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BONUS: I Unpack Upcoming Pro-Abortion Ballots Measures · The Lila Rose Show

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Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the Lila Rose Podcast.
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You're doing another YouTube live here today.
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We've got some breaking news and a big and very important news
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roundup today, and we're going to have on a special guest as
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well. So thank you guys so much for
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joining in. I'm going to keep my eye on the
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chat throughout this as well. So if you guys have any
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questions, we're going to be getting into the weeds on some
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really crucial legal and political questions having to do
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with the election coming up in just three weeks.
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So I want to hear from you guys if you have any questions or
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comments. Once again, I will be keeping my
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eye on the chat. All right, big news today.
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Bevelyn Williams, a young wife and mother, the mother of a 2
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year old child is being taken to prison, federal prison today and
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being incarcerated for her pro-life work.
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This is what the Biden Department of Justice is up to
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these days. We're also going to be talking
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about the ten key states in this election that have ballot
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initiatives that are taking place which would put into the
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state constitutions in these 10 states abortion effectively
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through all nine months. We're going to be breaking that
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down. I'm going to have a special
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guest to talk about that and then I have a special
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announcement of a new organization that is in the
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political fight as we speak to win victories for the unborn.
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I'm very excited about this. This is really years in the
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making and going to be talking about that.
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so thank you so much to seven weeks.
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Let's start with the news about Bevelyn Williams.
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I want to make sure you guys are aware of this news.
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Bevelyn Williams is a 33 year old young mother of a small
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child of a toddler She has a wife, she is a Christian.
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She is very passionate about her pro-life conviction and the fact
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that babies are dying and she needs to stand up to protect
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them. In 2020 she was doing prayer and
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peaceful protest activism outside an abortion clinic and
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that is what these charges are about So she's been held up on
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face act charges. You've probably we heard of the
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face Act before, but this is being weaponized against people
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like Bevelyn who are pro-life. You can notice that the
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Department of Justice is going after pro lifers here
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specifically and trying them with these face Act charges.
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They're not as much energy as being spent on other activists
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and other causes, but the pro-life cause is getting a lot
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of attention. You can see here Bevelyn, the
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charges that are against her. They act actually refused her
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bail. So she could be out on bail
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right now. She's peaceful.
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She has no threat to anyone. She's not only been tried for
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violating the FACE Act, but they're during her trial going
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to make this mother of a toddler languish in jail.
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So as far as action items are concerned here, please pray for
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Bevelin, pray for her family, for her child, for her husband,
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for their protection. And I'm going to provide an
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opportunity for you to donate to her legal case and to help
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support her family during this time.
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She's facing a three-year prison sentence.
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And that's going to be a link in the description here both on
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podcast app and on YouTube. We'll be following Bevelins case
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as this moves forward. But I think the key here is this
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is someone who is very brave. She's been very faithful in her
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pro-life conviction. She stood up for what she's
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believed in. She's charges, I believe our
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political politically motivated against her.
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There's a picture of Beverlyn and her baby and her husband.
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She's been fighting for life for years now and I think she's been
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unjustly targeted by the Department of Justice.
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So please continue to follow with us Beverlyn's case and the
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case of the other pro-life advocates like Joan Andrews
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Bell, like Lauren Handy, who are currently sitting in federal
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prison. All right, I'm going to pull in
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next a special announcement. We've got a new organization
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that was just announced in just the last few days, and we're
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going to have a special treat because we're going to have the
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executive director of that organization on the show to talk
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about what we're facing right now in 10 states with this
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election. So as you guys may know, in this
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election, there are 10 states that are considering abortion on
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the ballot. And abortion would be allowed
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through all nine months of pregnancy with few or little,
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few or no restrictions. And so I'm going to welcome here
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Noah Brandt. Noah Brandt is a dear friend of
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mine. He also has worked with me and
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done incredible work over at Live Action and, you know, Live
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Action, the nonprofit pro-life organization I lead.
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But now Live Action Victory has been launched, which is the
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sister organization of Live Action Why Live Action Victory?
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I'm going to let Noah answer this question for us first.
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But this is a separate organization from Live Action,
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the C3, and it's designed to achieve political victories.
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Noah, welcome to the podcast. Give us a little bit of
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background on on Why Live Action Victory.
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Thanks Lila. Listen.
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So excited to be here. Excited to talk about live
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action victory. Listen, it's called live action
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victory because we are here to win political victories, right
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in the in the realm of elections and directly influencing public
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policy through making sure the right people are in office and
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in this election. Most importantly, making sure
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that so many of these states constitutions are not amended to
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add the killing of children up into the moment of birth through
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an all nine months to their state constitutions.
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You know, a lot of folks don't always think about it's like,
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you know, we live in a, a Republic, right?
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So the main ways that we create laws is we elect people, we
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elect state representatives and governors and they pass and sign
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laws. But you most states also have a
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process called initiative petition where people can gather
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signatures and then they can literally add like a law for you
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to vote on an amendment to the state constitution on that
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November ballot. So in 10 states, like you said,
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Lila, in 10 states, just in about 3 weeks from now, then
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during the November election, voters will go and they'll see
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things like voting for president or voting for US senator, voting
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for Congress. And then they'll also see an
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option to add an amendment to their state constitution to add
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a right to kill a child. So that's that is what we are
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laser focused on for this election cycle is defeating
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these amendments, especially in two very important battlegrounds
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in Florida and Missouri. Thank you, Noah.
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Let's pull up and let's go through one of one of these one
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at a time because there is a lot of I think confusion out here
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out there and certainly intended confusion by the pro abortion
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side about what these ballot initiatives would actually do,
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what these amendments to these state constitutions would
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actually do. So I want to go through them one
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by one. But before that, I want to talk
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about the last two years since the fall of Roe V Wade.
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So as, as I know, you know, these initiatives are even
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possible because pro-life laws, I should say, in pro-life states
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are possible because of the fall of Roe.
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So now you can have abortion bans or heartbeat laws in states
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that want to protect human lives.
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Of course, we support complete abolition of complete abolition
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of laws that would permit abortion.
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We want complete legal protection for preborn children.
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Now the the what the left or the pro abortion side is doing, I
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don't want to say the whole left because some of the left is
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they're still pro lifers on the left.
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But what the pro abortion side is doing right now is going
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state by state to enshrine abortion in the state
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constitutions. Can you share what has happened
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in the last two years since the fall of Roe V.
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Wade and how this strategy from the pro abortion side has been
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effective. Yeah, absolutely.
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Well, I think it's important First off to talk about the
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Constitution, right? So Roe V Wade decide in the
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1970s, it said that there's a right to abortion in the United
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States Constitution. That was wrong to the minute it
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was decided. And then finally two years ago,
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it was overturned, like you said.
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So the no more Roe V Wade. But the Supreme Court didn't do
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the ultimate good, the ultimate truth of what they should do.
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What the Supreme Court should have said is that listen, we
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have a 14th Amendment to our Constitution, right?
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So you have the Civil War for war.
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We fight over slavery. And after the Civil War, we
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passed 2 amendments. We passed the 13th Amendment,
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which abolishes slavery, and the 14th Amendment, which guarantees
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all people equal protection and due process under the law.
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The most important thing there for us is equal protection under
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the law means that a law, a law cannot apply.
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A law cannot apply to different categories of people separately.
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So for example, I can't have a law that says, you know, men
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have a right to vote, but but women don't have a right to
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vote, right. I can't have a law that says I'm
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allowed to to hurt someone and another person is not allowed to
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hurt someone. And then very importantly, it
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also means that since every state in the union, all 50
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states have laws preventing homicide, right, and preventing
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murder, I cannot hurt another person.
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Murder someone, then those laws apply to every person, right?
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And who are people? You and I are people, but also
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children in the womb are people. Preborn children are people.
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So equal protection under the 14th Amendment is what the
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Supreme Court should have done and what we are still working to
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encourage them, even if it takes a long time to ultimately do.
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But they didn't do that. So what they said is they said
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that Roe V. Wade is wrong.
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There is no right to abortion in the state constitution.
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But there also isn't an affirmative, you know, right to
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life, which which we see, which we should have under equal
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protection and that each state can make their own laws right
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there. And they also said that if
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federal that elected representatives in general.
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So the what they said specifically was the people and
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their elected representatives. So what that means is you have
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some states like my home state here in Missouri, where I'm
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recording from where we the the literally the day that Dobbs is
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overturned, a law went into effect that ended abortion in
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Missouri, ended elective induced abortion in Missouri.
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And you also states of California, which have gone even
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more extreme in the years since, right?
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They're they're funding people, they're flying people in from
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across the country to do abortions.
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And so another thing that we've encountered now since the since
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abortion is in the political Democratic arena, small D
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Democratic is in states that do have protections for life that
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the legislator has passed. So the legislator elected by the
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people have passed. The abortion lobby is very upset
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by this, right? They're upset.
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Then a place like Missouri has a, has a, a protection for life
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that stops and bans abortion. So what they do is they start an
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initiative petition process. So we can look at Ohio.
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That was the most recent one that's already done.
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This was last year, 2023, in a special election.
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The Planned Parenthood and their allies in the media and the
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abortion industry, they raise 10s of millions of dollars, 10s
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of millions to collect signatures across the state.
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They pay signature gatherers. They pay people like if you
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don't stand outside of the grocery store and say, will you
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sign this petition? And that, you know, a lot of
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times the people lie. They'll say, oh, this is just
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about healthcare. You know, this is about ensuring
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women can get treatment for miscarriage, that type of thing.
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They'll sign the petition and then if they get enough
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signatures, it gets added to the ballots.
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That's what happened in Ohio. And and and then it goes to, you
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know, it becomes a political race where then you're all
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voting at the end of the year. And in Ohio, for example, I mean
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the pro-life side was outspent vastly and the out pro-life side
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was outspent more than three to one by 10s of millions of
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dollars. That's such an, I mean the point
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you're making, which I think most people don't realize about
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these ballot initiatives is that we were outspent, the pro-life
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side was outspent 3 to one in states like Ohio.
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And so you're seeing sometimes hundred, a $100 million put into
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a small state like Ohio, almost 100 million by the pro abortion
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side. And the pro-life side, I think
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did come out swinging in that state.
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There was 10s of millions of dollars put in on the pro-life
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side and it still failed. Noah, do you think that this
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means that the pro-life side is not viable when it comes to
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these these state races? What, what, what is your take on
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this? Because of course, this is going
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to inform our strategy at Live Action Victory, launching this
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new organization, because we've got to win.
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We've got to win to protect human life.
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We can't deal with the continuing losses that we're
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facing. This is an existential threat to
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these human beings, to children now in these 10 states.
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So what's your take on why we have failed and how we can be
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successful in the future and not feel like we have in the past?
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Yeah, I think these races that we're looking at are incredibly
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winnable right there. There are a lot of odds stacked
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against the pro-life movement, especially money.
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The biggest thing is we have to talk about the money for a
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minute because the, the the funding difference is, is vast.
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So if you think about being outspent 3 to one, that means
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roughly, if you're just talking about advertisements, right?
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The people are seeing about three times more advertisements
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for your, the opposing side, the pro abortion side than the
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pro-life side. And when it comes to voting on
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ballot initiatives, right, it's different than voting for.
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It's actually money is even more political spending is more
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important because whenever you're a candidate, you're
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affiliated with a party. And so most people have an
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intuitive understanding that I usually vote for Republicans or
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usually vote for Democrats. And so even if there's a big
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funding disparity, kind of the so-called fundamentals of the
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race are consistent because a lot of the people who usually
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vote for Republicans are going to vote for Republican
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regardless. A lot of people usually vote for
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a Democrat, are going to vote for a Democrat regardless These
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initiative petitions, they do not have a letter by them,
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right? So we, so the, the simplest way
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to put this is for many voters who are focused on other things
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in their life and not always following politics, there is not
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kind of a little CHEAT SHEET in the ballot box of how to vote of
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like, oh, I'm normally a Republican.
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I'm just going to vote. I don't know who this guy is or
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this gal is. I'm going to vote Republican.
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I'm normally a Democrat, I'm going to vote Democrat.
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And so the messages people are getting the the especially on
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their phones and on their televisions are more important
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than ever because often times voters are starting with a very
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low amount of information about what they're even.
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Considering. So, so just to break it down a
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little more, So what you're saying is, you know, typically
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these ballot questions have a lot of text, you know, you're
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dealing with sometimes up to a page full of texts describing
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what this amendment would theoretically do.
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And typically when a voter goes to the voting booth, they are
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considering party lines. You know, they're voting R or
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they're voting D they're voting Republican.
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And the name and people right the names of.
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People and the name. Of the person in a.
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Party and that's why of course, when you're in a political race
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and you're a candidate, name recognition is everything you
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want. The more your name gets out
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there, even if it's unfavorable, your name being out there is
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going to stick in people's heads when they go to the voting
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booth. And so with these amendments,
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there's no name recognition involved.
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You're dealing with a lack of clarity around whether a yes or
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a no is even pro-life, pro abortion, Republican, Democrat.
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Sometimes it's very unclear what, how you're even voting,
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what it would even mean that yes or a no, because you're dealing
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with sometimes a paragraph or a page full of words that are
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often intentionally written to mislead.
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And then you're dealing with on top of that, a pro abortion side
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that is spending up to $100 million in a state like Ohio, in
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a small state, not a, not a huge state, I mean, not a, not a tiny
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state, but you know, mid size state.
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You're spending up to $100 million to basically lie to
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people that their own safety, their health, the health of
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their mothers, their sisters and their daughters is at stake if
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they don't vote the way of the pro abortion side.
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Of course, they don't call it for abortion.
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They just say vote no or they'll say vote yes depending on which
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side it is site site is on. Usually it's that you vote yes.
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And so let's let's go watch some ads now, Noah.
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If, if, if we can, we'll comment on them that the pro abortion
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side is using right now in Missouri and in Florida to push
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their abortion through birth agenda until birth agenda.
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And I do think it's important because we just can't say this
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enough times. Vote no if you are in any one of
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these 10 states. And let's list the states for
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everyone, Noah, so that folks know, of course, Missouri is one
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of them that we're going to be focusing on here.
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Florida is another hugely important one.
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If you are a pro lifer in those states, you need to vote no.
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And it's voting no on the amendment, depending on your
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state on the amendment that is basically having anything to do
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with abortion. I think that's a good rule of
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thumb. If the amendment has to do with
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abortion, you can vote no. There's one exception, of
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course, here. I'm going to turn it over to to,
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you know, to walk us through that that briefly.
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So that people can know if they're in one of these states,
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that they're up, that they need to vote no, and that they can
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encourage other people to vote no as well.
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So let you do let you do the rundown for us.
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Let's do it. And just to add 1 one more point
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to what you're saying Lila, about the difference.
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What, why these, why this amendment fight is different
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than a normal political fight with candidates is it's almost
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like our general, the general fight of the pro-life movement,
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right? We're we are advocating and
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fighting for a constituency that cannot speak for themselves,
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preborn babies. And these amendments do not
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talk, right? Candidates literally talk.
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People watch ads, they watch interviews, they read op eds by
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candidates talking. These amendments do not talk and
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they are very confusing and long and people are intending to
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deceive. So what I'll say to everyone
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listening, especially if you're in one of these states or have
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friends or family in these states, personal reach out is
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more important than ever because since these amendments do not
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speak, people who who are interested in telling the truth
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have to talk about what they actually say.
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So if you're in a state like Arizona, Colorado, Florida,
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Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nebraska's the only
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interesting one I can mention in a minute.
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Nevada, New York, and South Dakota, Those 10 states say one
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more time, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Montana,
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Nebraska, Nevada, New York, South Dakota.
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If you're in one of those states, you have an amendment on
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your ballot. When you go to vote for
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president, you are going to see this on your ballot and will not
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say this in text because they write it in a deceptive way.
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But in practice, this amendment will legalize abortion up until
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birth in your state constitutions.
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And if you're in a state like Colorado and New York and
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Maryland, which unfortunately pretty much already have
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abortion legalized up until birth, this will add it to your
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state constitution and make it even harder to change and make
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it much harder to pass even sort of ancillary pro-life things.
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And also in a place like Maryland, it'll make taxpayer
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funding of abortions legal along with codifying abortion up until
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birth in your constitution. So vote no.
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And I'll just mention briefly so no one's in suspense.
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Nebraska is the only state on this.
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They actually have two competing amendments.
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They have one amendment to legalize abortion up until the
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moment of birth, and then they have another amendment that
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would, in in their state constitution, codify their
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current law, which bans abortion after 12 weeks, but while still
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allowing future future pro-life progress.
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So just to go through these states again, we've got Arizona
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on the ballot. So vote no in Arizona.
19:58
We've got Colorado on the ballot, Vote no in Colorado,
20:01
Florida on the ballot. That's Amendment one.
20:03
Vote no. On Florida.
20:05
Excuse me, Amendment floor in Florida, you've got Maryland.
20:08
Like you said, vote no in Maryland.
20:10
You've got Montana, so vote no in Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
20:16
New York. What am I missing?
20:17
And then of course, Missouri and South Dakota.
20:20
So it is there a resource if people go to
20:23
liveactionvictory.com.org, excuse me, there is going to be
20:28
a resource for you there that already gives you clear mandate
20:31
for Missouri and for Florida. It will also have the list of
20:35
how to vote on these measures if there's any confusion across
20:38
these different states. But these are the states that
20:40
are in play right now. Let's go next to some of what's
20:44
happening right now. Let's zoom into what's happening
20:46
right now in Missouri and in Florida.
20:49
Noah, can you give us your, your input on this too?
20:52
Before we do that, let's go to Amendment 4.
20:54
Actually, there's this graphic I want to look at with you, Noah.
20:56
We can pull this up. Harris, this is an example of
21:01
unpacking the misinformation from the pro abortion side and
21:05
how these amendments are written and how deceptively they are
21:09
written. So here you go, you have
21:11
amendment 4. This is a flyer.
21:13
It says not what? It seems way too extreme.
21:15
This is a messaging that some of the pro-life groups that no on
21:18
four people are using, but you can see right here it's a.
21:21
Context, right, this this type so where it says title and
21:24
summary, that's exactly what will be on the ballot for
21:27
Floridians. That's what they will see.
21:29
And then this red is sort of some try to actually unpack the
21:32
way Lila's going to So what you see title and summary that Lila
21:35
will read. That's literally what Floridians
21:37
will see when they go to vote. Amendment to limit government
21:40
interference with abortion. So already this sounds, you
21:44
know, kind of conservative ish, Republican ish, because it's
21:47
saying we're going to limit government interference.
21:50
Government interference can be interpreted to mean a lot of
21:52
different things, right? If you're just an average voter
21:55
and you're like, maybe you're pro-life, you're like limit
21:56
government interference with abortion.
21:59
You might be thinking, oh, is the government promoting
22:01
abortion? Is it paying for abortion?
22:02
Because the government does pay for abortion tax funded
22:04
abortions in many States and to some degree federally.
22:08
So the title is already misleading because what
22:11
Amendment 4 actually does is it's going to remove any
22:14
abortion restriction in the state of Florida.
22:16
So you could have an abortion virtually for any reason at any
22:18
time of pregnancy. So let's go on to see what the
22:20
summary says. It says no law shall prohibit,
22:23
penalized, delay or restrict abortion before viability or
22:27
when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined
22:31
by the patient's healthcare provider.
22:33
So now here it's more clear it's going to remove any restriction
22:36
of abortion, but then it claims it's only before viability
22:40
unless it's necessary to protect the patients health.
22:43
And this is where there's a huge loophole.
22:45
This is why Amendment 4 actually permits abortion until birth for
22:48
any reason, because it's saying that if the patient's healthcare
22:51
provider deems it necessary for their health.
22:54
Again, this is a very broad category of what what this can
22:58
mean could be really anything that the abortion provider, in
23:01
this case abortionist decides upon with the patient.
23:04
So if they're in the third trimester, late 2nd trimester,
23:07
that baby's fully formed viable, they can say this is for my
23:10
health, my mental health, my emotional health.
23:13
This is for this is a really sick justification, but the
23:16
baby's health, because the baby's sick and the baby
23:18
shouldn't, you know, she doesn't have good quality of life.
23:21
So the baby should be aborted. All of these could be
23:23
justifications in the state of Florida for a perfectly legal
23:27
abortion if amendment four goes into play, if it actually gets
23:32
enshrined in the state constitution.
23:34
And then it goes on to this last bit and it says this amendment
23:37
does not change the legislature's constitutional
23:39
authority to require notification to a parent or
23:42
guardian before a minor has an abortion.
23:44
This is like a Trojan horse here, guys.
23:46
This is them trying to do this little nod to people's good
23:49
consciences and concerns saying, well, if you're a parent, you
23:52
should still get parental notification even if we're going
23:55
to legalize abortion through birth.
23:56
So they kind of make it sound softer with this little clause
23:59
at the end to try to, again, I think they're very misleading
24:04
here saying, oh, well, at least the parents are going to get
24:06
consent. When really what this does is
24:08
completely strips Florida of any legal protection for babies and
24:12
allows Florida to become a Wild West for abortion.
24:16
Noah, what would the consequences be for the state of
24:19
Florida if Amendment 4 gets enshrined in the state
24:22
constitution? Florida currently has a law
24:26
protecting children at approximately 6 weeks for their
24:29
heartbeat can be detected. That's when children currently
24:31
have legal protection in Florida.
24:33
If a minute for passes, that law goes away along with every other
24:37
abortion limiting regulation in the state.
24:40
It's estimated there will be 50,000 more abortions a year,
24:44
50,000. And if you think about right,
24:46
why are we focused on Florida even more than any other state
24:50
this year? It's because this is the most
24:52
important political fight of the year.
24:54
I think even more than who's going to be president when it
24:57
comes to children living or dying, because this is 50,000
25:00
children, 50,000 children a year will die if this amendment is
25:05
passed. So the consequences are really
25:10
dire. Florida would also become an
25:12
abortion destination in this part of the country.
25:16
A lot of the southern states have banned abortion or severely
25:19
restricted abortion. So this would become a
25:21
destination because now late term abortionists could set up
25:24
shop and as long as long as they sign off that this is for the
25:26
mother's health, they can commit gruesome, brutal, painful late
25:31
term abortions on helpless babies.
25:34
It's it's important to know even Lila right on the health
25:36
exception. It does not even say physical
25:38
health there, there will be so, so the, even the, I mean the,
25:42
the loophole's so big you could drive a truck in it.
25:44
You almost can't call a loophole just a part of the law.
25:46
But if some a a doctor could give a mental health
25:50
justification for an abortion at 8 months and that would be legal
25:55
under Amendment 4. So it is crucial if you are in
25:58
Florida, obviously to vote no on Amendment 4.
26:01
But also there is some hope here.
26:03
There are groups galvanized to action in Florida.
26:06
I'm just going to be very candid here.
26:08
There aren't enough of them. There aren't enough groups in
26:11
Florida. There's people there doing
26:12
amazing work, trying their very best, but we need more resources
26:16
focused on Florida. There's simply not enough live
26:18
action. Our C3 has already maxed out its
26:22
legally permitted spending on these ballot initiatives to
26:25
fight for life, and This is why we've also launched Live Action
26:28
Victory to get in the game. Noah, what is Live Action
26:31
Victory doing right now in Florida?
26:34
Yeah, absolutely, Lila. Lila, we are on air right now.
26:37
So the pro abortion side in Florida, they've raised $60
26:40
million, six, 0, $60 million. And it's almost all being used
26:46
to run ads, especially on people's phones and on people's
26:50
televisions. And I think we'll watch some of
26:52
those ads soon. Deceiving people saying that
26:54
women are not being able to get miscarriage care because of
26:58
because of Amendment 4, which is a complete lie.
27:00
Saying that people, even children who are raped are being
27:04
harmed by Florida's pro-life laws and they need to be
27:06
repealed, which is a lie. And at the end of the day, what
27:09
they're focusing on is propaganda, but it's emotionally
27:13
charged. They're trying to get people to
27:15
viscerally say, Oh my gosh, like regardless of actually what
27:18
this, what the Amendment 4 does or how I feel, I need to vote in
27:21
favor of it because of this, this litany of horribles.
27:23
I mean, it's like, I'm not in favor of miscarriages and rape,
27:26
and that's what they're trying to make people feel like if they
27:28
oppose Amendment 4. And so the only way we believe,
27:32
and we've done rigorous polling and focus groups in Florida, the
27:36
only way to counter this message, especially with fewer
27:38
resources, right? It's like we are galvanizing as
27:40
many resources as we can, but I don't think we're going to raise
27:42
$60 million to spend on this. And so the only way that we can
27:46
win, especially fewer resources, is to focus on the issue that is
27:49
most emotionally salient. And it sticks with people on our
27:53
side, which is the absolute brutality of abortions.
27:57
You know, listen, I'm in favor of any of every single pro-life
28:00
group doing any work or any, any politician, anything to advocate
28:04
against this. But I think that other messages
28:07
sometimes fail to resonate with voters, even though they they
28:09
are maybe popular in the abstract, because they aren't as
28:13
emotionally sticky. People don't think about it.
28:16
And so the most important thing we can do is be talking about
28:19
the brutality of abortion, saying that these are human
28:21
children, that they're being killed.
28:23
And so our ad that we'll watch soon, right?
28:24
It's a former abortionist talking about what an abortion
28:27
abortion is and what it does and how Amendment 4 bring that to
28:31
Florida. So, but so right now we are live
28:33
on people's phones, you know, on things like on YouTube, on
28:37
television with this message advocating against Amendment 4
28:40
and trying to call people towards humanity and towards
28:42
voting against Amendment 4. Thank you, Noah.
28:44
So we're going to watch the live action victory ad that's
28:47
currently on the airwaves in Florida right now.
28:51
We have already started this in just the last couple weeks.
28:55
Right now we are looking to get this ad in front of more people.
28:58
How much money does it cost Noah to get this ad?
29:02
About 7 times. That's I think the golden number
29:04
we're looking for to hit voters 7 times with the ad to really
29:08
enshrine that idea in their minds.
29:10
I really cemented in their minds that yes, no is the right way to
29:14
go on Amendment 4 in Florida. How many times does that need to
29:16
happen and how much does that cost?
29:19
That's right, seven times. It's a best practice in any sort
29:21
of advertisement. You want someone to remember
29:22
something, give it to him seven times, say it 7 times.
29:25
So to reach a voter 7 times in Florida, 42 cents, $0.42, right,
29:29
40-2 cents, that gets us a voter.
29:31
That's not a voter sing at once. That's a voter sing at 7 times.
29:34
That's incredible. And, and the strategy that we're
29:37
running here is we are not, you know, putting this on every
29:41
television channel regardless of who watches it.
29:43
We are specifically targeting people who are receptive but on
29:47
the fence about how to vote on Amendment 4 and Amendment 4.
29:49
I just need to say this too, Amendment 4 is winnable.
29:52
And another sort of just cork that I think I could be God
29:55
helping us, we're working in our favor is that to pass a
29:58
constitutional amendment in Florida, you don't just need 51%
30:01
or 50.1% like most places, right?
30:03
You don't just need a majority, you need to get 60% of people to
30:07
say yes. I want to change this, right?
30:09
So you need to get 60% of people to say yes.
30:11
And they have, they have $60 million to get that 60%.
30:14
But with our our message and especially being able to reach
30:17
more and more people for that 4042 cents to reach them seven
30:20
times that we can win this thing.
30:22
We can keep that under 60% and win.
30:25
Thank you, Noah. OK, let's watch the ad that's
30:27
currently live in Florida. This ad for only $0.42 live
30:33
action victory can get it seven times in front of the same voter
30:38
in the state of Florida. That's what it costs to get this
30:40
ad. Seven times in front of the
30:42
voter in the state of Florida. Let's watch the ad.
30:47
If she were 12 weeks pregnant or less, basically the width of
30:49
your hand or smaller. You could basically do the
30:51
entire procedure with this. But babies this big don't fit
30:54
through catheters. This side you introduce an
30:57
instrument called the sofer clamp and pull.
30:59
And I do mean hard. And out pops a leg about that
31:02
big which you put down on the table next to you.
31:03
Tear out the spine, the intestines, the heart and lungs.
31:07
I'm an OBGYN and former abortionist in Florida.
31:10
Amendment 4 will allow brutal abortions like this for all nine
31:13
months. Vote No on Amendment 4.
31:19
All right, so there you have it, this ad from Live Action Victory
31:21
showing exactly what Amendment 4 would permit in the state of
31:25
Florida. Noah, can you briefly share how
31:28
this ad has performed? We've done a lot of focus
31:30
grouping on this ad in getting people to, in persuading people
31:35
to vote no. Yeah, absolutely.
31:38
I mean to put it shortly, this ad performs extremely well.
31:40
It's very effective against the pro abortion ads, but you might
31:43
come to look at soon here and they're, they're right.
31:46
They message on a lot of a lot of topics, especially these very
31:49
challenging topics to many people, things like rape and
31:52
miscarriage and these things. This ad performs very well.
31:54
And then it also performs even better than other pro-life ads.
31:58
You know, it's like, I think that like I said, anyone who's
32:00
doing any effort to help defeat these amendments is doing really
32:02
fantastic work. But the ad did very, very well.
32:05
You know, to get really specific, you know, we ran
32:07
polling 2 polls across the whole state of Florida.
32:10
And then we did a specific focus group by a focus group is when
32:12
you bring a couple dozen people and instead of like a poll,
32:15
there's like 1000 people, the focus group between a couple
32:18
dozen people. And we did that in Tampa and
32:19
Miami and this ad. Performed.
32:21
Extremely well, the other, the most important thing, especially
32:24
when you have less resources than the other side, the most
32:26
important thing in political advertising is memorability, or
32:30
we call it recall, right? Voter recall.
32:32
Do you remember seeing this ad? And this is an extremely
32:35
memorable ad. I think for everyone who just
32:37
saw it, you can see why it's heartbreaking.
32:40
Showing the truth of abortion is is really, really challenging
32:42
and people need to be challenged.
32:45
And this is a unique live action victory strategy to actually go
32:48
for the jugular and actually have a former abortionist talk
32:51
about what exactly is happening during these abortion
32:53
procedures. And then to have another former
32:55
abortionist in Florida say this is what would happen in Florida
32:57
with Amendment 4. So we're have that not just an
32:59
appeal to authority, but you have that, that, that really
33:02
viscerally gut wrenching emotional response of what
33:07
abortion is. You're you're getting people to
33:09
have that response to what abortion is when you see this
33:11
ad. Unfortunately, I think some of
33:12
the tack that the pro-life movement has taken in some of
33:15
these states historically when they put money behind ads are
33:18
more softball. So the ads will maybe not talk
33:21
about what horrible things abortion does.
33:23
They'll instead talk about ancillary issues like parental
33:26
consent or they'll talk about women's healthcare.
33:29
They won't go specifically to the core problem with these
33:33
ballot initiatives, which is that they're permitting killing
33:36
babies. They don't get to the jugular
33:38
explaining what that what that is and what that what abortion
33:40
through all nine months would look like.
33:42
But that's what this live action victory ad in Florida looks
33:44
like. OK, we're going to pull up an ad
33:47
from the opposition so you guys can see what the opposition is
33:51
doing in Florida right now and the kinds of ads that they are
33:55
spending 10s of millions of dollars on.
33:58
So here's an ad in Florida, the Yes on 4 campaign.
34:01
And you'll just see how emotionally charged this ad is.
34:05
And I'm going to point out with, you know, how misleading it is.
34:07
But I wanted you guys to be aware that this is what is
34:10
hounding people on the state of Florida.
34:12
I also have to say, you know, I was texting with friends during
34:15
in the hurricane just the last week or two who are in Tampa,
34:19
who are in, you know, on the coast of Florida.
34:21
And they are literally, you know, bunking bunker, hunkering
34:25
down, trying to get shelter from a in some ways, potentially
34:29
historic storm that could destroy their homes, destroy
34:32
their their towns. And these ads are just blaring,
34:36
you know, constantly on on the TV that I took a there took a
34:39
picture. They were at a friend's house
34:40
where they had escaped from the from the hurricane to go hunker
34:44
down with them. And there was this ad that was
34:47
just playing on the television, of course, from the pro abortion
34:50
side. So let's take a look at what
34:51
these ads look like from the pro abortion side.
34:53
Florida has a near total abortion ban with no real
34:57
exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the woman.
35:01
It bans abortion before many women even realize they are
35:04
pregnant. The only way to stop the ban is
35:07
to vote yes on four. Amendment 4 is simple.
35:10
It will protect the right to abortion in the Florida
35:12
Constitution. Florida women should have the
35:15
right to make their own healthcare decisions in
35:17
consultation with their doctors and those they trust.
35:20
Vote yes to give Florida women their rights back.
35:24
All right, so there you see, obviously the misleading
35:26
language is this women's healthcare?
35:28
The only way to help women in Florida is to what?
35:30
Enshrine abortion in the state constitution?
35:32
That's obviously completely false.
35:34
The euphemisms are clear. The false words about how it
35:36
being healthcare, saying that there's no rape, incest
35:39
exceptions, there actually are in the state of Florida.
35:41
I disagree with that, but they've been misleading about
35:43
the current state of law in Florida.
35:45
No, I don't know if you have any other thoughts, but I want to
35:47
watch the next one after you give your take.
35:50
Yeah, I mean, we let's watch the next one.
35:51
Break them down. I mean, this is this is
35:53
emotional, right? You, you hear these things and
35:56
they are not playing on the logic part of your brain.
35:58
They're playing on the emotional part of your brain.
36:00
And then on our side, we have the facts, the logic and the
36:03
emotion. But I think too often you kind
36:05
of got this, Lila. We do not employ the emotion.
36:09
And they do that very well. So you can you can play the next
36:11
one too. But it's like, go watch that,
36:12
right? They are.
36:13
These ads are all emotion. Vote yes.
36:44
On Amendment 4, to protect women and girls, so that ad for those
36:49
listening later and not watching it had this narrative about
36:52
girls who were the victims of incest claiming that they're not
36:55
protected and they're going to be deeply harmed with this
36:58
heartbreaking ban they call it. And this is the reason to vote
37:01
yes on Amendment 4, of course, using these really heartbreaking
37:05
stop cases to justify what enshrining abortion through all
37:09
nine months of pregnancy on babies at any age in the state
37:12
constitution of Florida. So again, highly emotional,
37:16
highly misleading, and of course, not a single word about
37:20
the baby. Not a single word about the baby
37:22
that would be killed in these cases. 0 empathy for them.
37:26
The focus is on these very rare and very heartbreaking cases.
37:30
Even the imagery of that ad, especially the people just
37:32
listening in, like it's showing like a little girl's like
37:35
Princess decorated room, you know, like it's, it's really
37:38
hard. Like it's really, I mean, just
37:41
revolting in a lot of ways that they're using this type of
37:43
imagery to promote abortion, to promote the killing of of little
37:47
children. And you know, and as you know,
37:49
Lila's talked about her show and live action content shows, you
37:52
know, abortion does not heal rape.
37:54
You know, abortion does not heal rape.
37:55
Abortion does not heal incest. What it does is it creates a
37:59
whole separate horrific wound, right?
38:01
It it makes a mother complicit in the, in the killing of her
38:04
child. So it's like that does not.
38:06
So it's like, not only is it sad to see, because in many ways it
38:09
is effective to trying to scare people, right?
38:11
And they're trying to freak people out and they're trying to
38:13
make people sad. But it's just, it's such a, such
38:16
a duplicitous lie. I want to move next to Amendment
38:20
3 in Missouri before I do that. Noah, what is the spend right
38:25
now that Live Action Victory is able to do in Florida?
38:28
And again, this is an opportunity for people to
38:31
partner with Live Action Victory.
38:33
It's Live Action victory.org. You can make a one time gift the
38:37
Max amount you're able to do. Every $0.42 you spend then can
38:41
help reach a voter in Florida 7 times.
38:44
How much are we spending right now in Florida and how can
38:46
people support live action victory and helping win victory
38:49
for the unborn in Florida? Yeah, absolutely.
38:52
I mean, you know, live action is on air right now.
38:54
It's like live action between live action.
38:56
What live action proper can the C3 can spend according to legal
39:01
rules about, about charities and live action victory.
39:04
We're going to be spending more than $300,000 in Florida right
39:07
now. And it's like every every
39:09
partner who walks with us on this makes a huge difference,
39:11
right? Just because it's like it's
39:13
like, you know, and just a dollar a dollar and you're
39:15
reaching 2 voters 7 times or that could be two votes and this
39:18
could be a close election. I don't know, even big states
39:21
like Florida to have close elections.
39:22
If you guys remember, you know, in 2000, the recount between
39:25
George W Bush and Al Gore, that came down to less, you know,
39:28
just a couple 100 votes, you know, so it's like these things
39:31
make a huge difference. Awesome.
39:33
Thank you, Noah. Thank you for your work in
39:35
Florida. So of course, no on Amendment 4
39:37
in Florida. Let's next go to Amendment 3 in
39:41
Missouri. So this is the other one where
39:43
live action is in play. Live action victory is in play.
39:47
The reason we are in Florida and Missouri is because these are
39:50
two winnable fights. We really believe they are
39:52
winnable fights in states that have huge consequences if these
39:56
amendments go into law. So of course, all 10 states
39:59
deserve a support and attention. We are focusing our ammo.
40:03
In live action, our, our, our, our financial ammo in live
40:06
action victory and, and live action the, the C4C3 in Missouri
40:11
and in Florida. Let's go to the Missouri 3
40:14
Missouri Amendment three language here because we were
40:17
talking about misleading language.
40:19
So Harris, I don't know if you have this, Let me send this to
40:21
make sure you can pull this up. So this is Amendment 3 in
40:23
Missouri, which would also legalize abortion on demand.
40:27
And I'm going to read here what the language is.
40:30
It says a yes vote. I don't know if you can see
40:34
this. Harrison, pull this up for folks
40:35
watching on YouTube right now. I'm going to read it.
40:38
A yes vote supports adding a fundamental right to
40:43
reproductive freedom, defined to include abortion and all matters
40:48
relating to reproductive care. A no vote opposes adding a
40:53
fundamental right to reproductive freedom in the
40:55
Missouri Constitution. Incredibly misleading here.
40:59
I mean, reproductive freedom, that sounds good to me.
41:02
I mean, that should sound good to anyone.
41:03
Anyone has the right to, you know, get married, a right to,
41:07
you know, seek to conceive a child, a right to carry a child.
41:09
Of course, those are rights in my view.
41:13
But to say that actually this is a right to abortion, which is
41:17
what the amendment really says. It says a fundamental right to
41:20
reproductive freedom defined to include abortion.
41:23
This is not about reproductive freedom whatsoever.
41:25
This is about killing babies and having an unfettered, unlimited
41:28
right to kill a baby. Noah, what?
41:31
What? What is your take?
41:32
You're in. I know you're in the state of
41:33
Missouri. This is close to home for you.
41:36
Breaks my heart breaks my heart. You know, Missouri, the pro-life
41:40
pro-life Missourians have fought for decades.
41:42
You know what I mean to to protect our children and our
41:45
pro-life loss saves thousands of children the year it's estimated
41:47
8000 kids a year. And you know we have one of the
41:50
the best protections for life in the entire country.
41:53
And in one fell swoop, amendment three would make, would
41:56
literally put it would put Missouri on par with California,
42:00
Canada, North Korea, and allowing abortion up until the
42:03
very last minute for any and any reason.
42:05
And, and here's the thing, this, you know, in the Florida law,
42:08
when we had looked at that text, it said, you know, a health
42:11
exception, a general health exception.
42:12
This, this law in text, Missouri Amendment 3 makes it clear that
42:16
mental health, they literally say it or mental health, there
42:19
could be mental health reason for abortion at any point.
42:22
So their ads lie. They say this would allow
42:24
abortion up to viability, which is a ridiculous standard anyway,
42:27
right? Well, but it's, but anyway, they
42:29
say that they would only allow abortion up to viability, but
42:31
for any reason it would allow the killing of children.
42:34
And it's, I mean, the, the, the spending here we can watch,
42:37
watch the Missouri attitude. It's spending here is
42:39
staggering, $24 million has been raised to pass Amendment 3 in
42:44
Missouri. And and Missouri is a small
42:45
media market, like Missouri's media market compared to
42:48
Florida's is way less than half and almost half the money raised
42:51
in Florida has been raised here in Missouri to pass it three and
42:54
a half million dollars just from George Soros, the pro abortion
42:57
billionaire, millions of dollars.
42:59
Alone. I mean, let's just pause on that
43:00
for a moment. George Soros, folks on the
43:03
podcast may be familiar. He's the very left-leaning, very
43:06
pro abortion billionaire who's gotten involved in a lot of
43:09
these, I think eugenic quests, I'm going to call them, to
43:13
eradicate the babies of poor people and the baby seen as
43:16
unfit disability, babies with disabilities.
43:18
And he's himself putting in over $3,000,000 in this tiny, tiny
43:21
American state to enshrine abortion through all nine months
43:25
of pregnancy into the state constitution.
43:27
So this is how much the opposition cares, Noah, how much
43:30
money in total do we know that the pro abortion side is putting
43:34
into their propaganda in Missouri?
43:37
And then how much money has the pro-life side been able to put
43:39
in so far? Or a pledge so far?
43:42
So we know and this data is you know about about 3 weeks old
43:45
now. So there's been probably there's
43:46
been some more money on both sides, but at least 24,000,000
43:49
dollars, $24 million on the pro abortion side and reported just
43:53
a little bit less than $1 million on the pro-life side.
43:57
And that one. Million 24,000,000.
43:59
And that one million includes how much from live action,
44:02
victory and live action. About $200,000.
44:05
So this is again all hands on deck in Missouri.
44:08
I don't know if you have numbers here, Noah, to share with us
44:11
about what your dollar can do in Missouri, but we are.
44:14
Even more, even more, 35 cents, $0.35 reaches one order seven
44:20
times in Missouri. So 42 cents, Florida, Missouri,
44:24
the money goes even farther. It's a smaller medium market,
44:26
$0.35 and you get to reach a voter 7 times.
44:29
Now we're going to watch what the pro abortion side is doing
44:32
in Missouri right now. We're going to watch one of
44:34
their ads and do a quick analysis.
44:36
Then we're going to watch the live action ad, the live action
44:39
victory ad. They're both organizations are
44:41
using this ad. Let's start with the pro
44:43
abortion ad from the Yes on Three campaign.
44:48
As a doctor, I treat all my patients with care and respect.
44:53
But in Missouri, Black women are three times more likely to die
44:57
to die due to pregnancy complications because of
45:00
healthcare inequities. And now Missouri's abortion ban
45:04
forces doctors to wait until patients are bleeding out or in
45:07
septic shock to provide care. And we can't help survivors of
45:11
rape or incest get the care they need.
45:14
So I'm voting yes on Amendment 3 to stop the ban and save lives.
45:20
What do you think, Noah? I mean, so, so, so right.
45:24
So we've seen him talk about, you know, miscarriage care.
45:27
We've seen him talk about rape and child sexual assault.
45:30
And now right, they're, they're more or less saying that voting
45:33
against Amendment 3 makes you a racist, that you're and, and,
45:39
and they bring, they bring up Lila, they bring up maternal
45:42
mortality, which is, man, that is a, that is an issue in
45:45
America. Like we should be putting, maybe
45:46
George Soros should be putting $3,000,000 or you know, Florida
45:49
should be putting $60 million to helping solve this.
45:51
I mean, the government should be putting billions of dollars
45:53
towards helping reduce maternal mortality, as in making it safer
45:56
to give birth in America. But saying that abortion
46:00
killing, you know, let's just be honest.
46:02
But with this ad, is killing a black mother's child somehow
46:05
helps black maternal mortality? It is insulting and it's a lie
46:09
and it's ridiculous. So let's next watch the live
46:12
action ad that is going to be that is on the airwaves and with
46:16
your support can be on the airwaves even more by airwaves.
46:19
By the way, guys, as you may know, I'm talking mostly
46:22
digital. So I don't know if airwaves is a
46:24
quite, quite the right word for that.
46:25
But the point is this is a digital spend more than
46:28
anything, because that is with the best bang for your buck in
46:31
reaching people. And in Missouri right now, they
46:33
are just getting bombarded with all of the propaganda from the
46:38
campaign, the pro abortion side. So this is a no on Amendment
46:42
three ad from Live Action Victory.
46:44
Let's take a look. And I'll, I'll, I'll say, I'll
46:46
say this Lila, you know, as, as a Missourian, you know who I, I,
46:50
I'm a, I'm a relatively young person.
46:52
I go on YouTube a lot. I would say that this ad like
46:55
that though, that ad that we just saw, right?
46:57
That ad and other pro abortion ads in Missouri are what I'm
47:01
seeing truly more than more than anything, more than anything
47:04
else, like like more, more than even advertising for products.
47:08
That's what I'm seeing, you know, So it's it, it is, it is
47:13
untruely unreal the amount of money because the, the way that
47:16
$24 million can go in Missouri, that's just, that's a lot of ad
47:22
space. And so it just, it is
47:25
absolutely, absolutely urgent. We're about to pull up the
47:29
Missouri ad here shortly and this is the no on three ad.
47:34
Noah, can you share before you watch this why you think this ad
47:38
will be successful, Why it can be successful in Missouri?
47:40
Sure. Just briefly about the focus
47:42
grouping that was done on this ad and the work done on this ad
47:45
to show its effectiveness. Yeah, absolutely.
47:47
Well, we did. We did very similar polling and
47:49
focus grouping for this act as as folks will see, it's an
47:52
extremely that we're using the same content from this.
47:55
You know what, what I think is most important to to realize
47:58
about or understand about the live action ad.
48:00
What are we doing? We're showing the brutality,
48:02
we're telling the truth, we're describing abortion.
48:04
We're using a real medical doctor, Doctor Anthony Levitino.
48:08
And also the setting, if you think about what made that
48:10
Florida ad. So it's so effective.
48:13
I think that that's talking about the child sexual assault
48:16
and you're showing this, you know, like a little girl's room,
48:18
you know, like a version of little girl's room.
48:20
And so what's great about the doctor Anthony Lavetino ad is he
48:24
is speaking in a congressional hearing.
48:26
You know, so he is there is a pure call to authority there
48:29
because he is talking directly to members of Congress in that
48:32
instance about what abortion truly is.
48:34
Because that's the hard thing, Lila, is they don't like even
48:37
folks on our side often times have so much trouble showing
48:40
what abortion truly is because when people are face to face
48:44
with the violence and brutality of abortion, they reject it.
48:46
So if we can get this message in front of people, they will
48:48
reject Amendment 3. All right, let's take a look at
48:51
the ad. Currently live in Missouri.
48:53
No, on Amendment 3. If she were 12 weeks pregnant or
48:59
less, basically the width of your hand or smaller, you could
49:01
basically do the entire procedure with this.
49:03
But babies this big don't fit through catheters.
49:06
This side you introduce an instrument called the sulfur
49:09
clamp and pull. And I do mean hard.
49:11
And out pops a leg about that big which you put down on the
49:13
table next to you. Tear out the spine, the
49:16
intestines, the heart and lungs. Amendment 3 allows brutal
49:19
abortions like this for all nine months.
49:22
Vote NO on Amendment 3. All right, so this ad is
49:27
currently live. There's a $200,000 spend behind
49:30
it as Noah was sharing. And this ad for less than 40
49:34
cents, $0.35, Noah $0.35. Seven times you get to get this
49:42
ad in front of voters in the state of Missouri.
49:44
So we're going to put up the link here in the description.
49:48
It's live action victory.org. But I want to, you know, just
49:53
make take a moment here that these are incredibly
49:56
consequential amendments. This would radically change the
50:01
state of Missouri and the state of Florida.
50:04
And even more than that, if these amendments pass, they
50:09
represent a galvanizing for the pro abortion side that has never
50:15
since seen before. What this represents for the
50:18
political future of the movement should sober us.
50:22
Because if these amendments pass, the narrative will be that
50:26
the pro-life side is a losing side.
50:28
And Republican lawmakers who are maybe already squishy on life
50:33
and already not personally strong on life will use the
50:37
failure of these amendments as justifications for them not
50:40
being pro-life as politicians. This has already happened after
50:45
the loss in Ohio and in other states.
50:48
And you see Republican candidates right now,
50:52
tragically, former President Trump pointing at these losses
50:55
as justifications for him not being pro-life and not standing
50:59
up for life. And so it's very important that
51:01
we do our very best to win in these states.
51:04
Of course, the work to change hearts and minds is going to go
51:06
on regardless of what happens in these states politically, but it
51:10
makes it that much harder. The law is a teacher.
51:13
And if the law is profoundly unjust, permitting the killing
51:17
of even full term infants in these formerly pro-life or more
51:22
pro-life than pro abortion states like Florida, this has
51:25
big consequences too on our work to change hearts and minds.
51:29
Noah, do you have any final thoughts you want to share with
51:31
folks as the executive director of Live Action Victims?
51:34
And then I know I'm going to let you go because you've got a
51:36
whole lot of work to do that you're working on.
51:38
But thank you so much for joining to to share these
51:40
special announcements with the podcast.
51:43
Here's all I'll say. You know, I mean, today we're
51:45
talking. It's the middle of October.
51:47
You know, the election's about 3 weeks away.
51:48
It is not too late. You know, so many people make
51:52
decisions about how they're going to vote, especially on
51:54
more challenging issues like ballot questions.
51:56
And the last two weeks, one week, 2 day, one day hour,
52:00
right? A lot of people, they make these
52:02
decisions late and how they're going to vote.
52:04
So now is the time. It's like, I just thought I'm,
52:06
I'm so excited for every partner I talked to because we are
52:09
making a difference in these states.
52:11
And more than any other political battle this year, this
52:14
will directly mean children alive or children killed.
52:17
So it's like I, I so appreciate being on with you, Lila.
52:20
And you know, at the end of the day, victory needs to be
52:23
organized, right? And so it's like that's what
52:24
we're focused on. Live Action Victory is
52:26
organizing this victory to protect children across the
52:29
country, but especially in these next few weeks in Florida and
52:31
Missouri. Thank you, Noah, and I know you
52:33
are just getting started. Thank you so much for the
52:36
amazing work you do over at Live Action.
52:37
And now is the Executive Director of Live Action Victory.
52:40
And we're going to continue to shout this from the rooftops and
52:43
work towards that victory coming up here in just three weeks.
52:46
Thanks for joining the podcast. Thank you.
52:50
All right, guys, so just to wrap up here, this is obviously so
52:53
important and I really appreciate everyone listening.
52:55
We're going to look at the chat real quick.
52:57
John Henry, thank you for tuning in here.
52:59
He's saying praying for Beverly Williams.
53:01
Thank you, thank you. Please continue to pray for
53:04
Beverly Williams. Also, John H says excellent ad
53:07
from live action, Very effective.
53:09
So sad the GOP won't do ads like this.
53:11
Bunch of cowards. I agree.
53:14
I mean, it's tragic that that's true.
53:16
I think because of the people in power right now in the GOP, they
53:20
are not leaning into the fight on abortion.
53:22
They're leaning away from it. And what that means that that
53:24
there is that there are millions of lives that are left on the
53:27
line, that are left in danger. And these are children's lives
53:30
who cannot vote, who cannot organize, who cannot speak for
53:33
themselves. So I want to thank everyone for
53:35
listening. And I want to urge you, please,
53:37
if you do one thing today for the cause of life, if you could
53:40
go to liveactionvictory.org and make the most generous donation
53:45
that you can. I don't usually ask for
53:46
donations live on this podcast, but I'm going to do this now.
53:50
Please go to liveactionvictory.org.
53:53
Remember, just $0.35 helps reach 7 voters with these incredibly
53:58
proven mind changing ads in the state of Missouri. 42 cents
54:02
reaches someone in the state, state of Florida, Please go and
54:06
donate the largest amount that you can to
54:08
liveactionvictory.org. Every single cent you donate is
54:11
going to go directly to get these ads in front of as many
54:14
people as possible in the states of Florida and Missouri.
54:18
Like Noah was saying, these are winnable fights.
54:21
No one Amendment 4 and no one amendment three.
54:23
We need to win in these states. So please go now to
54:27
liveactionvictory.org and be part of the victory in these
54:30
states to help protect lives. You can go to Live Action
54:34
victory.org and make the largest donation that you can to help
54:37
save lives in the state of Missouri and the state of
54:41
Florida. You know, I think sometimes when
54:44
I look at the landscape of what we are fighting, the fight can
54:49
look very dark. It is a fact that we are
54:52
outspent right now. It is a fact that the pro
54:55
abortion side has tremendous institutional support.
55:00
The GOP has all but abandoned life, and this is more recent in
55:04
the last two years. But I am profoundly hopeful
55:08
because I see every single day people, when they get access,
55:12
when they are shown the truth about abortion, I do see them
55:15
change their minds. We see this all the time at Live
55:19
Action. We are outspout, we are
55:21
outnumbered, but the human heart is the same.
55:24
And I think the human heart is not made for supporting the
55:28
destruction of children, of innocence.
55:30
It's made for good. It's made to do good.
55:33
And so while we are wounded and our intellects can be clouded
55:35
and we can be confused, the truth has a power to Pierce
55:38
through all of that and to inspire people to do what's
55:41
right. And so you have the power in
55:43
your hands today to help us in this mission.
55:46
You can partner with us in this mission.
55:47
This is an opportunity of a lifetime for you to not just
55:50
help save a life, but to potentially save millions of
55:54
future lives in states like Florida and Missouri.
55:58
And every single dollar counts right now.
56:01
So please go to liveactionvictory.org.
56:04
Donate the most that you can to reach hundreds of thousands and
56:08
millions with your support of voters in these states so that
56:11
they can vote no on Amendment 4 and no on Amendment 3.
56:15
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56:23
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56:26
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56:29
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56:35
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56:39
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56:42
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56:44
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56:47
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56:50
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56:55
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