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E101: Birth Control Critics Censored, TikTok, Christ is King + Q&A · The Lila Rose Show

• 0:00
  So the Washington Post put out this piece.
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  The headline is Women are Getting Off Birth Control amid
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  Misinformation Explosion, as if Women Only will Get Off of Birth
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  Control because they've been lied to.
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  Brett. Cooper argued in a viral TikTok
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  clip that birth control can impact fertility and cause women
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  to gain weight, and it racked up over 200,000 likes before Tik.
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  T.O.K removed it following the posts inquiry.
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  Wow, there you have it. And the reality is there are
• 0:26
  thousands of physicians who also are concerned about birth
• 0:29
  control shows harm to women. And there's increasingly more
• 0:32
  physicians who are trying to avoid prescribing birth control
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  and actually searching out the underlying problems that their
• 0:38
  patient may be facing. Hello, guys.
• 0:45
  Hello. Hello.
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  Welcome to the Lila Rose Podcast.
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  We're doing the YouTube Live Today and we've already got some
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  people on here. Hey, Anthony.
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  Hey, Bella. Thanks.
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  Hey, hi. We've got AJ on.
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  Hey, AJ Thanks guys for joining. We've got a lot to unpack today
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  and this is also Holy Week. So there's a lot of thoughts I
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  have about that as we prepare for Easter and the resurrection
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  of Christ. We also have some hit pieces
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  from the Washington Post and TikTok attacking content
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  creators who are criticizing birth control.
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  So we're going to talk about that.
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  Also, if you have any questions during the chat, feel free to or
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  during the conversation, feel free to put it in the chat box.
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  I'm taking questions and I will be paying attention to the chat
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  this time. So put your questions in there
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  because I love to hear from you guys directly.
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  We also have a bunch of questions coming in through
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  different social media platforms, so we'll look at
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  those questions too. But if you're here on YouTube
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  and you're here watching this live and you've got any
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  questions or comments, put them in the chat.
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  I love to see them. OK.
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  I hope everyone's doing well. I Can you believe that it is
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  Holy Week? Lent is almost over and chaos is
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  happening as usual in the political and cultural world.
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  Lots to break down there. I'm going to start with the
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  Washington Post hit piece that came out just a few days ago
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  about birth control. A lot to talk about there.
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  We talked about this a lot on the show.
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  Women's fertility, birth control, abortion.
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  There's so much to unpack. And TikTok is literally banning
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  videos that criticize birth control.
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  So if you have concerns about birth control's harms to women,
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  birth control is an abortifacient.
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  You might get in the crossfire of TikTok and they will
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  literally ban your video. This is crazy because there's
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  all kinds of insane stuff on TikTok sexual material.
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  There's all kinds of political opinions, you know, far left
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  opinions, There's gender ideology stuff.
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  But if you're critical of birth control, you could get banned.
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  I have been banned on TikTok. I think I've mentioned this
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  before in the show. I had an account a few years ago
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  that was completely banned simply for having pro-life
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  content up. We actually just started a new
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  TikTok to try again. So I'll actually try to link
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  that in the bio if you guys do want to follow there.
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  But it is clear that TikTok has an agenda.
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  I don't think that anyone can deny that at this point.
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  And it's run by the Chinese Communist Party.
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  People know that too. It's owned by China ultimately,
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  which is opposed to a lot of the values that we have on this show
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  and values of not just free speech, but values of family and
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  of life. So hey guys.
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  Hey, Lisa, thanks for coming joining the chat.
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  Hey, Peter, thanks for joining. Awesome.
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  Peter saying I just became a Live action ambassador this
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  year. Yay, that is awesome.
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  By the way, if anybody listening was at Live Action's inaugural
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  Young Leaders Summit last weekend, let me know and let me
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  know what you think. So we had over 700 people here
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  in Southern California. We had this first event for our
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  Youth Leaders Summit and we it was a huge success.
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  It was so fun to meet so many of you guys and we had amazing
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  speakers and it was all talking about life, sex, relationships
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  and leadership and how to lead in our cultural environment.
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  So just amazing people came and I got to meet a bunch of you, so
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  if you were there, let me know and we're going to be doing it
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  again, bigger and better next year as well as other events.
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  So stay tuned for that. Peter says Live Action was a
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  driving force behind me becoming pro-life.
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  I'm so happy to hear that. That is awesome.
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  That is our job to educate and inspire.
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  So thank you for sharing that. Hello, Dan, top of the
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  afternoon. All right.
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  Hello, Georges. I hope I'm saying your name
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  right. KMH has a question.
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  We're going to do questions here in a minute.
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  So if you've got questions, please drop them in the chat.
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  I will be checking the chat throughout this live stream.
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  All right, guys, let's start with we're going to start with
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  Washington Post. Then we're going to talk about
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  Christ being king. If you are on Twitter, you
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  Now I think that's a beautiful thing because Christ is king.
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  I'm on a journey to try to live out my faith, as you guys know,
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  Washington Post criticizing those who dare to criticize
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  do. All right, let's pull up the
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  Washington Post article. What does the Washington Post
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  have to say today? All right, let's pull this up.
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  We're going. To start with the Instagram post
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  from the Washington Post. So I just want to share, I go
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  way back with the Washington Post.
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  I remember being probably 19 years old and sitting in their
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  headquarters in Washington DC talking to their reporters about
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  my investigative reporting of Planned Parenthood and trying to
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  explain what we found and why they should report on it.
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  And I remember talking to one of the lead healthcare reporters
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  and explaining to her that Planned Parenthood, I think it
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  was our investigation where Planned Parenthood was doing sex
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  selective abortion. So they were.
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  Actually kill the baby girl just because she was a girl at the.
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  Request of the mother. So we were.
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  Documenting this and Planned Parenthood's willingness to
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  commit sex selection abortion. I mean how anti feminist right
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  kill the baby just because she's a girl?
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  Because this parent wants a boy and Planned Parenthood will do
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  that. And it was like a later term
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  abortion too. It was in the second trimester
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  and the healthcare reporter. At The Washington Post.
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  Office just looked at me and was saying, this can't be right,
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  this can't be true. I was like, I have the tapes.
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  You want to see the tapes? I have the tapes.
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  It was so much a shaking of her worldview, her worldview as the
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  healthcare correspondent at the Washington Post.
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  That Planned Parenthood was word of God for Women's Health, this
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  great organization, that they would ever do anything that
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  chipped away at her invincible support of them, that she was
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  literally telling me to my face that's impossible that you found
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  this. You know, it's impossible that
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  your your report shows this. When I have it on tape, the
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  Planned Parenthood worker saying I hope you get your boy.
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  And navigating and arranging a sex selective abortion.
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  So that's some of my history with Washington Post.
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  So let's just say I'm not surprised that this reporting
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  has happened recently from the Post.
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  OK, here's their Instagram. You guys can see.
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  Let's pull this open. All right.
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  So you can see here it says we can Scroll down.
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  The women are getting off birth control as misinformation
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  explodes. So it's obviously presenting
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  this as this horrible thing that a woman would not be on birth
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  control. You know, the the role of a
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  woman is not in the kitchen. The role of a woman is on birth
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  control. I mean, you better be on birth
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  control women. That is your role.
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  And it says search for birth control and TikTok or Instagram
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  and a cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal
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  contraception will appear. Young women blame weight gain
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  and depression on the pill. Right wing commentators claim
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  that birth control can lead to infertility.
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  And then they read the description here and it says
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  scroll up a little bit. It says physicians say they're
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  seeing an explosion of birth control misinformation online.
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  All right, already you see the bias screaming you in the
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  staring you in the face because they're positioning physicians
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  like at. Large.
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  Physicians period, are concerned about the misleading in
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  misinformation on birth control when the reality is there are
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  thousands of physicians who also are concerned about birth
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  control's harm to women. And there's increasingly more
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  physicians who are trying to avoid prescribing birth control
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  and actually searching out the underlying problems that their
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  patient may be facing. Whether it's cystic acne or it's
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  endometriosis or other, you know, heavy periods to try to
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  treat the underlying conditions that a woman's facing instead of
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  just prescribing at Willy nilly, which is how it's done birth
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  control. So already they're being
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  deceptive and misleading in the framing of their story.
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  Surprise, surprise. All right, let's go to the
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  article from Washington Post. Yours truly is quoted in this
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  article, so we're going to go to that as well.
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  So the Washington Post put out this piece.
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  It's called. Scroll to the top.
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  Here, the headline is Women are getting off birth control amid
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  misinformation explosion. Again, as if women only will get
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  off of birth control because they've been lied to as opposed
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  to. Maybe they're on birth control.
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  Maybe, just maybe, women are on birth control because they've
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  been lied to, ever thought of that.
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  That actually is the case for most women.
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  And they get basic facts about birth control that they didn't
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  have before, about its risks or harms.
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  And they say, I don't want to do this anymore.
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  I'm getting off of it. So that's what's happening with
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  a lot of women today, especially younger women who are more
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  educated on this, you know, our parents generation.
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  Keep in mind the history here. The pill entered the scene and
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  was highly spread by use, you know, recommended by physicians,
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  etcetera. We're talking in the 60s,
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  largely later on, seventies, 80s now up till today.
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  It became this kind of panacea, this sort of, yes, every woman
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  should go on it, why not? And young girls increasingly
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  have been prescribed it. And at the time, the pill as a
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  technology was pretty new. It had been developed in the
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  first part of the 20th century. And so people didn't really
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  think about the harms or the risks.
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  They just thought, hey, this is a great way to manage fertility.
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  And if I'm not ready for a baby right now, I'm just going to
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  take the pill. Unfortunately, there was a lot
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  more, there were a lot more harms than people had any idea
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  about. And those have become
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  increasingly made known. They're surfacing and women are
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  becoming aware of that, including their physicians, many
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  physicians. And so there is a drop off now
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  in the use of contraception because of the facts that have
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  emerged. And so it's this, it's this
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  funny kind of intergenerational conflict happening to where the
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  older generation who just accepted birth control as a gift
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  from God now are realizing the younger generation is not doing
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  that because they realize it's harms and also some of the
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  ethical issues. And there's sort of this gap of
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  how could you, how dare you. We we took the drug, why not
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  you? All right.
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  Let's look at the article here. So it has a lot of folks that
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  are quoted, myself included as I said.
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  But I want to just point out a few things about this article.
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  So first of all, it's has this line.
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  Physicians and researchers say little data is available about
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  the scale of this phenomenon, but anecdotally, anecdotally,
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  more patients are coming in with misconceptions about birth
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  control fuelled by influencers and conservative commentators so
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  automatically. Again, like I said earlier, it
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  is positioning all the physicians and all the
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  researchers as being pro birth control and all the people that
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  are concerned about birth controls being this these
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  Internet personalities and right wing people, which nothing could
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  be further from the truth. Some of the most consequential
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  reporting that's been done on the birth control pill being
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  harmful has been from left wing mags, magazines and in outlets.
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  And I'm going to get to that and has been from feminists and
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  those on the left who are willing to say, hey, this is an
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  issue, this is causing problems and has been from studies by the
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  CDC and the NIH. So to say that this is just some
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  phenomenon on the right is completely untrue.
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  So you just see again lie after lie.
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  Coming from the Washington Post, let's go back to the article
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  here and look at some of the quotes that they have.
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  So if you Scroll down, we've got a little informational video.
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  But they talk about how influencers are seeking fame and
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  fortune by decrying the birth control pill.
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  So they just went from lying about who's criticizing it to
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  now lying about the motivations of who's criticizing it and
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  claiming that anybody who criticizes the birth control
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  pill are are wanting fame and fortune.
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  I don't know how much fame and fortune has been earned.
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  If anything, they've been shunned people who've been
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  willing, brave enough to speak out against the pharmaceutical
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  medical industrial complex that is pushing this on women.
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  But again, just it's just, it's just funny.
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  It's ironic, the way this article is written.
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  It's kind of a parody piece of itself, you could say.
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  All right, so moving on. It says, you know, brings up an
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  influencer who talked about how she got off of birth control and
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  how her health improved. OK, sounds like a common
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  experience for a lot of women. But according to the according
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  to the Washington Post, this woman's crazy, and she doesn't
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  know what she's talking about and that she just wants fame and
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  fortune. OK, no evidence to support your
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  claim, Washington Post. The fact is, if you actually
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  read even the insert on birth control pills and you actually
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  talk to anybody who's honest, they can say yes, weight gain.
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  Weight gain can absolutely be a side effect of taking hormonal
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  birth control. That's like a fact.
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  Even whether you're left or right, pro birth control, anti
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  birth control, it's a fact. So for this TikTok girl to talk
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  about how I actually lost weight that I had gained after going
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  off birth control and now my cycle is becoming regular again.
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  And then to say that she was once fame and fortunate, She's
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  spreading misinformation. It makes no sense.
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  It just makes no sense here. All right, let's keep going.
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  It's talking again. Bashing this girl on Tiktok.
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  They they they pick a number of different women to bash who
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  dared to speak out individually against birth control.
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  Just sharing their stories, by the way.
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  Just sharing about how they went off of it.
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  Social media companies struggle to combat misinformation and
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  balance free speech protections. The The Post reports Meta, the
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  parent company of Facebook and Instagram, says it works hard to
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  protect online communities. Yes, protect online communities
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  from these pesky women who dare to share that how they went off
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  birth control and now they're feeling better for it.
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  Protect the community from these.
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  Horrible women who dare to share their personal stories.
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  Got it. Washington Post understood here.
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  And then it goes on to say TikTok recently removed at least
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  five videos linking birth control to mental health issues
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  and other health problems. Again, this is there is research
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  from the CDC and the NIH that shows that birth control can
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  lead to anxiety, depression, it can lead to mood disorders that
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  you're you're you're deregulating your cycle.
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  Ultimately you're suppressing your cycle and it can lead to
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  mental health issues like that is not something that and and
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  mental health mood disorders, that's not something that is
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  not. There hasn't been multiple
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  studies and there's metadata showing the correlation between
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  birth control use and mood disorders or mood disturbance.
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  So again, major gaslighting from the post here.
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  But this gets even worse. Here it gets even worse because
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  it says TikTok recently removed at least five videos linking,
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  Just linking. Just daring to say, yeah, I was
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  on birth control. I felt really depressed.
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  Got off of it, Not depressed anymore.
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  Yeah, I was in birth control. Felt anxious, Got off birth
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  control, Not anxious anymore. How dare you?
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  TikTok says. How dare you?
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  And So what did TikTok do? They literally deleted the
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  videos. They literally deleted content
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  on the platform because women dared to share their experience
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  about how birth control was harmful to them.
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  It also talks about the YouTube who's fantastically talented?
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  Brett Cooper. Let's find the part where it
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  dresses her Specifically, here we go Brett Cooper, a media
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  commentator for the conservative Daily Wire.
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  I love how they throw that in there.
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  Are you the Liberal? Washington Post.
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  Or do you call yourselves the liberal Washington Post, 'cause
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  if you're going to call the Daily Wire, the Conservative
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  Daily Wire, you better call yourselves the liberal
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  Washington Post. But of course.
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  They're not going to do that because, no, we're the
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  Washington Post and we are endlessly fair and balanced and
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  impartial. And it is obvious from our It's
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  obvious from our reporting, Right.
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  OK, What do they have to say about Brett Cooper?
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  I love Brett Cooper. She's, she's a a lovely, lovely
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  voice online doing great things, she says.
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  Cooper and political commentator Candace Owens denounced birth
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  control pills and IU DS as unnatural, and it goes on to say
• 19:37
  that or scroll up a bit here. It goes on to say that Brett
• 19:39
  Cooper argued in a viral TikTok clip that birth control can
• 19:44
  impact fertility and cause women to gain weight.
• 19:47
  And it racked. Up over 200,000 likes before
• 19:51
  TikTok removed. It following the Post's inquiry.
• 19:57
  Wow, there, there you have it. Washington Post basically
• 20:01
  admitting we Tattle taled to our friends at TikTok Corporate.
• 20:06
  Our friends in the Chinese Communist Party, whatever our
• 20:09
  TikTok corporate, that there was some pesky woman, a commentator
• 20:14
  on TikTok with a persuasive voice daring to share that birth
• 20:18
  control has been linked to infertility.
• 20:20
  It has. Daring to say that it may lead
• 20:22
  to weight gain. It it can.
• 20:24
  And because of it, TikTok took action and deleted the video.
• 20:29
  My goodness, how crazy, how crazy.
• 20:32
  And here we go, Washington Post basically bragging about it.
• 20:35
  All right. We could keep going.
• 20:36
  I'm going to get down to my quote here because they do quote
• 20:38
  yours truly, as I said. And I want to talk about the
• 20:42
  context of the quote that they did of me.
• 20:44
  So if you go down here, this is get this gets interesting, guys.
• 20:47
  This, get this, this will be a little peek.
• 20:49
  This is like a case study. What I'm about to share with you
• 20:52
  about how especially I'm going to call it pro abortion, anti
• 20:57
  values media, you know, legacy media, how they spin, how they
• 21:02
  do their spin room. And this is really a really
• 21:05
  great case study because I'm very personally involved in
• 21:08
  every step of it. They emailed me for comment, I
• 21:10
  sent them comment, this is the comment they included.
• 21:13
  This is the article In the context within which they
• 21:15
  included it, it really shows how biased, how biased they are, but
• 21:19
  also how to construct a propaganda piece.
• 21:21
  I mean that's what they've done here.
• 21:23
  This is, this is propaganda, this is pro birth control, anti
• 21:27
  woman propaganda. So they have in here Stevenson,
• 21:32
  who's their expert. That's the other thing.
• 21:34
  It's all about who they quote. Always pay attention when you
• 21:37
  are reading a news article. If you still bother to read them
• 21:39
  from groups like the Washington Post, they're so biased I don't
• 21:42
  know the value in reading them. But always look, always look,
• 21:47
  excuse me, always look when you are reading an article, what
• 21:52
  experts they choose to quote who they choose.
• 21:55
  To honor as the. Authority voice in the piece
• 21:58
  that will tell you a lot about the bias or lack of bias of the
• 22:03
  reporter. Are they going to include the
• 22:05
  numerous experts, institutions, medical journals that have
• 22:10
  reported on birth control's harms in this article?
• 22:14
  Or are they going to quote people like this guy Stevenson?
• 22:16
  They're about to, who is an avid supporter of birth control?
• 22:21
  And of course, their Washington Post chooses the latter.
• 22:23
  So it talks about this guy named Stevenson, the first name.
• 22:26
  Let's scroll up here. It's a Who is Stevenson Further
• 22:35
  up? This is like their 111 of their
• 22:37
  one big experts here in the piece.
• 22:40
  And again, no experts that in any way criticize birth control.
• 22:47
  They're all supportive of it. It's Amanda Stevenson, who's a
• 22:50
  sociologist, demographer and assistant professor who's
• 22:53
  studying the trend of those that are trying to restrict birth
• 22:57
  control. So she's very pro birth control,
• 22:59
  but she's also the the expert on knowing why and who is pro birth
• 23:03
  control. OK, So what did she say?
• 23:05
  Let's Scroll down. She talks about yours truly, she
• 23:07
  says. Stevenson pointed to
• 23:09
  pronouncements by Lila Rose. I am pronouncing, I'm sorry,
• 23:15
  it's just funny. I am pronouncing the truth about
• 23:18
  birth control. Actually, what I did, we're
• 23:20
  going to get to this in a minute, is I sent a very lengthy
• 23:23
  e-mail to the Washington Post with all of this data in it that
• 23:26
  were not my pronouncements but were links that they could read
• 23:28
  if they were journalistic enough about the harms of birth
• 23:33
  control. But no, these are my these are
• 23:35
  my pronouncements. Because to the Washington Post,
• 23:38
  I have always been and I will always be a crazy zealot.
• 23:41
  And that's, that's what they have to that's how they have to
• 23:44
  position me and all my friends who are in this article who dare
• 23:48
  to criticize birth control because it's it's their agenda,
• 23:52
  all right? Lila Rose, anti abortion
• 23:54
  activist. Hundreds of thousands of
• 23:56
  followers in social media has urged women to get off birth
• 23:59
  control in what Stephen called an effort to stigmatize it.
• 24:03
  We're trying to shame women here of course, according to the
• 24:06
  Washington Post expert. All right so this is the quote
• 24:09
  they quoted me to be anti fertility is to be anti woman.
• 24:14
  And the proliferation of hormonal birth control isn't
• 24:16
  just another way of trying to force women to be more like men
• 24:20
  with significant consequences for our emotional and physical
• 24:23
  health. Basically, the use of birth
• 24:25
  control today is panacea to say that we're not going to
• 24:28
  understand the underlying conditions of a disorder you may
• 24:31
  have as a woman. Your body is different than a
• 24:33
  man's body. Your your issues will be
• 24:34
  different than a man's issues typically, not always.
• 24:37
  But if they're connected to your reproductive system.
• 24:39
  And so we want you to just deal with you the way we deal with a
• 24:42
  man in healthcare. So we want to shut down and
• 24:44
  suppress your fertility systems. We're not going to look at the
• 24:46
  underlying conditions of what you're dealing with.
• 24:48
  And when it comes to fertility, you know a woman, a man is
• 24:52
  fertile 100% of the time, typically a healthy man, right?
• 24:56
  Women are fertile few days a month.
• 24:59
  But look at how healthcare treats fertility and management
• 25:01
  of fertility. There's no birth control pills
• 25:04
  for men. Surprise, surprise, the woman is
• 25:07
  the one who's shutting down ovulation.
• 25:10
  Why? In order to that's the way to
• 25:12
  deal with your fertility as opposed to fertility awareness
• 25:15
  and management. To know that this is when I'm
• 25:17
  pregnant. If I'm not ready to have a child
• 25:19
  right now and I'm not, I need to space A child.
• 25:21
  Whatever the reason is, we can delay.
• 25:24
  I can delay intercourse. I can delay having sex during my
• 25:26
  fertile window and getting awareness of her cycle and said
• 25:30
  no, it's a woman's responsibility.
• 25:32
  Instead of working with the man, hopefully she's married to him.
• 25:34
  They're they're having a family together.
• 25:36
  It's now her responsibility to take this pill that has negative
• 25:39
  consequences to her. Man doesn't have responsibility
• 25:41
  here. He expects her to take the pill.
• 25:44
  In fact, societally today, especially with hook up culture,
• 25:47
  cohabitation where they don't want kids, the man's like, you
• 25:50
  better be on birth control. That's your job, right?
• 25:53
  That's your job, woman. I'm perpetually fertile.
• 25:55
  I don't. I mean, that's not my deal.
• 25:57
  You. It's your deal.
• 26:00
  How is this pro woman? How is this pro womanhood and
• 26:04
  fertility? The the uniqueness of what makes
• 26:07
  us a woman. It's all against us.
• 26:09
  So that's my quote, but let's go to my e-mail to them, because
• 26:13
  this e-mail was one. This quote was one very small
• 26:16
  part of a lengthy e-mail that I sent the Washington Post.
• 26:19
  And I want to go through this with you guys to debunk the
• 26:23
  Washington Post's lies about. Birth control.
• 26:27
  So this is some very valuable, these are some very valuable
• 26:30
  facts for you about the harm of birth control that I think that
• 26:34
  you should know, we should know and that we should be able to
• 26:36
  share with other people. I'm going to check the chat
• 26:39
  here. Too, Maddie Grace says linking
• 26:43
  birth control and infertility is a logical cause and effect.
• 26:45
  Well, you're right, Maddie. Birth control is obviously
• 26:48
  designed to render you at least temporarily infertile.
• 26:51
  That is a fact. So it's kind of, it's kind of a
• 26:54
  no brainer that yes, it does lead to infertility because it's
• 26:56
  designed for it. But there are also long term
• 26:59
  consequences for some women who struggle with infertility after
• 27:03
  the use the frequent use of hormonal birth control.
• 27:07
  OK, so let's go to the e-mail here.
• 27:10
  So Lauren Rubber had emailed me back in January.
• 27:13
  She's a reporter for the Washington Post.
• 27:15
  She calls herself a health reporter.
• 27:18
  And she said Lila. I'm hi, Lila.
• 27:20
  I'm working on a story about social media and hormonal birth
• 27:23
  control and have seen some of your public comments.
• 27:26
  I would love to hear your thoughts on the following
• 27:28
  questions. And then she sent a list of
• 27:30
  questions. I wrote a set of responses.
• 27:32
  So I'm going to go through these responses already.
• 27:35
  I think it's important to note that this reporter was going
• 27:38
  into the story instead of actually weighing the real
• 27:42
  concerns that medical experts and researchers and doctors and
• 27:46
  women have about birth control against the facts that are
• 27:51
  available from those that research and that study and kind
• 27:53
  of weighing. Yes, these are some of the
• 27:55
  harms. This is where there's
• 27:57
  controversy about it. She's just going full hog with
• 27:59
  the narrative that there isn't harm.
• 28:02
  Social media is full of people saying that there is, and
• 28:05
  they're all lying or they're all misinformed dummies, right?
• 28:09
  That's her narrative established.
• 28:10
  Already. And you can see it even in the
• 28:13
  questions that she's asking me. So the first question she sent
• 28:16
  me was you have called birth control an abortifacient.
• 28:20
  Can you explain why? OK, pretty straightforward.
• 28:23
  Birth control can absolutely be an abortifacient.
• 28:27
  In fact, if you read the insert in in a birth control package,
• 28:31
  right, the paper insert, it will say that it actually can prevent
• 28:34
  not just fertilization but implantation.
• 28:37
  What that means is it's possible that for women on hormonal birth
• 28:40
  control, the baby can still be conceived.
• 28:43
  There can still be fertilization between a sperm and an egg and
• 28:46
  early embryo can be formed and that embryo then after the next
• 28:50
  few periods of days, a period of a few days, well, if it's, you
• 28:54
  know, he or she is healthy, will migrate to the uterus to
• 28:58
  implant. That's called implantation.
• 29:01
  And at that point is when the baby's heart usually starts
• 29:03
  beating within a short time. So it's an incredible process,
• 29:07
  an incredible journey. And birth control companies
• 29:10
  themselves admit, well, birth control isn't just designed a
• 29:12
  lot of it. To prevent fertilization, to
• 29:15
  prevent the embryo from being created.
• 29:18
  But it also can prevent the embryo from implanting by
• 29:21
  hardening or making the uterus A hostile environment for the baby
• 29:26
  to implant. And that would mean that the
• 29:28
  birth control pill is designed to be an early term abortion.
• 29:32
  And this is true of IUDS typically and other forms of
• 29:35
  long acting, they call it larks, long acting reversible
• 29:39
  contraception, but long form contraceptions like a
• 29:42
  contraceptive, contraceptives like IUDS.
• 29:47
  So that's that's not my opinion, that's not my belief.
• 29:52
  That's a fact. That even the manufacturers of
• 29:55
  birth control of many forms of birth control admit to.
• 29:59
  So I wrote that response as much to the reporter.
• 30:02
  Of. Course, this response is not
• 30:04
  included in the piece. The piece doesn't address this
• 30:06
  at all. Why?
• 30:08
  Because it's very inconvenient for women to know this.
• 30:11
  They don't want women to know that the birth control that you
• 30:13
  may be taking may also be working as an early term
• 30:17
  abortion. An early term abortifacient.
• 30:20
  Most women have no idea that the birth control pill is designed
• 30:23
  to do not just one but two things typically prevent
• 30:27
  fertilization of a baby, but then also force an early
• 30:30
  miscarriage via making the hostile, making the the uterus A
• 30:35
  hostile environment. All right, so there's that.
• 30:39
  Of course not reported in the piece.
• 30:40
  OK, let's go to the next one here.
• 30:45
  Someone in the chat is saying, doesn't every medicine have side
• 30:48
  effects listed? Why is birth control different?
• 30:51
  Great question. I mean, you're.
• 30:53
  Watching for those that still watch like cable news or
• 30:55
  something, You see those commercials for like the latest,
• 30:58
  I don't know, drug for diabetes or whatever it is.
• 31:01
  And then there's the smiling family and the smiling, you
• 31:04
  know, the dog running through the field and they're saying
• 31:06
  this medication may cause vomiting, weight loss and
• 31:10
  suicide and death. You know, please take under
• 31:12
  prescription with the advice of your doctor, whatever, right?
• 31:14
  You've probably heard that commercial before.
• 31:17
  Why does birth control not not be held to any of the same
• 31:22
  standards? Why is it that birth control
• 31:24
  should actually not receive any criticism?
• 31:27
  Well, it's the agenda of the Post of course.
• 31:29
  And by the way, the Washington Post later on in their article
• 31:33
  will go on to promote and support this new kind of birth
• 31:38
  control which they want to be available over the counter
• 31:41
  without prescription so a 12 year old can go and pick it up
• 31:44
  and buy it from the store like a Snickers bar.
• 31:46
  That's what the Washington Post is like.
• 31:48
  End game agenda in the article is.
• 31:49
  So we'll get to that in a minute.
• 31:51
  OK, Second question that the Washington Post asked me.
• 31:54
  Why is there a? Movement among prominent,
• 31:56
  prominent conservative commentators, including
• 31:59
  yourself, to question the safety of hormonal birth control.
• 32:04
  Well, listen, to be clear, ever since I started doing any kind
• 32:08
  of public commentary over 15 years ago, I have been
• 32:10
  criticizing the harm of the birth control.
• 32:13
  Pill and the mass use and pushing of the pill on women.
• 32:16
  I've been talking about this for probably 15 plus years now, so
• 32:20
  this isn't a new phenomenon. This has been happening for over
• 32:23
  a decade. What's happening increasingly is
• 32:26
  more women are becoming aware of the harms of birth control women
• 32:29
  on both sides of the political spectrum.
• 32:31
  And it's not just conservative commentators that are reporting
• 32:33
  on this. In fact, there's a lot of left
• 32:35
  wing groups that have reported on this as well.
• 32:38
  And so I addressed that to the Post.
• 32:39
  I tell them this, so I tell them.
• 32:42
  First of all, many women are rejecting hormonal
• 32:44
  contraceptives because they have seen in their own life or in the
• 32:47
  lives of those close to them, the detrimental.
• 32:49
  Effects The detrimental effects of these contraceptives.
• 32:53
  The concern about the safety of hormonal contraception is not
• 32:56
  exclusive to some conservatives, but it it spans different
• 33:00
  ideologies, faiths, political backgrounds, different levels of
• 33:03
  expertise. You can be a researcher and have
• 33:05
  the concern in an everyday woman who just experiences The birth
• 33:08
  control has a concern. And then I actually quote some
• 33:12
  of this. Research.
• 33:13
  So I start with as an example of Vogue magazine.
• 33:17
  Vogue magazine. Vogue magazine is not a
• 33:19
  conservative pub. OK, this is not a right wing
• 33:22
  outlet. Vogue Magazine.
• 33:24
  In case you didn't know, Vogue magazine is very left wing.
• 33:27
  You could argue as left wing as they come.
• 33:29
  And Vogue magazine says that women, younger women, are
• 33:32
  turning away from the pill in droves so they didn't make it
• 33:35
  about left versus right. They just say younger women are
• 33:37
  not wanting this anymore. An NHS British National Health
• 33:42
  Service study found that the women, the number of women in
• 33:45
  contact with sexual and reproductive health services who
• 33:47
  used user dependent contraception, including the
• 33:50
  pill, had dropped by more than 13% between 2005 and 2015.
• 33:55
  This is not about left versus right.
• 33:57
  This is women in general who are getting off of the pill,
• 34:00
  according to a survey by NHS. It says.
• 34:04
  It goes on to say, or I go on to share with them, this other
• 34:08
  report from NCBI. So this is a the Institute for
• 34:13
  Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare who talk about the
• 34:16
  side effects that women face from birth control.
• 34:19
  So this is a. Study It's actually multiple
• 34:22
  studies, talking about headaches, nausea, sore breasts,
• 34:25
  vaginal, yeast infections, spotting between periods, mood
• 34:29
  swings. Remember they were so critical
• 34:31
  of criticizing mood swings. The Tik toker who said, yeah, my
• 34:34
  mood was horrible. Reduction of sexual desire and
• 34:38
  blood clots, These are all side effects that are documented from
• 34:42
  hormonal contraception. Not according to some right wing
• 34:45
  commentator, but according to the Institute for Quality and
• 34:47
  Efficiency in Healthcare published in a medical journal.
• 34:50
  Even the FDA, our Food and Drug Administration, has added that
• 34:55
  high blood pressure and weight gain have added high pressure
• 34:58
  and weight gain to the risks, to the list of risks and side
• 35:01
  effects to a woman's health who takes birth control.
• 35:04
  The National Cancer Institute confirms that hormonal birth
• 35:09
  control puts women at an increased risk of breast cancer
• 35:12
  and cervical cancer. These are not right wing pubs.
• 35:16
  Washington Post and interestingly, the Washington
• 35:20
  Post failed to include any of this research or these links,
• 35:24
  these studies that I sent them in their report.
• 35:27
  They failed to even mention that such things exist in their
• 35:30
  report. Instead, all they had to say was
• 35:32
  that crazy, right? Right wingers are lying to women
• 35:36
  online and should be banned and censored by TikTok.
• 35:39
  So the amount of dishonesty here is staggering.
• 35:42
  It's really staggering that someone who is a trained
• 35:46
  journalist would go through the. Process and of trying this hard
• 35:49
  to be this dishonest. All right, She also asked me.
• 35:52
  Some experts say you are working to vilify hormonal birth control
• 35:56
  in order to limit access to it. Do you have a response?
• 36:00
  And I responded by saying many experts criticize hormonal birth
• 36:05
  control, including, you know, many doctors researchers.
• 36:09
  I mentioned Doctor Jerelyn C Pryor hair.
• 36:11
  There's Doctor Jolene, Brighton. She has a whole.
• 36:14
  Website that gathers. The harms of birth control and
• 36:16
  encourages women to get off of it, 'cause it's harmful to their
• 36:18
  health. I mean, this is not like one and
• 36:21
  and these are not people on the right, these are not people
• 36:23
  politically on the right. These are people who are simply
• 36:25
  concerned. About women's healthcare.
• 36:27
  So again, the misinformation here from the Washington Post,
• 36:30
  the framing to try to make this this big conservative
• 36:32
  conspiracy, which is obviously not.
• 36:35
  All right, last question, that's was the last question from the
• 36:37
  Post I go on to, you know share my quote here about how it's
• 36:42
  actually anti woman to say that our fertility is a disease.
• 36:47
  That's true. Your fertility as a woman is not
• 36:50
  a disease. It is actually a sign of health
• 36:53
  and it's an an essential function of your body that
• 36:57
  interacts with all the other systems in your body.
• 37:00
  And don't let any doctor or medical professional who's by
• 37:03
  the way, working with big pharma, they're selling pills.
• 37:06
  They're, you know, giving out drugs.
• 37:09
  Don't let them just tell you, oh, your medical condition
• 37:13
  you're facing. You just take birth control and
• 37:15
  you'll be fine. That's the best I can do for
• 37:17
  you. If you are struggling as a
• 37:18
  woman, you have health issues you're struggling with.
• 37:21
  Find the medical professionals who are actually going to help
• 37:24
  you get to the bottom of the issues that you're facing.
• 37:26
  Don't accept a medical professional that's just going
• 37:29
  to slap birth control prescription in your hand and
• 37:31
  say go and go take care of it. It's not going to take care of
• 37:34
  it. It will have side effects.
• 37:35
  You deserve better. That is my message for women.
• 37:38
  And then in addition, educate yourselves.
• 37:41
  Let's be educated about the fact that birth control can be an
• 37:44
  abortifacient and in addition, we should be embracing our
• 37:49
  fertility as women. And we should embrace sexual
• 37:52
  ethics that say we shouldn't just be, again, having sex just
• 37:56
  anytime, anywhere. It's not a big deal.
• 37:58
  There's not sexual morality around it.
• 38:00
  And so if we get pregnant, you know, just use birth control to
• 38:02
  prevent pregnancy. If you get pregnant and you were
• 38:05
  using birth control, you just have an abortion.
• 38:06
  That whole, that whole system, that whole societal system today
• 38:11
  of sex is not sacred. Just have it.
• 38:14
  Whatever. It's your choice.
• 38:15
  As long as there's consent, just use birth control.
• 38:18
  You'll be fine. Oops, You're pregnant.
• 38:19
  Go get an abortion. That whole framework is not
• 38:23
  serving anyone. It's hurting everyone.
• 38:26
  And it's a framework that is rife with ethical issues.
• 38:30
  You know, there's there's, there's a reason there's a moral
• 38:32
  construct around sex. It's.
• 38:34
  For good because sex is a design, and sex is designed to
• 38:37
  bring human life into the world, Not in every situation, but in
• 38:41
  many. And sex is designed to bond two
• 38:43
  people together. That's a beautiful thing.
• 38:45
  And that's why I am always talking about the beauty of sex
• 38:48
  and marriage. Because you are committed for
• 38:50
  life to this person and you're willing to raise a family with
• 38:54
  them. So if life comes from your
• 38:56
  union, that life is not seen as a threat and rejected via
• 38:59
  abortion or otherwise, but you're ready to embrace that
• 39:02
  beautiful new human life. So sex is designed for unity.
• 39:05
  Sex is designed for procreation. Let's not dismiss that or shut
• 39:09
  it down and hate on that, which is what we seem to be.
• 39:12
  Have we seem to have popularized in today's culture.
• 39:16
  All right, let me know your guys thoughts on that.
• 39:17
  I'm going to look at the chat here and then we're going to go
• 39:21
  to the Christ is King Twitter trend yesterday, as well as the
• 39:25
  fact that Christ is king and this is Easter week, so there's
• 39:30
  some other comments here, Lisa says.
• 39:32
  I told my sisters about how birth control may act as an
• 39:34
  abortifacient years ago and I was very ignored.
• 39:37
  One sister was even angry. I'm sorry to hear that.
• 39:40
  It's good that you're talking about it, though, because I, you
• 39:43
  know, these things can be tough for people to hear.
• 39:45
  When you've been told one thing your whole life and you've acted
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  on that one thing you've been told, and then you find out that
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  what you've been told your whole life and acted on is not true
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  anymore, that can be a hard pill to swallow.
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  So I can understand why they might have been been upset and
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  not wanted to believe what you had to say.
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  But it's good for you to share what you know, 'cause it's to
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  help them, right? We're we don't share this
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  information. About birth control and
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  fertility and you know, sex, we don't share it in any way to
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  harm or hurt or shame or anything.
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  It's to it's to love. It's to help people have the
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  facts that they deserve to be healthy and also to live lives
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  and make good choices so that we can all be happier.
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  I mean, that is, that is the beautiful thing about truth is
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  it does help people in the end, even if because of all the lies
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  of the culture, it can be hard to listen to at. 1st All right,
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  so let's go to Christ as King. Now let me know if you guys saw
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  this on Twitter trend trending yesterday.
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  I logged in later in the evening and it was trending and I was
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  looking at what was trending. And first of all, he is king.
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  He's king of my life, as you guys know.
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  He is. I'm a Christian.
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  My Catholic faith is the most important thing to me.
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  Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.
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  So I love the phrase because it is the truth of my life.
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  I want to talk about the what that means, especially in like
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  the Twitter context and sometimes more political
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  Yesterday was Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is when we remember
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  and we celebrate Jesus entering Jerusalem before Passover and
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  before his crucifixion and then resurrection.
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  And he's fulfilling the prophecy and he's entering Jerusalem
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  riding on a donkey. And the the people are so
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  excited because he just performed all these miracles, he
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  done all this preaching and he has this very passionate
• 43:49
  following following him into Jerusalem.
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  And they're waving palm branches and laying down their clothes
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  and their palm branches before Jesus as he rides into Jerusalem
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  on this gentle little donkey. And many people at the time.
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  When Jesus came into the world over 2000 years ago and he
• 44:04
  started performing miracles and amassing all these crowds, many
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  people, very zealous people, wanted Jesus Christ to be their
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  king. The Jews were awaiting the
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  Messiah, the Jewish people, and for some of the Jewish people
• 44:19
  they believed that that Messiah would set them free from Roman
• 44:22
  rule and that Messiah would be this powerful ruler who would
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  come with a sword and fight and save the Jewish people from
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  persecution and establish a Kingdom here on earth.
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  That was the belief of many Jews, not all but many.
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  And when Jesus Christ came, born in a Manger in Bethlehem, truly
• 44:42
  a king, but born in poverty. And Jesus Christ came and people
• 44:47
  would try to make him king. When he was doing his miracles
• 44:51
  and preaching, they would literally want to make him king
• 44:53
  and crown him king, and he would flee them.
• 44:55
  He would say, my Kingdom is not of this world.
• 44:59
  He would, He literally said to them, my Kingdom is not of this
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  world, that he was not there to bring a sword to fight the Roman
• 45:06
  Empire, but he was there. Ultimately he was going to come
• 45:09
  to die on a cross in public humiliation for the sins of all
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  people. So I think when we say Christ is
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  king, we have to understand. Both the historical.
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  Context and spiritual context of the phrase and what it really
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  means because it does not mean political power in this world.
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  It does not mean that. It means eternal sovereign reign
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  of our God who is omniscient, omnipowerful, omnipresent.
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  He is, He is, He is the king of the universe.
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  But he chose well on earth to die and be treated as the least
• 45:47
  of these for the sake of our salvation.
• 45:51
  I want to share 3 Bible verses that I think are good for us to
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  meditate on as we enter this last week before Easter, these
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  last few days of Lent. This is Holy Week.
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  There's going to be Good Thursday.
• 46:03
  There's going to be Good Friday. There's going to be Holy
• 46:07
  Thursday, Good Friday, there's going to be obviously, Saturday
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  when Jesus is in the tomb. And then we're going to have the
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  resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday.
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  And the first verse that I want to read here is from Matthew
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  1128. And this is this is what Jesus?
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  Is asking from us and what he's offering to us.
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  This week. So this is a verse for us, for
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  all of us. This week Jesus says come to me
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  all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.
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  For I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest
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  for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my
• 46:51
  burden is light. Jesus is saying, I'm here
• 46:55
  ultimately for your rest. I'm here for you to learn from
• 46:59
  me and to follow me, and I am gentle and lowly in heart.
• 47:03
  What was the spirit of our Lord during His passion, gentleness,
• 47:08
  lowliness of heart? He told Peter, who got
• 47:12
  impassioned, or one of his disciples, who got impassioned
• 47:14
  and cut the ear off one of the Roman soldiers trying to defend
• 47:18
  Jesus from getting captured in the garden while he was having
• 47:22
  his final agony. And before Judas Iscariot
• 47:24
  betrayed him with the kiss, he told him do not those who live
• 47:28
  by the sword die by the sword. He didn't want him to fight the
• 47:30
  Roman soldiers, he said let them take me.
• 47:33
  He had a posture of complete submission because he was there
• 47:37
  to give his life, not to rule in an earthly way, but to give his
• 47:41
  life. So that is the spirit I think we
• 47:44
  are called to as Christians. It's one that I need to live and
• 47:48
  I need to wrestle with. I'm a work in progress, and
• 47:51
  that's the spirit of meekness and humility of heart.
• 47:55
  So if we're going to go out and triumphantly say Christ is king
• 47:57
  as we can and we should, we do it with that meekness and
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  humility of heart. Knowing that the kingship that
• 48:03
  we claim of that is Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is over our
• 48:07
  lives and over the universe. But in this life we will have
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  suffering in this life, we will have political powers that
• 48:14
  oppose us in this life. We will have the spiritual
• 48:17
  battles that we play out. And our path to holiness isn't
• 48:20
  to grab at power in this life, political power in this life.
• 48:25
  Although we want to make good progress in our institutions and
• 48:27
  we want to, you know, fight the pro-life fight, we need to fight
• 48:29
  these battles. But our path to holiness and our
• 48:32
  path to help convert other souls is not a grab at power and
• 48:37
  control and authority. But it's a radical submission in
• 48:42
  the in the honoring and in the obedience to Jesus Christ, a
• 48:47
  radical submission of our hearts to God and a service of other
• 48:52
  people. The next Bible verse that I want
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  to read is when Jesus says in John 1836, this is very
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  important. He says my Kingdom is not of
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  this world. If my Kingdom were of this
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  world, then my servants would then then would my servants
• 49:13
  fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews.
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  But now my Kingdom is not from. Hence, this is really important
• 49:20
  because some of the crisis king content that's happening online
• 49:24
  is said by many Christians kind of saying it to the Jews, those
• 49:29
  who are practicing Jews online, 'cause you can be a Jewish
• 49:31
  Christian. Jesus was a Jewish Jewish
• 49:33
  Christian, OK? Mary was a Jewish Christian.
• 49:35
  The first Christians were Jews. So this idea of like Christians
• 49:38
  versus Jews is already weird, a weird construct.
• 49:41
  That's incorrect. But there are practicing Jews,
• 49:44
  of course, who do not see Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
• 49:48
  It's Jesus Christ, the historical person, Jesus Christ,
• 49:50
  God. And they are still, you know,
• 49:53
  living out their their Judaism, their faith.
• 49:56
  As they are. And so there is this trend that
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  I'm seeing of some Christians online who are saying basically
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  to Jewish bosses or or you know, people in the conservative
• 50:05
  movement or elsewhere and it's kind of caught up in the
• 50:07
  politics of the Israel Gaza war. I mean there's all of these
• 50:09
  nuances, but basically saying, well, Christ as king, take that,
• 50:13
  take that. You don't want to take the, the,
• 50:17
  the, the, the holy. Words of Christ as King.
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  And use it as some sort of, some sort of put down against your
• 50:25
  Jewish brothers and sisters, OK? Or anybody.
• 50:29
  You can say it in truth and in its beauty and in in the joy
• 50:33
  that, you know, saying it, 'cause he is the king of the
• 50:35
  universe. But to use it as some sort of a
• 50:38
  political statement. And then to feign ignorance
• 50:40
  that, oh, you're you're taking offense because you're just a
• 50:43
  Jew or something when you were intending it specifically at
• 50:47
  Jewish people. And that's not, that's not
• 50:50
  living the Christian spirit of meekness and gentleness.
• 50:53
  That's not living the spirit of this Holy Week.
• 50:55
  So I think we need to be cautious about maybe the zeal,
• 50:59
  the zealousness with which we want to proclaim.
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  Christ's kingship. And make sure that that
• 51:03
  zealousness is towards his eternal sovereignty and not
• 51:07
  towards us wanting more political power and media power
• 51:09
  in this life. Because that's some of the.
• 51:12
  Other narratives happening online, It's like, well,
• 51:14
  Christians are being persecuted in media.
• 51:16
  And there's some. Anti-Semitic tropes about how
• 51:18
  the Jews are persecuting Christians in media.
• 51:20
  And it's just that whole pathway of politicizing the words of our
• 51:25
  Lord. The word, the truth about our
• 51:27
  Lord that he is king is antithetical to the Christian
• 51:32
  spirit with which we should have and Jesus Christ specifically
• 51:36
  saying my Kingdom is not of this world.
• 51:39
  He's saying to us as Christians, your job is not to build systems
• 51:43
  of power in media and politics and all these things.
• 51:47
  Yes, you may be called to do work in media and politics, to
• 51:50
  reform it, to bring salt and light, but my Kingdom is not as
• 51:54
  this world, my Kingdom is a world that is eternity.
• 51:59
  I am the Sovereign Lord in eternity.
• 52:02
  And in this world we will have suffering.
• 52:04
  In this world we will have persecution in this world.
• 52:07
  Our answer may not be to clutch at political power, especially
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  if we're going to be compromising anything in the
• 52:11
  process, but it may be to endure a suffering for a time.
• 52:15
  And that is the Christian way and always has been.
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  You know, the church, the early church was founded on the blood
• 52:22
  of the of the martyrs, the blood of the martyrs who didn't band
• 52:26
  together and form militias to fight Roman rule and overthrow
• 52:30
  it. But the blood of the martyrs who
• 52:32
  peaceably gathered to try to live out their faith and then
• 52:35
  were snatched up and persecuted and even when they were
• 52:39
  persecuted, refused to compromise, refused to deny
• 52:43
  their faith. But it's not like they went to
• 52:45
  physical war with the Romans at the time to go fight them and
• 52:49
  and stop them. And again, I'm not saying you
• 52:51
  can't do self-defense as a Christian.
• 52:52
  I mean there's so much nuance here, but I think the spirit is
• 52:55
  the key, the spirit of humility, the spirit of meekness with
• 52:59
  which which is what we are called to.
• 53:02
  And and I'm remembering that the Christian project here on earth
• 53:07
  can involve working in politics. It certainly does for many.
• 53:10
  It involves it for me. But the end of the Christian
• 53:13
  project here on earth is not political power.
• 53:17
  It's not some monarchy here on earth, but it's an eternal
• 53:21
  Kingdom that we are aiming towards.
• 53:24
  And in this life we may have trouble.
• 53:25
  And if we face that trouble, if we face discrimination or
• 53:29
  persecution as Christians in this life, our response should
• 53:32
  not be immediately to grab the sword and say how dare you, how
• 53:36
  dare you, Christ as king, And I'm going to fight you back and
• 53:40
  we run a band together. But our response would be I love
• 53:42
  you, Christ is king, I love you. And I am here to bring the
• 53:48
  gospel and try to suffer as best I can, the way my Lord.
• 53:51
  Did right last Bible verse I want to share.
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  This is from Matthew 7/21/23. Now this is a serious these are
• 54:01
  serious words from Christ, and I think this is the cautionary
• 54:03
  note I want to include here, guys, Jesus Christ says.
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  Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord, shall enter the
• 54:13
  Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who
• 54:17
  is in heaven on that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did
• 54:23
  we not prophecy in your name, Cast out demons in your name?
• 54:27
  Do many mighty works in your name?
• 54:29
  Did we not tweet Christ as king in your name?
• 54:34
  And then I will declare to them, I never knew you depart from me,
• 54:38
  you evil doers. Now I take this.
• 54:40
  Personally, because this is to me as much as it is anyone
• 54:43
  listening. We can say all the right things.
• 54:47
  We can believe all the right things.
• 54:49
  We can even do mighty works for, for we think for God, Lord,
• 54:53
  Lord, wanting to build His Kingdom, build power to serve
• 54:57
  him. It's about, you know, we're
• 54:59
  we're we're saying it's for him, we prophesized in His name.
• 55:02
  But if our hearts are not right. If our hearts are not right, if
• 55:06
  our hearts are not truly seeking in the end the glory of Jesus
• 55:11
  and truly seeking to grow in humility and love, love, love of
• 55:16
  Him and love of others, then we should be concerned.
• 55:19
  And in Jesus is warning us to be concerned.
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  Because at the end of the day, the purity of our heart, Lord,
• 55:26
  the Lord looks at our hearts. And I can't judge the heart of
• 55:30
  really anyone on Twitter. Exactly.
• 55:31
  I mean, you can see their words and you can say, oh, that
• 55:33
  doesn't look good about their hearts.
• 55:34
  If their words are this right. You can, you can make that
• 55:37
  prudential, you know, you can be discerning in that way, right.
• 55:40
  But at the end of the day, it is what matters is what is in our
• 55:43
  hearts. And the Lord sees that.
• 55:44
  And so I want to encourage all of us.
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  This is Holy Week, the last few days of Lent, and this is the
• 55:50
  time to make our hearts right. And the power of God's grace is
• 55:55
  this, that even if we have one movement of our heart towards
• 55:58
  the good and say, Lord, I know I've got bad things in my heart.
• 56:01
  Maybe I've got bias or prejudice in my heart.
• 56:04
  Maybe I have unholy anger in my heart.
• 56:06
  Maybe I have envy in my heart. Maybe I have.
• 56:11
  You know, whatever it is in my heart.
• 56:13
  Lust in my heart, whatever it is.
• 56:16
  Lord, help me, Lord, help me. I want to be pure of heart.
• 56:20
  Help me be my heart. Give me your heart, Lord.
• 56:24
  Go to confession. You know, many of you listening
• 56:26
  are Catholic. Not all.
• 56:27
  But you can go to confession. It's an incredible last few days
• 56:30
  before we celebrate the Tribune before Easter that you can go to
• 56:35
  confession, tell the Lord where you're at, open your heart to
• 56:38
  him, and let's together encourage each other to be meek
• 56:42
  and humble of heart. This can be hard to be,
• 56:45
  especially on social media, on Twitter, you know, what does it
• 56:48
  mean to be meek? What does it mean to be humble?
• 56:50
  We should probably do an episode exploring these things, because
• 56:52
  these words can be thrown around.
• 56:54
  But the core of it is this. Jesus Christ came into the world
• 56:58
  not to overthrow the Roman Empire by force and institute
• 57:01
  himself as king in an earthly way, and to have the political
• 57:05
  power in an earthly way, which is one of the reasons many of
• 57:07
  the Jews didn't want to accept him because he wouldn't do it.
• 57:11
  Jesus Christ came into the world to bring the truth and to die on
• 57:16
  the cross for our sins laid out in a position of ultimate
• 57:21
  humiliation and extreme suffering, extreme suffering.
• 57:27
  And he could have in an instant gotten off that cross and blown
• 57:29
  up the whole place been the Lord in a moment, in an earthly way.
• 57:33
  He chose not to. He chose to suffer, and he tells
• 57:36
  us to learn from him and to be gentle and lowly of heart like
• 57:39
  he was for the sake of souls. So what a beautiful, what a
• 57:44
  beautiful Lord we have, King we have, and what an example we
• 57:50
  have to follow. And and the good news is this.
• 57:54
  He will give us the strength for what he will ask from us.
• 57:57
  He will give us the strength for what he will ask from us.
• 58:00
  He always will. He always has.
• 58:03
  And that's why he says come to me all you who are wary.
• 58:07
  He's like I will give you the strength you need.
• 58:10
  So this Holy Week, go to him, open your heart, confess your
• 58:13
  sins, and let's enter into a beautiful celebration.
• 58:17
  Come this Sunday when we get to proclaim with true joy and and
• 58:22
  great, great gratitude that he is the king of our souls and the
• 58:25
  king of the universe. All right, there's my thoughts
• 58:29
  on Christ as king. Let's go to the chat for a few
• 58:31
  minutes and then we're going to close out here.
• 58:32
  Any questions? Let's pull up a few questions.
• 58:37
  I got in via Instagram. We've got some here.
• 58:43
  Tishmal says, Jesus, meek and humble of heart.
• 58:45
  Make my heart. Like unto mine.
• 58:48
  Thank you, Tishmal. That's beautiful.
• 58:49
  I love that Jesus meek and humble of heart.
• 58:52
  Make my heart like unto thine, Maria says.
• 58:57
  I love this perspective. That's what being Catholic is
• 58:59
  about. Thank you for using your
• 59:00
  platform to explain this. Thank you, Maria.
• 59:06
  Liliana Lila, how are you feeling with this pregnancy?
• 59:10
  I have a 19 month old daughter and just this past week has gone
• 59:13
  through a miscarriage. Seeing you glow with this
• 59:15
  pregnancy brings me so much joy. First of all, Liliana, I'm so
• 59:19
  sorry to hear that. I'm so sorry about your
• 59:22
  miscarriage. That is so, so tough and.
• 59:26
  We will be. Praying for you this evening in
• 59:27
  our family prayers. I I know miscarriage can be so
• 59:30
  painful. I'm sorry for the loss of your
• 59:32
  little one. Thank you for your kind words
• 59:37
  and I know it When you're when you have your own pregnancy
• 59:39
  loss, it can be a loss of your baby.
• 59:41
  It can be hard when you see other women pregnant.
• 59:43
  I remember having a miscarriage and just experiencing other
• 59:47
  women at the time pregnant too. And then they didn't miss Carrie
• 59:50
  and just, you know, I was happy for them.
• 59:52
  But it just reminds you too of your your own loss.
• 59:55
  But I know the Lord had a plan and I'm so grateful.
• 59:59
  I mean, I think I've got like two more weeks basically before
• 1:00:02
  this baby is due. So we're really gearing up for
• 1:00:05
  her. We can't wait.
• 1:00:06
  Her little brothers are so excited to meet her and I'm
• 1:00:08
  feeling pretty good. I I think I'm have a little bit
• 1:00:11
  of the absent mindedness. I lose track of what I'm
• 1:00:14
  thinking. Extra tired, uncomfortable, all
• 1:00:17
  the normal things. But thank you for bearing with
• 1:00:19
  me during this live stream. By the way, guys, 'cause I do
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  think pregnancy brain is real, and I do think I've been having
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  it lately with the podcast, so you may have already noticed
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  that, but it is a real thing. All right, here's some questions
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  and then we'll close out here. Starting out here, what are the
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  most, What are the? What strategies are most
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  effective in converting people to pro-life?
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  So I think that there's numerous approaches that we can take.
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  But I think engaging people personally, asking them
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  questions about why they believe what they believe on a personal
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  level is very powerful. If you're going to have a
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  conversation about abortion with someone, So really understand,
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  like, what do you believe? Why?
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  Why do you think abortion is OK? Why?
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  You know, what is your position on it?
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  When do you think life begins? The Socratic method of just
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  asking them questions about where they're at often leads to
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  really fruitful conversations. I also want to recommend two
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  resources. One of them is
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  abortionprocedures.com and this is a live action research
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  research resource that shows the most prominent or the most
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  prevalent abortion procedures in the first, second and third
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  trimester. It's not gory.
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  These are animated medical depictions of what happens
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  during the procedures, and we found that simply showing that
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  and talking about it, what happens during these abortion
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  procedures can be mind changing for many people.
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  So I would say that's a great resource to actually talk about
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  what abortion is. And another great research
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  resource is to talk about human development and when life
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  begins. And another great resource that
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  Live Action has created is called Baby Olivia.
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  You can go to babyolivia.com and it shows all the gestational
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  markers. Of the child's.
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  Development Another great website is Window to the Womb,
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  which is every single day of pregnancy.
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  You can see the development developmental markers and you
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  can talk to someone you know. Is this a human life?
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  Do you think it is? Should human lives, all of them,
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  be protected and given the right to life?
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  And at what point in this development of this baby would
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  would it be OK to kill them? I mean, when you think about it
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  that way, it's amazing the conversations that you may have
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  and open up with somebody who beforehand supported abortion.
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  All right, we're going to take another question here.
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  Actually if you can scroll up, there was there was a question
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  about prayer time which I saw earlier, which I think we'll end
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  with because we are in holy wake here.
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  I think there was we got in a lot of questions.
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  I saw it might be at a different side here, but the question was
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  basically actually let me just pull it up directly here.
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  So the question is how do? You fit in OK, here we go.
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  I thought this was an interesting question.
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  How do you fit in rosary time with job, kids,
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  extracurriculars, etcetera? The rosary, of course, is a very
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  special prayer where you are basically saying scripture.
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  You're saying Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,
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  blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy
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  womb, Jesus. And then you ask for the blessed
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  Mother's intercession. So I know a lot of non Catholics
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  listen to this show as well as Catholics, so I'll just do my
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  best shot at explaining this 'cause I think it's really
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  valuable. There was actually another
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  question about what? How do you respond to the
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  concern that Catholics worship Mary?
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  We should probably do a whole. Episode on this at some point.
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  Let me know if you want me to do that.
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  But no, Catholics do not and should not worship Mary.
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  They venerate Mary, and Mary is the mother of God, so she's
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  worth venerating like an incredible role model.
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  And she's also seen as someone who can pray for us.
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  And there's scriptural evidence for Mary interceding.
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  And she does that with Jesus's first miracle.
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  She's the one who comes to Jesus at the wedding feast at Canaan,
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  says they have no wine, And Jesus says, woman, what does it
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  have to do with me? And she says basically says to
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  the servants do. As he tells you.
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  And Mary is the one who notices there's a problem and an
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  everyday problem, like they don't have food at the wedding.
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  I mean, she's very practical as his mother and she's telling
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  Jesus do something about it. And Jesus listens to her.
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  And Jesus performs his first miracle after being prompted by
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  his mother. And Jesus included that.
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  And had that included in Holy Scripture, I think to show us
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  the power of Mary's yes to God's will and Mary's request of God.
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  Now this doesn't mean that Jesus didn't want to perform the
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  miracle. It doesn't mean that Jesus, you
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  know, wouldn't have performed a miracle.
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  It means that Jesus allowed in his in his.
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  Basically his environment of graces, Jesus allowed Mary to
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  play an important. Role.
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  And I think that role was not just for time and space, one
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  time in this scriptural story, but it's for all time because
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  Mary is the Queen of Heaven. And you know, in Revelation they
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  talk about the Queen. And holding the child and
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  wearing a crown. And you talk about the dragon
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  trying to attack the child coming from the queen, from the,
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  from the woman, the virgin. This is all an illustration of
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  Mary. She's a real person that's in
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  heaven forever with God. So all this to.
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  Say I believe we can ask for Mary's prayers.
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  We can get into this in another episode about well, wasn't she
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  dead praying to the dead. It's not praying to the dead,
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  per SE. She's very much alive.
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  She's in heaven. Forever.
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  And she's sitting, you know, glorifying God forever and that
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  her intercession is powerful. So the Rosary is remembering
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  Mary and her incredible role in salvation history as the mother
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  of God. And it's asking for her prayers.
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  And I was asked, well, how do you pray the rosary when you're
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  so busy? Great question.
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  The way that. We do it as a family, is that
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  each night before bed we sit down and have family prayers.
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  My husband and our two little boys, the boys are kind of
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  crazy. The prayers usually last like 10
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  to 15 minutes, and sometimes they'll participate, sometimes
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  they'll just be crazy. But we pray a decade of the
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  rosary together as a family, as well as pray for all of our
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  intentions, thank God for all of his blessings, and just have
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  this beautiful time of prayer. So we do that very faithfully
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  every night again. Sometimes it's crazy 'cause
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  they're two. And four year old.
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  But sometimes they participate and it's beautiful.
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  They'll pray part of the rosary or they'll pray for their
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  friends. Or once in a while they'll say I
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  pray for Papa, I pray for Mama. And it's a great way to ensure
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  that we. Are praying at least part of the
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  rosary each day. So highly recommend even
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  abbreviated family prayer time in the evening and including the
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  rosary in your devotion. All right, guys, thank you so
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  much for listening to this episode of the Lila Rose
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