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BONUS: Unpacking Kamala On Viral Podcast, Melania's Shocking Memoir, and Hurricane Milton · The Lila Rose Show

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Hello everybody, welcome back to the Lila Rose podcast.
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We are live again on YouTube. I will be keeping an eye on the
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chat throughout the episode. Welcome back to the show.
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I have not done Alive Now and I think a week.
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And so there is a lot to cover. Kamala Harris is on a major
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press tour right now, showing up in every nook and cranny of
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major media outlets. Most of them, of course, already
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pretty left-leaning and progressive.
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So she's getting a very friendly audience there.
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But we're going to be unpacking some of her recent statements on
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some of these shows. She also broke some new ground
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by going on the pretty raunchy Call Her Daddy podcast, which
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Spotify bills is one of the top podcasts for women in the
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country. We're going to unpack some of
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what she said on that show and actually watch it together.
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She also went on 60 Minutes among other shows, and we're
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going to look at some of the comments that she made on 60
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Minutes. There's also more to unpack to
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with a big revelation coming out about Melania Trump last week.
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So we're going to talk about that.
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Unfortunately, Melania Trump is coming out strongly for abortion
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and she's had some very unfortunate things to say.
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We're going to unpack it. She has a new book out.
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It's part of her book tour. And then of course, the
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Hurricanes right now is really savaging the coast of Florida.
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We're going to share some stories that are coming out and
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emerging from Florida. Some of them are just
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heartbreaking. Some of them are inspiring.
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I think it's important for us to be tracking and of course, our
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prayers and our hearts are with our friends and our fellow
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Americans in the great state of Florida.
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We're praying for you. But lots to unpack today.
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First, I'm going to just take a look at the chat.
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And it has been the most formative and beautiful and
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blessed six years of my life to be able to have my own family.
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I thank God every day for that. And that's part of the
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inspiration for this show is having a family and seeing the
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listening and thank you for the sweet anniversary.
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Congratulations there. OK, so now we're going to jump
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right in. We're going to actually pull up
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this clip from the Call Her Daddy podcast, which is hosted
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by Alex Cooper. This is a very left wing show
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and it's no surprise that Kamala Harris went on the show.
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My understanding is they also invited former President Trump
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to the show. I don't think he has agreed to
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do it, but they had Kamala Harris on.
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They're very aligned politically.
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From what I see of Alex Cooper as well as Kamala Harris, she's
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very pro abortion. She's very progressive.
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She's very, you know, against natural marriage, all of these
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things. So she is in line culturally and
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socially with the platform of Kamala Harris.
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So you kind of already knew going into this, said this was
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going to be a softball interview for Kamala Harris.
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This might have been why Kamala Harris was so eager to go on.
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My understanding is that Dave Ramsey as an example of the
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Ramsey Institute, his business, he actually had on President
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Trump recently on his show, he was announcing on social media
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that he had invited Kamala Harris on to talk about the
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economy and she has not responded and not agreed to come
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on the show. So just just a bit of a contrast
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here. President Trump going on Dave
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Ramsey to talk about the economy, not a space that Kamala
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Harris wanted to go into. And here she is going into a
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space that maybe Trump doesn't want to go into, which is Alex
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Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast to talk about basically abortion
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and sex and talk about some of the things that Kamala Harris
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supports that are against family values.
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So we're going to go into that right now and look at the
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conversation that they had. This is a 5 minute clip.
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It's a bit long, but I think it's important that we watch it.
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I'm also sparing you so you don't have to watch the whole
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show yourself. The podcast went on, I think it
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was almost an hour, but this is the clip where they got into it
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on the issue, which is really the main issue that Kamala
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Harris is running on right now, which is abortion.
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Let's take a look. I understand that a lot of the
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younger generation sees things online and it's like what is
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right, what is wrong, what is real, what is not.
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Can you explain and talk about what is actually happening to
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abortion access right now in this country?
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So again, I thank you for what you've been doing.
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This pause really quick. I have to I have to just note
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before we hear Kamala Harris answer it just important to note
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here the way the question was asked.
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Of course, this is a very hard left pro abortion podcast.
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Alex Cooper actually went out and tried to promote abortion
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after Roe V Wade fell with the Dobs V Dobs V Jackson decision.
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She was part of that whole group rallying support for the
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abortion cause. And she's framing the whole
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question about abortion with Kamala Harris here in terms of
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quote UN quote abortion access, right?
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Which sounds like something that everyone should have.
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You know, she's not qualifying or defining the term abortion.
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What abortion access means already The the premise here in
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Alex Cooper's question is that abortion is a good thing and
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that women should have this abortion access.
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She, of course, is not talking about how abortion kills a baby,
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what abortion actually is and what it does.
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It's all already. The context here is that
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abortion is good and women need it.
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So let's see what Kamala says. So, you know, on public policy,
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I often tell my team, look, I don't want to hear about public
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policy is a fancy kind of speech or paper.
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Tell me how it'll affect a real person.
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So let's talk about how it affects a real person.
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The majority of women who receive abortion care are
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mothers. So here, this is the comment
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from the first kind of out of the gate comment from Kamala
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Harris, as the majority of people who receive abortion care
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are mothers. So she's doing two things here.
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First of all, again, it's the euphemisms.
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They talked about abortion access.
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Now they're talking. She's taking it one step
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further. It's called abortion care, OK?
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No one is being cared for with an abortion.
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A baby is being killed and a woman is often left with
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physical and certainly emotional and psychological scars.
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For many women after an abortion, killing a baby is not
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healthcare. It never has been.
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It never will be. This is why there are thousands
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of pro-life obstetricians, gynecologists who rallied
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together to start a pro-life Medical Association because our
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Medical Association dedicated to mothers and to women, ACOG, was
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hijacked by abortion activists back in the 80s.
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So we already have a problem in this country where abortion has
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become synonymous. Some people try to make it
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synonymous with women's healthcare when it is never
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caring to kill a baby. So this is the first misleading
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comment that Kamala Harris is making.
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It's not a surprise. Everybody knows she's a hardcore
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pro abort. But next she's going to go into
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the sob story where she's talking about a woman who's a
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mother not just of her unborn baby, but a mother of a born
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child as well, and talk about how devastating, in her words,
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abortion that bans are. And This is why that pay close
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attention to what she's saying here and her reason for why it
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is bad that a state like Texas, as an example, would ban
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abortion. This is her reason.
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Imagine she's in a state with an abortion ban.
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One out of three women are, by the way, in our country, and
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she's a mom, so she's going to have to figure out one.
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God help her if she has affordable childcare, God help
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her if she has paid leave. And then she's going to have to
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go to the airport, stand in a TSA line.
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I have the pods here. This is what Kamala Harris is
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running on, that you need an abortion so badly that if you
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have to stand in TSA before you can get an abortion, this is the
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crime of all crimes, and therefore we should vote in
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Kamala Harris for president. This is what she's running on,
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that killing a baby is so good and so wonderful that if you
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even have to stand in a line like in the TSA or if you have
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to get on a bus to go get an abortion, how dare you.
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Your abortion should literally be handed to you on a silver
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platter so you can kill your baby on a silver platter because
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otherwise it's an injustice against you.
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Is this? Is this?
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Is this really what Kamala Harris is running on?
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It is what she's running on. And it's absolutely horrible
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because you're not only completely depriving that child
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of their rights here. There's no empathy, there's no
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compassion. There's no regard for the child.
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The child's not even mentioned, but she's inventing this Horror
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Story, which isn't even when you look at it, it's actually not a
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Horror Story, but she's inventing this narrative that
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these women are suffering so much because they have to go and
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get their abortion in another state.
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And therefore we need abortion on demand in every state.
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Therefore, Texas and no state should be allowed to protect
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human life. We have reduced women in a
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conversation about women and public policy that's good for
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families down to how easy can we make it for you to kill your
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unborn baby? That's what this is about.
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How devastating that this is what the political discourse is
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about. How easy can we make it for you
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to kill your baby? Instead of a conversation about
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how can we help you have a thriving family?
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How can we help you with the most important part of the whole
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American Civil project, which is protecting the future for our
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children? What's the point of a democracy
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if there's no children to be able to enjoy it in the future?
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What's the point of a nation if we don't have a future because
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we're killing our kids, if we're because we're killing children?
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And here she is also using this fig leaf about caring about
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women and and mothers because she says, oh, these women, many
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of them already have children. But she's so happy.
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Kamala Harris is so happy to make it as, as, as not just as
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easy as possible, but to make it as popular as possible for
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killing your baby, killing your child's sibling, if you're a
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mother already to be the way to go.
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So I, I find the whole thing, when you peel away, obviously
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the euphemisms, when you peel away the rhetoric and you look
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at what she's actually saying, that it is not easy enough for
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enough American women who already have children to go and
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kill the sibling of their child. But that's what she's running
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on. If people just looked at this
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for what it is, instead of the false euphemisms and fear
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mongering that Alex Cooper and Kamala Harris and others are
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pushing in media, I think many more people would say this is
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absolutely ridiculous. How can we ever stand for this
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but as long as the media? Again, Alex Cooper is a highly
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influential podcast host among a group of a particular group of
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women. If this is what women hear, oh,
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we need abortion, abortion's good, access is good.
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Oh, we have to go, go, go through TSA to get this
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healthcare. Oh, we have to get on a bus and
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an extra bus to get healthcare. You can understand why the
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narrative might be meaningful, might be persuasive for some
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people, but it is easy to shatter the narrative when you
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point to what is actually being talking talked about, which is
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killing a baby and making it easy and accessible and paid for
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and even popular. For a mother of a child to go
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and kill the sibling of her own child.
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This is this is not healthcare. This is not in any way a a
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positive vision for the future for anyone.
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This is the culture of death at work using these very, very fig
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leaf euphemisms to cover for what they're doing.
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Let's keep listening. A perfect stranger to go to a
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city where she's never been to receive the care she needs.
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She's going to probably have to get right back on that plane
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because she's got those kids. Her best friend's probably not
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with her because that's who's taking care of the kids.
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It's Kamala Harris's point here. Wish you didn't have any kids.
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Better to not have any kids because if you got a, if you get
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pregnant and you have an abortion and you already have a
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kid, then you have to deal with child care for.
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I mean, the whole narrative here is absurd.
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It is absurd. How easy can we make it for you
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to kill your baby? How easy can we make it for you
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to kill the sibling of your baby?
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And the, and the, and the, the premise here that women should
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just want to kill their babies. That's the really insidious
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thing here. The premise is women should just
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want to kill their babies. Of course you're going to want
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to abort the sibling of your child.
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Of course you're going to want to go get an abortion.
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It is a no brainer. And this is, of course, the
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language of Alex Cooper in the way she asks these questions.
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Keep in mind this is a they call it sex positive.
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It's not actually sex positive podcast.
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It's a sex negative podcast. Alex Cooper's promoting hookup
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culture, sexual libertinism on her show, the consequence of
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acting like sex has no value and sex is not sacred is that you
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end up with unexpected and unplanned pregnancies.
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And when you end up with unplanned pregnancies because
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you built a culture of sexual chaos, then you end up with
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wanting abortions. And that's the ecosystem that
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Alex Cooper is living in. That's the ecosystem that she's
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promoting on her podcast. So it makes, it makes sense in
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one sense that she has Kamala Harrison talk about why isn't it
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easier to kill your baby? But that's because the whole
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world view is so dark and it's so anti child and anti love.
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Let's keep listening. Fine to get back on a plane to
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go home. And that's all.
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If they can even afford the plane exactly.
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Or the bus. Exactly.
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Exactly. Because when Roe V Wade was
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overturned, I remember my DMS were flooded with thousands of
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women begging me to help. And it's overwhelming.
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And I can't even imagine I'm saying that in front of you, but
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it's, it's overwhelming. And I remember that's Alex
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Cooper's. I mean, that's so tragic, right?
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That's Alex Cooper's audience. Alex Cooper's audience, because
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they're living the lifestyle that she's promoting.
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And it's, it's kind of ironic because Alex Cooper just got
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married recently. She's apparently living and
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promoting monogamy in her own life.
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But on her show, she is living and promoting sexual hookups,
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chaos, libertinism. That's the name of the game for
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caller daddy. And so for her to say, well, my,
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my fan base was so upset when Roe fell because they're
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wondering, what are we going to do?
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Where are we going to get our abortions now?
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It goes to show the whole ecosystem again, that she is
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spearheading. And it also should be very
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concerning, as it should. It should tell us something that
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the vice president of the United States is coming onto this show,
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running to be president. And this is the kind of, I
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guess, voter base that she's counting on right now.
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I am encouraged to say that there are millions of voters and
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Americans and women, particularly pro-life women, who
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find this whole view of the woman and the view of sexuality
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as absolutely horrible and, and, and against our dignity.
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But here, obviously, Kamala Harris is pandering to this
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group, to the to the listener, a base of this podcast.
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I just need to afford a bus ticket so I can get out of this
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abortion desert that I live in in the South so I can get to a
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state. But they can't even, you know
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what I mean? So it's like these people are
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literally landlocked into a position that they don't want to
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be. And and here's the thing.
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Here's The thing is that you don't have to abandon your faith
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or deeply held beliefs to agree the government shouldn't be
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telling her what to do. If she chooses, she'll talk to
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her priest, her pastor, her rabbi, her imam, but not the
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government telling you what to do.
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And that's what's so outrageous about it, is a bunch of these
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guys up in the state capitals are writing these decisions
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because they somehow have decided that they're in a better
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position to tell you what's in your best interest than you are
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to know what's in your. Own best interest I I, you've
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heard me saying this, say this on the show before, guys, but
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every single law, virtually every single law that exists in
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this country tells us what we can and cannot do with our body.
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Whether you're getting in your car and it tells you how fast
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you can drive that car, you're walking into a store and it's
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telling you no, you cannot put out your hand and grab something
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off of the shelf and just walk out of the store with it.
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Whether it's telling you that no, you cannot walk up to
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someone and slap them in the face.
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You cannot use your body to do that.
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There are endless laws. There are many laws in this
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country that tell us what you can or cannot do with your body.
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That is the whole project of how we live together in civil
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society. And the idea that telling a
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parent, whether it's the mother or the father, that no, they
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don't have the right to kill their child, that that somehow
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government imposing into the personal lives of people is, it
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is ridiculous. Of course there is no right to
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kill a child. Of course there's no right to
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kill your child. Your child's not property,
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whether they're born or pre born, but that child does have a
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right to exist and a right to life.
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And that's where the government actually has a responsibility.
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If someone's trying to kill you, the government has a
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responsibility to have some level of of mechanism, some
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mechanism of protection so that there's just not lawlessness and
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bloodletting on the streets. And that's why we have
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historically had it illegal for a anybody, whether it's a doctor
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or a back alley abortionist who is just operating as an
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abortionist. It's been illegal for anyone to
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kill a preborn child. That was before in many, for
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many, many years in many in most states before Roe V Wade.
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Now, after Roe V. Wade has fallen.
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It's now illegal again, as it should be for you to kill your
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child. You it, it should.
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That should be illegal. Some things should be illegal
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because they are wrong and they violate the human rights of
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human beings. And of course, other things,
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many things should be legal. But this whole conversation that
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they're having that the government's getting involved,
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when really what Kamala Harris wants is for the government to
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get involved. She does want the government
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involved, but she wants the government to pay using your
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taxpayer dollars for other people's killing of their
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children. That is how she wants the
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government to be involved. So she this whole thing about we
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don't want the government involved is actually a lie.
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She very much wants the government involved, but she
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wants the government involved to force taxpayers to pay for
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abortions. That is the government platform,
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the like a Democrat platform right now.
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And there is no right to kill a child.
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There's no right. I have no right to use my body
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to kill a child. No one has that right.
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That is the fact. And certainly the government
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should not be forcing anybody to pay for anyone else's killing.
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That should also never be acceptable.
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So on both counts, it just shows how far down this into the
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insane world the Democrat platform has has become has
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gotten and Kamala Harris pushing it here on on the podcast.
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Let's keep listening. It's outrageous.
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It's outrageous. I mean, daddy getting to put it
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in our TikTok terms. I have seen girls on the street
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walk up to men and be like, do you know where a tampon goes?
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Do you know how many tampons we use?
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Do you even know how? Like do you know what AX or Y or
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Z is of a part of our and they don't know the answer?
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I was the 1st Vice President or President to ever in office go
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to a reproductive healthcare clinic.
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Ever. Really.
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That was an abortion clinic. Yes, yes.
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I didn't know that, but I guess that makes sense.
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To your point. And yet the matter make a
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decision. She got a pause here.
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She didn't. Kamala Harris did not go to a
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reproductive health clinic to set the record straight.
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A reproductive health clinic would be a place that helps
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parents or helps people achieve healthy reproductive system so
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that they can work as they're intended and they can maybe
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achieve pregnancy. So maybe fertility and natural
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fertility practitioner doing restorative medicine?
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Yes, you can call yourself a reproductive health facility.
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Yes, you may. If you kill babies, that is not
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reproductive health. That's reproductive destruction.
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That's the killing of a baby. That's not planning parenthood.
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That's destroying parenthood. And what Kamala Harris did is
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she toured a Planned Parenthood. She was the 1st vice president
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to tour a Planned Parenthood where they kill babies.
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And this was a publicity stunt for her.
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And here's and here's the other thing about this point that it's
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about IVF treatments and access. So access to contraception,
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which is very much at risk with these folks.
21:10
It is about back to the point about reproductive health
21:12
clinics. You know what those clinics also
21:14
do? They do paps, they do breast
21:17
cancer screenings, they do HIV testing and they're having to
21:22
close in many places with these bands.
21:25
So think about the fact that for any.
21:27
Spots that one? More time.
21:29
There's not a single band that. That prevents abortion ban, that
21:34
prevents pap tests or STI screenings or providing, you
21:41
know, breast exams. Nothing, not none of that.
21:44
This is a, this is a deception, a point of deception that she's
21:47
making here. None of that is prevented by a
21:49
pro-life law. What she's actually talking
21:51
about is Planned Parenthood's, some of them have shut down in
21:54
pro-life states because they just want to do abortions and
21:57
they don't want to do the things that are still legal.
21:59
They want to just do abortions. So they're going to, because
22:02
Planned Parenthood, so pro abortion, they're going to shut
22:04
down their center and not do STI tests and not do Paps and not do
22:10
breast screen breast cancer screenings.
22:12
They're going to shut down their clinic and not do the stuff that
22:14
is good and legal because they want so badly to do abortions.
22:17
What does that say about Planned Parenthood?
22:19
It says that Planned Parenthood is first and foremost an
22:22
abortion corporation. So in Kamala Harris's own
22:25
statement here, she's actually alluding to the fact that they
22:29
don't care about those other services.
22:32
They just care about abortion. And they were literally shut
22:34
down their operation if they can't kill babies.
22:36
Let's go to this last clip this this conversation goes on.
22:39
There's one last clip I want to share with you from the Alex
22:42
Cooper interview that Kamala Harris did.
22:45
And it's where Alex Cooper asks a question of Kamala Harris.
22:49
And it's kind of like this meant to be this gotcha of the pro
22:53
lifers, the way that she phrases her question.
22:56
So I do want to watch this clip. This clip was going viral in the
22:58
last few days, and it shows again the mentality that Alice
23:04
Cooper has. Let's take a look.
23:05
I want to pose this question more to you and the daddy gang,
23:08
but one of the biggest conversations in this year's
23:11
election revolves around a woman's body.
23:14
Yep. I want to take a moment and can
23:17
we try to think of any law that gives the government the power
23:24
to make a decision? I know what you're going to ask.
23:28
About a man's body? No, no.
23:34
Is there any law? OK, I've got one.
23:37
And there were a bunch of viral tweets about this, the draft,
23:41
the draft. And then like I said earlier,
23:44
the draft. Obviously, if you are drafted,
23:46
if your number is selected, if there's a war going on, the
23:49
government absolutely makes a decision for and about your
23:52
body, putting you in potentially a place of conflict where your
23:55
life may be at risk for the sake of your country and you could
23:58
die. But that's obviously an extreme
24:00
example, but a real one. But like I said earlier, in
24:02
every single day that we live in this society, there are laws
24:06
that control what we can and cannot do with our body.
24:09
This is common sense. If you look past the flamingly
24:13
false rhetoric here and you look at just how we operate, whether
24:17
you get in your car, whether you walk into a store, whether you
24:21
interact with another human being, whether you can walk onto
24:25
someones front lawn and they say get off my lawn and you might be
24:28
trespassing if you stay on their lawn, that is you being
24:32
controlled by the government using their language, what by
24:36
for what you can or cannot do with your body.
24:39
So similarly, again, we've said this on the show so many times.
24:42
I know you guys get this, but I think it is so important for us
24:45
to speak this truth into and inject it again and again into
24:49
the public discourse. There is no right to use our
24:51
body. And certainly a doctor, an
24:54
abortionist has no right to use their body to kill somebody
24:57
else's body. And when you're pregnant, there
24:59
are two bodies, sometimes more if you have twins or triplets or
25:03
whatever it may be. And that other body has a right
25:06
to live. They have a right to exist.
25:08
They have a right to not be killed.
25:10
And that person's body has the right to not be killed.
25:14
Oversee it supersedes the right of the parent to not be
25:17
inconvenienced or the right of the parent or the mother to not.
25:22
You know, maybe they don't want the baby for whatever reason or
25:25
they have whatever issues that they're working through.
25:28
No, no issues, no, no struggles, nothing that you may go be going
25:33
through as a parent as an as an adult, whoever you are gives you
25:37
the right to kill your child that that right does not exist.
25:39
It's been invented, but that child does have a right to
25:42
exist. So we're going to move on next
25:44
to the bombshell comments coming from Melania Trump next week.
25:48
But all, all at all, actually, before we do that, we got to go
25:50
to 60 Minutes. There's one more clip we got to
25:51
watch. Again, Kamala Harris has been
25:53
very busy recently on the roads. There's a lot to catch up.
25:55
And let's go to the 60 minutes clip because this is yet
25:57
another. You know, this is a little bit
26:00
of a different angle here. So Kamala Harris has been
26:02
talking about abortion widely, spreading these euphemisms,
26:05
these false narratives. We've already been debunking
26:07
that she does something different on 60 Minutes.
26:09
In one of the questions that she was asked, she has been asked
26:12
several times, how are you different than Biden?
26:14
Because she's his vice president.
26:16
And meaningfully, there's been no public policy departure from
26:19
Biden's positions and to hers, that she's not different than
26:22
Biden on public policy. She has the same policies, but
26:26
she has done some things that look different than what she's
26:28
done historically. As an example, going to the
26:31
southern border and maybe indicating when it comes to
26:35
immigration that she would be more moderate on a board on
26:38
immigration than she has been in the last four years as VP.
26:42
This is, of course, important because there is a crisis,
26:45
ongoing crisis at the southern border with 10s of thousands,
26:49
hundreds of thousands, even millions over all of migrants
26:52
coming into the United States. The border is very porous.
26:55
I think in the last reported year, it's over 100,000
26:58
unaccompanied minors came across the border.
27:01
Unaccompanied minors, some of them may be the victims of sex
27:05
trafficking or other forms of trafficking.
27:07
This is a humanitarian crisis as much as it is a problem of
27:11
potential national security. And so all of this is happening
27:15
commonly. Harris knows it's a big issue.
27:17
She knows a lot of people are concerned about it.
27:19
Former President Trump is differentiating himself from
27:22
Biden's policies by saying he would strengthen the southern
27:25
border and by claiming that he would do much more than the
27:28
Democrats have done on it. Many people might know this
27:31
already, but what happened when Biden first entered office, took
27:35
office, he rescinded a lot of executive orders that Trump had
27:38
had in place on the southern border.
27:41
But here's a comment from Kamala Harris about her approach and
27:45
why she seems to be, at least to some reports and by some
27:49
reports, seems to be moderating the fairly left wing position
27:55
that Biden has taken on the border.
27:57
Which is to ultimately let the border be chorus and allow a lot
28:02
of people in, including asylees. And then let them stay while
28:05
they're waiting for their hearing in to determine if they
28:08
should have the status of an asylum seeker of an asylee, not
28:12
just an asylee seeker. So let's listen to what Kamala
28:15
Harris is saying here. Tell you what your critics and
28:18
the columnist say. OK.
28:20
They say the reason so many voters don't know you is that
28:24
you have changed your position on so many things.
28:28
You were against fracking, now you're for it.
28:31
You supported looser immigration policies, now you're tightening
28:35
them up. You're for Medicare for all.
28:38
Now you're not so many that people don't truly know what you
28:43
believe or what you stand for. And I know you've heard that.
28:47
In the last four years, I have been Vice President of the
28:50
United States and I have been travelling our country and I
28:53
have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in
28:58
terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus.
29:02
We are a diverse people geographically, regionally, in
29:05
terms of where we are in our backgrounds.
29:08
And what the American people do want is that we have leaders who
29:13
can build consensus where we can figure out compromise and
29:17
understand it's not a bad thing as long as you don't compromise
29:20
your values, find common sense solutions.
29:24
And that has been my approach. All right, so here you're seeing
29:29
you're hearing Kamala Harris say on 60 Minutes that she has been
29:33
travelling the country and hearing different people's views
29:35
and that's why she's effectively been shifting some of her
29:37
positions. This actually could
29:40
theoretically be a good thing if it was true and if it was true
29:44
on what mattered the most. And so here she's saying, you
29:47
know, I've been vice president for Biden.
29:49
And so she's implying he's very lefty.
29:50
And so somehow maybe I'm not as lefty.
29:52
I don't know. That maybe is the implication
29:54
here. But if, if it were the case that
29:57
Kamala Harris wanted to win, this is my opinion.
30:00
If it were the case that Kamala Harris wanted to win this
30:01
election, and she would, in order to do that, she needs to
30:05
moderate because she is so left wing on so many of these issues.
30:09
On abortion, she has not moderated one iota.
30:12
This is not something she's done on abortion.
30:14
She has doubled down and tripled down on abortion to the point
30:17
where she supports, as you know, we share on the podcast
30:20
regularly, abortion through all nine months without any
30:22
exception for any reason tax funded.
30:26
So it is ironic here that calmly Harris is saying that she is
30:29
maybe going to moderate on some of these other issues, but on
30:32
the issue that the majority of Americans actually disagree with
30:35
her on, the majority of Americans want some abortion
30:38
restrictions. The polling shows us whether
30:40
it's Gallup or Pew, it shows that the majority of Americans
30:43
support some abortion restrictions at minimum in the
30:46
last trimester and some of them in the second.
30:48
And of course, many Americans even want them in the first.
30:50
But Kamala Harris, not so much. She wants no abortion
30:53
restrictions. She is not monitoring on
30:55
abortion. And I look at President Trump
30:57
and what former President Trump and his campaign and, you know,
31:01
she's doubled down. She's got her base.
31:03
She's got the Alex Cooper call her daddy fanbase lockstep.
31:07
She's got him down. And I want to go to the next
31:09
story here, which is that there is some reports out about the
31:12
number of Christians who may not be voting in this election.
31:15
And I think Kamala Harris in many ways is playing her cards
31:19
to appeal to her hardcore pro abortion, anti natural family,
31:25
anti marriage base. And the question is, is former
31:30
President Trump willing to do the same for his former base, A
31:34
base he's had in the past, which is many hardcore pro-life
31:37
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Christians who are they're the number of Christians who there
33:32
are surveys running now that are saying that they're not voting
33:34
this election. For clarity here, this is not
33:37
necessarily that they didn't vote.
33:38
They voted the last election. Now they're not voting this one.
33:41
It's just the fact that there is a thing called voter turn out
33:44
and in every election that we have, presidential election that
33:47
we have, there is a significant portion of Americans who do not
33:50
vote and many of them are Christians.
33:52
And so this is an opportunity. There's some headlines happening
33:55
right now that have been run recently about the survey that
33:59
came out that said that there are 100 million people that
34:02
could identify as Christian that may not vote this election.
34:05
This is pretty typical by the way, most elections.
34:07
Again, there are many, many people who do not vote.
34:10
So this number of 100 million sounds like a lot, but the
34:13
reality is when elections happen, the amount of Americans
34:16
voting compared to those that could, there's a big departure.
34:18
You're talking about millions, 10s of millions of people who
34:20
are not voting that could. And so this is an opportunity.
34:24
And I've been saying this a lot on the podcast.
34:26
There is an opportunity here that I think that particularly
34:29
the Trump campaign has to win to win this election.
34:33
And I, I am concerned that they're not taking advantage of
34:35
that opportunity. And I'm going to get to Melania
34:38
Trump's new book release net last week, which I think also
34:41
was damaging to the Trump campaign.
34:43
What Melania Trump did to come out at this time with these
34:45
statements and with this book and these very pro abortion
34:48
positions. Because the reality is many
34:50
Americans who are Christian, especially mass attending
34:53
Catholics, you know, church service attending evangelicals
34:57
and Protestants, they care a lot about life and family.
35:00
They care a lot about protecting the vulnerable and the innocent.
35:03
And they're looking for a reason to vote, say Trump over Kamala.
35:08
They're looking, many of them even for a reason to vote.
35:10
They want a reason to vote and care enough to vote.
35:13
Many of them might be afraid of voting.
35:15
Maybe they're feeling apathetic, maybe they're distracted.
35:18
But I think many people would want a very compelling reason to
35:23
vote. And I think many people, and
35:25
I've heard this personally from many people, get very
35:28
discouraged when President Trump, former President Trump,
35:32
takes the Republican Party away from social conservativism and
35:36
instead moves it to the left. And this is something that has
35:38
been actively happening over just the last few months.
35:41
This did not happen in 2020. I think this is important to
35:44
note. The RNC in 2020 looked very
35:46
different than the RNC looks this year looked this year.
35:49
In 2020, the Republican National Convention had a very pro-life
35:53
and pro marriage platform. And at the RNC convention, they
35:56
had people like Abby Johnson, a pro, a former Planned Parenthood
35:59
worker who now is a passion pro-life speaker.
36:01
They had her speaking at the convention and she did a great
36:04
job. This year at the convention, you
36:07
saw the pro-life plank basically stripped out of the platform.
36:11
You saw the pro marriage plank stripped out of the platform.
36:15
And you saw birth control, IVF added into the platform.
36:18
And then as far as speakers at the convention, there is no
36:21
pro-life, pro marriage, pro family speaker.
36:24
Instead, you had people like the pornographic actor Amber Rose
36:28
speaking on stage. You had this kind of big tent
36:31
Republicanism that was being promoted at the convention.
36:34
Is it working? Is it working right now for the
36:37
Trump campaign? And I have been trying to sound
36:39
the alarm that it's not working for the Trump campaign.
36:42
In fact, I think it's hurting the Trump campaign.
36:44
And how do you redirect course or change course at this time?
36:47
I think it is crucial for the Trump campaign to double down on
36:51
the base that would like to vote for them, which are passionate
36:54
pro lifers and pro family people, many of whom are strong
36:57
people of faith. So when President Trump comes
36:59
out and criticizes Florida's heartbeat law for not having
37:02
enough weeks in protecting babies and said he's saying
37:05
there need to be less protections for preborn babies
37:08
in Florida, he comes out with his tax funded IVF policy, which
37:12
could lead to the abortions of many millions more future
37:15
children and the freezing of many millions more embryos.
37:17
This concerns a lot of people. So there's four weeks left
37:20
before the election. I think there is still time for
37:23
the Trump campaign to change course.
37:25
And I think it's very important that Christians and people of
37:28
faith raise their voices to say this is not acceptable.
37:30
This is not OK. We are not good with this.
37:33
Kamala Harris is going on the Call Her Daddy podcast with Alex
37:37
Cooper and talking about how she supports all abortions and she
37:39
wants even mothers of other children to be able to get
37:42
abortions easily and without any problem.
37:44
That's her plank, right? We need to hear the contrast
37:49
from the Trump campaign about how life is precious, life
37:53
matters, we're going to fight for life.
37:54
We're going to do everything we can to support the American
37:56
family and to support the project of mothers and fathers
37:59
to raise children. That is our future.
38:01
That's what we care about. I think that message would be
38:04
very, very compelling and would galvanized the base, the
38:08
millions of voters who are kind of sitting on the sidelines and
38:10
thinking about how is this going down and what is the difference
38:13
when it comes to these social issues, the difference when it
38:15
comes to the issues of faith and life and family between being
38:19
these candidates. I think Trump does himself no
38:22
favors when he goes to the left on abortion and when he tries to
38:25
sound more like Kamala Harris. And so this leads me to the next
38:29
segment of the show that I wanted to get to, which is
38:31
really important, which is something that happened last
38:33
week. So we talked a lot about Kamala
38:35
Harris and how pro abortion she is on the show.
38:37
And we try to educate you guys and bring you the latest news
38:39
about what she said or what she's saying about abortion as
38:42
well as other issues. Last week, Melania Trump, the
38:46
wife of course, of former President Trump, came out with
38:49
her her first book. And in that, as part of her
38:52
campaign, there were excerpts that were released as well as
38:54
video clips of Melania Trump talking about her book.
38:58
Take a listen. Individual freedom is a
39:01
fundamental principle that I safeguard without a doubt.
39:06
There is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential
39:10
right that all women possess from birth.
39:14
Individual freedom. What does my body, my choice
39:19
really mean? So here she is in a video clip
39:23
that went viral on acts where Melania Trump is talking about
39:26
how I have the right ultimately to my body.
39:29
She says, what does my body, my choice really mean?
39:31
And she talks about how we possess this right from birth
39:34
ultimately to abortion. And there's some excerpts that I
39:37
want to read from her book because some people were saying,
39:39
well, maybe she's not actually saying she supports abortion
39:41
here. Maybe she's trying to somehow
39:43
make nuance where my body my choice.
39:45
I mean, these are very hopeful people saying, you know, I can't
39:48
bear the thought that Melania Trump right before an election
39:51
is coming out hardcore and for in support of abortion.
39:53
Maybe she meant something else, right?
39:55
Which I can understand people being so concerned learned about
39:58
Kamala Harris being so pro abortion and wanting Trump to be
40:01
more pro-life. And so Melania Trump coming out
40:03
in support of abortion is a very painful thing to do 4 weeks
40:05
before an election. But let's look at the excerpts
40:09
from Melania's book that have been released.
40:11
So we're going to pull up an article here and I'm going to
40:14
take a look at the some of these.
40:15
So Live Action News, good old live Action, thank you, Live
40:19
Action and their amazing team over at Live Action News did a
40:23
article with some of these excerpts.
40:24
I'm going to read them here to you guys.
40:26
So here's from Melania Trump writing in her new book called
40:30
Melania, she says it is imperative.
40:33
It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in
40:36
deciding their preference of having children based on their
40:40
own convictions. Why should anyone other than the
40:42
woman have herself, have the power to determine what she does
40:45
with her own body? Here's the next line.
40:48
A woman's fundamental right of individual liberty to her own
40:52
life grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she
40:58
wishes. Then she goes on to say
41:00
restricting a woman's right to choose whether to terminate an
41:03
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41:08
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42:32
statements coming out in media. The Guardian got a advance copy
42:35
of the book and published some of the excerpts from the book
42:37
about abortion. She specifically said that
42:40
restricting a woman's right to choose whether to terminate an
42:43
unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her
42:46
own body. And she says I have carried this
42:48
belief with me my entire adult life.
42:51
So what was so tragic about these comments from Melania
42:53
Trump is that she's not just saying and it's one thing to
42:56
say, Oh, I have sympathy for people who would consider
42:58
abortion for XY or Z reason or oh, I, I want to, you know, like
43:03
my like my husband support some abortions.
43:06
But I think abortion is so terrible and sad.
43:08
None of that is here would instead is here is that a woman
43:11
has this invincible right to terminate a pregnancy if the
43:16
baby is unwanted. So there's no standard here
43:20
about the woman being sick about the baby being conceived in rape
43:24
or incest, right? These are these examples that
43:26
people use to justify abortion for Melania.
43:29
There's not even a justification needed for Melania Trump.
43:32
If you don't want the pregnancy for whatever reason you get to
43:35
pick, you should be able to kill the baby.
43:38
And that's incredibly tragic. It's incredibly devastating
43:41
because I think a lot of people were holding on to hope that
43:43
Melania Trump was, you know, a believer, that she lived her
43:47
Catholic faith, that she was someone who was secretly
43:49
pro-life and just didn't make public statements.
43:52
And I also think it's really damaging to the Trump campaign
43:55
because President Trump has, he wants the pro-life vote.
43:59
Former President Trump wants people who are conservative to
44:01
vote for him. He needs their vote.
44:03
President Trump needs their vote.
44:05
And to have the wife of former President Trump coming out four
44:09
weeks before an election with a bombshell book announcing her
44:14
passionate support for abortion for any reason, provided the
44:18
pregnancy is unwanted and the mother wants to have the
44:21
abortion, is very damaging, I believe to the campaign.
44:24
There's an ex tweet Fox News commentator Jesse Kelly as an
44:29
example put out this tweet. If you guys can see it, we can
44:33
pull it up here. He says, I guess we didn't know
44:35
how good we had it when she just hid away for months at a time
44:38
without hearing from her. You can miss with this demonic
44:42
baby murdering crap. No matter what your last name
44:45
happens to be, it's not your body, it's your baby.
44:49
Don't murder it. This is just one example on this
44:51
because this is a very I'm sorry, Jesse Kelly is on the 1st
44:56
not Fox, but this is a very passionate formerly or you know,
45:00
often has been very passionate in support of Trump.
45:03
And here he and many others were very critical of Melania and
45:06
these statements coming out last week.
45:08
Now, I don't know if the Trump campaign knew what Melania was
45:11
going to do. I'm imagining they would want to
45:14
know or they would ask. I don't know the exact interplay
45:17
between Melania's team and the Trump campaign.
45:19
I'm going to imagine that there has to be some kind of
45:21
communication happening. Maybe the campaign was totally
45:25
surprised by these announcements coming from Melania's office and
45:28
about our book. I don't know.
45:30
But I will say it's very damaging to the the campaign, to
45:34
President Trump and his campaign when his own wife is coming out
45:37
passionately in support of abortion, making statements that
45:40
Kamala Harris could make, making statements that sound very much
45:43
like his opposition. Now, 4 weeks before the
45:46
election, is the time to get the vote out.
45:48
It's the time to get the base rallied and galvanized and
45:50
energized. And unfortunately what I've been
45:53
sounding the alarm about is that is not what the Trump campaign
45:57
seems to be interested in doing. They seem to be interested in
45:59
moderating on the very issue that could galvanized
46:02
potentially millions of voters. And what Kamala Harris is doing
46:06
in a as in a contrast is Kamala Harris is going on podcast like
46:10
call Her Daddy to promote her ideology to her base.
46:14
President Trump is not going to win pro-choice voters to his
46:18
side by moderating on abortion. Kamala Harris is already going
46:21
to get the pro abortion pro-choice vote.
46:24
They already are going to go for Kamala.
46:26
What President Trump may endanger his campaign by doing
46:30
is by supporting more and more abortions and coming out and
46:33
weakening the pro-life stance of the RNC and weakening the
46:36
pro-life stance even that he may have had in the past.
46:39
So that is where again, we're sounding the alarm.
46:41
And I think it is important that voters, especially Christian
46:43
voters, pro-life voters, make their voices heard to send the
46:47
message to the campaign that compromising on life, throwing
46:51
the babies under the bus is not the way to win and it's not the
46:54
morally right thing to do. It is not what a leader will do
46:57
that will help this country move forward.
46:59
It is what someone that is going to help hurt the country and
47:02
only damage the future of this country by promoting the killing
47:05
of our own future, which are our children, which are babies.
47:08
All right, before we go to our last segment, we have some
47:11
comments here and some news out from the Hurricanes.
47:14
As you guys know, there are hurricanes that are destroying
47:17
the coast of Florida right now. It is a lot of devastation
47:21
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47:24
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right now in Florida. And we're going to end with
49:15
prayer here for our friends in Florida.
49:17
So as you guys know, there is Hurricane Helene, which blasted
49:21
the coast of Florida. Many, many people were displaced
49:23
from their homes. They say.
49:25
They're saying that the death toll I think is over 100 people.
49:28
They're still looking. It's actually over 200 people,
49:30
excuse me, at this time. And they're thinking there might
49:33
be more deaths reported. So this is really devastating.
49:36
It's really, really devastating and now there's Hurricane Milton
49:39
which is threatening Tampa Bay area, which is a major
49:42
population center as you all know in Florida with over 3.3
49:45
million people in Tampa Bay. I have personal and very dear
49:49
friends and live action staff over in Tampa Bay so there's a
49:51
lot to pray for right now. There was a video, there were
49:54
two things I wanted to just note about these hurricanes.
49:57
Some beautiful things happening. There is a headline about a the
50:02
parishes, the Catholic churches of the some of the hurricane
50:05
struck areas who are still holding masses even despite the
50:09
devastation and holding them by candlelight because there is no
50:12
electricity. So people are still trying to
50:14
love each other, care for each other and go to mass, receive
50:16
the sacraments despite the devastation that's happening in
50:20
Florida. In addition, there are some
50:22
videos that have gone viral from the area of the devastation.
50:27
We're talking power lines, uprooted trees thrown around.
50:30
One of my dear friends who lives in the South Carolina area but
50:34
was still receiving some of the hits from Hurricane Helene send
50:38
a picture of the front of her home with trees just uprooted,
50:41
falling over, power lines falling over.
50:43
It's a devastating scene. There was this video that went
50:46
viral that I do want to share of a mother talking about her son
50:49
who passed away in Hurricane Helene.
50:52
And let's just hear what she has to say.
50:55
Megan Dyer and her sister Heather Kephart lost their
50:58
parents and Megan lost her seven-year old son, Micah.
51:02
Megan agreed to do the interview with us this morning in Micah's
51:05
honor. How is your grief today?
51:11
My grief today is unfoundable. I'm sorrowful.
51:15
I'm, you know, I feel broken. All the chain of prayers that I
51:20
have felt are the things that held me up, the things that are
51:24
holding me together right now. Because if it was up to my
51:26
humanly flesh, I wouldn't be able to do it.
51:30
We were on the roof. And I considered at that moment
51:33
that we were at our safe point. So I took a picture because at
51:37
that point I still had service and I wanted to keep them in the
51:40
loop. I thought we were OK still until
51:46
the house broke apart and until everything started to collapse.
51:50
All I thought about was being a mom and keeping my son safe and
51:55
reassuring him that this is how superheroes are made.
51:58
I was in the water for five hours.
52:00
I was in the water for a very long time.
52:03
Down the river, I got caught in some trees and things were
52:07
hitting me. I got dragged under a few times,
52:09
and that's when I remember being in a tree.
52:11
In that moment, you know, in the midst of the chaos, all I heard
52:15
was God telling me to be still and to stop fighting the water.
52:19
I'm so proud of my son because in his last moments, he wasn't
52:22
screaming for me. He was screaming, Jesus, Jesus,
52:26
save me. Jesus, I hear you.
52:28
Jesus, I'm calling upon you. And his wildest dreams and
52:32
everything that he wanted to be was a superhero, and that was
52:36
his goal in life. And instead he's my hero.
52:39
I couldn't have asked for a better son.
52:41
And he was so happy up until the very end when he was screaming
52:45
for Jesus. And in that moment, I think he
52:47
found joy. You know, the innocence of
52:50
children is actually quite spectacular.
52:53
Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Yeah, it's, it is Marissa being
53:00
a mother too, Megan and and Heather, I I do.
53:04
Amidst the tragedy, your parents as well, Jessica included.
53:08
And I apologize. It's so emotional.
53:10
I think anybody watching, it's hard not to get choked up.
53:14
Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I have.
53:16
I'm so sorry. Yeah.
53:19
So this is a an account from a mother who lost her seven-year
53:23
old son in the flooding due to Hurricane Helene.
53:26
And it it is, it's devastating listening to her share that, you
53:30
know, she saw her son get swept up away and drown.
53:33
And you know, I have kids. I can't even imagine the pain of
53:36
that experience. And knowing the loss, watching
53:39
your son, losing your son that way and then losing your son
53:42
forever. I mean, in this life, I should
53:44
say in this life, losing your son.
53:47
And what she said, though, what was so powerful and convicting
53:50
for me is that she believes he's with Jesus and that he was
53:53
calling out for Jesus in his last moments and that she
53:56
believed that he she used the word joy.
53:58
He found joy because he went right to be in the arms of his
54:01
Lord and his savior. And I thought that this is
54:03
something I just had to share with you guys on the podcast.
54:05
I know it's so heartbreaking and I'm sorry you're probably
54:07
sitting there crying listening to this as as I'm just deeply
54:12
moved and touched by it. Because we know we are.
54:16
We are not promised tomorrow with these natural disasters
54:19
that happen with this very consequential election that is
54:21
happening. We don't know what the future
54:23
will bring. What we do know for those of us
54:26
who believe and who trust in Jesus Christ is that he is Lord,
54:31
that he is King, He is God and that we can trust him.
54:35
That this is not the end, is not this life, the end is eternity
54:38
with him that we are aiming towards heaven.
54:41
And so everything that we do, everything that we care about
54:44
should be aimed towards that, towards eternity with God, with
54:47
the one who loves us and created us.
54:49
And that's my hope guys. A lot of people ask me if you
54:51
get discouraged all with all this stuff happening in
54:53
politics, this election is so, so crazy.
54:56
And of course, the the damage that these hurricanes are doing
55:00
to our loved ones over in Florida and over in parts of the
55:05
Carolinas and those that are being hit by the storm, even in
55:09
Georgia. And I just think it comes back
55:12
to, yes, we need to pray for them and pray for how for their
55:17
safety, for their protection. But it does come back to faith.
55:19
I really do think so much of this fight that we're in
55:23
culturally, this politically, it comes back to trust, trusting in
55:26
God. And So what I want to do is end
55:28
with a part of the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
55:31
We do a decade of the Divine Mercy Chaplet on the show,
55:33
usually at the end of these lives.
55:35
And I want to dedicate this Divine Mercy Chaplet decade to
55:40
the election and to the survivors and those that are in
55:43
danger of Hurricane Milton now in Florida, that they can be
55:48
protected for lives to be saved and for the eternal rest of the
55:52
souls of those who have been lost as well due to the
55:56
Hurricanes and the damage. And so you guys might know we've
55:59
prayed this before. The Chocolate of Divine Mercy is
56:01
a very beautiful prayer from the last century.
56:03
And it is imploring the mercy of God, asking for his mercy on us
56:09
and using the blood of Jesus Christ because through his blood
56:12
we are saved. And so it starts this with this
56:16
one large prayer, I'll pray. And then there's 10 smaller
56:18
prayers so you can join me in praying.
56:20
We have it up on the screen here for those watching on YouTube.
56:23
So the first prayer in the name of the Father, the Son, and the
56:26
Holy Spirit, Amen. Eternal Father, Ioffer you the
56:29
body and blood, soul and divinity of Your dearly beloved
56:32
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, an atonement for our sins and those
56:36
of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
56:39
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
56:42
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on
56:45
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
56:47
Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
56:50
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on
56:53
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
56:55
Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
56:58
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
57:01
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
57:03
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
57:06
For the sake of a sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
57:08
the whole world. For the sake of a sorrowful
57:10
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
57:13
For the sake of a sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
57:16
the whole world. For the sake of a sorrowful
57:17
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
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Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
57:20
Thank you guys for praying with me.
57:21
Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Lila Rose
57:24
Podcast, and we will see you guys next time.