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191 - Abortion For Any Reason

April 21, 2021 31m 36s Full transcript available
191 - Abortion For Any Reason
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In this episode, I tackle the shocking editorial from the LA Times that claims the right to an abortion means the right to have one for any reason. We dive deep into the implications of this stance and the broader cultural war surrounding life and choice.
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0:18 This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast, I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.
0:22 All right guys, thanks so much for listening in to the show today and guys I just gotta tell you,
0:26 I'm gonna be right up front with you from the very beginning.
0:28 I might release this episode a little bit early because literally to my left, on my screen here,
0:32 to my left, they're about to read the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial in the death of George
0:37 Floyd. And so there's a lot of breaking news, a lot of stuff going on, but I wanted to make
0:40 sure to record this episode because this is also important. But don't worry, I will give you my
0:45 full thoughts on how that's going on. And if I keep cutting my eyes to the left, at least,
0:49 you'll know that's the reason why. But before we get into today's episode, I just want to
0:53 flow a little bit on last week's episode. So last week, if you've not listened to episode 190 of
0:57 this podcast, it's called we're going for it. Okay, you've got to listen to that episode.
1:02 So it's a short one, but it gives you kind of a peek behind the curtain as to what we're doing
1:06 here with Undaunted Life, what our intentions are for the future, and how we plan to significantly
1:11 ramp up the things that we're doing to help you guys push back darkness. And also in that
1:16 episode, we talked about the ways that you guys would be able to partner with us. And so if you'd
1:20 like to have a little bit more information on that, you can just go to www dot undaunted dot life
1:26 backslash donate, but make sure you listen to that episode. But for this week, I wanted to get into
1:31 an article that was brought to my attention when I was listening to the Albert Molar podcast earlier
1:35 this week. And it was, it was just astonishing that there's very few things I feel like now
1:42 that can absolutely catch me completely off guard. And this one kind of did, and it was because of
1:47 how honest it was, but also the timing was very, very interesting. So this was a Los Angeles Times
1:53 article LA Times article, and it was called this, the right to an abortion means the right to have it
1:59 for any reason. Okay, now this was not authored by a single person, this was authored by the Times
2:04 editorial board, right? So this was an editorial decision to write this. And here's the thing
2:09 about the LA Times for those of you that don't pay attention to this type of stuff because you're
2:12 not a gigantic nerd, but it's one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. It's always in
2:16 the top five in terms of its distribution and circulation. And it actually has a bigger readership
2:21 than even the New York Times, at least from a circulation standpoint. But this article was posted
2:26 and published in published on April the 16th of 2021. And so what I want to do, because I know
2:33 there are a lot of people that are kind of on both sides of the fence that will only read
2:37 certain parts or only show certain things from a video just so it really supports their argument.
2:42 I'm going to read the full text of this article. It's not long. It's not a very long one. So you
2:46 can just hang with me and then you can make fun of me for reading out loud later. I'll do my best.
2:49 But I don't want anyone to say that I was in any way leaving out any context or misrepresenting
2:55 what was said in this editorial by the LA Times. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and start reading
3:01 and I'm just going to go all the way through and then I'm going to give you my commentary. Okay,
3:04 so here we go. A constitutional right to an abortion means a right to have one for any reason. That
3:10 should also mean a woman can elect to tell her doctor or not why she wants an abortion. But that's
3:16 not what's happening in Ohio where the state legislature in 2017 passed a ban on doctors
3:21 performing abortions when they know the woman is seeking one because her fetus has been diagnosed
3:25 with down syndrome or suspected of having it. The law also made it a felony for doctors to defy
3:31 the law. That measure is just one of hundreds of unjustified restrictions that state legislatures
3:36 have passed in the last decade to curtail a woman's right to an abortion up to the point when the
3:41 fetus is viable outside the woman's body, roughly 24 weeks in a pregnancy. The Supreme Court guaranteed
3:46 that right nearly 50 years ago in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade and has upheld at multiple
3:52 times since then. Any restriction that makes it overly difficult to get an abortion or conflicts
3:56 with the right to obtain one such as limiting abortions to the first eight to 10 weeks of
4:00 pregnancy is typically blocked by the courts. And the recent pasal of laws that bar women from
4:05 having an abortion for certain reasons, for example, to select the child's gender or to avoid a genetic
4:10 genetic anomaly like down syndrome have often been blocked by courts as well. That's what initially
4:16 happened with the Ohio law. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction after lawyers for several
4:21 medical service providers and a doctor in Ohio sued the state. But in a troubling decision,
4:26 the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned the lower court's order and removed
4:30 the injunction this week, allowing the law to go into effect. Writing the lead opinion for a fractured
4:36 court, Circuit Court Judge Alice M. Batchelder said the law never bans a woman from seeking an
4:41 abortion for a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome nor poses a burden that interferes with her
4:45 getting in the abortion. Why? Because a woman doesn't have to tell the doctor performing the
4:49 abortion that she wants the abortion for that reason. In Batchelder's view, the law is there
4:54 only to stop doctors in the state from knowingly performing abortions on fetuses with Down syndrome.
4:59 If the doctors don't know about the fetus's diagnosis, Batchelder reasoned they aren't
5:03 discriminating against the Down syndrome community. But in fact, all the state has done is
5:08 discriminated against the women who want to have a frank discussion with their doctors about whether
5:13 they want to give birth to a baby that is expected to have Down syndrome. The court admits it's the
5:17 woman's right to have the abortion for whatever reason. But by keeping mum about their motives,
5:22 the judge argues a woman relieves some of the stigma about Down syndrome. As Judge Jeffrey Sutton
5:29 put it in a concurring opinion, the Ohio law makes the decision to pry the one and leaves it there,
5:34 perhaps just where it should be at and should be left. At the same time, it prevents the medical
5:39 profession in particular and society in general from knowingly casting aspersions on individuals
5:43 with Down syndrome or worst of all, celebrating the number of Down syndrome births averted.
5:47 That's just loopy. It's the abortion patient equivalent of don't ask, don't tell. And that
5:54 helps no one worse. It may be counterproductive. It certainly doesn't help people living with
5:59 Down syndrome who rightly need to be protected against discrimination at school and work. And did
6:04 it occur to the state legislatures and the appellate judges that the more deeply and candidly a woman
6:08 can discuss her options and possible decision with her doctor who may also be the one performing the
6:13 abortion, the more information she may get about Down syndrome, which could help to overcome the
6:17 stigma, the law sites. But at the end of the day, it is still an unconstitutional ban on abortion
6:22 as Judge Bernie Bowie Donald points out in her dissent. Ohio would have to have us believe that
6:28 such a ban is constitutionally acceptable. As long as the law does not affect other women
6:32 with other reasons for seeking an abortion. In other words, it does not ban many women, so it's
6:38 not a ban. As 18 constitutional law scholars point out in an amicus brief, that is nonsense.
6:44 A ban on any particular abortion is just that a ban. It does not matter that not every abortion
6:50 is banned. Rather, it matters that the law bans any woman from choosing an abortion. The Supreme
6:56 Court evidently needs to underline a point that should have been been clear already. No matter
7:01 what lawmakers may think about a woman's reasons for attaining an abortion, those reasons don't
7:07 matter. Okay. So that is it in its entirety. So I tried to read it deadpan. I tried to read
7:12 it straight down the middle. So you guys didn't think I was trying to do an inflection one way or
7:15 the other. So I did my best. Okay. So here's my commentary. So this article is obviously chock
7:21 full of euphemisms and misdirection. You know, we hear the word used fetus instead of baby.
7:26 We hear, you know, women's right to an abortion instead of abortion on demand.
7:31 So anytime you're reading something like this, it's going to come from a leftist perspective,
7:34 which is certainly what you're going to get from the editorial board at the LA Times.
7:37 You should just be ready for that. So I know some people were like, Oh my gosh,
7:40 why'd they use these words and why'd they use that words? It's because this is how these people
7:44 think they want to communicate in euphemisms because if they don't communicate in euphemisms,
7:48 then they have to kind of really, you know, bring themselves to the table and understand
7:52 what they're talking about. So another piece of commentary is that we as pro-lifers,
7:57 so I'm assuming most of you listening to this are pro-lifers. We certainly hope that you are.
8:01 If if not, we have a lot of episodes that we think might change your mind, but we celebrate
8:05 Down syndrome abortion bans like they matter.
8:11 Now that might strike you as a little bit weird for me to say because, well, Kyle,
8:14 aren't you pro-lifed? Don't you want us to ban Down syndrome abortions? Well, yeah, I mean,
8:20 of course I do, but I want to ban all abortions, right? Because I want to give you a reminder here,
8:29 the overwhelming majority, the overwhelming number of abortions occur for a single reason,
8:35 and that reason is convenience, right? It's just not a good time for me right now. I'm too young
8:41 or I'm too old or I already have a few kids or I don't know who the dad is or man, I don't really
8:46 have money right now or I'm a junior in college. I really want to finish out my education. It's
8:50 convenience. Guys, less than 1% of abortions that occur in this country occur because of rape and
8:56 incest. That that's what everyone likes to go to. Oh, let's talk about rape. Let's talk about
9:00 incest. Oh, you want those people to take those babies to term, right? But at the same time,
9:05 you have the same people that I'll talk about, you know, the woman's health being in danger.
9:09 But technically, guys, 0% of abortions, 0% occur to quote, unquote, save the life of the mother.
9:17 And because here's the thing is because any physician that took the Hippocratic oath and,
9:21 you know, frankly took it seriously, they had to have taken that oath with the inclusion of the
9:26 phrase first, do no harm. And then that realizes that their goal should be to preserve the lives
9:33 of the two people that are involved in that situation. Because any position where their salt
9:39 realizes that there's not one person that they're dealing with when they're talking about a potential
9:43 abortion, right? Or when you have a woman that's maybe having some sort of medical issue or medical
9:49 emergency, that's going to affect her life. Obviously, that affects the life of the baby inside of her
9:54 as well. Okay. And so the thing that's important for us to remember is that, yes, I'm glad that
10:02 babies with Down syndrome in the womb won't be murdered for that reason anymore in Ohio.
10:07 But there's a massive problem here. And that is that in the state of Ohio, the woman can just say,
10:13 I don't want it. And she can get an abortion. But if she lists the reason as Down syndrome,
10:21 if she tells her doctor, I'm going to kill this baby. Actually, I'm not going to kill them. I'm
10:26 going to pay you as a mercenary to go into my womb and murder the baby for me. Then, and it's
10:32 because of the reason of Down syndrome. That is banned, right? So do you see how easily a woman
10:36 can get around this? Do you see how easily someone like, you know, an organization like Planned
10:41 Parenthood or any individual abortionist could just get around that? Like the number of stories
10:45 I've heard of people like basically Planned Parenthood being like, Oh, don't tell me. Don't
10:48 tell me how old you are. Otherwise, I won't be able to give you an abortion. Don't tell me how
10:52 he got pregnant. Otherwise, I might have to file something with the state saying that, you know,
10:55 you may be part of sex slavery or you may be being taken advantage of by somebody that is
11:00 statutorily raping you are just straight up raping you. So it's a big issue there. Again,
11:04 I'm not hating on heartbeat bills. I think as of like an hour ago, I got a notification on my phone
11:09 saying that the state of Oklahoma is going to be banning abortions after a heartbeat can be detected.
11:14 And I say, great. What about all the babies that are aborted before a heartbeat can be detected?
11:19 Because organizations like Planned Parenthood, they make all their money off of things like
11:24 abortions, right? That they make the majority of their money off of that procedure. And so isn't it
11:28 in their best interest to not find a heartbeat? If you've ever had an ultrasound or your life is
11:33 at an ultrasound or something like that, you know that they sometimes struggle to find the heartbeat.
11:37 Well, if you work for one of those organizations, you're just going to look for the heartbeat for
11:40 a little bit and be like, whoopsie. I mean, is there is there like a police officer sitting there
11:44 in the room with you, making sure that you give it the good college, good old college trying to
11:48 find the heartbeat? No, there there's no justification for it, right? There's it's really hard to follow
11:53 up with that because you would literally have to have a soldier or a police officer or a judge
11:58 or some sort of attorney in all these different exam rooms. And that's not really something that
12:02 we're going to see happen. Okay, spend a lot of time on that point. But let's get back into the
12:05 article here. I want to go through a couple of quotes. So here's a quote from the article.
12:09 But in fact, all the state has done is discriminated against the women who want to have a frank
12:14 discussion with their doctors about whether they want to give birth to a baby that is expected
12:18 to have Down syndrome, which makes me think, is that all this is about? Is that all that this
12:26 is about? We're just preventing women from having forthright discussions about a mercenary
12:33 as to whether or not they should pay them to murder the baby. Is that what we're talking about?
12:39 They're they're trying to take this macro issue and boil it down to this little bitty thing
12:43 and say, no, what we're actually doing is we're discriminating against women that just want to
12:46 have a frank discussion with their doctors. No, actually, what we're having a discussion about is
12:51 whether or not y'all are going to get into an arrangement, a financial arrangement and kill
12:55 that baby. That's what I want to talk about. That's what we should discriminate against. I fully,
13:00 I'm not for discrimination macro, but I will fully discriminate against any woman that is
13:04 trying to kill the baby in her womb or any guy that is going to drive her there or pay for it or
13:08 just sit idly by and watch their baby get murdered. Sorry, I'm totally discriminating against that.
13:13 But going back to the article, I want to read this quote here. As Judge Jeffrey Sutton put in a
13:18 concurring opinion, the Ohio law makes the decision a private one and leaves it there,
13:23 perhaps just where it should be left. At the same time, it prevents the medical profession in
13:27 particular and society in general from knowingly casting aspersions on individuals with Down syndrome.
13:32 Or, worst of all, celebrating the number of Down syndrome versus averted. That's just loopy.
13:37 It's the abortion patients equivalent of Don't Ask Don't Tell. And that helps no one.
13:42 Worse, it may be counterproductive. It certainly doesn't help people living with Down syndrome
13:47 who rightly need to be protected against discrimination at school and at work.
13:51 Oh, okay. So we're all the sudden concerned about somebody with Down syndrome being discriminated
14:02 against at school and work. But we're not worried about someone with Down syndrome being discriminated
14:09 against while in the womb. That's all that nonsense that the editorial board wrote there.
14:16 That's what they're saying. Well, gosh, darn it, we don't want people with Down syndrome to be
14:20 discriminated against. And yeah, I would raise my hand and say the exact same thing. I don't want
14:23 that. But also discrimination can happen not at school or the workplace. It could happen in the womb.
14:30 Someone's like, well, gosh, I don't want my kid to have Down syndrome. Let's just kill it.
14:34 As if being dead is better than being alive with Down syndrome.
14:40 I would say there are probably millions of people, human beings, with worth that are
14:46 alive today on this planet that have Down syndrome that would disagree with you.
14:49 That they would say, no, it's actually pretty cool to be alive. I'm super glad my parents didn't
14:54 stamp me out while I was in the womb. Going back to the article here, another quote.
14:59 And did it occur to state legislators and the appellate judges that the more deeply and candidly
15:03 a woman can discuss her options and possible decision with her doctor, who may also be the one
15:07 performing the abortion, the more information she may get about Down syndrome, which could help to
15:12 overcome the stigma, the law sites. Oh, okay. So we're now super concerned about the mother
15:22 who's currently considering a murder for hire program to stamp out the life of her child,
15:28 perhaps having to go to Dr. Google in order to avoid stigma. I mean, let's just be honest,
15:35 guys. I mean, who gives a flip about the life inside of her? I mean, who cares about that?
15:39 She might get bit by the stigma bug. Oh, no, no. Like, what are we going to do if that happens?
15:48 This is literally how people think we're so worried about this woman's
15:53 feelings. Like there might be some stigmatizing going on in the situation. And we got to avoid that.
16:00 And laws like this just don't help us do that. Again, it's a seared consciousness
16:04 that worries about the feelings of a woman and not the feeling that the baby feels when they're
16:10 being ripped to pieces in the womb. Again, babies at a very, very early part of production,
16:17 right, or in their part of development, rather not production, but development.
16:21 It's evidence that they feel pain very early. Essentially, every abortion that takes place in the
16:27 United States occurs after the point where the baby can definably feel pain. So if they're being
16:33 sucked out with a suction to, they feel that, right? You've heard me say this before. If they're
16:39 being sawed into pieces and then being pulled out little by little, and then the remains of them
16:44 are scraped from the uterine wall, they can feel that, right? When an abortionist puts a needle,
16:51 into their heart and injects them with poison, and it takes them between a day or two to die in the
16:57 womb before they basically force the baby out in a forced birth. But after the baby is passed away,
17:03 they feel that, that they feel their skin burning. They feel their organs boiling from the inside.
17:10 They feel it. Okay. But let's not worry about that. Let's not worry ourselves with that type of
17:18 nonsense. Let's worry about the woman's feelings that she might be stigmatized, or that there might
17:25 be a stigma in the ether somewhere that's affecting her decision in this moment. Good grief. Next one
17:31 here. We'll just keep going. So my head doesn't explode. I actually love the point that Albert
17:36 Mueller brought up Monday on his podcast. And it was this, the moment that society courts or the
17:41 public come to the realization that abortion is wrong for any reason, then that makes every
17:48 so-called reason for abortion unstable. I thought that was a really good point. Let me repeat it.
17:53 This isn't a direct quote. I'm just kind of summarizing the things that he said. But the moment that
17:56 society courts or the public, right? So all of us come to the realization that abortion is wrong
18:01 for any reason whatsoever, then that makes every other so-called reason for an abortion unstable.
18:07 So right here, people are like, okay, well, you know, abortion is wrong in the case of Down syndrome,
18:14 right? Well, if you accept that societally and legally and publicly, right, as a conglomerate or
18:23 as a group of people, right, that makes up America or a state or a province or something like that,
18:28 then we start asking ourselves, well, what about when the baby's at this stage of the
18:33 development? Or I don't really think it's right that a baby should be killed in the womb just because
18:37 the mother's a whore and doesn't know who she slept with and who the baby's father is. And she
18:41 doesn't want to go through that arduous process of figuring that out. Or she's a well-meaning person.
18:46 Maybe she's a single mom. She's got a bunch of deadbeats in her life. This is her third or fourth
18:51 kid. And she's thinking to herself, I just don't know if I can survive. What if we decide that
18:55 that's not a good thing? That's not a good enough reason to kill somebody. Even in the case of
19:00 rape and incest, which is talked about, which I've talked about as well, less than 1% of the listed
19:04 reasons for abortion. Why should the baby get the death penalty for the sins of the father?
19:09 We would never accept that in any other place within legal society. We wouldn't accept that in
19:14 our civilization. My father goes and kills somebody and I go to jail for it. Nobody would be okay
19:21 with that. But we're giving a baby an innocent third party the death penalty because their father
19:28 sinned. That's not acceptable. So I think the reason why we're seeing things like this article
19:34 and the things that people are saying on YouTube and basically on mainstream media sources about
19:38 the abortion issue is because if we start saying that certain types of abortions aren't acceptable
19:45 in our society, then that is the type of mindset that could ripple out and eventually consume
19:51 all abortion. Because if you're being reasonable, right, if you're operating with intellectual
19:56 integrity and honesty, you have to know that abortion for this reason is not that different
20:01 from abortion for that reason. Because even in this podcast, we talked about rape and incest,
20:05 you shouldn't kill the baby just because their father was a horrible person, right? You shouldn't
20:09 do that. But also there's never a medical necessity for an abortion, right? The physician should always
20:14 look at the mother and the baby and try to save both of them. And in most cases, or I won't say
20:19 most cases in cases, that's not always going to be possible to save them both. But as a physician,
20:24 you need to try to, you don't kill the baby so that you can start trying to save the mother.
20:28 Like that, that doesn't make a lot of sense. But we're going to go back to the article. We're
20:32 going to kind of get to the end of the article here. There's kind of an ending sentiment here.
20:35 And I'll go ahead and read it here. The Supreme Court evidently needs to underline a point
20:39 that should have been already, or should have already been clear. No matter what lawmakers may
20:43 think about a woman's reasons for attaining and obtaining an abortion, those reasons don't matter.
20:49 Okay, so let's just break down the very first part of that. The scotus, right? Supreme Court
20:54 of the United States evidently needs to underline a point. But wait a minute. Earlier in the article,
21:01 and some of you guys already caught this. Earlier in the article, it says, quote, the Supreme Court
21:05 guaranteed that right nearly 50 years ago in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade and was upheld,
21:10 and it was uphold, upheld in multiple times since then, unquote, right? So why would
21:16 they possibly need to underline something that has apparently been underlined many times already?
21:22 That doesn't make a lot of sense. You don't need to underline something that's been underlined
21:28 and underlined and underlined. There doesn't need to be an additional underline that doesn't do
21:31 anything. But then you have to kind of go a little bit further with that argument and say,
21:35 why are politicians like Joe Biden claiming that they're going to try to codify Roe v. Wade into law
21:44 to become the law of the land? You heard him and Kamala Harris say that on the campaign trail
21:49 before they were elected. And that's because Roe currently allows states to make at least
21:55 some restrictions, right? Low technically made it legal to offer abortion in all 50 states,
22:01 but it does also allow for the states to make their own restrictions based on their own
22:05 local thoughts and their own local legislatures, right? But Biden and the Democrats and the media,
22:12 which, you know, Democrats and the media, that's basically saying the same thing,
22:14 they want there to be no restrictions on abortion at all whatsoever. And they also want the American
22:20 taxpayer, most of you guys listening to this to foot the bill for it, right? Joe Biden has never
22:26 found an important issue that he hasn't flip flopped on, but he was against the Hyde Amendment,
22:30 or like he was he was for keeping the Hyde Amendment. And now he's against it. The Hyde Amendment
22:34 basically prevents federal funding going to pay for abortions. But at the same time, that doesn't
22:39 actually even matter. Because as as taxpayers, we already give hundreds of millions of dollars to
22:43 plan parenthood every year. They're like, Oh, yeah, well, that money's not earmarked for for abortion.
22:48 But it's all going in the same pot. Like if I've got a pot and there's 100 bucks in it and you say,
22:53 Hey, I'm going to give you 10 bucks, Kyle. But hey, Kyle, you cannot spend that that 10 bucks on
22:57 black tar heroin. You can't do it. I say, sure, I won't spend that $10 on black tar heroin. That's
23:03 great. I take your 10 bucks. Now I've got 110 bucks in my bucket or wherever I've got this money.
23:08 And then I go buy black tar heroin. Well, you would be within your rights to come back to me and be
23:12 like, Hey, hey, Kyle, I told you not to spend that money on black tar heroin. It's like, no, no, no,
23:15 no, I didn't spend your 10 bucks. I don't know what black tar heroin costs. Some of you guys are
23:19 like, Oh, that's not what it costs. But let's just assume it costs about that much. But I would just
23:22 say, Hey, I didn't spend that $10 on black tar heroin. I spent this $10. But it was still coming
23:29 from the same bucket. It's a ridiculous example. But I feel like you guys know what I mean. Like,
23:33 that's the thing here. We're already giving money to them. So people freaking out on my side freaking
23:37 out about the hide and admit it doesn't matter. We're already giving them hundreds of millions of
23:41 dollars and they're using it to kill babies. That's what they're doing. But let's get into the second
23:47 part of that quote there at the end. And it was this, no matter what lawmakers may think about a
23:51 woman's reasons for obtaining an abortion, those reasons don't matter. So to the head, I would say,
23:57 finally, finally, they are saying the quiet part out loud. They want abortion on demand.
24:07 They want it for any reason. And if you don't like it, shut up. They're finally saying it out loud.
24:14 I think they're emboldened now because they've got Biden in the White House. They have control of
24:20 the Senate and the and the House. And here we are. You can say bold things like that
24:26 when there's basically no repercussions. But guys, but here's the reality. Here's the reality,
24:32 and we're going to kind of bring this to a close. Republicans had control of the White House,
24:36 the Senate and the House of Representatives in 2017 and 2018. They could have defunded
24:42 Planned Parenthood completely and made huge strides to eradicating abortion. The odds of it
24:48 being eradicated completely in that two year span were almost infinitesimally small, like to,
24:54 as to the point does not even maybe mention it, but they didn't have the stones to do it.
24:57 Funding for Planned Parenthood technically went up during the four years that Donald Trump was
25:03 president, okay? And for two years, he could have done anything that he wanted because there were
25:09 basically no ramifications for him politically for two years, right? But then he lost the house
25:14 and has then lost the Senate and then basically lost his job. But now Democrats,
25:20 they have control of the White House and the Senate and the House of Representatives at least
25:26 for 2021 and 2022. And here's the scary part. They have no limiting principles.
25:33 They have no limiting morality to the things that they're willing to do right now.
25:39 They intend to, and they've essentially told us, and they told us even before the 2020 election
25:45 for president or Senate or whatever, that they want to fundamentally change
25:49 what the United States of America is as a country, okay? They want to change everything about it.
25:56 Now, we're only in the, we're only in a first few months into the Biden administration, okay?
26:03 He's got full congressional support and look at everything that's already changed.
26:06 Crisis still in the Southern border, the signaling that they're going to make changes on gun policies,
26:11 basically gun grabbing type of things, issues with, with abortion, issues with every main
26:17 issue that should be of importance to us as Americans, but certainly as Christian onlookers, okay?
26:24 And to think that they're not going to take tremendous strides to codifying Roe v. Wade is absurd.
26:31 They're obviously going to do that. They've already talked about trying to get rid of
26:34 the filibuster so that they could add states, right? They've talked about all these different
26:38 things. There's a lot of darkness that we're going to see coming in the next two years,
26:42 which is partially why we want you all to partner with us so that we can help you push back against
26:46 that. But since Roe v. Wade, 62 million children have been murdered in the womb so far.
26:54 62 million plus have been murdered since that decision.
26:57 About about a million more will be added to that number in 2021, okay?
27:02 And it's hard to really put those numbers into perspective. And that kind of like helps me
27:09 remember a quote. This is attributed to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, but it's a single
27:14 death as a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. So for you guys listening to this right now,
27:21 I say 62 million dead and it's like, oh, that's horrible. That's really horrible.
27:25 Yeah, it's really, really horrible. It's a leading cause of death,
27:28 including warfare of any time in human history. I'm pretty sure my numbers are okay there, right?
27:37 We we talk about the six million Jews killed by the Nazi Germany and Hitler. We talk about
27:43 the tens of millions killed under Stalin. We talk about, you know, the tens of million killed under
27:47 Mao. We've killed 62 million children just in our country alone. And for what?
27:54 So women can have the quote unquote right to choose a 62 million people, you guys.
28:01 But we don't think of it in terms of the individual names that they would have been given by their
28:06 parents. We don't think about it in the individual contributions that they would have made to society
28:11 overall. We just look at that as this large conglomeration of 62 million. That's terrible.
28:15 I want you guys to think about what that number actually means. Okay, because we've got some very,
28:21 very dark days ahead. And every single day that passes by, a few more thousand kids are murdered
28:27 in this country legally. What are you going to do to stand in the in the breach? What are you
28:32 going to do to stand up against that darkness? We're going to continue to give you resources
28:37 and help you along that path. But I need you to be there with me. Our guys for let you go,
28:42 we are going to do a quick resilience, quick resilience boost rather. Add undaunted life. Our
28:46 mission is equipping men to push back darkness with content that for just spiritual mental and
28:50 physical resilience. So all I've got for you today is I've got the editorial right. It's called the
28:54 right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason. I want you guys to read that. I want
28:59 you guys to read other commentary, not just mine. And again, just as a reminder, I've still got the
29:04 the news up right here, the Derek Chauvin trial results or the verdict has not been read yet,
29:10 has been reached. So expect me to kind of come back after I've had some time to absorb everything
29:14 that that means. And we'll talk more about that. Guys, thanks so much for listening to this episode.
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29:52 in the description. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging
29:59 spiritual, mental and physical resilience. Keep seeking the Lion of Judah.
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The overwhelming majority, the overwhelming number of abortions occur for a single reason, and that reason is convenience.
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The moment that society courts or the public come to the realization that abortion is wrong for any reason, then that makes every so-called reason for abortion unstable.
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