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I'm Announcing Who I'm Voting For · The Lila Rose Show

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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Lila Rose podcast.
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  All right, today we're doing something different.
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  I am talking about how I plan to vote on November 5th on Election
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  Day. I have been very critical of
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  Kamala Harris and her extreme pro abortion platform.
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  As you guys know, I have also been critical of many of the pro
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  abortion positions that President Trump has taken,
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  especially in the last few months.
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  We have done many episodes on this.
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  We've also wrestled with the question of how to vote when
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  both candidates support abortion to varying degrees.
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  What does that mean for the Pearly voter?
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  And so after a lot of prayer and thought and wrestling with this
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  for weeks, and I will say hoping and praying that President Trump
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  particularly would change course on this because he has indicated
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  some movement in the past. So I've been hoping, you know,
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  we're up until really the final hour here, that he would change.
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  And there have been some concessions, which we're going
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  to talk about here and I'm going to share.
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  This is an essay that I have published to X and to social
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  media. And I wanted to share that essay
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  with you guys now. The essay is titled, What's a
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  pro-life voter to do? I have publicly opposed both
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  Donald Trump and Kamala Harris's positions on abortion over the
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  last few months. I have been asked repeatedly
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  over the last few days by media allies and friends who I will be
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  voting for on November 5th, or if I'm planning to just sit it
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  out. This essay explains the thought
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  process behind both my public opposition to the candidates
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  positions, the difference between their positions, and my
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  vote. For many, including myself, the
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  single most important issue to consider when deciding who to
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  vote for is the candidate's position on basic human rights,
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  particularly the right to life. Human life is sacred and every
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  human possesses the right to life starting in the womb.
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  Abortion, the intentional destruction of a pre born child,
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  is the leading cause of death in America, killing 3000 children
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  daily. When both of the two main
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  political parties have hostile anti life policies, what is a
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  pro-life voter supposed to do? Let's start with Kamala Harris's
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  positions and why I believe no pro-life voter should cast their
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  vote for her. As Attorney General of
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  California, Kamala Harris selectively prosecuted pro-life
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  journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby body
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  parts, which is a federal crime. At the time, Kamala Harris was
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  also accepting money for her then Senate campaign from
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  Planned Parenthood. Harris also used her power as
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  Attorney general to attempt to force pro-life Pregnancy Center
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  nonprofits to post abortion advertisements in their clinics.
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  Harris has said that if she were president, she would pass
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  federal legislation codifying Roe V.
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  Wade, which would legalize abortion on demand without
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  restriction through all nine months of pregnancy.
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  This would supersede all life saving laws at the state level.
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  Kamala Harris opposes conscience protections for healthcare
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  professionals, meaning she wood forest if she had the power and
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  the ability she wood forest healthcare professionals and
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  hospitals to commit abortions, else lose their ability to
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  practice medicine. Disturbingly, Harris has made
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  unfettered support for abortion a central tenet for her entire
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  presidential campaign. She's also been the first
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  candidate for U.S. President to tour an abortion
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  clinic as a publicity stunt. Harris's campaign has also
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  spread massive amounts of misinformation about abortion,
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  claiming that miscarriage treatments are being banned in
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  pro-life states they're not, and blaming abortion related deaths
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  like Amber Thurman, who took the abortion pill on pro-life loss.
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  The recurring message in nearly every interview and speech that
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  Kamala Harris gives centers on her unflinching support for
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  abortion, and this is only intensified as her campaign has
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  gone on. If fascism is the alignment of
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  all power to the state, Kamala Harris is a model abortion
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  fascist. Paris's campaign is the most pro
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  abortion campaign in American history.
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  She not only stands against the rights of pre born children, but
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  she actively works to thwart the rights of pro-life Americans,
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  including conservatives and Christians, to advocate for
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  these children. Let's talk about the Republican
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  side. For over 40 years, the
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  Republican Party platform included the right to life.
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  But in an apparent effort to court swing voters and so-called
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  moderates, President Trump's allies gutted the Republican
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  Party platform on life and marriage.
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  What his campaign has chosen instead is a path that
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  prioritizes supposed political convenience over fundamental
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  human rights. Several weeks ago, JD Vance said
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  that he and Trump support access to abortion pills, which account
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  for 60% of all abortions. Nearly 2000 children a day are
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  killed by abortion pills, and one out of every 25 women who
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  use abortion pills will end up in the hospital with
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  complications caused by them. They are dangerous for women and
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  deadly for the children that they kill.
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  Trump has also announced his support for taxpayer funded IVF.
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  In addition to being incredibly expensive, anywhere from 30,000
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  to $60,000 per live birth, IVF is incredibly risky for women.
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  And for every IVF created human embryo that survives to the
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  point he or she can be implanted, many of his or her
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  embryonic siblings are callously discarded for their perceived
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  imperfections. Of the human embryos that do
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  survive this harvesting, millions end up indefinitely
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  frozen, dozen suspended in a cruel limbo, waiting to either
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  become convenient enough to be given the chance to live and
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  grow or to die. Like their many siblings, IVF
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  commodifies children, turning them into property to be
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  created, used or destroyed at will.
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  Trump and Vans have also expressed support for abortion
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  exceptions for rape and incest, and oppose a national abortion
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  ban. They say that abortion should be
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  an issue left to the States, and Trump has criticized and
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  undermined pro-life state laws, such as Florida's heartbeat law.
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  Trump and Vance may believe that these positions are politically
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  more expedient. I've had many people tell me,
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  Lila, they're just trying to win an election.
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  But there is no middle ground when it comes to life.
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  Every child, no matter how he or she is conceived, has a right to
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  be given a chance at life. And they don't have a voice, but
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  we do. Every abortion intends to end
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  the life of a child. Either there is a right to life
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  or there isn't. Abortion is not a states rights
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  issue. Abortion is a human rights issue
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  and it is already unconstitutional under the 14th
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  amendment, which declares that no state shall deprive any
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  person of life, liberty, or property without due process to
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  his permanent credit. Trump historically appointed 3
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  of the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe V.
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  Wade, the poorly decided Supreme Court decision that legalized
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  portion on demand nationally. The overturn of Roe was a
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  tremendous milestone for the pro-life movement, but over
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  ruling Roe is only meaningful if laws are passed that protect
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  preborn children at all stages of development.
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  For Trump to oppose many of these pro-life laws when it was
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  his judicial appointments that paved the way for them is a
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  tragedy and a massively wasted opportunity.
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  As you guys know, I have repeatedly voiced opposition to
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  the recent changes in the Republican platform and in the
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  positions taken by Trump and Vance, urging them to change
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  course. Two months ago, after JD Vance
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  first announced on national television that he and Trump
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  supported access for abortion pills and that Trump would veto
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  a national abortion ban, I publicly stated if you don't
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  stand for pro-life principles, you don't get pro-life votes.
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  I helped lead a mounting pressure campaign against the
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  Trump campaign to urge them to change course.
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  At the time, I also had the opportunity to meet privately
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  with President Trump. He was generous with his time,
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  and we spoke for two hours on my disagreements with him on
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  abortion. Some progress was made when
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  enough pro-life allies expressed outrage and threatened to
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  withhold their votes. Trump reversed his position on
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  Amendment 4, which would legalize abortion through all
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  nine months in his home state of Florida, and he expressed his
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  opposition to it of it. Here is the reality.
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  Kamala Harris's policies and record on abortion are
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  objectively worse than Trump's. If Trump does not win on
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  November 5th, it will be Kamala Harris who will assume the
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  presidency. We are at the final hour.
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  I will be voting for Donald Trump on November 5th.
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  The prospect of what Kamala Harris may do in the next 4
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  years as president is worse than what Trump has said he would do
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  and could be worse than the negative influence that Trump
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  may have long term on the Republican Party if he wins this
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  election. I think it is essential that for
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  those who choose to vote for Trump in order to stave off the
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  evils that the Harris administration brings, that they
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  voice their opposition to any anti life policies that Trump
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  may support. I am deeply concerned for the
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  future of the Republican Party which looks increasingly like
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  the Democrat Party on life and marriage.
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  When both parties go increasingly towards anti life,
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  anti marriage positions, where does that leave millions of
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  Americans who stand for life and marriage?
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  I have repeatedly said that Trump's new positions on
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  abortion and IVF have discouraged pro-life voters.
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  There will be many voters who choose the less pro abortion
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  candidate like myself and vote for Donald Trump reluctantly
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  over Kamala Harris. But there will also be voters
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  who have become so discouraged by Trump's positions that they
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  may decide to sit this election out.
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  I urge Republicans to think big picture about this and restore
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  life to their platform and advocacy.
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  If they don't, the Republican Party will not be able to depend
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  on social conservatives and Christians for their votes in
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  the future. Enthusiasm will fade and voter
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  turn out will suffer even more than it does today.
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  I urge the Democrat Party to change as well and to reject the
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  pro abortion influence that has a stranglehold on its future.
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  In addition, for voters in 10 states the election, there are
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  also abortion amendments on their state ballots.
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  So as we celebrate the fall of the Roe regime, we must also
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  turn our attention to protecting life at the state level.
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  It is crucial for voters to reject these abortion
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  amendments. In particular, I want to urge
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  those in Missouri to vote no on Amendment 3, which would
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  legalize abortion up until birth.
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  It is possible to win in Missouri vote no on Amendment 3,
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  and for my friends in Florida, vote no on Amendment 4 which
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  would legalize abortion up until the moment of birth.
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  Live action victory. A new 5O1C4 that I founded has a
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  full voting guide for state initiatives.
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  It is LinkedIn the description. I encourage everyone to read
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  this guide and to vote to protect children's lives.
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  We must continue our fight to secure the respect for human
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  life in both political parties and across our culture.
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  The protection of our children cannot be negotiable.
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  America's future depends on leaders who protect its most
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  vulnerable. Also, I will be doing a live
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  YouTube event on Monday with people like Father Mike Schmitz,
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  Al Mahler, Bishop Burbidge, Lisa Bevere, and many other friends
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  and allies. We will be praying together for
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  mercy on this country and for God's conversion in our hearts
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  and across the nation. Please join me for prayer on
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  Monday, November 4th and keep your eye on the channel and on
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  the Live Action channel for updates to join this live prayer
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  event. Thank you guys so much for
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  listening as I share my thoughts.
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  I know this is highly controversial.
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  I know that there are a lot of opinions and beliefs and
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  concerns about this and I want to urge you on November 5th to
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  go out and vote your conscience and to vote for life.
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  Thank you guys so much. God bless you guys and we'll see
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  you next time.