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Breaking: Planned Parenthood's Fate is Changing · The Lila Rose Show

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Lila Rose Show.
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OK, things are heating up right now.
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There was a huge news article from the Wall Street Journal in
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just the last week announcing that President Trump's
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administration will be defunding Planned Parenthood of Title 10
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money. So let's break that down.
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What that means, That's a pocket of their $700 million they get
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from taxpayers. Also, there are going to be oral
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arguments at the Supreme Court about Planned Parenthood funding
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through Medicaid, another funding mechanism where they get
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hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
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And there was a bombshell report in the Free Beacon about Planned
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Parenthood boasting about being the #2 hormone provider in the
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country to those struggling with gender identity.
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A lot to unpack. We're also going to be talking
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with Christian Wagoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom about
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her take on all of this and so much more.
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So before we get into the Supreme Court case, it's always
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interesting to know what's going on with our Supreme Court and
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Planned Parenthood. I want to provide a little
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background here. You guys know, through my
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organization, Life Action, I have been investigating Planned
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Parenthood for almost 2 decades now.
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Yes, Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion chain in the
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country. They're around 100 year old
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organization. They've really built a
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reputation over the last century of really embedding themselves
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in our school system, in our government.
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There are actors wearing Planned Parenthood pins that show up at
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the Oscars. I mean, this is a very ingrained
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corporation, and a lot of people don't even realize this, but
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Planned Parenthood is not planning parenthood.
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So they are not helping parents have their children, helping
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parents plan when they're going to have their children.
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They're not, you know, caring for the children or helping the
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parents care for the children. They're not teaching parents how
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to be parents. No, no, no, no, they're not
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planning parenthood. What Planned Parenthood does is
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they end parenthood. They are the biggest abortion
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chain in the country, ending the lives of 400,000 babies every
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single year. Now people say, well, that's not
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all that they do. People who defend Planned
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Parenthood, they don't just do abortions.
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Yeah, they might be the biggest abortion chain, but that's not
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all they do. They do all of these other
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things well. Interestingly, when you look at
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the latest annual report from Planned Parenthood, you will
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find that their overall services have declined, but what has
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increased over the last decade is their abortions and what is
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now their new service at Planned Parenthood.
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Besides abortion being a leading service, killing babies is.
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Guess what? You guessed it, Gender reforming
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care. They're really getting in on
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what I call the transgender ideology cult.
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I mean, it's really a cult infecting the minds of so many
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young people and just people at large who get confused about
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gender identity. They think, oh, now my body is
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the problem. I'm going to try to, you know,
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castrate myself, God forbid, or give myself a mastectomy if I,
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you know, feel like I'm the opposite gender and I have
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breasts. I'm a girl, but I think I'm a
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boy. And then also I'm going to take,
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I'm going to take hormones to try to be more look more like
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the other sex. This is particularly damaging
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when we're talking about young people who are prepubescent or
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going through puberty and they take puberty blockers, right?
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And this can forever affect their fertility, their ability
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to actually be their own sex, their God-given sex.
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They try to be the other sex, then they never develop fully
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sexually into mature men or women adults.
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So there's so many, so much to talk about here, guys.
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I mean, this is something that I'm very passionate about.
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We've had different D transitioners on the show or
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people have talked about this issue because so many people
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today are confused about their identity, confused about their
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gender, and then the culture is relentlessly telling them you
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are born in the wrong body. If you have an issue with your
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current sex, with the sex you've been given, then you must be the
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other gender. And guess who is pushing this
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agenda? Surprise, surprise, it's Planned
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Parenthood. Who says gender identity is
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really what you are? Decide you are.
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You can be anything you want. And guess what?
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You come to Planned Parenthood and after a 30 minute
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consultation at our Planned Parenthood facility, if you're a
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17 year old girl, we will give you hormones, we will help you
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transition. It's absolutely insane.
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And this Free Beacon article, we're going to pull that up
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here, really breaks down the experiences of some very young
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impressionable people who cross the threshold at Planned
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Parenthood and heartbreakingly received the last thing that
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they needed, which was to be put further at war with their bodies
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and told that yes, they they are not their God-given sex and yes,
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Planned Parenthood would help them transition.
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So they kill babies. Almost 400,000 babies a year at
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Planned Parenthood are killed and they're now the second
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largest provider of hormone drugs to people struggling with
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gender identity. I think that all of this needs
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to be understood within the context of we are funding them
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$700 million a year in taxpayer money.
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That's a ton of money, guys. And So what does this mean for
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the current Trump administration, for Doge, the
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Department of Government efficiency run by Elon Musk,
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who's trying to make all these cuts to USA, you know, cut this,
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cut that. Why haven't we cut fully Planned
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Parenthood yet? That is the big question that we
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are asking in this episode and we are unpacking in today's
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episode. Thrilled to have on Kristen
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Waggoner here from Alliance Defending Freedom.
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She's the general counsel as well as the president and CEOI
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need to brag on Kristen for a minute because she has argued 3
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cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and won all
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three. And now under her leadership at
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ADF, they are winning cases right and left.
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Kristen, thank you so much for joining the podcast.
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Well, thank you for being here. It's just such a fun opportunity
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to join you as I think we're in adjacent lanes and protecting
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life. Thank you for your work.
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It's so important. Obviously defending religious
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liberty, but really defending life.
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You do so much to defend life at Alliance, Defending Freedom.
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And I just have to say really quick, I think it's out 20 years
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ago when I first started doing any kind of national
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investigative work of Planned Parenthood, it was ADF.
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That was my first pro bono representation when Planned
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Parenthood tried to sue me. So thank you again to ADF, a big
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fan over here. Kristen, you've got a really.
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Big. We're big fans of all that
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you've done as well. Thank you.
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You've got a really big day coming up here.
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April 3rd is oral arguments before the Supreme Court for
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your case, Medina versus Planned Parenthood.
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This is very much in a crucial case with regard to the funding,
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the federal and taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
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Can you lay out for folks really quickly here, what is this case
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and what oral arguments are about to to look like?
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Sure. Well, the oral argument is
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actually April 2nd. We would love that extra day,
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but it's not available to us. So it's April 2nd for those who
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are going to be reading the newspapers.
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And you can also listen to the argument, which people should
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consider doing. But we will be able to stand
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before the court on behalf of the unborn and on behalf of
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women across the United States, but particularly in South
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Carolina, who are seeking to have comprehensive health care,
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which Planned Parenthood does not provide.
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Stepping back, it is looking at the Medicaid program, which is a
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federal program that essentially the federal government contracts
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with states to say we have this money, we want you to use it for
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these purposes. And they enter into a contract.
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And as a part of that contract, the states are allowed to decide
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who are the qualified providers to provide this comprehensive
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healthcare service. And South Carolina has made a
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choice that, first of all, it's public policy, says no taxpayer
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funds will go to abortion. And so it's made the decision
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that Planned Parenthood is not a qualified provider.
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A number of other states have made that same choice,
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particularly in the wake of all the scandals that we see
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involving Planned Parenthood. And so that's the issue that's
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before the court, is whether a state has the right to say we
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are not going to fund Planned Parenthood through taxpayer
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dollars. And I think it's also worth
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noting that Planned Parenthood is now the second largest
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provider of gender transition drugs that are extremely harmful
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and dangerous to individuals. So right now, basically you're
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defending South Carolina's right to say, of course we don't want
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to give money to Planned Parenthood.
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You know, they're pushing hormone drugs.
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They're this abortion chain. There's endless corruptions.
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I mean, we don't even, it would take a long time to get into
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that. You know, all the investigative
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reports on, I mean, even the New York Times is doing
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investigative reports on the shoddy activities and the
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negligence at Planned Parenthood facilities.
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Even the New York Times is doing that now.
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But you're, I mean, at the courts basically, you know,
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South Carolina, do they get to decide side who gets who's a
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trusted partner for women and families when it comes to
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ultimately taxpayer dollars? Absolutely.
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And I think that the statistics here are so important in making
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this argument. For example, there are roughly
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200 publicly funded health centers that are are wanting to
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serve women and do serve women in South Carolina.
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There's no shortage of healthcare centers, and they're
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providing many, many services. But in response, Planned
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Parenthood is not providing any of the types of services that
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most people think. I think it it's essentially
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spread misinformation about what it provides.
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And I think we also want to pay attention to the scandal that
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has taken place. You mentioned the New York Times
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article and I think that most Americans would be shocked to
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know that in the last five years alone, Planned Parenthood has
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received 3.2 billion with AB billion dollars of direct
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taxpayer funding on top of 500 million in just 2200, 2020 2
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alone a private funding. So we can talk about where that
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money went, but I can tell you much of it didn't go to
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providing healthcare to women. So here's a big question.
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A lot of people say, well, Planned Parenthood, you know,
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yes, they're the big, you know, they're the biggest abortion
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chain. You know, people say, OK, you
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know, that's just one thing that they do.
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And by the way, it's not like the taxpayer dollars are
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directly paying for the abortions.
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They're paying for these other services.
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And so that's why it's OK. It's not a big deal.
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What do you say to that? Well, I say there's a lot of
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examples I could give, but money is fungible.
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That's the bottom line. And if I am going to help you
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pay your rent with $1000 and then you use that money that you
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were going to pay for your rent for your vacation, I've paid for
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your vacation. Whatever label you put on the
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envelope, it's still the money that is exchanging hands.
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And I think what's exceptionally important to remember in this
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case is, again, money is fungible.
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South Carolina has the right to say we are not going to use
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taxpayer money to fund abortion and certainly not Planned
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Parenthood in the case where they have plenty of money, they
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have 2 1/2 billion dollars in net assets right now.
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Why are we using taxpayer money when they're not even helping in
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a substantial the way the women that are in need and not
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providing comprehensive care? It's so crazy.
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It's so crazy, Kristen, I, I, I mean you, you've got to win this
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one because you know a lot is riding on on this.
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So thank you. I couldn't think of a better
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group and a better person to lead this charge than you and
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ADF. But, you know, this is South
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Carolina. Obviously, you're litigating on
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behalf of here. And South Carolina is one state.
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There's 50 states. And then at the federal level
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right now, there is a push to defund Planned Parenthood.
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And, you know, there's an opportunity here, an opportunity
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of a lifetime, quite frankly, because we have a Trump
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administration that has indicated they want to cut
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government bloat. You know, there there is a doge,
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Elon Musk spearheading doge, cutting USAID, cutting this,
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cutting that. And then you have Congress,
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quite frankly, Speaker Mike Johnson, you know, really
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passionate pro-life advocate. We've got a majority in the
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House. We've got a majority.
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You know, they're still the filibuster, but we have a, you
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know, a bit of a lead in the Senate.
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So there's this opportunity now with, you know, 3 branches.
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You know, I've got the executive branch.
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We've got all of Congress where we could finally accomplish this
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goal of defunding the biggest abortion chain and now the
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second biggest hormone basically seller, you know, in the
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country. Are you hopeful about that
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project, that federal defund project?
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And then how is that going to be affected by this case that you
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have now the Supreme Court, which even gives the government
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the right, you know, if South Carolina in this case, the state
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the right to defund and not get blocked by some activist judge.
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Well, if you remember Lila, in 2017, the House and the Senate
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did vote to defund Parenthood. And I think it's important to
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remember how that happened. You were a vital part of it.
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CMP was a vital part of it, but it was exposing the corruption
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that was happening in Planned Parenthood.
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So in in one lane, there's the cultural advocates, the
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investigators, and the next lane we along with other life groups
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were going to Congress and saying here's the evidence
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producing reports before Congress.
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And for the first time ever, they voted to do that.
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But that was over by a veto and now we're poised to have that
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again. It would be exceptionable.
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It would be a moment in history. And regardless of even what you
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feel about abortion, which we know to be wrong and taking
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human life, it is about also government blow when you are
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having an organization. Planned Parenthood does not need
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American taxpayer dollars. There are other places we can
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put that. We also know, again, that that
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$899 million that they have received from private donors,
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much of that money was used for politicking and legal costs.
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It's not even going to the local healthcare centers.
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So we're excited about this moment.
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I also think that it is a unique moment in that, yes, in 2017, we
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heard about the negotiated sale of body parts by Planned
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Parenthood. We knew then about the sex abuse
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that they ignore, that they don't report.
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But even now in that New York Times article, they're
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continuing to reveal how women are being mistreated, even
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employees saying that they're a part of a conveyor belt.
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They're not. They're losing their lives as
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well as injuries. So this is the moment to stop
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this scandal and again, to provide real healthcare options
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to women. Just because you may be
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disadvantaged in a part of Medicaid doesn't mean you should
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receive a lesser standard of healthcare.
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And that's what Planned Parenthood provides.
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It's more about their own agenda than the women that they're
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serving. How did?
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It get to the place. If you could just speak to this.
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I mean, it's wild to me that Planned Parenthood has the
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influence that it has. I mean, it's spent 100 years
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building it, right? But that they are they've
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succeeded in getting, I mean, it's 700 million in taxpayer
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dollars in the last reported here, most of that from
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Medicaid. Can you just educate folks
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Use the code Lila. Well, I mean, I'm not an expert
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in how they built the empire, but what we do know is that they
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did build an empire and it's an abortion industry.
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And that those who are in Washington, DC, you know, there
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are lobbyists that are there, there are trade-offs that are
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made. And it truly is an industry.
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And I think that it's, it's time for our politicians to respond
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with courage. And again, I would emphasize,
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you know, I've heard some talk of, well, abortion's a hot topic
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right now. Maybe Congress shouldn't address
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it. There are so many different ways
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that you can get at this to demonstrate that it's wrong,
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including even the transition that, you know, Planned
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Parenthood peddling not just on adults but also on minors.
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In South Carolina, the same state that this case is in, they
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opposed a law that would stop cross sex hormones and puberty
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blockers. They called it outrageous.
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Why? Because they're, they're getting
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taxpayer money for it. And they're, I mean, they're the
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second largest healthcare provider that's doing this.
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So again, I can't speak to all the ways smart business.
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I think a lot of deception, but we need to take that down that
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brand and bring reality and truth into the public square.
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And first and foremost, that baby is a human and that baby
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deserves life. We can't fund abortion any
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longer. Kristen, what's your confidence
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level going into the oral arguments April 2nd?
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You know, I think that's when the time this airs.
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It's going to be tomorrow or just, you know, in the next day
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or two. And do you think that with the
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current Supreme Court that we have, you know, the Supreme
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Court that did overturn Roe V Wade, do you think you're going
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to succeed? Well, when we were on the team
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in overturning Roe versus Wade, I was much more afraid of that
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moment than this moment. And we're so pleased with that.
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The Supreme Court made the right decision based on the law and
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based on the constitutional text as well as history.
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And I have faith that they're going to do that again.
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And the law is on our side is an example.
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It's might seem a little esoteric, but the commerce or
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excuse me, the spending clause under the Constitution is the
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provision that the federal government uses to provide this
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program. And that spending class says
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that you can't create a right or an obligation on behalf of a
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state unless you make it exceptionally clear.
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And that hasn't happened here. So there are a lot of reasons
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that we should win this case, and we just need to pray and
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urge the Supreme Court to stand and also use the moment with our
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members of Congress and even our states to take action on this
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issue in this pivotal moment. Thank you, Kristen.
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Where can people follow ADF and the breaking news about what
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you're doing in this fight to defund Planned Parenthood?
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Well, they can go to adflegal.org and we are just
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privileged to be a part of an alliance along with you.
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And again, I think it just takes all of us to expose what's
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happening and to urge people to do the right thing in this
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moment. Amazing.
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Thank you so much, Kristen. Good luck.
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Thank you. So let's look really quickly
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here at the facts that most people may not be aware of about
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Planned Parenthood. Now, as I said earlier, I've
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been investigating this group for pretty much 20 years.
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We have white papers exposing the abuses at Planned
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Parenthood. Basically, this is the most
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corrupt and evil organization I believe, in human history simply
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because they kill almost 400,000 babies every single year.
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The numbers of children that they have killed, the lives of
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those children that they have ended, are in the millions upon
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millions. And now they're involved in,
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yes, promoting. Gender transitioning on young
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people, that's part of what they do.
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There is a sordid history in their sex education, sex
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education of young people, promoting sexual experimentation
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and promiscuity to young people. So there's so much that could we
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could unpack here. But what I want to draw your
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attention to is 2 investigative reports that actually came out,
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not from live action this time, from the New York Times,
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surprise, surprise, and from the Free Beacon.
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And I want you guys to be aware of this.
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Again, this just came out in the last month.
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So there's Planned Parenthood being reported on by the New
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York Times. Yeah, crazy here, guys.
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New York Times typically has been super pro Planned
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Parenthood. When when the New York Times is
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turning against you and you're like a left wing pro abort
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organization, then something must be really wrong here
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because you look at this article.
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The title of this investigative report from the NYT is Botched
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Care and Tired Staff. Planned Parenthood in Crisis.
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It goes on to talk about patients who went in for an
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abortion and they didn't actually complete the abortion
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at Planned Parenthood. So the baby is born, born at
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home and is born alive and then dies.
21:31
I mean, heart wrenching. I mean, this is the murder of a
21:33
baby. Absolutely heart wrenching,
21:35
misplaced IU DS. So a woman goes in, she wants an
21:38
IUD, a form of contraceptive, long acting contraceptive.
21:42
The Planned Parenthood puts it in the wrong place.
21:44
She gets pregnant staff that are not trained, dirty facilities.
21:49
I mean, it lists these crazy stories.
21:51
Again, this is from the New York Times.
21:53
So you see this article coming out and keep in mind the context
21:56
here. Planned Parenthood budget has
21:58
gone up every single year. I mean, they're just raking in
22:00
the dollars. They're raking in the federal
22:02
funding dollars. They've increased their federal
22:05
funds year over year, pretty much every year in the last
22:07
decade. And their private dollars
22:09
continuing to go up, they get more and more, you know,
22:13
hundreds of millions of dollars in private foundations, private
22:16
dollars. And then on top of that, guys,
22:18
they charge many of their patients money in addition.
22:21
So they have that funding stream.
22:23
So they are rolling in the dough.
22:24
In fact, they have $2.5 billion in assets.
22:29
Assets means This is Money in the bank.
22:30
These are the, the value of all the materials that you, you own
22:35
the, the property you possess $2.5 billion.
22:38
So New York Times crazy article here listing stories like this
22:43
one about a woman named Nakara Allston.
22:46
She was 8 weeks pregnant. She got an abortion at Planned
22:48
Parenthood. It says she was bleeding
22:50
heavily. Afterwards, she found out that
22:52
she was still pregnant. The baby was still in her womb.
22:56
12 weeks after the failed abortion, Miss Allston went into
23:00
labor and delivered a baby who quickly died.
23:02
I mean, when you read this, obviously, you know, it's, it's
23:05
kind of presented to have you have empathy for Miss Allison.
23:09
What about this precious baby, eight week old baby.
23:11
They tried to murder it. Baby survived Planned
23:14
Parenthood's botched abortion. And then she went into labor
23:17
when the baby was almost 20 weeks old, almost old enough to
23:20
survive outside the womb. And then now this baby is dead.
23:23
I mean, it's just devastating, right?
23:25
Then talks about this patient suing Planned Parenthood.
23:28
So this article goes on and on. This, of course, was, you know,
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Join crowd health.com. This, of course, was, you know,
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an incredible article for the New York Times to pen for them
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to do this investigative report. But what really caught my eye
24:45
was in the last two weeks, the Free Beacon doing their own
24:48
report on Planned Parenthood. I want you guys to take a look
24:50
at this because here's the deal. The current landscape is this.
24:53
We've got the Trump administration, we've got doge.
24:56
There's been a signal of, yes, we're going to cut government
24:59
bloat. That's, you know, largely it
25:01
sounds like a good idea, right? A lot of money seemingly has
25:04
been cut. You know, federal layoffs,
25:06
cutting USAID, other cuts that are being made.
25:10
As of today, as of the day of the report of recording this
25:13
late March, Planned Parenthood is still receiving all their
25:16
federal funding. No cuts have been made to
25:18
Planned Parenthood's domestic federal funding.
25:20
Now, there is a report, like I said earlier from the Wall
25:23
Street Journal, that it looks like the Trump administration is
25:25
saying they're going to cut the Title 10 money.
25:27
So that's one pocket of money, maybe 60 million Max, maybe 70
25:31
million through HHS, Health and Human Services.
25:35
So if they cut that, that's great, but you're still talking
25:38
over $600 million, six, 100 million that taxpayers are
25:41
funding still Planned Parenthood.
25:43
So why is this still happening? You know, the Trump
25:46
administration could stop this, right?
25:47
So there's a lot of groups saying, hey, come on, Doge, come
25:50
on Trump administration, this is a no brainer.
25:53
You know, cut this money, cut these funds.
25:55
Well, there has been some conjecture that well, one of the
25:59
reasons this hasn't been a priority for President Donald
26:01
Trump is because, you know, pro-life isn't his lead issue.
26:04
You guys know, those that watch this podcast, you know, some of
26:07
my criticisms last fall about the pro-life issue, I felt was
26:11
being abandoned on many fronts back during the campaign.
26:13
And so I was very concerned about that saying, you know,
26:16
pro-life voters want to see pro-life leadership.
26:19
That's what we want to see. That's what we want to vote for.
26:21
And so obviously with Trump taking office, much more
26:24
pro-life than someone like Kamala Harris.
26:26
That's clear. It was very exciting when he
26:28
pardoned the pro-life prisoners. You guys might remember that
26:31
back in January, just within days of his inauguration.
26:34
That was amazing. These are pro-life activists
26:36
like Bevel and Williams, a hero of mine, who were praying
26:40
outside abortion clinics, doing activism peacefully outside
26:43
abortion clinics that were thrown in jail by the Biden
26:46
administration. So that was great, right?
26:48
But then the question is, will Trump defund Planned Parenthood
26:51
or will Congress send a bill to defund Planned Parenthood to
26:56
President Trump? Or will Congress, when they have
26:59
to do a budget every year for the federal government, will
27:02
they exclude Planned Parenthood from the federal budget that
27:05
they then send to Trump to sign? Right.
27:07
So these are all questions the Pearl Life community is asking.
27:10
And the reason that this Free Beacon article exposing Planned
27:14
Parenthood, pushing hormones on young people, I think it's so
27:19
important is because even if President Trump is not aligned
27:22
on abortion, on life, which I pray and hope he will be one
27:25
day, and and, you know, fully be aligned on the importance of
27:28
fighting abortion. The Trump administration has
27:31
been very vocal and there have been a lot of actions from the
27:33
Trump administration that criticize the promotion of
27:38
transgender ideology. You might remember the big
27:40
executive order that Trump signed, I think just a month
27:43
ago. He had all these girls over to
27:45
the Oval Office, went with for the signing who were in sports
27:49
and who ended up having to compete against biological males
27:52
in these sports. And he signed an executive order
27:54
saying that no, a girl should not have to compete in sports
27:58
against biological males. So basically protecting girls,
28:02
biological females, girls in their sports.
28:04
So there's been a lot of, I think action from the Trump
28:08
administration and, you know, a posture of we're going to defend
28:13
children really against the trans ideology.
28:15
This idea that you can be born in the wrong body.
28:17
This idea that you should, you know, take hormones or really
28:21
castrate yourself or otherwise injury or mutilate your body.
28:25
If you feel like you're born in the wrong body to try to look
28:27
like the other person, look like the other sex.
28:30
This seems to be the posture of the Trump administration.
28:32
So that being said, this Free Beacon expose is particularly
28:35
compelling because what it shows is that Planned Parenthood, who
28:39
knows where the money is, who tries to follow the trend.
28:43
They're not only increasing their abortion numbers, but
28:46
Planned Parenthood has been increasing.
28:48
They're handing out of hormones. That's their new business model.
28:53
They're not just committing abortions, but they're now
28:55
handing out gender transition care, gender therapies, hormone
29:00
therapies, and they're making money off of that.
29:03
So here's the title of this article.
29:04
It says Planned Parenthood is helping teenagers transition.
29:07
After a 30 minute consult, parents and doctors are sounding
29:11
the alarm. The abortion provider is wading
29:13
into transgender care, doling out prescriptions for estrogen
29:16
and testosterone, including to special needs kids.
29:20
It's so horrific when you think they kill the babies in the
29:23
womb. And then if the children
29:25
survive, you know, their abortion empire.
29:28
They give them sexual mis education, you know, the, the,
29:31
the trash that they try to teach young kids about sex is, is
29:34
crazy. You know, sexually experiment,
29:36
masturbate, I mean, really dark stuff to children, right?
29:38
There's a social contagion today of people struggling with gender
29:41
identity. Other kids see it.
29:43
They think that that's cool, that that's what they should,
29:46
you know, that that's what they're struggling with.
29:47
Or maybe they have other issues. They have autism or depression
29:50
or body dysphoria. They, they struggle with loving
29:53
themselves or loving their own bodies.
29:55
And so then they see, oh, well, then I might just be born in the
29:58
wrong body. You know, Sally over there is
30:00
doing this or this famous YouTube actors doing it.
30:03
So that must mean that that was something I should consider.
30:06
And Planned Parenthood is taking advantage.
30:08
They're taking advantage of vulnerable teens here.
30:11
So the article goes on to share some stories, and one of them is
30:15
the story of this young man named Fred, who was diagnosed
30:18
with autism as a young child, had behavioral issues, special
30:22
needs. And he was this young man who
30:25
then was, you know, questioning his gender identity.
30:29
And Planned Parenthood is standing by to provide hormones
30:34
for Fred, right? Similarly, they talk about
30:37
another, you know, other young people in this article featuring
30:40
other young people who themselves struggled with their
30:44
gender identity. And Planned Parenthood, who's
30:46
really good at building relationships in schools because
30:49
that's their whole gig right there.
30:50
Their business model is make young people trust them, get
30:54
these young people to be sexually active often and then
30:57
they come back for abortions. Or now a new business model is
30:59
if they're struggling with gender identity, reinforce that
31:02
struggle and give them hormones, right?
31:04
The article reads. Planned Parenthood is one of the
31:06
largest providers of cross sex hormones in the United States
31:09
and one of the fastest growing affiliates in the greater
31:11
Portland area. So this is Oregon saw nearly a
31:14
400% increase in gender of forming care visits between 2021
31:19
and 2022, according to their annual reports.
31:22
They're seeing similar increases or even greater increases in
31:25
states like even Ohio or in Tennessee.
31:28
And Planned Parenthood is providing gender hormone
31:30
treatments to teenagers. So these are very young people,
31:35
very impressionable. And now they are, they are
31:38
boasting that they are the fastest growing provider of
31:42
cross sex hormones to vulnerable young people.
31:45
In the story of Fred that I mentioned earlier, Fred
31:48
literally went to Planned Parenthood and had a 30 minute
31:53
evaluation ultimately and was prescribed cross sex hormones by
31:58
Planned Parenthood after just 30 minutes.
32:01
So these are incredibly powerful hormones that can dramatically
32:05
affect your body, can affect your mental health too.
32:07
It certainly can affect your development.
32:09
And again, Fred, this young person received these hormones
32:14
from Planned Parenthood, the, the, the prescription for them
32:16
after a 30 minute evaluation. So obviously Planned Parenthood
32:19
is not there to do mental health care.
32:21
They're not psychiatrists. They're usually staffed by nurse
32:24
practitioners. They're getting into this
32:26
business to literally get into a business to make more money and
32:29
to push their ideology. They're not actually caring for
32:31
these young people. So here's the bottom line, guys.
32:33
You just heard from Kristen Waggoner who is talking about
32:35
this Supreme Court case that is ongoing.
32:38
Really it's a question of can these States and, and can the
32:41
government ultimately defund Planned Parenthood?
32:43
Of course they should be able to.
32:44
It's insane that we're even in the situation where there has to
32:47
be court proceedings about this. But the reality is now is the
32:50
time. This is a very special time, a
32:51
special moment in history when we are closer to defunding
32:54
Planned Parenthood then we have, I believe, ever been as a
32:56
movement. The opportunity is to be for us.
32:59
So I want to encourage every single person listening to do
33:01
this. At the description below here,
33:03
there is a link which will direct you to a defund Planned
33:07
Parenthood petition that will help you send an e-mail to your
33:11
member of Congress urging them to defund Planned Parenthood.
33:14
I think your members of Congress, all of them need to
33:17
hear from you. In addition, there's an
33:19
opportunity if you sign up to receive action alerts from Live
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Action to actually do calls to your Congress members to urge
33:25
them to defund Planned Parenthood.
33:27
And as always, continuing to make your voices heard on social
33:31
media is very powerful because the White House is looking at
33:34
that. The White House is measuring.
33:35
Does the grassroots care about defund?
33:37
Is that what the people want? Of course the people want this.
33:41
I believe it is possible to defund Planned Parenthood.
33:44
And I believe ultimately they should be prosecuted and shut
33:47
down for their crimes against humanity.
33:49
But that can't happen unless we pray for that and we ask for
33:52
that and we work towards that. So share this episode with
33:55
friend as well. Make sure that your friends are
33:57
aware of Planned Parenthood's business activities.
34:00
They're ending of the lives of children.
34:01
Of course, now they're pushing of cross sex hormones on young
34:04
people. Make sure you and the people
34:07
that you care about are educated on this issue.
34:09
And again, sign the petition to defund Planned Parenthood so
34:12
that you can then be activated to call Congress to defund
34:15
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