themselves.
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But you've always had eugenicists. You've always had those who believe that people are less human
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than themselves. Uh, she studied under people like Nazis to say, how do we figure out a perfect
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race? How do we figure out a perfect people? She was a very complicated lady personally. I mean,
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my goodness, it was too bad that she put all her personal problems onto the rest of society,
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but she was successful in doing that. She wanted to make sure that certain populations of people
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were controlled. And so she built out a Planned Parenthood. She built out a mission statement,
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a marketing campaign. She went after African-American leaders and pastors to pay them,
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to market to their people, to kill their offspring so that there would not be that many blacks in this
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country. So was that her, was that her objective? She had a plan, a project called the Negro Project
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that specifically wanted to keep the numbers of black people in this country low. It's tragic
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that she was able to convince so many and Planned Parenthood in their marketing campaign with all of
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their money, were able to convince so many to promote this type of evil in a community of people
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that were so vulnerable, trying to move into this new adopted relationship that they have
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with a country that was built on freedom. It interrupted life for us. You start seeing now
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through those thirties and forties, this constant narrative that your children are your problem.
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Your children are your drain. In order for you to successfully move into healthy living in this
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country, you're going to have to have less children. And the more that messaging went out there,
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the worse things got. And especially as they started building out a welfare state to pay people to have
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fewer children, to pay people not to get married. The country itself started unraveling morally and
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black people got caught up in this. How much of the current struggles of the black community in
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America do you attribute to the legacy of Margaret Sanger? I think that, I don't know that I could put a
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percentage, but I believe that the unraveling of our moral framework and fabric at a time when black
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family life was just adjusting to this new reality in a country where they could be prosperous and
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perhaps even by now go and heal the other countries in Africa from which they were from, this is really,
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really challenging. Because what has happened to African-American communities as a result of Margaret
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Sanger's plan to interject birth control, to interject abortion in a very vulnerable poor community has
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unraveled our family life. Fast forward to the 60s, after America started really unraveling on its
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overall views of the world, the traditions, the Judeo-Christian traditions in which it was founded
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were starting to unravel. You start fast forward looking at the black family and find the impact.
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It is so underappreciated that by the mid-60s, we still had in the black community 78% of husbands
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in their homes with their wives raising children. Fast forward after the welfare state, which was
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deliberately planned in conjunction with Margaret Sanger's ideas of eugenesis and controlling these
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populations of what she called human weed and what a lot in our society thought as a nuisance,
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the children of former slaves. You fast forward through that generation, five years after King
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was assassinated, you saw Roe v. Wade as national law coupled with a welfare state that paid families
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to dismantle. Look at the challenges it's called. We're upside down from the 78% of husbands that were
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in their homes with their wives raising children to today where 75% children born outside of marriage,
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where 30% adults married, and we're seeing the impact on our children. The low educational rates,
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the high crime rates, the abortion rates, the welfare rates, the AIDS rates, everything ill is hitting this
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particular population simply because of Margaret Sanger's plan to annihilate this population, their families,
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and make sure that they did not have success in this country.
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What's the overall timeline of America's views on pro-life versus pro-choice? How have views shifted
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on the issue of life since the 60s? I think the views of people in America are shifting because
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of technology. When you think about the moral thread that was in our society, you had Catholics that were
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arguing against abortion when it was just legal in a few states. They knew that this was a crime against
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humanity. They knew that we should not be doing this, and the Catholics had structures for people
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that had orphans, children that perhaps didn't have a healthy family place, and so they were taking care
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of these particular children. So America became in real denial as they started buying into this idea
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of enlightenment and education and higher education and higher learning and materialism. The next thing you
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know, our children are inconveniences, and so people just wanted to ignore the reality, ignore the obvious
00:24:53.480
that when you're pregnant, you're a mom. Ignore the fact that when you're pregnant, you are going to
00:24:58.440
have an offspring unless you interject something. So what did we do? We interjected birth control.
00:25:03.960
Pharmaceuticals got involved, and they make a whole lot of money, and the challenge we're having today
00:25:07.880
with pharmaceuticals involved in trying to limit the amount of pregnancies that occur in our society
00:25:13.980
is just creating other problems. They've had to readjust the estrogen levels over and over again
00:25:19.220
because they found out, oops, over time, the estrogen levels high in a pregnant woman hurt
00:25:25.220
testosterone levels in men and boys, and now we have disproportionate numbers of effeminate men, so we're
00:25:31.360
having to adjust our society to even that new reality. Abortion has deeply hurt us as a society. When you think
00:25:38.860
about those same 60s where you had a moral thread of then-Catholics saying, don't do this, you had a society of
00:25:47.100
Protestants and others that said, yeah, but it's convenient. But let me add one thing, because you
00:25:51.440
also asked about, you know, when did we see a shift to more pro-life? We started seeing that shift just
00:25:58.280
relatively recently, maybe 10, 15 years, because of ultrasound, because technology is now showing people
00:26:04.500
that they can't lie to themselves anymore, that we can't pretend that the obvious isn't true, that
00:26:09.260
there's a life there, that it has meaning, it has a viability, it has all of these components that are just
00:26:18.240
undeniable. And people are now realizing that you got to come up with another excuse, as opposed to it's just a
00:26:26.740
blob of tissue. And that means that we can have the discussion, we've been having the discussion, a whole lot of
00:26:32.160
pregnancy care centers started growing up around the country. So now people are without excuse, and
00:26:36.640
they're realizing that this might not been a good idea in the long run, and it's certainly not a good
00:26:41.180
idea going into our future. So would you say technology, you know, that the debate and people's
00:26:48.060
views on life maybe really started to shift because of technology? I think that the ideas started to
00:26:55.360
shift because of technology, that people then had to confront the lie that they have been telling
00:27:01.320
themselves that this is just a blob of tissue, that it's an inconvenience for us as a society, that we
00:27:07.080
should allow the obvious, that number one, a certain people group are being targeted, so we want to keep
00:27:12.900
those numbers low anyway. And so we have to confront that part of American society. But number two, the
00:27:19.780
inconvenience of it interrupting someone on their journey to materialism by getting a college degree
00:27:24.720
or whatever reasons that families come up with, why they would talk their own daughters into killing
00:27:29.180
their grandchildren. So in 1959, the American Law Institute released a draft proposal that would make
00:27:40.160
abortion legal in cases of fetal abnormality, rape or incest, or when there was a threat to women's health.
00:27:46.980
So can you weave a little bit of that, you know, the history of, you know, the efforts that were
00:27:54.960
taken kind of in the 50s and 60s to try to normalize abortion in our society?
00:28:01.180
I think that one of the reasons people were trying to normalize abortion in the American society is
00:28:05.700
because America was built on ideals, ideals rooted in Judeo-Christian heritage. So that means that
00:28:11.940
abortion would not be tolerated in this new environment. But there are always people that
00:28:17.140
want a perfect human race. There are always people throughout society that have superiority complexes,
00:28:23.200
and they then look for ways to change the views of the people so that they can promote their agenda
00:28:30.200
and worldviews. So of course you have documents and people looking for ways to include abortion into
00:28:36.540
this new founded country. You know, they're going to come up with all kinds of reasons. We have too many
00:28:41.740
people that have disabilities. We have too many people that have too many children. We're creating
00:28:46.700
other problems. We're running out of resources. So you're always going to have people that are
00:28:50.460
researching those types of ideas. I think that when the real tipping point came for America is when the
00:28:56.540
pharmaceuticals were in bed with the government to push birth control onto our society.
00:29:03.980
And what was Margaret Sanger's involvement with the pill?
00:29:07.660
I don't know that Margaret Sanger was directly involved with the pill becoming legal. Her mission
00:29:13.020
was to get it there, but it didn't become legal until in the 60s. And so most of her work was in
00:29:20.780
But let me mention, we focus a lot of time and attention on Margaret Sanger, who some might say
00:29:25.420
she's the mother of the feminist movement in America, but there's no question there were feminists in
00:29:30.380
America. There were many, many women who did not like the idea of having to control their sexual
00:29:35.420
impulses inside of marriage. Men have never really wanted to do that, but the Judeo-Christian ethic
00:29:42.380
stabilized men to have to do that through marriage. And there were always women that didn't want that
00:29:48.060
as well. Right. So to what extent do the racist views and beliefs of Margaret Sanger still resonate
00:29:57.580
through what the abortion industry does today? Oh, the racist views of Margaret Sanger are alive
00:30:03.020
and well. In fact, her bus here in Washington DC is right next to the civil rights movement. Her bus is
00:30:07.580
in the civil rights museums, the African-American museums, because her idea that abortion will
00:30:16.060
help alleviate poverty resonates with people that are poor. They really think, well, maybe that will
00:30:21.820
help. And so they bought that lie. And so today we still have that lie existing. When you think about
00:30:27.900
the Planned Parenthoods and how they're targeted specifically in communities of color, make no
00:30:34.700
mistake that this is racially intended to keep these numbers low of these populations that eugenicists do
00:30:41.980
not think should share the same environments they do. But doesn't Planned Parenthood, and I'm going to play
00:30:47.660
devil's advocate here for a second, doesn't Planned Parenthood actively say that it's because they want
00:30:54.620
to fight racism that they that they're trying to give access to, you know, health care that to, you
00:31:03.100
know, impoverished communities or to the African-American community or to minority communities
00:31:07.820
that, you know, white women have had, you know, for decades. And so, you know, their argument is,
00:31:13.340
oh, well, right now the system's racist and we need to we need to provide more access to abortion
00:31:18.780
to the communities that don't have the sort of access that white communities have.
00:31:21.740
Yeah, Planned Parenthood has been running from its original mission for generation now. And in fact,
00:31:28.940
they're still trying to convince people that the fewer children you have, the better off you're going
00:31:33.500
to be. And so they're trying to flip the narrative to say, well, the reason that poor people are still
00:31:38.940
poor is because they keep having children. And the reason that they keep having children is because
00:31:43.260
society is racist against them to force them to have to have these children. I mean, what a mockery
00:31:49.980
to procreation and to how to really escape poverty. The answer to poverty is freedom,
00:31:54.860
personal responsibility. It's not a welfare state. It's not abortion. In fact, what we have found
00:32:00.460
through research and just through human interactions is that abortion really hurts women once they've had
00:32:07.260
one. And so they become much more reckless in their sexual impulses. They become much more
00:32:11.900
desires to have a child, even if that child is outside of marriage. And then they continue in
00:32:17.100
these life patterns of self-destruction. And so the next question I have, you know,
00:32:22.540
I ask because I only because I think it is helpful for people to hear the personal side of
00:32:28.380
some of these answers as well. You know, I think some, a lot of people say, oh, I celebrate my
00:32:32.780
abortion or abortion doesn't hurt me. You know, there's a list of doctors and scientists who say,
00:32:37.340
oh, well, there's no evidence that abortion creates, you know, emotional harm for women who
00:32:41.260
have it. Do you feel like personally the abortions that you had, uh, hurt you or damaged, you know,
00:32:47.580
you or, or made you feel more pain? I think that the challenge we have with this one size fits all
00:32:53.260
narrative of the left that pretends that abortion doesn't have impact, moral impact on people, mental
00:32:59.020
impact on people, medical impact on, on people is a distortion of the reality that we're unique
00:33:05.660
individuals. And so you're going to be impacted differently. I work very closely with pregnancy
00:33:10.700
care centers. I'm telling you, we have, we have people coming in and say, even on my deathbed,
00:33:15.340
I'm gonna say, I'm sorry. One more time. I have personal friends who had one abortion
00:33:19.660
and they miserable in their personal lives, even though they look like they're successful,
00:33:24.220
they've not born children. They're in their sixties. But personally, well, I was so reckless. I didn't
00:33:29.420
even know that the father of the children were. So you have different life patterns for different
00:33:32.860
people. So you disconnect, uh, in that scenario, as opposed to someone that they'd love that person
00:33:39.020
who got them pregnant and he walked away. So we can't have a one size fits all discussion
00:33:44.540
about how abortion impacts anyone. But what we do know is that abortion impacted that child.
00:33:50.860
What we do know is that person is no longer here. What we do know is that if someone was born in 1974,
00:33:58.460
right after we legalized abortion, those pregnancies that were aborted, those folks would be 49 years
00:34:04.300
old today, 48, 49 years old today, perhaps in the height of their careers, perhaps with families of
00:34:09.660
their own. So what we do know is that we have disrupted family and, uh, formation and generational
00:34:16.860
family formation. What we do know is there are a lot of grandparents today, uh, that do not have
00:34:22.940
those grandchildren. We have more with Starr coming up in just a moment. First though,
00:34:29.260
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00:35:35.180
Can you talk about the, um, the impact that it has emotionally on women and how it's hard to
00:35:41.580
even, you know, get women to talk about their pain? Yeah, I think that one of the lies of the left
00:35:47.580
and the pro-death community is that we're detached from realities, that we're detached from our own
00:35:53.580
emotions. Many women experience many different ways that they deal with their abortions. And we are
00:35:58.700
hearing from women, older women, younger women. This is a very deep, painful area that given time,
00:36:05.020
some express it. In fact, many of our pregnancy care centers in the country today allow for naming
00:36:11.100
opportunities. This is how many people are saying, I just can't get past it. I can't get over it. And
00:36:16.620
there's not enough help for them because you have this community of people that keep insisting, you
00:36:20.300
better not even think about the emotional problems that come from your abortion. You better never say
00:36:25.100
it out loud. And so you have a lot of hidden pain, not just with women, with men. The men are now
00:36:29.980
starting to come forward because they know their lives aren't the same. They remember that child.
00:36:34.620
There is a couple that all of us know that because she's a major actress, she's not ready yet to come
00:36:40.220
forth with her story. But her and the man that she was pregnant by, they've never been together
00:36:45.900
again since then. But on the anniversary of that abortion, they talk to each other every year after
00:36:52.860
year after year. And we're talking 30, 40 years ago. We're talking about people like, remember Nicki Minaj,
00:36:57.660
when she was asked by Rolling Stone magazine, do you have any regrets? You're on the top of your game.
00:37:01.660
What does she blurt out? I regret the abortion I had when I was 17. How did she do that? How did
00:37:07.340
that all of a sudden come up out of her? You think maybe she's cried a few nights over that abortion.
00:37:11.980
It's a lie that this doesn't deeply impact people, but it does impact people differently. I mean,
00:37:16.940
my goodness, I didn't even know who I was pregnant by, so it didn't impact me at all. Plus I was on drugs.
00:37:21.980
So once I got my forgiveness from the Lord, I forgave myself. But there are others who were
00:37:27.420
intimately involved with the person. I met a man who, his wife and them got talked themselves into
00:37:33.100
an abortion. They had three beautiful girls. They talked themselves into having an abortion
00:37:38.140
because they bought that lie that is not going to impact us. That it's really just
00:37:42.300
a decision that we're making. That it's just a choice. We've already got three kids.
00:37:46.220
After that abortion, they couldn't even look at each other again. And they ended up in divorce.
00:37:51.420
This is reality of what happens when people have abortion. But what the left expects them to do
00:37:56.860
is hide that pain and do it alone. And this was one of the biggest challenges I have with this
00:38:00.860
chemical abortion now. They're going to see that baby in that toilet and have to hide it from
00:38:05.660
themselves now and bear that pain and suffering alone through their life. Abortion is deeply hurting
00:38:11.340
us as a society. It's hurting people, real people.
00:38:14.860
What did Planned Parenthood have to gain from the loosening of morals in the 60s?
00:38:24.060
The two things that Planned Parenthood gained in loosening of morals in the 60s. One, a slap
00:38:29.100
at God because they didn't want rules over their sexuality. And he has very strong rules over
00:38:33.580
sexuality until marriage. But number two, money. It's about a whole lot of money. And for people that
00:38:39.740
try to pretend that tax dollars aren't involved, they're lying to themselves. All of my abortions were
00:38:44.780
paid for by the state of California, which through their programs get money from Washington, D.C.,
00:38:50.140
their medical programs. So all of us have blood on our hands as a result of this constant keeping
00:38:56.060
abortion legal in our society so that one corporation can make money. They make a lot of tax money. They
00:39:03.100
make a lot of individual money simply by killing offspring, by killing someone else's grandchildren.
00:39:09.980
Do you know how much money, do you know what the stats are?
00:39:11.900
Planned Parenthood, depending on where you're getting the exact numbers, because they like to
00:39:17.660
hide the monies that they're getting from the government. But some estimates are about 500
00:39:21.420
million dollars. OK, so you, everyone, you know everyone, they know everyone, they know everyone,
00:39:25.500
they know and go 10 times that are just sending their money straight to Planned Parenthood instead
00:39:30.060
of sending your federal dollars to Washington, D.C. Because they're the ones getting the recipient.
00:39:34.140
You got to ask yourself, why does the Department of Health and Human Services have an agency in there
00:39:40.140
for population control? They don't call it control, but they do call it population affairs.
00:39:46.300
Why do we do this to ourselves if we are are not complicit in this movement to keep certain
00:39:54.860
Um, what what percentage of Planned Parenthood's
00:40:00.860
earnings come from abortion, either directly or through federal funding?
00:40:04.860
I don't know exactly how Planned Parenthood manipulates their books to pretend that
00:40:10.460
they're doing some educational things with the monies that they get from taxpayers. But what we
00:40:14.940
do know is that Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country, and they perform
00:40:19.580
a lot of abortions. They're probably at 400,000. Well, times that by just $1,000, because when you start
00:40:25.340
thinking about the low part of abortion being four to 600, you know, when you're just a few weeks
00:40:30.300
pregnant, all the way to the high part. And don't forget, Planned Parenthood is complicit in doing
00:40:34.140
abortions ninth month, ninth hour. They don't have any problem with late-term abortions. So you're
00:40:38.700
thinking about averaging now up to about $1,000 a pop. Um, let's, let's talk a little bit about
00:40:45.420
where Planned Parenthood, you know, is based. So, you know, they, they say, you know, that minority
00:40:51.420
women need greater access to abortion. Uh, and, you know, and yet you've talked a lot about,
00:40:58.620
you know, the percentage of Planned Parenthood facilities that are already in minority communities.
00:41:03.260
Can you, can you maybe touch on, you know, where are these Planned Parenthood facilities
00:41:08.060
and what does that maybe say about their kind of underlying goals?
00:41:11.100
Planned Parenthood has been true to its mission from day one, and its mission was to annihilate
00:41:17.580
what Margaret Sanger believed was human weed. She was a racist, she was a eugenicist, and she did not
00:41:23.260
want this population of new freed former slaves growing in America. So Planned Parenthood deliberately,
00:41:31.660
even to today, targets poor communities, poor women, which are disproportionate African-American
00:41:37.260
and Latino to make sure that they do not produce children. Now they can spin it any way that they
00:41:42.940
want to, but that is the reality. It is true to their mission that we want these population numbers
00:41:49.260
low. The problem that they have with the Latino community is it's a growing community rooted
00:41:53.820
still in a lot of Catholic belief systems. So they are still producing their children, but make no
00:41:58.940
mistake, Planned Parenthood is in their schools, in our hard hit zip codes, pushing their ideas to keep
00:42:05.100
abortion alive, to keep your children numbers low. So we're already starting to see the Latino
00:42:11.660
population, Hispanic population rooted in South America and Mexico reduce their numbers. It's bad
00:42:18.780
enough that the white community is not reproducing themselves at 2.1. They're at 1.6. It's bad
00:42:24.700
enough the African-American community is just at that place where we're not reproducing ourselves.
00:42:29.980
The Latino community is not far behind. And what's the percentage? Because I think
00:42:35.420
you've talked about the percentage of Planned Parenthood facilities and how disproportionately they're in
00:42:43.100
minority communities. Can you talk about that percentage? I've seen some numbers where Planned
00:42:47.100
Planned Parenthood has 78% of their clinics located within a mile of a distress zip code in a Black
00:42:54.540
community with some Latino in that community. 78%. They're deliberately targeting. And everywhere
00:43:01.740
they run out of business through the little clinics, they build these monuments to themselves inside of
00:43:07.020
these poor communities to convince women to control their birth rates, to control their birth rates.
00:43:13.660
That's what they're after. They do not want that Black community. In fact, they're probably depressed
00:43:18.620
that the Black community still keeps growing. That is still 14% of the population. They don't want
00:43:23.900
this. That it grew from 4 million former slaves to 45 million African-Americans in the country today.
00:43:29.980
This is not a part of Planned Parenthood's agenda. Their agenda is to annihilate this race of people because
00:43:36.700
they believe in a superior race. And that superior race that they believe in has nothing to do with melanin
00:43:42.780
in the skin, okay? Even recently, I think, uh, the president of Planned Parenthood said that, uh, over a
00:43:49.820
thousand women a year would die. But, you know, they're specifically talking about, you know, Dobbs. Oh, you know,
00:43:54.220
if it becomes illegal again, uh, That's a lie anyway. When, when you think about, okay, so we're going to start
00:43:59.260
comparing, well, we're going to have a thousand women die, uh, because, uh, Dobbs may end abortion
00:44:04.780
or may block granted back to the states for them to decide if they are going to have abortion legal
00:44:09.580
or not. This is an absolute fallacy. Where in the world would they know that? How do they know that
00:44:14.380
those thousand women just won't become mothers? How do they know that people just don't have
00:44:18.620
abortion because it is legal? I know personal friends who the only reason they had abortion
00:44:22.860
because it was legal. And then after they're like, oh my God, what did I do? Because the emotions, uh,
00:44:27.020
hit in, how do we know that we're not going to save a thousand lives? Because now when a woman
00:44:31.500
finds out she's pregnant, she goes and gets that man to marry her. And now that child is brought up
00:44:36.300
in a healthy household instead of becoming a criminal or killing somebody. I mean, she wanted,
00:44:40.220
you want to compare Planned Parenthood. You want to have a debate with whether they're really helping
00:44:44.380
poor people by providing abortion. No, what they've done is they have crippled an entire generation
00:44:51.100
of young people who now are lawlessly out of control because they did not have
00:44:56.860
a healthy family upbringing. And the reason they didn't have a healthy family upbringing
00:45:01.180
is because Planned Parenthood has convinced their mom and their grandma that life is better without
00:45:07.740
children. So, you know, jumping to that claim that, you know, uh, the pro-life movement is just
00:45:15.260
religious zealots and, you know, don't care about the women. Um, I'd like to have you, you know, maybe
00:45:21.340
describe and then respond to some of the claims of the pro-choice movement.
00:45:24.460
Does the pro-choice movement call pro-lifers anti-woman?
00:45:29.260
The pro-choice movement throws anything they can at pro-life women, uh, because pro-life women,
00:45:35.580
most of the pro-life movement is rooted in religion. It's rooted in Christianity. These are
00:45:41.740
the people that are trying to rescue, uh, the vulnerable, rescue the people that don't have a
00:45:46.380
voice and stop abortion, uh, because they believe that we should procreate. We're created in God's image.
00:45:52.220
So anyone that's fortunate enough to get pregnant is a blessing. And we want that child because we
00:45:58.060
want whatever gift or talent that God created them to bring into the world to come into the world.
00:46:03.900
Uh, the challenge that I run into a lot with some of this discussion is when the pro-life movement
00:46:12.300
changed their mission to become pro-life as opposed to anti-abortion. I think perhaps we would have ended
00:46:20.220
abortion a lot sooner if we stayed the course as anti-abortion. We were talked into as a movement
00:46:28.780
doing something for the child after it's born, because that was the narrative of the left.
00:46:33.820
You guys don't care about the women because you don't care what happens to them after the child is
00:46:39.900
born. And as a result, people started moving their emphasis to answer that question. Is it a good
00:46:44.940
thing to answer that question? Absolutely. And when you think about slavery, the anti-slavery movement
00:46:50.940
never changed its mission. They were anti-slavery, but there was a gap. There weren't people that were
00:46:56.940
pro-liberty enough to make sure that once those slaves were released into our society, they were
00:47:01.980
somewhere for them to go. So we now have a pro-life community that answers the question about what
00:47:07.900
happens to the child if the mother doesn't want it, if the mother didn't plan it. And that's our
00:47:13.900
pregnancy care centers all across the country and a whole lot of adoption services.
00:47:18.220
So do you think that the criticism, because it's a big criticism that, you know, that pro-choice
00:47:24.620
advocates make is that, you know, oh, well pro-lifers, they don't care about whole life. They just care about
00:47:30.380
unborn life. Is that a fair criticism? And if, if not, you know, what, what is the pro-life movement
00:47:36.460
doing to care for whole life? Well, it's not a fair criticism for the pro-death community to say,
00:47:42.620
well, you don't care about the whole woman. You just care about whether she has that child because
00:47:46.380
the pro-life community believes in marriage. So what would happen to that child under normal
00:47:51.100
circumstances is the care of the family, the care of the people that were involved in that child
00:47:57.900
coming into conception, that child's grandparents that on both sides. So there was an interruption
00:48:05.980
when you start putting abortion into a society and the pro-life community had to catch up with that
00:48:10.860
reality that family, traditional family formation may not happen if a girl gets pregnant. And we saw
00:48:17.340
it not happen as a girl gets pregnant. That's why we have record numbers of single moms out there today.
00:48:26.140
Do pro-choicers call pro-lifers anti-science? I think that pro-lifers are calling pro-choicers
00:48:32.700
now anti-science because the science is on the side of pro-life. We can look into the womb,
00:48:37.340
we can fix ailments in the womb. So it's the pro-lifers who have the upper hand when it comes to
00:48:43.180
which one is more scientifically relevant to these discussions.
00:48:52.780
The science has changed since Roe v. Wade because we keep looking into that great miracle,
00:48:59.340
that awe of life. And so as a result, we have ultrasound, we have ways to do surgery inside the
00:49:05.820
womb. You know, one thing that a man does better than any other created being is we attempt to
00:49:11.900
discover, we look for new truths. And in looking for new truths, you're going to have science follow
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that discovery and find new ideas, new ways to make things better. And one of those ways is that
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we have ultrasound. We have technology that has come forth that now we can have a better discussion
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about the meaning of life in that womb. Can you describe, you know, what can you tell audiences
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about kind of the story of Roe v. Wade? You know, who was Jane Roe? What was her situation? How did she
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get linked up to these pro-abortion advocates? What's that story? You know, I don't know all of
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the story, but I did know Norma. I met Norma early in my walk into this whole pro-life movement. And she
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was very challenged woman because from her side of the story, uh, she was talked into becoming the,
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the, the Jane Doe, if you will, in Roe v. Wade, that she was the one that was, they were going to
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use her story, a pregnancy outside of marriage complications, uh, unplanned, uh, to promote this
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idea. So she died a lonely woman, frankly, thinking that, um, she had done our society and herself a
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disservice being talked into being the face of abortion for the hard left.
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So is there, is there a painful irony or a cruel irony in the fact that, you know, the, the abortion
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lobby claims that they're fighting for vulnerable women when even back to, you know, some of their
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earliest history, they were using vulnerable women for their own purposes.
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Yeah. I think it is hypocrisy that the people that pretend that they care about the most vulnerable,
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the most are preying on the most vulnerable. They're using them. They're killing them. Abortionists
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won't even own up to when a death occurs at the abortion clinic. They try to wheel them to the
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hospital. They do anything they can to not tell the family what really went wrong. And a society is
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complicit because we don't even ask them questions. When people went into Gosnell's clinic on a drug wrap
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and saw all of those babies frozen, saw the toilet with parts, saw the garbage disposal,
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saw total and utter filth. You would think we as a nation would have been appalled and ended abortion
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at that time, but we didn't. We didn't get anything but more planned policy and more Planned
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Parenthood funding. So I think that science is on our side, Dobbs is on our side, but I think many
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people are wondering if God is on our side to really end abortion. Not just make it illegal,
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make it unthinkable. Not block granted to the states, but declare it as a crime against humanity.
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That's what I hope the Supreme Court does. This is a crime against humanity. We should not be doing it.
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No more than we want slavery just block granted back to the states. We tried that. We tried the moving
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it around, the planned policy, and we ended up in a civil war. Abortion is similar in the way that
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Roe v. Wade is written, similar to Dred Scott decision, verbatim almost, that this is about property,
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not humanity. Yeah. Can you give us kind of a direct
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Those people are up there though and their not redundancy force have a problem.
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The primary point of their ethical purpose with several funds and what facilitated
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is where there is another global tool and they are forcing a failure and they don't break