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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right guys, Friday, May 25th, 2018 is going to be a very, very dark day in the history
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of the world because on that day, a majority Catholic country, Ireland voted to overturn
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the country's 8th amendment, which banned abortion.
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So now abortion is legal in the country of Ireland.
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So this amendment had been part of Ireland's law since 1983.
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And this amendment legally declared unborn babies to have the right to life.
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So just to be important here in a distinction up from the very beginning, this didn't grant
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a child's right to life.
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It just acknowledged it, okay, because a child's right to life is given by God.
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This was a law that just acknowledged it, okay.
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And modern political terms, this was a landslide, okay.
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As many predicted that it would be an amazing 66.4% of the people in Ireland voted to repeal
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the 8th amendment with just 33.6 voting against according to the Guardian.
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It was a record voter turnout.
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So think about this just in modern voter turnout terms about 64.5% of the population of Ireland
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that could vote did come out to vote for this.
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So this had a lot of different breakdowns and different parts of Ireland.
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The widest margin for the repeal was not surprisingly in the very liberal city of Dublin with only
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one Irish voting district.
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And that was Donnie Gull.
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They voted in majority to not repeal the amendment, but it was only 52% voting not to repeal it
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with 48% of the people saying to repeal it.
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So according to the Guardian, Irish lawmakers will actually move quickly to approve the
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legislation and allow abortions up to the 12th week of pregnancy with a third three day
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waiting period prior to the operation.
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And the Guardian also reported this.
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I'll just read the quote here between 12 and 24 weeks abortion will be available only in
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cases of fatal fetal abnormality, a risk to a woman's life or a risk of serious harm
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to the health of the mother.
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After 24 weeks termination will be possible in cases of fatal fetal abnormality.
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There will be provision for conscientious objection among medical practitioners, although
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doctors will be obliged to transfer care of the pregnant woman to another doctor.
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So I guess if you're an Irish doctor and you don't want to do it, you can just put the
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blood on someone else's hands.
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That's great.
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So this repeal leaves Malta as the only European country with a ban on abortion and Ireland's
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Progressive Prime Minister Leo Veradcar.
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He tweeted this after it came down that this was going to be repealed.
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It crowds at Dublin Castle, remarkable day.
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A quiet revolution has taken place, a great act of democracy.
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I mean, I just think it's awesome that, you know, in 2018, we are so advanced as a people
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group that we can just call it a quiet revolution and a great act of democracy whenever we can
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make an entire country that has basically protected the sanctity of human life in the
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womb.
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And now we can just celebrate this as some sort of a major accomplishment.
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That's just so great of us to be able to do that.
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Now, I want to point out a few things here.
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There were some articles that were floating around leading up to this because it became
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pretty apparent early on that all the predictions were that this was going to be fairly pretty
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much a landslide.
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There was no one that was thinking that this wasn't going to pass, but I think the Daily
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Wire did a really good job of kind of summarizing some of the things.
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This was before the vote, but some of the things that were going on that kind of led
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to this thought that it was going to be an overwhelming victory.
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So the first thing that they pointed out is that, you know, this likely would have passed
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regardless, but the abortion advocates were very dishonest leading up to this vote.
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So I'm going to read what they said here.
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Pro-lifers have been advertising using Down syndrome children pointing out correctly the
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eugenics driven campaign to annihilate Down syndrome children from the population via abortion.
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This drove Irish Prime Minister Lee over rad car to condemn pro-lifers.
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As the father of a child with Down syndrome, I'm opposed to the propagandistic use of
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children like my son in attempts to limit reproductive rights.
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That has happened in the Irish debate as well as in the legislative actions taking in various
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American states to outlaw the abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome.
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So in other words, pay no attention to the fact that people are systematically eliminating
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children with Down syndrome from the population, mentioning that is inconvenient.
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The second thing they pointed out is that the pro-abortion outlets censored pro-life messages.
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So this is incredibly nefarious and this should be very concerning to us even in this country.
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So I'll read what they wrote here.
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According to the Washington Post, Facebook announced Tuesday that it would stop accepting
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related advertisements from groups based outside of Ireland.
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The restriction testifies to the depths of concern that foreign advertising could skew
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the outcome.
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As Life News reported, the post mentioned only pro-life groups, pro-life groups including
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the pro-life campaign, the Save the Eighth group, and the Iona Institute complained about
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the censorship.
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According to the UK spectator, posters of unborn children have been torn down around
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Ireland.
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The third thing that the Daily Wire points out is that the new legislation goes beyond
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12 weeks.
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Now, guys, this is incredibly important because this is not being reported.
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So if you go to BBC News, if you go to ABC, CNN, Fox News, it does not matter where you're
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getting this.
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They are not reporting this, but this is absolutely factual.
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So listen here.
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While the government says that its proposal would legalize abortion until 12 weeks, it
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would in fact legalize it up to 23 weeks.
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All you require is two doctors saying that the pregnancy would harm the mental health
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or physical health of the woman.
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That's an exception big enough to drive a truck through.
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So guys, let's go back here.
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If you can get two doctors in Ireland to say that this pregnancy would harm you in some
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way mentally or in some way physically, you can have an abortion between 12 and 24 weeks.
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Just think about that.
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I mean, the standard, the bar had been set so incredibly low that we can essentially
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say unequivocally that abortions in Ireland are now legalized up to 24 weeks.
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Okay.
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Let's just be real about that.
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And the last thing that the Daily Wire pointed out was something fairly astounding, which
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was basically that the Catholic Church was silent.
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Again, this is a majority Irish Catholic community in Ireland.
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I mean, it's a very, very Catholic country.
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And so this is what they reported here.
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The spectator has asked rightly why the Catholic Church, which holds an immense amount of sway
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in Ireland has gone largely silent.
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Here's Melanie McDonough.
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The Catholic Church is absent from the fight to an extent that would have been hard to
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imagine in 1983, though it has made clear its support for keeping the amendment as indeed
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have the leaders of the Protestant churches.
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And that's reflective of the condition of the church in the wake of successive abuse
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scandals.
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The church has a chastened position in Irish society, says Father Patrick Clafey, who has
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a central Dublin parish.
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The feeling is, let lay people do the speaking.
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They have the expertise and they're doing it very well.
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It appears that in Ireland, unborn children are about to lose their rights as Western civilization
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becomes more sophisticated.
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It seems its treatment of the unborn becomes more barbaric.
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So I thought that the Daily Wire again did a great job of summarizing all those things.
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But I want to come in here a little bit and just talk about why this should concern us.
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So again, this is a mainly majority male population listening to this podcast.
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A lot of Christian males listening here.
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So I want you all to listen up because here are some things that I've kind of put together
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that really concern me as soon as I realize that this was definitely going to pass and
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then when the news hit that it did indeed pass the repeal, that is.
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The first thing is that morality can shift in a very short period of time.
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Okay, so again, in 1983, this amendment was passed with 66.9% of the vote from the Irish
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people.
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Okay, so for most of us listening in our lifetime, this amendment was passed with 66.9% of the
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vote.
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On Friday, this amendment was repealed with 66.4% of the vote.
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I mean, think about that.
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That is an over 30 point swing in just over 30 years.
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I mean, that is not an incredibly long period of time and this isn't like, okay, you know,
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we went from bell bottoms to skinny jeans.
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This isn't like something like that.
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This is something that's incredibly, incredibly important.
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Yeah, I mean, look at what's even happened in the 2000s.
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Look at what happened with gay marriage in 2008 people don't they really like to just
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pretend like this never happened, especially people that are on the democratic left, but
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in 2008 for the presidential election on the democratic side of the aisle, every single
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major candidate for the Democrats running for president was against same sex marriage.
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Every single one of them, including Barack Obama, including Hillary Clinton, including
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Joe Biden.
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They were all against same sex marriage, but then within the Obama administration, within
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that run, all of a sudden, if you were a Democrat and you were against the normal biblical definition
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of marriage, then you're pretty much not a Democrat, right?
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So just think about that, morality can shift so quickly, right?
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And even in relative terms, so that should really concern us.
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The second thing is secularism has no boundaries, guys.
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No boundaries whatsoever.
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Okay.
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So secularism is a worldview with its feet planted firmly in midair, right?
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It has no governing ethic, no morality again, secularism comes from the view that that basically
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God is not here.
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There is no God.
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We are all highly evolved monkeys that wear pants and we're just going to try to do the
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most amount of good for the most amount of people.
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But we can't even define what good is, right?
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So secularism is going to continue to infiltrate different parts of society.
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But what's interesting here is in the United States, you know, abortion has been a part
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of American life and American thinking since Roe v. Wade, it's been decades and decades
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and decades.
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Ireland has not had to deal with this.
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Now back in 1992, they passed a couple of amendments.
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I think it was the 13th and the 14th amendment that allowed Irish people to go outside the
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country to attain abortions, which was just kind of a really weird thing.
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It was like, okay, we're not really going to deal with the abortion issue because, you
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know, everyone still thinks that it's wrong and still thinks that it's murdered.
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But if you want to go on vacation, a medical vacation and basically kill your baby, you
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can totally do that kind of a weird law.
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But you know, to digress just a little bit, the secularism of modern culture has caused
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us to happen even in a country that is grounded so much in Catholic thinking, right?
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So much in Christian thinking that this could, this could happen.
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So the appropriate question here is what will be next?
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Like, that's not an alarmist point of view.
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What will be next?
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Because something's coming.
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I mean, all over Europe, we still have all these, you know, different eugenics movements.
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You know, the country of Iceland is celebrating the fact that it is pretty much eradicated
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Down syndrome from its country.
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So when you read that headline, you're like, wow, that's awesome.
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Except when you realize that they just abort every baby in the womb that has Down syndrome.
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Like, that's one way to get rid of Down syndrome.
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Sure.
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They're every baby that has it, right?
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As if they have no right to life.
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It's just crazy.
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You've got to realize that secularism does not have boundaries, guys, it doesn't play
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by the rules.
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All right.
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The third thing that should concern us is that tradition is helpless to stem this tide.
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Tradition is completely helpless.
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Think about the Catholic church.
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Like what on the planet has more tradition surrounding it than the Catholic church?
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Like, it's, it's one of the most traditional entities on the planet.
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They sat by and did nothing, right?
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And so basically the Catholic church has basically been cowed out and, you know, basically they're
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walking around with their tails tucked between their legs because when, you know, you rape
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and assault boys for so long and as an entity, you hide that for so long.
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You've lost the moral high ground and in no way don't misunderstand what I'm saying that
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I'm trying to say that this is somehow bad.
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They deserve every lump that they're taking for this, right?
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Every single lump that they're taking for what they did to systemically and systematically
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allow for the abuse of children, right?
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That's one of the most important things that you could possibly think of, but that does
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not mean that the Catholic church is suddenly a tiger without fangs.
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That, I mean, just think about that like this is still a powerful group that could be fighting
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for truth, but they think, Oh, you know, we, we've kind of were not on the moral high ground
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anymore.
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You're going to have an intern to this fight really, really, I mean, come on.
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Everyone knows what you did.
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Everyone knows it was wrong, but to now, you know, double down and not fight for the unborn
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in a country that there's a lot of people that have, you know, that you have their ear
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and you can have influence over to just basically sit there and be like, no, we'll just kind
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of see what the people of Ireland do.
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That is not your place Catholic church.
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Yeah, I'm calling you out.
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That is not your right to do that.
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You have to defend the unborn.
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You have to defend the definition of life.
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You have to be able to do that.
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So so many people were thinking that tradition was just never going to allow something like
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this to happen in Ireland.
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Tradition is only as important as it's viewed at the time that it's being viewed, right?
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So if you're part of a tradition from a college of some kind and they've done it this way
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for the last 100 years, it only matters what happens this year.
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So if they get rid of the tradition, the tradition goes away.
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It's no longer a tradition.
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So traditionally, the Irish people would not allow the murder of babies in the womb.
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But today, that's not the case.
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So some of us are liking.
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We like the idea that we can just hide behind our traditions and hide behind our values
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and hide behind the way things used to be.
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And you know, we just think about those types of things, wake up guys, because that's not
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real.
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That's not real life.
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Tradition makes no difference, okay?
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And the last thing I want to point out to us guys is that we are not helpless in this
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fight, okay?
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We are not helpless, okay?
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Here's the thing, most people just want to throw up their hands and say, well, I guess
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God is just going to have to take care of it.
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And so I'm going to be, I guess, you know, tip towing the line of heresy and sacrilege
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here.
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But hopefully you kind of know where I'm coming from.
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If you listen to me for long enough, you probably know exactly where I'm going.
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But let's be real here.
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God is in complete control, complete control overall, right?
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Complete control.
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Got it?
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But we are not automatons.
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We are not robots.
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We can have a huge impact here.
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In order to give us the ability to love, God granted us the ability to have free will.
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I don't care what Sam Harris says, free will is an actual thing.
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We can make a choice.
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We live in a post Genesis three broken world and we have choice.
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We have impact and God can assist us.
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God's judgment is over all of this, right?
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So I mean, they're, I read an article this week about an abortion provider, an individual
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doctor that had performed over 75,000 abortions and now is pro life, right?
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Think about that guy's transition, but he's got judgment coming.
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He's going to have to answer for that.
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And I don't know if this guy's a Christian.
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If he's asked for forgiveness for, you know, 75,000 murders that he individually did with
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his own two hands, but guys, we can have an impact.
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And part of that is just you start with having your crap together.
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I mean, just think about how many of you guys knew that this vote was even happening, right?
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I mean, this episodes being released on a Saturday, I normally release episodes every
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Thursday morning.
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So I did this because I want you guys to know that this went down within the last 24 hours.
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If you're listening to this, you know, live whenever I release it within the last 24 hours,
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the world changed guys, like an entire country, like the country of my ancestry.
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That's why this hurts even more.
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I'm an Irish person.
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I have so much Irish blood running through my veins.
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The country of my ancestry and my forefathers made this horrific decision.
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Did you even know it was happening?
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Did you know it was coming?
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Like you got to stay up on these things.
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And I'm going to encourage all of you.
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Listen to episode six of this podcast.
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So I'm not going to provide the link for you down in the description because if you're
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listening to this, you can just scroll back up on your Apple podcast or your Google play
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or sound cloud or wherever you're listening to this and go back to episode six.
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If you skipped it, because one thing that's interesting about that episode is the plays
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are a little bit lower than some of the other episodes that are just around it because I
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know this is a hard subject, right?
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And you can't assume that if you listen to me and my other podcast that I'm not going
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to go into it the way that I've gone into it, right?
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You've got to be able to understand what is actually happening.
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And I'll give you a little rundown, just some of the things that you'll hear on that podcast,
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but it's important for you to hear it again because you can't hear it enough.
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It's got to be ingrained in you.
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Science says that life begins at conception when the sperm meets the egg.
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That's what science says, right?
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All these people that want to depend on science and then basically argue against its findings,
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right?
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Abortion is not health care.
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It is not health care.
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It ends with something dying and that something is a person.
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There's no mystery as to what's growing inside a woman.
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Like we're not surprised when at birth it's a baby and not a ficus or a zebra.
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We're not surprised.
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It's a baby in there.
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What's growing inside of a woman's stomach is not is not that woman.
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That's another thing we got to realize.
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You know, it's my body, my choice.
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That's like the favorite banner for pro abortion people, pro murder people.
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What's growing inside of that woman is not the woman.
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Here's some other things.
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At eight weeks, at eight weeks, all of the organs are present and functioning with that
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baby.
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All of the organs are present and functioning.
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And here is the most important stat that if you get into an argument with someone that's
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pro murder, this is what you throw at them.
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At eight weeks, the baby feels pain.
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At eight weeks, the baby feels pain.
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It will recoil from pain.
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So again, go back to episode six of this podcast.
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I go through in-depth descriptions of different types of abortions that take place, okay?
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They're horrific and graphic and I made it that way on purpose.
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And I'm just basically reading from medical periodicals, okay?
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These are not things where I'm adding to the grotesque and barbaric nature of what's happening.
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I'm just describing it in full and in detail.
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So if at eight weeks, a baby feels pain and you get an abortion in at week 12, the baby
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can feel itself being ripped to pieces, guys.
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That's real life, okay?
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I know some of y'all like to just, you know, I don't really want to ruffle any feathers
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and I don't want to really get in an argument with, you know, pro-choice friends because
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they seem really loud and they seem like they know they got all their crap together.
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Stop being a pussy.
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Stop.
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Like you have to enter those, enter into those moments, right?
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That doesn't mean be a dick.
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That doesn't mean go out and like try to make everybody angry on Facebook and, you know,
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get on everybody's Instagram and post all these terrible comments.
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But we got to be real guys.
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It starts with us.
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Like, how do we expect this to change?
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Because in the United States, I think that we will see a reckoning here.
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40 plus years and millions of children murdered later, there are things that are changing
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in the minds of women.
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Women that can actually see like a 3D or a 4D ultrasound of what their baby actually
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looks like in their stomach, they didn't have that during Roe v. Wade.
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Their stomachs were just getting bigger.
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They had an idea of what was happening in there, but they couldn't see it.
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Now that they can see it, they can see that it's a life.
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It's a person in there, okay?
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So for us guys, we are not helpless.
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I'm so tired of watching these guys get fired up about their, you know, college football
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team that didn't get the defensive lineman that they thought they were going to get or
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getting fired up that their team didn't make the playoffs or getting fired up that, you
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know, they, their wheels on their new truck didn't come in on time and they just get fired
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up over nothing over nothing.
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This is real life guys.
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Like just stop with all the crap that you're like, that doesn't matter.
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This matters so much.
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These are people that have the amago day written on them.
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The image of God is on these people.
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Who cares about your fantasy football team?
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Who cares about all this other stuff that you care about?
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It's fun and it's a hobby and I get it.
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This is real.
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This is a fight.
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Get into the fight.
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Do something.
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Like get on Google and figure out something that you can do.
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Like volunteer with the, with pro life entities where you can help these women, you know,
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donate money, donate your time, donate your ability to be a man here.
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Okay.
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Don't just shirt the responsibility and give it off to somebody else.
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All right.
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I know I'm getting fired up, but guys, I just don't understand when I talk to dudes and
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they don't lay, there's kind of, you know, whatever it is, what it is, it's not it is
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what it is.
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All right.
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You wouldn't say that about somebody murdering your family.
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You wouldn't do that.
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You wouldn't just come in and be like, Oh, well, I guess someone's just going to rape
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and kill my wife.
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It is what it is.
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No, you would fight to protect her.
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At least I would hope so.
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So why don't we get in and do the same thing for these kids, right?
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So guys, I know this was just a quick little podcast.
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This was, you know, one that I just wanted to come in and throw out there for you guys.
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You got to stay up on things guys.
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And so the quick resilience boost for today, just go back and listen to episode six of this.
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Just go back and listen to that one.
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Okay.
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If you listen to it before, listen to it again, because if you don't know all the things that
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are happening in there by heart, then someone's going to be able to trip you up in a debate.
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They're going to throw out some stupid bumper sticker thing that they heard from some Planned
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Hood conference or something like that, and then you're going to be like, "Okay, I guess
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that makes sense.
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Okay.
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That's not the way to do it.
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All right, guys.
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So we're not doing the normal outro on this podcast.
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You guys know the drill about following us and subscribing and all that different stuff.
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But I really want you guys to think about this.
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I want this to settle with you a little bit.
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All right.
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So remember when we did the episode about Alfie Evans, like that's something that you need
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to ponder, that you need to settle on.
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So no outro music, none of that stuff.
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Just really think about what you can be doing here and we'll come back here later on this
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week with another episode.
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All right, guys, keep seeking the line of Judah.