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E104: My Response to Trump's Abortion Stance + The Vatican’s Declaration · The Lila Rose Show

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The states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps
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both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land, in
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this case the law of the state. He starts by saying Roe V Wade
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is overruled. Now it's up to the will of the
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people. It's up to the states, and
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that's where it should be. And this is the fatal flaw.
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It's not the pro-life position to say let California go its way
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and let Texas go its way. That's not the position of
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justice. That's not a position that
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respects human rights. Hello everybody.
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Hey guys, Welcome back to the Lila Rose Podcast.
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If you are listening right now and watching on YouTube.
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Hello everybody. I will be keeping an eye on the
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be back on here with you guys. And if you're listening on
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podcast later, we have a lot to cover today.
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We're going to be talking about President Trump's declaration or
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statement this morning, bright and early this morning on
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abortion. Breaking that down, what it
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means, how we can think about that, how we can navigate that.
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We're also going to be talking about the new declaration from
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the Vatican on the infinite dignity of human life, which is
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true. The human human life has
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infinite dignity, were made in God's image.
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Some beautiful words coming from the Vatican that condemn
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ultimately surrogacy, abortion, IVF and euthanasia.
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So we're going to cover that as well.
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We're going to take your questions, so keep putting them
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that. Also special announcement, as
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supportive of the show. I really, really appreciate it
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and it makes a big difference. So President Trump came out this
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morning, posted on Not on X because he's still not back on
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X. He was on truth social with his
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very formal statement on abortion.
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We're going to be listening to that 4 minute statement from
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President Trump and I will be giving my response to it.
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In addition, we're going to talk about the declaration from the
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Vatican, which is very strong words but beautiful words about
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the dignity of human life. The infinite dignity of human
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month. OK, let's go to President Trump
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and his recent statements. Now I want to take a step back
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and provide some context here, folks listening, you're very
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educated on this already. I know you follow politics.
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You've been tracking President Trump was our president for four
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years. He's now obviously the
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Republican nominee and he is been for the pro-life movement,
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very instrumental because he was the one who appointed pro-life
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judges, at least judges that are originalist, so they understand
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the value of our constitution, who ultimately were the ones to
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overturn Roe V Wade in Dobbs V Jackson.
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This happened almost two years ago and it was a huge movement,
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a huge moment for the pro-life movement, and it's something
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that basically removed the shackles from the pro-life
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movement to do work in this country to actually ban
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abortions at the state level. So that became possible.
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There are opportunities that were open to the movement that
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were not available to the movement before.
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So it was a huge step forward because before Roe V Wade
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ultimately declared that you could not prohibit abortions
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after a certain time or for certain reasons, even if you
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were the most pro-life state in America, you had to permit the
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killing of preborn children. And after Roe V Wade was
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overruled, many states went into the trigger laws, went into a
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fact that ultimately banned abortion.
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So you have some abortion free states which is an incredible
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step forward. Now the challenge here though is
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when Roe V Wade was overruled, what the justices didn't do was
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assert the equal right to life of every pre born child that
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exists not just at the state or community level, but at the
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federal level, that every human being has the same fundamental
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human rights. And the first of that first of
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those rights is life. The Justices did not declare
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that this is the fact in the in their ruling, there was some
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additional thoughts from some of the justices that indicated that
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yes, they do think equal protection should be given to
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all preborn children. But that wasn't the beef, the
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main meat of the ruling. That's unfortunate.
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That was a missed opportunity and we should be clear about
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that. Even in the pro-life movement
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that, well, overturning Roe V Wade was a huge step forward.
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They did not declare the equal status of the preborn child to
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the born child. Science reason shows us that
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this is a human life just like the born child.
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Life doesn't begin at birth. Life begins at fertilization.
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The science is clear on this. When a unique single cell human
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embryo comes into existence with its own genetic code, all it
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needs is time and nourishment to grow.
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So already in our Constitution we have the 14th Amendment,
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which declares that all people should have equal protection
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under the law and that no state has the right to deprive anyone
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of life without due process. Of course, there's no due
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process for the preborn child in a state like California where
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there it's legal to kill a baby through all nine months of
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pregnancy. So I say this everyone, because
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it's really important that we recognize where we are at with
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our current pro-life landscape and abortion, pro abortion
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landscape with the fight that's ongoing.
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Overturning Roe V Wade was a win, a tremendous win that saved
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some studies say 50,000 lives within the first year from
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abortion. Huge win, incalculable.
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Win 50,000 lives, almost 50,000 lives saved from abortion
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because these trigger laws went into effect.
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Banning abortion in over 10 states.
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Amazing progress. Amazing progress.
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Every single one of those lives, precious made in God's image,
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deserves to live. But the end game.
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The end game is complete legal protection for the preborn
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child. We can't tolerate this ongoing
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status quo of some abortions except some abortions.
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Imagine if we had done that during the time of slavery and
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we had said, OK, we're going to, in the North, free the slaves or
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not. Permit, abort, not permit
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slavery. But in the South, it's OK.
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Let the states in the South decide the will of the people.
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Let the will of the people decide.
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In the South, let them choose, let them vote and have slavery
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if they want it. Let them follow their hearts.
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And if they think it's OK to have a slave, they can have a
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slave. Let them let them do it.
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Let them do it. In fact, if you go back in time
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and look at the 19th century and slavery in America, there were
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even some good Christians, Christians, people who were OK
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with slavery thought it was OK in the South.
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It was an institution they could tolerate, maybe treat the slave
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well. But you can enslave other
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people. It's OK.
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America was deeply divided by the issue of slavery, deeply
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divided by the issue of slavery. And imagine if the politicians
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of the North imagine if the abolitionist.
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Imagine if Abraham Lincoln had said America will always be
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divided, and it's the way that it is.
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Let's have the compromise of let the South be the South and the
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North be the North. But no, a house divided cannot
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stand. And the house that is this
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American country that we love so much cannot stand.
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If we continue to play this game of let some states decide that
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children may live or die while other states protect their
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fundamental right to live. We have to choose what kind of
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country will we be. Will we be a country that
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tolerates the shedding of innocent blood and allows the
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stronger the adults, the powerful, to vote, that the
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weakest members among us are children in the womb, don't have
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the legal status, don't have the right to live, and therefore can
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be killed at the will of their mother or their doctor?
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Is that the kind of country that we want to be?
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And I say adamantly, no, no, we cannot be that country.
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That is not a country based on justice or human rights.
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That is a country that is based on injustice at its core.
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We must do better. We can do better.
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We've done better in the past. We've made mistakes as a
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country, and we have set those mistakes right.
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We've set those mistakes right when we have stood up and spoken
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the truth unapologetically, that all people are created equal in
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the image of God and all have the same human rights.
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The 1st is life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
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Life comes first. We must stand by our principle
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here. We cannot compromise on the
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principle. And so in this context, I want
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to introduce President Trump's comments this morning, and I
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want you to think about the political leadership of Abraham
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Lincoln. I want you to think about the
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political leadership of those that were, as they were called
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then, abolitionists in the 19th century, who said we will not
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accept the compromise, the compromise of allowing some to
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be enslaved and others to be free, but that all men are Born
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Free and should be free. And similarly, all humans have
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the right to live and should be allowed to be born to begin with
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and not killed by the great violence of abortion.
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So let's go to President Trump's comments.
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This is what he's signaling for his continuing presidential
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campaign. And he's signaling this because,
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you know, President Trump, he wants to win.
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It's understandable anybody wanting and running for an
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election wants to win, but let's see the pathway he's choosing
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right now to win. Let's let's listen to the the
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clip here. Under my leadership, the
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Republican Party will always support the creation of strong,
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thriving, and healthy American families.
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We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have
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babies, not harder. That includes supporting the
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availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every
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state in America. Like the overwhelming majority
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of Americans, including the vast majority of Republicans,
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conservatives, Christians, and pro-life Americans, I strongly
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support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to
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have a precious baby. What could be more beautiful or
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better than that? OK, we can pass here.
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I want to start with this because he's not talking right
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now about a federal ban on abortion versus states.
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He's not even talking about abortion legislation right now.
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He's talking about IVFIVF has been in the news.
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We've talked about it on the show before.
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But I need to make a note here. I don't want to focus the show
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today on IVF because we have done that and we'll be doing
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more of that in the future. But it's important to make a
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note here. The president is using this
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language. President Trump is using this
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language about the availability of IVF, and he's praising IVF
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quite frankly, as a, you know, important fertility treatment
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that family should have access to.
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What is lost here is realities of IVF that many people may not
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be aware of, which is that in IVF there are today an estimated
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a million million children in deep freeze, a million children
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in freezers unsure of their fate, if they'll ever see the
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the, if they'll ever see the opportunity to grow and be born.
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There are countless more. Countless.
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Truly, we don't know the number, but they estimate that it's up
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to it's under 10% of children who are created via IVF, make it
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to birth, make it alive. The IVF process is very
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dangerous for children. Many children are discarded or
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destroyed in the process of IVF. They're miscarried in the
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process of IVF or they're in deep freeze in the process of
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IVF. In that sense, it's very not
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pro-life because IVF puts these new human lives that are
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intentionally created under great risk during their journey
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into potentially being born one day.
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Many don't even have that opportunity because they're
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frozen or they're destroyed before they even have that
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opportunity. This is, this is the real truth
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of the IVF industry. But many people don't know it.
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They go into it with good intentioned hearts.
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I want a baby. I'm.
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I'm struggling with fertility. I really want a child, and they
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don't know that it's very dangerous for the child and that
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many children in the process are killed or left in deep freeze.
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And I want to say one more thing about this.
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In the state of Alabama, which President Trump is indirectly
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referencing, You probably remember this, the Alabama
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Supreme Court just, I think it was two months ago, ruled that
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parents in Alabama could bring a wrongful death suit against an
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IVF clinic. Remember this.
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And the Alabama Supreme Court was lambasted by media,
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including local media in Alabama, that they were harming
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the IVF clinics, that they were harming IVF families because
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some IVF clinics threatened to shut down in Alabama because now
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they might face wrongful death lawsuits from parents.
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And why did the parents bring the lawsuit in Alabama?
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Because what happened was in this IVF clinic, they left the
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door unsecured. Somebody walked in and smashed
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some of the babies who were in deep freeze, negligent, totally
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negligent by the IVF clinic and they are these precious sons and
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daughters were killed. And the parents were heartbroken
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that the IVF clinic was reckless and allowed this to happen to
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their babies. And so they tried to sue and the
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Alabama Supreme Court said you can sue.
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That's all they said. They didn't say the child.
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They didn't even say IVF should be banned.
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They didn't say IVF, you know, is the IVF clinic is not allowed
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to do IVF. They just said that parents can
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sue if there's negligence. That's it.
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And what happened? Massive outcry.
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Then what happened? Tragically, in a rush to respond
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to that massive outcry, even pro-life, self avowed pro-life
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legislators in Alabama and the Governor passed a law that
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allows IVF clinics in Alabama to operate with complete impunity,
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meaning they cannot be sued for any reason and they certainly
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can't be held criminally liable. If they intentionally kill at
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the request of parents, say babies or abandoned babies in
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deep freeze, they turn the freezer off and kill the baby.
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Or they are negligent and recklessly allow somebody to
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smash the bottles of the babies or the the vials of the babies
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who are in deep freeze. No recourse for parents, no
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recourse for anyone on behalf of those babies.
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Those babies have zero legal status in Alabama.
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That's what ultimately this legislation that got signed to
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law says. How is that pro-life to say that
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an IVF baby, a baby conceived, an IVF, has no rights and their
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parents don't even have rights to sue on their behalf.
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It's not pro-life, unfortunately, that the talking
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point here, you know, from President Trump and from other
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politicians is that we need more IVF as opposed to maybe we need
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to look at alternatives and reject a practice that has led
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to the deaths and the misuse of the lives of so many children.
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Right. So I'm going to move on because
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there's much more we could say on this, but we're going to do
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more in future episodes. In fact, I'm going to have on
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the show in just a few weeks Doctor Lauren Rubal, who was an
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IVF specialist. She's a doctor and OBGYN who
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worked in IVF and she's going to walk us through step by step
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what IVF actually is, what it does and it's harms.
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Everyone deserves to hear this, including parents who have done
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or are considering IVF. Everyone needs to hear this.
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So we're going to get to that. But I want to go back to
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President Trump's comments and the beef of what he says, which
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is the meat of what he says, which is about abortion
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restriction and regulation. So let's go to that next.
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Other than that, today, I'm pleased that the Alabama
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Legislature has acted very quickly and passed legislation
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that preserves the availability of IVF in Alabama.
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They really did a great and fast job.
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The Republican Party should always be on the side of the
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miracle of life and the side of mother's father.
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They're beautiful babies and that's what we are.
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IVF is an important part of that and our great Republican Party
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will always be with you in your quest for the ultimate joy in
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life. Many people have asked me what
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my position is on abortion and abortion rights, especially
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since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of
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something that all legal scholars, both sides wanted and
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in fact demanded be ended. Roe V Wade, they wanted it
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ended. It must be remembered that the
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Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they
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support abortion up to and even beyond the 9th month, the
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concept of having an abortion in the later months, and even
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execution after birth. And that's exactly what it is.
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The baby is born. The baby is executed after
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birth, is unacceptable, and almost everyone agrees with
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that. My view is now that we have
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abortion, where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint to,
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states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and
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whatever they decide must be the law of the land, in this case
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the law of the state. Many states.
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Will be. So he's very clear here.
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He starts by saying, you know, some sort of pro-life light
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commentary like you shouldn't kill a baby in the later
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trimester, don't kill a baby who's a newborn.
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OK, great, 100% agree. And I think that, yes, most
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people can agree on that. He is right there.
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But then he goes on to really deliver the main core of his
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message, which is that it's up to the states.
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Roe V Wade is overruled. Now it's up to the will of the
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people. It's up to the states, and
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that's where it should be. And this is the fatal flaw.
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This is the fatal flaw because this is not the pro-life
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position. It's not the pro-life position
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to say let California go its way and let Texas go its way.
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Think about it. Let's break this down.
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We talked about slavery earlier. Imagine if that had been the
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abolitionist, the pro freedom movement position.
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OK, let the South decide to have their slaves.
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Just let us do what we want in the North and not have our
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slaves. Because slavery is wrong in our
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view, but they think it's right in there.
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So they're going to do what they want to do.
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That's not the position of justice.
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That's not a position that respects human rights.
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That's a position of right, of of might makes right, The might
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makes right positions as you have the power to persecute or
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to dominate X people, minority group.
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And therefore, if you choose to use that power, it is your right
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to do so. This is the idea of democracy is
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right at all costs, right? If the democracy votes on it,
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then it's OK what that really is saying.
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If the mob rules, if the mob decides lynch that man, hang
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that man, let that baby be killed, then the mob is right
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because they cast some ballots and they did it in a democratic
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process, right? They, they, they, they voted on
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it. And therefore, it's OK.
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That's not how a country of rule, of of of of law and rule
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actually operates. That's not how a country of
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justice actually operates. That's why we're not just a
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democracy, by the way, as a country.
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Because just a democracy, if everything was a thumbs up or
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thumbs down based on what the potential mob thinks, we'd have
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some serious issues. We're not just a democracy in
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this country. We're a Democratic Republic.
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There's more systems. We also have a judiciary.
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We also have a We have multiple branches of government that
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keeps the other branches in check.
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So to say that it's OK and it's actually good for states to
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decide which children should live or die.
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Oh, the child can live or die in the second trimester, In the
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third trimester. Oh, just the first.
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Only in the first trimester, it's OK to kill the baby.
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But that's what we decide. No, you don't get to decide
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that. The pro-life position is this.
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It is always wrong to intentionally take an innocent
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human life. It's always wrong to do that.
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Abortion is the intentional taking of an innocent human
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life. Therefore, abortion is always
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wrong. Abortion is always wrong because
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it's the intentional taking of an innocent human life.
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We know it's an innocent human life because the science is
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crystal clear on that. Science shows us that human life
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begins at fertilization. We know this is a child at 3 1/2
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weeks. The hearts already beating.
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Brain waves can be detected by six or seven weeks.
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I mean, it's amazing how quickly this child grows.
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This is a human life, a son or a daughter.
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That is the fact. And the other fact is that human
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rights are universal. They are inalienable.
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That means they belong to all of us.
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We all possess them by virtue of being human, being human.
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It's enough that you are human. That gives you human rights.
23:12
You can also say you're made in God's image.
23:14
You are endowed by your Creator with these rights.
23:16
As our Declaration says, first right is what life.
23:19
What is the right to life mean? The right to not be killed.
23:23
What does our Constitution say? The 14th Amendment says
23:25
specifically that no state, no state mind you, has the right to
23:31
deprive anyone of life without due process.
23:34
The state does not have the right to create a law that says
23:37
if you are in the first trimester, you can be killed.
23:40
If you were conceived through sexual violence, you can be
23:43
killed. If your mother and the doctor
23:46
decide together that the mother doesn't want this baby, you can
23:49
be killed and you can operate as an abortion clinic with
23:52
impunity. You may operate because someone
23:55
who is stronger than this baby decided that the baby can be
23:58
killed. That is not protecting human
24:03
rights, obviously. And human rights mean that you
24:06
have a right to live, and you have that right to live, that
24:10
right to be protected by not just your state, but by your
24:14
country. And if your state is violating
24:17
your rights, then your country, the federal law, should step
24:21
into play here. And that's where there is a
24:23
responsibility for both our Supreme Court and for our our
24:29
Congress, our U.S. Congress to take action.
24:33
And President Trump here is saying, I'm washing my hands of
24:35
this. He's saying I'm washing my hands
24:36
of this. I'm washing my hands of this.
24:38
I'm, it's the states. It's the states.
24:40
And it would be one thing if President Trump said it's the
24:42
states. It's the states.
24:43
Because guys, I'm super pro-life.
24:45
I want a federal abortion ban. You know, this is wrong.
24:48
But there's only so much I can do, guys.
24:50
You know, that would be one thing.
24:52
And I still would disagree with him, but that would be one
24:54
thing. But he's not even saying that
24:56
here. He's taking a moral high ground
24:58
here by saying that it should be the states.
25:03
It's good that it's the states it states mobs don't get to
25:08
decide, should not get to decide who lives or dies, whether
25:11
little babies are dismembered in the first trimester in suction
25:14
to death. Well, little babies in the
25:16
second trimester are dismembered during live, excruciating
25:20
dismemberment abortions and pulled out limb from torso from
25:23
their mother's womb Where their babies in the third trimester,
25:26
like here in California where it's legal to kill abortions
25:29
through all nine months, can be given a lethal injection and
25:32
then delivered dead lethal injections.
25:35
For babies in a state where they don't even give lethal
25:37
injections to criminal offenders who've murdered serial killers
25:44
who have murdered multiple people.
25:46
You give the lethal injection to the baby for being unwanted, for
25:50
the crime of being unwanted, and we don't permit the death
25:53
penalty for others who are convicted criminals.
25:56
How does this make sense? It doesn't make sense.
25:59
It's not just. It's not reasonable,
26:03
unfortunately. This is the message that
26:05
President Trump is pushing as the pro-life candidate, and it
26:09
is deeply unfortunate. It's deeply tragic to see this
26:12
statement from the president, from the former president.
26:14
Let's listen to the rest of it. The law of the state.
26:21
Many states will be different, Many will have a different
26:25
number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than
26:29
others and that's what they will be at the end of the day.
26:32
This is all about the will of the people.
26:34
You must follow your heart or in many cases your religion or your
26:39
faith. Do what's right for your family
26:42
and do what's right for yourself.
26:44
Do what's right for your children.
26:45
Do what's right for our country and.
26:48
Vote so so President Trump is saying, do what's right.
26:51
Follow your heart. What is right, President Trump
26:54
with abortion. It is not complicated.
26:57
It is never right to kill an innocent human being.
27:01
Abortion kills an innocent human being.
27:03
Abortion is never right. He won't say it.
27:06
He's not saying it, and he's saying folly.
27:09
Your heart, do what's best for your family.
27:12
These are nice sounding platitudes that have a deadly
27:15
implication here, a deadly implication, which is that let
27:19
the states decide. And some states like California
27:22
and New York, they're deciding, They've decided.
27:25
They've decided to let the killing take place through all
27:27
nine months of pregnancy for any reason.
27:30
And it is brutal. It's devastating.
27:33
There's 2500 abortions, more than 2500 abortions a day in
27:36
this country. Children, boys and girls, sons
27:40
and daughters being dismembered, being killed.
27:43
And the leading, the candidate for the GOP former president is
27:48
saying let it be, let it be. Go fight it out of the state.
27:52
If you want to do some work, go fight it out.
27:54
But for me, I'm going to let it be because that's that's not my
27:57
job. It is your job.
28:00
It is the job of the executive branch, of the judiciary, of the
28:03
legislative branch. It's the job of all branches of
28:05
government to work together to ensure that our basic human
28:09
rights are protected and the weakest members of our society
28:13
do not have that protection in place.
28:15
It is your job. Let's keep listening and finish
28:18
out the statement from the president.
28:22
Important to vote at the end of the day, it's all about will of
28:26
the people. That's where we are right now
28:29
and that's what we want, the will of the people.
28:31
I want to thank you 6 Justice. It's so easy to say I'm OK with
28:36
the will of the people when your life is not on the line.
28:39
President Trump's life is not on the line in the sense that
28:42
people democracy is voting whether he lives or dies.
28:47
Well, my life is not on the line right now to vote whether Lila
28:50
lives or dies. Your life is not on the line.
28:52
They're not. There's not a, there's not a
28:53
group getting together to do a ballot initiative to vote
28:57
whether you specifically get to live or die.
28:59
But there are thousands and future millions of children
29:03
whose lives are in the line because somebody's voting on it.
29:06
And it's very easy for us as adults with our rights protected
29:09
because we are born, because we have the privilege of birth to
29:13
say, huh, say la vie, let them decide the will of the people
29:18
when we are not. Our lives are not on the line.
29:20
Put yourself in the shoes of the preborn life.
29:23
Who is on the line? Who has their whole life in
29:26
front of them and who There are actively people who are voting
29:29
on whether or not it's OK for someone to go kill that life
29:32
because they're unwanted or seen as undesirable.
29:34
That is what the president is speaking about, and it is
29:37
tragic. You can keep going here.
29:42
This is Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel
29:46
Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.
29:51
Incredible people for having the courage to allow this long term
29:55
hard fought battle to finally end this 50 year battle over Roe
30:00
V Wade, took it out of the federal hands and brought it
30:03
into the hearts, minds and vote of the people at each state was
30:08
really something. Now it's up to the states to do
30:11
the right thing. Like Ronald Reagan, I am
30:13
strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest and life of the
30:18
mother. You must follow your heart of
30:20
this issue, but remember all. Right.
30:22
So this is kind of where he closes out here.
30:23
But this is very important to note this here.
30:26
The president is revealing his position even more clearly at
30:28
this point. President Trump, he's saying
30:31
that ultimately we have to have the states do the right thing.
30:35
And then he goes on to say basically what he thinks that
30:38
right thing to be. And he reiterates what he calls
30:40
Ronald Reagan's position, which is that it's OK to kill the baby
30:44
in cases of rape, incest, or if the life or the health of the
30:46
mother is at risk. And this is, again, tragic and
30:49
not the pro-life position, unfortunately, the position that
30:52
Trump is saying even beyond his mistake about the states should
30:55
decide and when fight it out what they want to do.
30:58
He's saying, OK, states do the right thing.
30:59
What's the right thing? According to President Trump,
31:01
he's saying that there's needs to be exceptions.
31:04
There should be exceptions. What does this actually mean?
31:07
I want to break this down here because I think we get lost in
31:09
the language here, the rhetoric, and unfortunately it's very
31:13
euphemistic. So these are kind of false words
31:16
that are being used to cover up a an ugly reality, you know,
31:19
positive sounding words. What does it mean when you say
31:22
abortion should be legal in the exception in the cases of these
31:27
severe tragedies? Right.
31:30
Let's break down the first one, rape and incest.
31:32
What is happening in the situation in sexual violence,
31:36
horrific sexual violence, A baby is conceived, usually there is a
31:41
horrible perpetrator, perpetrator, typically, he's
31:44
not. Sometimes he's not held
31:46
accountable. There's a victim here, a woman,
31:49
a girl who becomes pregnant. And what is the idea of an
31:54
exception for abortion in this case?
31:56
It means that if this happens, if a baby is conceived this way,
32:00
when that baby does not have any legal status, that baby has no
32:03
right to live. It is OK to kill the baby in the
32:06
case of rape or incest. Rape or incest are horrific
32:11
violences that are not healed or solved in any way by an
32:15
abortion, which is another horrific violence.
32:18
This gets lost in the conversation, in this talk of
32:21
exceptions, in this euphemistic language of exceptions.
32:24
If a woman or a girl survives rape or incest, she's not going
32:27
to get healed by an abortion. It's not that she's going to
32:30
forget the horror of the rape she endured.
32:32
She's not going to somehow get better emotional support because
32:36
she has an abortion. In fact, an abortion adds
32:38
another trauma to that first trauma of rape and an additional
32:42
injustice, which is to destroy an innocent human life conceived
32:45
in rape. Your parents sins or crimes
32:50
should not be on you to pay the price for.
32:55
But that's exactly what an exception in rape or incest
32:57
does. It says you are responsible, in
33:01
fact, in some ways more responsible for the crime of
33:04
your father, that we're going to kill you in an abortion.
33:08
We don't even give the death penalty to rapists.
33:11
It's against federal law, in fact, to do that.
33:15
And so why would we give the death penalty to an innocent
33:17
child conceived in rape? That's the president's position
33:20
here, President Trump's position, and it's tragic.
33:22
It's not correct. It's not just it's not loving.
33:26
It's not loving to the rape survivor because it's another
33:29
trauma. We're pretending that somehow
33:31
she's going to be helped by an additional trauma and injustice.
33:34
And it's horrific to that baby. And then the other thing that
33:37
the President Trump, President Trump says here is, well, what
33:39
about the life of the mother? Common misunderstanding.
33:42
But medical doctors agree. Thousands of OBGYNS have agreed
33:45
that abortion is not medically necessary.
33:49
Killing a baby intentionally is not a medical treatment.
33:52
In some cases, you may need to do an early delivery or manage a
33:55
pregnancy carefully to ensure best outcomes for baby and
33:57
mother. But you don't need to go in
33:59
there and destroy the baby's life to save the life of the
34:01
mother. And in fact, even former
34:04
abortionist Anthony Levitino, he worked in a high risk N Upper
34:09
New York State clinic helping moms with very high risk
34:13
pregnancy. Dealing with thousands of these
34:14
pregnancies, he said. I never once had to kill a baby
34:17
to save a big mother's life. In some cases, we may have to do
34:21
an early delivery in an extreme emergency.
34:23
Early delivery of the baby is when you deliver the baby early,
34:26
but you're not killing the baby in the process.
34:28
And you hope that you have extended that pregnancy long
34:31
enough that the baby has a shot at life and you can put the baby
34:34
in NICU and let that baby live, right?
34:38
Big misunderstanding here. And the problem here is the
34:40
president, President Trump is perpetuating this myth that we
34:43
need abortion for health, that abortion is somehow healthcare
34:46
when it's the farthest thing from it.
34:48
All right. It was very disappointing to
34:50
hear the statement from President Trump.
34:52
It was disappointing. And he's, he's smarter than
34:56
this. I mean he's a very smart
34:58
politician. He know.
35:00
I think he, I think he should know better at this point.
35:03
He's kind of saying I have my position on abortion.
35:05
Finally, at the beginning he says this.
35:06
You've been the president for four years before and you've
35:08
been running now, you know, since then, basically planning
35:12
to run again since Joe Biden took the office and now you're
35:16
figuring it out eight years later.
35:17
You should be pro-life. You should be fully pro-life,
35:21
anti abortion against killing a baby, no matter what.
35:24
People talk about political expediency.
35:26
OK, I'm going to address that. People are asking me Lila, but
35:29
how? How about winning the election,
35:31
Lila, how do you win the election?
35:33
And I want to share a couple polls here that people may not
35:37
have considered about winning elections and pro-life law
35:40
because according to President Trump in the statement, there's
35:44
no federal law he would run to stop abortions.
35:48
There's no federal restrictions in most European countries.
35:51
The federal law, the nation's, the national law prohibits
35:56
abortion after the first trimester.
35:58
We don't have that in the United States.
36:00
We allow states like California and New York to kill through all
36:04
nine months the will of the people.
36:06
We allow that. That's not even allowed in most
36:09
of Europe. And President Trump is not
36:11
taking a stand here. He's washing his hands of it and
36:13
and people are saying, well, he has to do that.
36:15
Lila, it's politically expedient.
36:17
We got to win the election. The Democrats are worse.
36:20
Yes, I will fully acknowledge President Biden is worse on
36:22
abortion than President Trump. That is.
36:24
That is not an argument. That's not even being contested
36:27
here. President Biden is zealously pro
36:30
abortion through all nine months for any reason.
36:32
He would never pass any pro-life law.
36:34
But President Trump here is indicating he would not pass any
36:37
pro-life law at the federal level.
36:38
When he takes power, let the states figure it out.
36:42
And the reality is he could pass the federal law if he had both
36:45
houses of Congress, which we might get.
36:47
It's possible we've had it before.
36:49
What are some pro-life laws he could pass?
36:51
Well, look at Florida for an example.
36:54
Florida passed the heartbeat law, as did Texas before they
36:57
fully banned abortion. Banning abortions after the
37:00
baby's heartbeat can be detected around six or seven weeks.
37:04
These laws save thousands, 10s of thousands, and a national
37:08
skill would save hundreds of thousands of lives from
37:11
abortion. Hundreds of thousands, they say,
37:13
estimated up to 2/3 of babies are killed.
37:16
After that 7 to 8 week, seven week mark.
37:19
So we're talking about hundreds of thousands of lives
37:22
nationally. People say, well, the heartbeat
37:24
law is not popular. Like it would never pass.
37:26
That's not true. That's a narrative from
37:29
mainstream media that's very pro abortion that hates the
37:32
heartbeat law. I want to pull up some pulling
37:34
here on this 'cause this is very important for us to be aware of.
37:37
So according to a Rasmussen poll, and this was done a
37:42
national poll of voters on the heartbeat law.
37:45
This was after Texas passed their heartbeat law that Greg
37:49
Abbott, Governor Abbott signed into law.
37:52
And this law, this poll from Rasmussen found that 46% of
37:57
Americans, bipartisan. So this was both Democrats and
38:00
Republicans said that they support banning abortions once
38:06
the heartbeat of the baby can be detected.
38:08
And only 43%, only 43% of Americans opposed it.
38:13
So more Americans supported federally a national ban on
38:18
babies when the heartbeat can be detected, then opposed it.
38:21
This is a tremendously significant poll that was done.
38:25
There are other polls that have been done as well.
38:27
As an example, according to this was just a year ago, April 2023.
38:32
NPR found that the proportion of Americans who support pro-life
38:36
laws up to the time of cardiac activity at about six weeks.
38:40
So abortion restriction at six weeks had increased from 27% to
38:45
40%. Big increase in the popularity
38:49
of this law, especially when it's educated on when people are
38:52
educated on this. A year ago, 62% of 62% of
38:57
Floridians, and this included Democrats.
39:00
Among those, 62% support legislation to protect unborn
39:05
babies when a heartbeat is detected. 61% of Floridian in
39:10
Florida can be considered, you know, a kind of a bellwether
39:12
state you have. It's a purple state.
39:15
You have, you know, potential for it to go left or right.
39:18
Often can go right. And Governor DeSantis has done
39:20
amazing leadership there. But with 61% of independence in
39:24
Florida support a heartbeat law. 58% of women in Florida support
39:29
a heartbeat law. Hispanic voters were even more
39:32
likely than others to support the legislation at 76% talk
39:36
about the Hispanic vote. 76% of Floridians who are Hispanic
39:40
support the heartbeat law. In Florida there's a lot of
39:44
support, especially when they're winsomely messaged on and led on
39:48
by good leaders for significant abortion restrictions.
39:53
So why is the president not even backing any and instead saying
39:58
throw it to the states President Trump?
40:00
It doesn't make any sense. So there's more research on
40:04
this. In fact, we're going to be
40:06
putting out a memo from Live Action discussing the political
40:10
palatability of some of these abortion restrictions now, right
40:16
and wrong, regardless of whether something is politically
40:18
palatable, you need to say what's right.
40:20
You need to do, you need to do what's right.
40:23
You need to speak the truth. So I think it's one thing again,
40:26
if a politician says I support complete legal protection for
40:29
the preborn child, but I'm going to sign yes on this legislation
40:32
because it's the best we can do with the current political
40:34
status of the state. That's one thing.
40:36
But that's not what President Trump is doing here.
40:39
It's also what he did. He didn't say I'm completely
40:41
pro-life. I support every life's right to
40:43
live. The country's not there yet.
40:45
I'm going to do the best I can with within the working
40:47
framework I have. That's not what he did, right.
40:50
He said let the states decide. And I'm like Ronald Reagan.
40:53
I support these exceptions. It doesn't have to be that way.
40:56
Even from the political expediency standpoint, it
41:00
doesn't have to be that way. Heartbeat law can be very
41:03
popular. It's been successful in states
41:05
like Florida. It is successful in a state like
41:08
Texas. In fact, abortion abolition is
41:10
successful in Texas. We can do more.
41:13
We can do better. We've got to do more.
41:16
We've got to do better. In fact, the GOP, the Republican
41:20
Party's platform is pro-life, defines itself as being pro-life
41:25
for all children, that it's completely protect should
41:28
protect all children from abortion.
41:30
President Trump's exceptions, let the states figure it out.
41:33
That's not even the GOP platform right now.
41:37
So in conclusion here in President Trump, we've got to
41:40
step back and say this is not acceptable, this isn't
41:43
politically smart, this isn't going to mobilize your base.
41:46
This is disappointing. Your base and this is not going
41:49
to win over some pro aborts to your side.
41:51
They want abortion through all nine months.
41:53
They're not going to go vote for you because you're saying let
41:56
Texas ban its abortions if it wants to.
41:58
That states rights argument is not going to win the day with
42:02
your average pro abort Democrat. Who are you winning here?
42:05
Who are you winning? You're not winning anyone's vote
42:08
here. President Trump, the political
42:10
strategy you're playing out here is not successful.
42:13
It's not. It's not going to succeed.
42:16
Do what's right, say what's right, and there are very
42:20
politically palatable on both the left and the right,
42:23
significant pro-life measures that you can take as President
42:27
of the United States. And we urge you to do it.
42:31
It's not too late. The election isn't for several,
42:33
many more months. And you can change your tone
42:37
here. That's my message to President
42:39
Trump. You can change your tone.
42:41
You can change your position. You've changed it before.
42:44
Do what's right. Pro lifers want to vote for you.
42:48
Give them a good reason. Give them a good reason to vote
42:51
for you. And don't just make it.
42:52
Oh, be loyal to me because years ago I put pro-life justices in
42:56
place. Unfortunately, even with those
42:59
pro-life justices in place, we still have the fight of our
43:02
lives because children are being killed and we got to.
43:04
We've got to protect them. So do more, do better.
43:07
We people want to be able to vote for you because Lord knows
43:12
President Biden is not not a good option.
43:14
Not a good option. OK, I'll have many more thoughts
43:17
on this. We will talk about this more in
43:19
the future. We'll continue to talk and cover
43:21
the election in the future. But I wanted to break down his
43:23
President Trump statements. I wanted to break down political
43:27
viability of these different pro-life laws and let me know
43:31
your thoughts. Obviously, as always, I love to
43:32
hear from you guys. I'm going to check the chat now
43:34
on YouTube because we're doing this on YouTube live.
43:38
Judas says no to killing babies. Yep, that's the that's the
43:41
pro-life position in a nutshell. Do not kill.
43:45
There's some other comments here about Trump.
43:47
I think there was one I saw earlier.
43:49
What can we do? Let's see here where it was.
43:53
There's lots of chat is going here, lots of debate happening
43:56
in the chat. I'm going to come back to this
43:58
chat a few more times in this live to finish out here.
44:03
President's job is never to be a tyrant and enforce laws
44:05
nationally. He did what he should give the
44:07
power back to the states. And this is from a comment here
44:10
on the YouTube chat. Incorrect.
44:13
The president's job is to uphold the Constitution of the United
44:16
States. It's not just to go with mob
44:18
rule. And if the Constitution of the
44:20
United States promises certain fundamental human rights, then
44:23
yes, the president and all branches of government should
44:26
get involved in ensuring that those rights are upheld.
44:29
That is the president's job. He takes an oath to uphold the
44:32
Constitution. The Constitution says you have a
44:35
right to life, and that right should not be deprived without
44:40
any due process. And that's what abortion does.
44:42
So I would take issue with that and say absolutely, the
44:46
president has a job here. And it's not just to placate the
44:48
masses or to let the states do terrible and egregious
44:52
injustices. That's not the job of the
44:54
president. All right, We're going to go
44:57
quickly here to the declaration from the Vatican.
45:00
This is some good news, guys. I know this was a disappointing
45:03
statement this morning from President Trump, but there is
45:05
good news coming out of the Vatican.
45:08
There has been criticism of the Holy Father of Pope Francis for
45:11
not being strong enough on bioethical issues.
45:14
You know, sometimes the right is upset with the president, with
45:17
the Pope, and other times the left is upset with the Pope.
45:20
I think the Pope's job, you know, the Pope's job is, is to
45:23
be true to the Magisterium of the church and to what?
45:26
How Jesus Christ is leading the church and the Holy Spirit is
45:28
leading the church. And I do want to celebrate this
45:31
declaration coming out of the Vatican because it says some
45:33
very beautiful things. So this is a really positive
45:35
note to end on here. And I think it's important that
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OK, good news here. Declaration from the Vatican.
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I just want to read some of these beautiful lines.
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So it's called Dignitas Infinita on human dignity, and it is
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coming from the to castry for the doctrine of the faith.
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It's a declaration, and it says, Dignitas infinita.
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Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably
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grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and
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beyond every circumstance, state or situation the person may ever
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encounter. How beautiful this is, the
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fullness of the pro-life position, right?
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That every person has this infinite dignity.
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It's a beautifully it's a beautiful phrase.
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You have infinite dignity because you're made in the image
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of an infinitely good God. And it specifically notes the
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evils, some very controversial things, including abortion,
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surrogacy, euthanasia, and transgender gender ideology.
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I want to read some quotes here because I think they're
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important for us to think about and meditate on number one.
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It notes. It quotes Pope John Paul, Pope
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St. John Paul.
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The second saying among all the crimes which can be committed
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against life, procured abortion has characteristics making it
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particularly serious and deplorable today, In many
49:28
people's consciences, the perception of its gravity has
49:31
become progressively obscured. We were talking early about
49:35
euphemisms, President Trump's comments We're obscuring how
49:39
uniquely deplorable abortion is. The acceptance of abortion in
49:44
the popular mind, in behavior, and even in law, in law itself,
49:49
is a telling sign of an extremely dangerous crisis of
49:54
the moral sense which is becoming more and more incapable
49:57
of distinguishing between good and evil, even when the
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fundamental right to life is at stake.
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Powerful words repeated here in this declaration from Pope St.
50:08
John Paul the 2nd. It's sobering for us to remember
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when we think about politics and the law and how we operate in
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the culture. This is a serious moral evil
50:19
that puts at risk the most fundamental foundations of what
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it means to be human and rule of Law and justice.
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Surrogacy. The Declaration addresses
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surrogacy, also very hot topic in the news.
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We've discussed it on the show. They quote Pope Francis the
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path, the path to peace calls her respect for life for every
50:42
human life, starting with the life of the unborn child in the
50:44
mother's womb, which cannot be suppressed or turned into an
50:48
object of trafficking. In this regard, I deemed
50:51
deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood,
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which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the
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woman and the child based on the exploitation of situations of
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the mother's material needs. A child is always a gift and
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never the basis for a commercial contract.
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Consequently, I express my hope for an effort by the
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international community to prohibit this this practice
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universally. Surrogacy is wrong because it
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turns a child into a product, severing that child from his or
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her biological parents by design.
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This is of course different from adoption because an adoption
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there's a significant tragedy or problem that occurs that is not
51:31
intended or foreseen, where the child who is conceived cannot be
51:35
placed for whatever reason with the biological parents, so must
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be placed with a loving family to heal that wound of that being
51:42
orphaned as a child. Surrogacy is the opposite.
51:44
It's intentionally bringing a life into the world to then
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sever the bonds that that child deserves to have with his or her
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parents. Commoditizing pregnancy.
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It addresses euthanasia. This is a big one.
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We're going to do a show on this in the future because there's
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some very disturbing trends happening in the world right now
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in Canada, in parts of northern Europe, to promote the
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euthanasia that assisted killing doctors, assisting the killing
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of patients struggling with mental health issues with
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autism, the declaration reads. There is a special case of human
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dignity violation that is quieter but is swiftly gaining
52:22
ground. It is unique in how it utilizes
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A mistaken understanding of human dignity to turn the
52:28
concept of dignity against life itself.
52:32
What's referencing here this idea of death with dignity?
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That to die with dignity means sometimes you can just have your
52:37
doctor kill you that somehow dignified.
52:40
This confusion is particularly evident today in discussion
52:44
surrounding euthanasia. For example, laws permitting
52:48
euthanasia or assisted suicide or sometimes called death with
52:51
dignity acts with this. There is widespread notion that
52:55
euthanasia or assisted suicide is sometimes somehow consistent
52:59
with respect for the dignity of the human person.
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Certainly, the dignity of those who are critically or terminally
53:04
ill call for suitable and necessary efforts to alleviate
53:07
suffering by providing appropriate palliative care and
53:11
avoiding aggressive treatments or disproportionate medical
53:14
procedures. This approach corresponds with
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enduring responsibility to appreciate the needs of the sick
53:20
person. However, an effort of this
53:22
nature is entirely different from, and is indeed contrary to,
53:27
a decision to end one's own life or that of another person who is
53:32
burdened by suffering. They're saying in significant
53:36
cases of stress and pain, it can be morally elicit to avoid
53:40
certain treatments. It certainly is good to provide
53:43
palliative care or Hospice care to provide alleviation of
53:47
suffering. But to intentionally kill to
53:49
take one's own life, or someone else's life that's entrusted to
53:53
your care as a physician or caretaker, is always wrong.
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I'm grateful for this moral clarity.
53:59
It's so needed today. It's so needed today.
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And you don't need to be Catholic or religious to
54:05
recognize these fundamental truths that are written in our
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heart. That natural law reveals to us
54:12
that it's always wrong to kill an innocent life.
54:15
It's always wrong to kill an innocent life.
54:17
And that children deserve their mother and their father when
54:21
that can at all times be offered them.
54:24
They deserve their biological mother and father.
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And if there's a broken, a breaking of bonds because of
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tragedy or death or other reasons, adoption can be a
54:31
beautiful healing option. But ultimately, This is why IVF
54:36
and surrogacy, egg donation, these practices are so
54:40
problematic. So I'm grateful for this
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declaration from the Vatican. It's good.
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It's good to have this out. You know, it comes out the same
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morning that President Trump makes his Trump makes his
54:50
comments. But it shows us there is a a
54:53
North Star here of right and wrong, and we must be faithful
54:57
to the truth, even if it's controversial, Especially
55:01
actually, if it is controversial, be faithful to
55:04
the truth, especially when it is controversial because the truth
55:10
sets people free and the truth can save lives.
55:13
That's the power of the truth, but we must be willing to speak
55:16
it. I'm going to do a couple
55:19
questions here before we wrap getting some questions in
55:22
looking at the chat here, we're going to pull up, if we can pull
55:28
up. Franco, There were a question
55:29
coming in from social media. We got one on politics here
55:34
asking about let's pull this up here, whether or not we should
55:40
we vote for Donald Trump. Here we go.
55:43
Should we vote for Donald Trump? Does he support the pro-life
55:46
movement? As you can notice in my talk
55:51
today, I did not say don't or do vote for president, former
55:54
President Donald Trump. I think that now is the time to
55:59
demand justice and right thinking from his from his
56:06
campaign. I think we have the power.
56:09
You know, the vote doesn't take place for several more months.
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Now is the time to signal what you care about as a voter.
56:16
What do you care about? What is important to you?
56:18
You're not voting tomorrow, you're voting in several months.
56:20
There's a lot of time here for President Trump to evolve
56:25
towards what is right here. So I would say, I think it's
56:28
very clear that when you go to a an election, when you go into an
56:33
election, when you go to a voting booth and the the
56:36
Catholic Church teaches this, a lot of Christians believe this
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whether you're faith-based or not.
56:39
Many people operate this way that there's usually not a
56:43
perfect candidate. You usually pick the lesser of
56:45
two evils, but the reality is we get a choice in how we support
56:51
if we support candidates, and our support means the world to
56:54
them. So if you signal to President
56:56
Trump that no matter what, you'll vote for him, you don't
56:58
care. As long as he's a margin, a a, a
57:02
smidgen better than President Biden, you're in for life.
57:07
Don't expect the best results. Don't expect the best results.
57:11
But if you're going to say, listen, if you want me to
57:14
campaign for you, if you want me to vote for you, if you want me
57:17
to support you, grow a backbone, stand stronger, have a better
57:21
position here on life. I think the campaign's
57:24
listening. I think the campaign can and
57:26
will listen. So pro-life America, make your
57:28
voice heard. Don't just go the way of the
57:31
candidate that is a little better than the last, but demand
57:34
the best you can get. I think that needs to be the
57:36
posture of the pro-life movement at this time.
57:40
All right. Checking the chat here one more
57:41
time. We'll take one more question
57:43
from the chat before we wrap here.
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Here's a question. How do you know which statements
57:49
to believe from this Pope? I'm a cradle Catholic and.
57:53
But I'm. I'm here.
57:54
I'm sick of hearing him speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
57:57
All right. I understand some of the
57:59
confusion here because I think there have been many statements
58:02
that have been depending how they're reported in media or
58:05
stated sometimes in the Italian by the Pope or Spanish and then
58:08
translated into English. There's a lot of
58:11
miscommunications and I do think the media is eager to pick up
58:16
any sort of perceived discrepancy from what the Holy
58:19
Father may say, not in an official statement, but make a
58:22
media interview and create controversy from it.
58:26
So I would just say be very discerning.
58:28
If you hear someone saying the Pope said something, try to go
58:31
back to the original source or text of what he may have said or
58:35
may not have said. The Pope has never said
58:37
anything. That's a departure from the
58:40
teaching of the church, which is biblical, biblically based.
58:44
It is without error. It's passed the test of time for
58:48
now, 2000 years. And I'm happy to say that, say
58:51
that with relief. Has he said things that I think
58:54
have been misinterpreted or out of context?
58:56
Yes. And confusing?
58:58
Yes, quite frankly, I've even felt personally concerned.
59:02
Oh, this seems confusing for people, but within a certain
59:05
context, with a certain understanding, we can break it
59:07
down and see, OK, this is actually not a violation of the
59:10
scriptures or what the Church is teaching.
59:12
This is with context. It there's there's truth to what
59:15
he's saying actually. So I would say I understand the
59:18
frustration. I I know many people who share
59:20
it. But I would say go back to the
59:22
original statements, look at the context, work through the
59:25
context and know that there has been no change made by this Holy
59:30
Father to remove one iota of the Church's teaching on faith and
59:35
morals. And the official declarations
59:38
coming from the Vatican, encyclicals coming from the
59:41
Vatican are sharing more of the beautiful truths of our faith.
59:45
So be encouraged by that and let's not go back and forth on
59:50
this sort of outrage train that the media wants to take us on to
59:54
create division. Instead be sober minded.
59:56
I know the audience of this podcast is very serious.
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About what you may hear, hear or there from media, look at the
1:00:04
original statements and trust that the gates of hell do not
1:00:07
and will not prevail against Jesus Christ and his church.
1:00:11
That's the hope we have right? That is the hope we have.
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