WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.879 As the pro life guy for the San Joaquin Valley mister Right to Life for 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.679 the San Joaquin Valley. I am often called upon what do you think about 3 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:12.599 so and so, what do you think about suggeens? At any time there's 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:19.719 news that hits the airwaves regarding the abortion issue, I have to be the 5 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:26.879 one that explained, explain yourself, especially when anything happens that seems to be 6 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:34.079 indicating that there is a public opinion shift in favor of the pro abortion viewpoint 7 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:40.840 in some fashion. So I'm getting a little bit of that with this news 8 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:50.000 that was hitting even you know, mainstream nightly news, this new information about 9 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:56.119 increasing abortion rates. The Goutmacher Institute, which, by the way, it's 10 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:06.400 this weird thing with abortion and research. One of the main entities that studies 11 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:12.840 abortion is called the Goutmacher Institute, which is a very aggressively pro abortion think 12 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:18.760 tank. It was like actually an official part of Planned Parenthood. It's somewhat 13 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:23.280 separated itself from Planned Parenthood. It's still named after the guy who was like 14 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:29.040 Planned Parenthood's second I think he was like Planned parentoedd second or third, like 15 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:36.400 president, like after Margaret Sanger. By the way, one of the many 16 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:42.319 people who could not survive the post George Floyd a Black Lives Matter canceling campaign 17 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.319 from the left was Margaret Sanger. Even Planned Parenthood has to finally on their 18 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:53.239 website admit that she was pretty darn racist and kept very conveniently pushing all of 19 00:01:53.239 --> 00:02:00.040 her birth control advocacy towards races that she didn't really like, like black people. 20 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:06.239 Now, the gout Macher Institute is like tied to Planned parentid when they 21 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:10.000 release researchers just oh, research from the gout Macher Institute indicates and there's no 22 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.919 like caveat given, whereas if a pro life think tank releases it, it'll 23 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.319 be your research from the anti abortion Charlotte Loser Institute indicates. Yeah, so 24 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:24.400 only the pro life think tank is biased, not the openly avalidly pro abortion 25 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:31.159 thing tank. Anyway, the gout Macher Institute released updated abortion estimates for twenty 26 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:39.479 twenty three. The new figures indicate or show that one million twenty by their 27 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.560 figures, one million, twenty six six and ninety abortions were performed in twenty 28 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:54.199 twenty three, an increase of ten percent since the year twenty twenty, so 29 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:06.280 a ten percent increase twenty twenty, and I think you may be wondering, 30 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:08.599 well, why, well, we had all these states pass laws to limit 31 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:17.080 abortion, yet here all these abortions happening. So I want to break this 32 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:22.599 down for why we're seeing an increase in abortion, and it has to do 33 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.000 with a case that's in front of the Supreme Court, right it's going to 34 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:30.479 be in front of the Supreme Court very soon regarding the abortion pill. And 35 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.800 I want to educate you guys about this because I think there's still a lot 36 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.840 of confusion about this. I think a lot of pro lifers still think of 37 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:47.759 abortion as primarily a surgical intervention, and I want to explain to you that 38 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:53.360 that is not the case. And the reason why abortion numbers are going up 39 00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:00.199 is because abortion is more and more becoming not a surgical procedure. Sure, 40 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:10.919 it is a drug intervention, the abortion pill. Now let's define our terms. 41 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:16.040 There's Plan B and there is the abortion pill. They are two separate 42 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.879 things. Plan B, levono or jestral. I believe the name of the 43 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:31.360 drug. Plan B mostly functions as a contraceptive. The goal of Plan B 44 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:45.279 is to prevent ovulation. That's the goal to stop ovulation from happening. It 45 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.000 has a backup mechanism that alters the lining of a woman's uter is to prevent 46 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:56.360 a new human embryo from adhering to the uterine wall. So it could be 47 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:06.839 abortifation, but it's chief mechanism is stopping ovulation to be a contraceptive. It 48 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:11.319 is very bad for you, I think in other respects. It's basically a 49 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:16.120 massive, massive, massive dosage all in one shot. Not a shot. 50 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:25.720 It's a pill in one go, a massive massive dosage of hormonal contraception. 51 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.199 And so it is not exactly healthy for you. It is not exactly good 52 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.800 for you by any stretch of the imagination. But that's what Plan B is. 53 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:40.160 The abortion pill is something different. The abortion pill, otherwise known as 54 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:45.439 mifipristone, is a pill, a drug that you can take up to ten 55 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:56.680 weeks into a pregnancy in order to artificially induce a miscarriage, artificially induce an 56 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:06.199 abortion up to ten weeks into a pregnancy per current FDA guidelines, and what 57 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:13.000 nobody talked about prior to the twenty twenty election. And I think it was 58 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:19.079 the mostant other than me, other than myself and Jonathan Keller from California Family 59 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:24.319 Counsel my intrepid co host for Right to Life Radio. The biggest issue of 60 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:28.800 twenty twenty that nobody talked about, the biggest abortion issue of twenty twenty that 61 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:34.000 nobody talked about once was what would the FDA do with the abortion pill? 62 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:40.639 And it was very clear what was going to happen if Donald Trump got reelected 63 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:44.600 in twenty twenty. The FDA wasn't going to change anything about the abortion pill. 64 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.600 Now, that in itself is problematic. It's been very problematic to see 65 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:56.199 over the last you know, twenty years. You know, actually, let's 66 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.720 go back to nineteen ninety two, so that would be thirty two years, 67 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.319 thirty one year, let's say January nineteen ninety three, so thirty one years. 68 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:11.920 Over the last thirty one years. Democrats have held the presidency for about 69 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:17.800 nineteen of those years, eight years of Clinton, eight years of Obama, 70 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:28.079 three years of Biden, and the abortion pill has advanced regulatorily over all of 71 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:32.360 that timeframe. To Clint eight years to get the abortion pill FDA approval in 72 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:38.319 the year two thousand, Obama loosen, loosen, loosen the regulations on the 73 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:43.800 abortion pill. Biden immediately loosened the regulations on the abortion pill. But in 74 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:50.759 the twelve years that Republicans have been president in that same time frame, you 75 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.000 know how much rolling back the regulations on the abortion pill, there have been 76 00:07:55.639 --> 00:08:01.319 none. George W. Bush and Donald Trump didn't do jack anyway. In 77 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:07.319 twenty twenty, the stakes were either reelect Donald Trump and have no change to 78 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.319 the regulation of the abortion pill, or elect Joe Biden and he was going 79 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:16.120 to massively deregulate the abortion pill, to allow the abortion pill to be prescribed 80 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:22.360 without the patient actually having to go see a physician physically, and to allow 81 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:31.759 the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail or shipped directly to a pharmacy. 82 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.519 That is precisely what happened. Joe Biden got elected and the abortion pill 83 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:45.120 lost even the slightest vest most of the regulatory restrictions that were placed on it, 84 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:50.440 the health and safety restrictions that were placed on it. So prior to 85 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.720 the Biden administration, you had to at least go to the doctor once to 86 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:58.240 get the abortion pill. At least one time a doctor was looking at you 87 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.039 checking to see the just aal age of the unborn child. By the way, 88 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:05.600 the later into pregnancy you are, the more and the more serious the 89 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:11.840 complications can be from the abortion pill. So now the abortion pill is being 90 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:18.240 prescribed to people with no in clinic examination whatsoever. The abortion pill can be 91 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.200 shipped to people through the mail. It can just be picked up at a 92 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:31.480 major pharmacy rather than given to you and ingested in a clinic. So, 93 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:39.600 by the way, while the abortion pill is constantly referred to the media mantras 94 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:41.879 that it's safe, it's safe, it's safe, it's safe, it's safe. 95 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:50.000 There's even this mantra that it's safer than tile, and all that is 96 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:58.159 a lie. About five percent of women who go through the abortion pill process 97 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:07.000 wind up in an er, usually from hemorrhaging, excess bleeding, incredible pain, 98 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:15.559 and cramping. There have been approximately twenty eight known cases of women dying 99 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.679 from the abortion pill, usually from infection and sepsis. Five to eight percent 100 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:26.519 of the time with the abortion pill process, one has an incomplete abortion, 101 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:31.559 meaning the baby's not entirely expelled, and if that's not treated with follow up 102 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:45.320 care, it can result in infection and serious complications. So the abortion pill 103 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.679 has become so massively deregulated by the Biden administration. When the abortion pill was 104 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.919 first legalized in two thousands, you had to have three doctor visits for it, 105 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.919 a visit before, a visit where they gave you the pill, and 106 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.240 a follow up visit. Obama changed the regulation said you only needed one in 107 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:13.080 clinic visit. Biden completely eliminated any need for an inclinic visit, and the 108 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.559 result is this massive spike in the number of abortions that are done via the 109 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:31.000 abortion pill. That's what's driving the increased abortion rate in America. Sixty three 110 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:37.480 percent of abortions now are being done via the abortion pill. That's almost an 111 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:48.759 eight percent jump from twenty twenty two. So that I think is the key 112 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.960 reason why we're seeing this massive jump in the number of abortions in this country. 113 00:11:52.480 --> 00:12:01.240 It's this bizarre dystopian liberal dream of making abortion universally accessible basically to anyone 114 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:09.399 who's got a mailbox. And by the way, it's not just happening legally, 115 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:15.279 it's also happening illegally. There's very little power that even states that have 116 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:22.240 outlawed abortion, I think they have very little ability to stop women from ordering 117 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:28.519 from illegal sites abortion pills that get shipped into Texas that can get shipped into 118 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:35.200 Indiana, that can get shipped into all these states that have outlawed abortion and 119 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:41.480 mainstream left you know, abortion providers are trying to provide online resources specifically to 120 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:48.320 allow women in those states to help the guide them through the process of having 121 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:58.240 a pill abortion illegally. I just went to a conference just a couple of 122 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.240 weekends ago. I went I zoom attended a conference a couple of weeks ago 123 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.120 where the head of obgyn at UCSF Fresno was talking about this very thing. 124 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:20.279 So I want to sort of encourage some skepticism about these new abortion figures. 125 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.120 One. I think, first of all, it's numbers that are coming from 126 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:30.120 a huge pro abortion think tank. I don't know that that necessarily is going 127 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.440 to be you know, we have to take that with a bit of a 128 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.440 grain of salt. Abortion figures are always sort of difficult to figure out because 129 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.240 California does not report its abortion figures to the Centers for Disease Control. So 130 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:46.440 any estimate of how many abortions happen in the United States is an estimate is 131 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:56.519 a best, you know, good faith guess. But I think that it's 132 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:03.679 not because necessarily individual state laws to ban abortion have been totally ineffective. I 133 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.360 think they have been effective. I think there have been a lot of analyzes 134 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.720 done of states like Texas, and the reality is that tens of thousands of 135 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.039 fewer abortions are happening in states like Texas because of the laws they have passed 136 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:26.960 since Dobbs. But the reality is that I think the increased number of abortions 137 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:33.120 that increase is because of the abortion pill. It's because we live in this 138 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.720 terrifying dystopia where we're selling to people, oh, it's safe, it's fine, 139 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:43.879 and giving them this pill after getting rid of all the health and safety 140 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.799 restrictions that surrounded the abortion pill. When we return, I want to talk 141 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.200 a little bit more about that history and that sort of dereliction of duty by 142 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.799 Republican presidents, this aggressive expansion by Democrat presidents. That is next on the 143 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:05.559 John Girardi Show. The new numbers that have come out on the number of 144 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.639 abortions that have happened in America. These new numbers that have been released by 145 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:13.600 the Goutmacher Institute, which I think we should all take with a grain of 146 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:20.919 salt, are indicating that the number of abortions has increased in America significantly by 147 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:31.039 about ten percent since twenty twenty. And I think the clear answer for why 148 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:37.279 the number of abortions have increased is because of the deregulation of the abortion pill 149 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:43.240 process. Not Plan B. This is not a day after contraceptive. This 150 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:48.799 is the abortion pill, a pill that results in the death of a fetus 151 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.559 up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. So the abortion pill process is basically, 152 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.440 you take one drug called mifipristone that cuts the developing embryo or feed us 153 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.799 off from the uterine wall from its food supply. The baby dies. The 154 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:11.039 mother then takes another drug called mesaprostol, which expels the baby from her body. 155 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:17.919 And this is not an easy process. It involves heavy bleeding, It's 156 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.600 very painful, involves heavy cramping some it' said right there on the FDA label 157 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:27.000 about five percent women will probably need an er visit as a result of it 158 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:33.919 because of bleeding. There is a five to eight percent chance of an incomplete 159 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.679 abortion, meaning not everything is expelled from the woman's body that it might therefore 160 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:45.159 need a follow up surgical procedure. And what people don't realize is that this 161 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:51.440 process is how sixty three percent of abortions now are done in America. This 162 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.639 is the most Abortion is not any more a surgical thing. For the most 163 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:03.159 part, in America, it is primarily a medical thing, a drug thing. 164 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.519 I shouldn't say it's a medical thing. I don't want to concede that 165 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:12.759 ground. I don't think abortion is something is medicine or healthcare if it is 166 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:17.839 fixing something wrong with the body. Pregnancy is not something wrong with the body. 167 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:23.119 Now, I want to talk about basically what happened that made the abortion 168 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:30.640 pill so available. What happened was consistent effort by Democrat presidents and their FDAs 169 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:38.839 to take away regulations on the abortion pill. So let's do the history here. 170 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:44.359 Bill Clinton comes to office in nineteen ninety three. He looks across the 171 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:48.599 pond at Europe and sees that the abortion pill was created over there in France, 172 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:51.799 and he thinks, by golly, wouldn't it be awesome if we had 173 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.079 that in America. So he works for eight solid years, works with the 174 00:17:55.119 --> 00:18:02.079 Ford Foundation to do all the necessary you know, clinical trials and testing, 175 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.839 et cetera. Blah blah blah, goes through all the stuff. He realizes 176 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.720 he's running out of time. His administration is wrapping up its second term. 177 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.880 He's afraid that this George W. Bush guy might beat Al Gore for the 178 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:18.240 presidency in two thousand and stop all of this. So in September of two 179 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:23.799 thousand, the FDA issues an expedited approval, which frankly I think was illegal, 180 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.480 an expedited approval for the abortion pill, which is otherwise known as mifipristone. 181 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:36.000 That's the name of the active drug. So in two thousand, MiFi 182 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.599 pristones approved. But Clinton realizes this is politically unpopular in a lot of ways, 183 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:44.839 seems kind of dystopian uphill to bring about an abortion well, it's totally 184 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:49.400 bizarre. So he has these safeguards, these health and safety restrictions on it, 185 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:56.599 called the rems, and basically what these do as it imposes certain restrictions 186 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:02.240 on how physicians can prescribe. The abortion pill has to be prescribed with three 187 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:07.039 different patient visits before when you give the pill to the woman, and then 188 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:14.359 after for follow up. So there are a lot of different health and safety 189 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:19.119 restrictions on it. George W. Bush does get elected in two thousand and 190 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.559 from two thousand and one to two thousand and nine, he and his FDA 191 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:29.000 and his Department of Health and Human Services does nothing. They do nothing to 192 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:33.079 roll back the FDA approval of the abortion pill. They don't acknowledge that there 193 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.279 was anything wrong with the FDA's expedited approval for the abortion pill in two thousand, 194 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.799 even though the expedited process is only supposed to be done with drugs that 195 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:47.960 treat serious illnesses. Pregnancy is not, last I checked, a serious illness. 196 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:53.559 It's not an illness at all. It's a natural bodily process. Barack 197 00:19:53.559 --> 00:20:00.640 Obama comes into office and over his eight years he lessened, weakens, gets 198 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.759 rid of a bunch of the health and safety restrictions around the abortion pill. 199 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.559 Says, no, no, no, you don't need three in person visits. 200 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.160 You only need one in person visit just to determined, justtational age, 201 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.119 and then we'll give you the abortion pill. You don't need a follow up. 202 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.440 In spite of the fact again that five to eight percent of the time 203 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:23.119 women have what's called an incomplete abortion, meaning not everything is expelled from their 204 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:27.559 body, that leaves with it serious risk if it's not treated, serious risk 205 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:36.079 of infection. But oma almost does that. Forget it. Also, Obama 206 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:42.559 issues a regulation to stop requiring the collection of any adverse health event data from 207 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:51.440 the abortion pill other than death in twenty sixteen, so he says, oh, 208 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:56.119 it's so safe to take the abortion pill under the old safety guidelines. 209 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:02.559 So let's get rid of a bunch of those safety restrictions and let's stop collecting 210 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:10.640 data on safety. Donald Trump gets elected in twenty sixteen and for four years 211 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:15.720 again another Republican president who does absolutely nothing to roll back regulations on the abortion 212 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.559 pill, even though he's in charge of the executive branch, even though he 213 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:30.160 controls the FDA. Finally, Joe Biden gets elected and immediately Biden further loosens 214 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:34.000 the restrictions on the abortion pill, as all of the left wing activists around 215 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:38.960 him were urging him to do. He immediately allows the abortion pill to be 216 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:45.440 prescribed with no in person patient visit, just to tell him medicine visit. 217 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.519 Since there's no need for an in person visit, the abortion pill can now 218 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:56.759 be shipped to people through the mail. You can get an abortion pill mailed 219 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.319 to your house without ever leaving your home, or you can pick it up 220 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.440 at a major pharmacy. And we're now at the point in twenty twenty four 221 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:10.400 where those Biden regulations, which were initiated in twenty twenty one and finalized at 222 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:14.720 the end of twenty twenty one, have now become mainstreamed. All these large 223 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:22.799 pharmacies are now capable of receiving A lot of them have decided to stock the 224 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:30.480 abortion pill, and so now the abortion pill has gone from being sort of 225 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.480 the minority way in which abortions were done most abortions were still done surgically to 226 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.079 now sixty three percent of abortions are done via the abortion pill. In California. 227 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:45.839 It may be more. One of the biggest network of abortion providers in 228 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.720 California, planned paradig Marmonti, does seventy five percent of their abortions through the 229 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:56.079 abortion pill. So this is why we need Republican presidents who are good at 230 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:03.640 regulation, good at running the administrative state. Democrats do an awesome job of 231 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.839 it, and Republican presidents suck at it. When we return, I ride 232 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.920 to the defense of homeschooling against recent attacks. That is next on the John 233 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:22.559 Girardi Show. Our family is homeschooling our kids. I myself was homeschooled as 234 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.920 a kid, my wife was homeschooled as a kid, and it is a 235 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:33.440 thing that the left hates. Why well, just the idea that they are 236 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:41.440 not controlling what your kid learns is infuriating to them. And I think at 237 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:47.119 some point the left is going to get around to trying, in different individual 238 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:52.480 states, trying to shut down homeschooling. Now, they haven't necessarily done so 239 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:57.400 yet, I think because there's a certain segment of crunchy liberals who like homeschooling 240 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:02.319 their kids, So for their sakes, maybe they'll hold off and leave us 241 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:07.880 alone for a bit. But we're beginning to see the wheels turn. There's 242 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:14.799 a big, big conference about the dangers of homeschooling. I think it happened 243 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:18.359 kind of before COVID, So I wonder if COVID sort of put the halt 244 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.480 on some of these things because everyone realized, oh wait, homeschoolers can just 245 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:25.799 kind of keep on doing school during COVID and actually have much better results in 246 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:33.039 a lot of cases. So there was a little bit, I think during 247 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.519 COVID of a pumping the breaks about how evil and dangerous homeschooling is. But 248 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.920 it seems that it is now back in full swing. The Washington Post recently 249 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:48.599 did a series on the dangers and terribleness of homeschooling, and one of the 250 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:57.079 big arguments that's being pushed is that children who are being homeschooled can be abused 251 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:07.079 and it can go undetected by society. That basically, if a kid is 252 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:11.960 being abused at home, that is much more likely to be detected because at 253 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:15.599 a public school you have all these other adults who are able to look at 254 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:19.480 your kid, and you've got teachers, and you've got principals, and you've 255 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:25.200 got school nurses and whatnot who can see that a kid's got bruises or whatever 256 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:32.039 or seems, you know, malnourished or whatever, and that child abuse can 257 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:38.920 get reported. That's the theory. The problem is it's not really backed up. 258 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:45.759 If anything, it's the opposite. The place where a child is most 259 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:52.480 likely to be abused in America is at a public school. So there's this 260 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:59.279 interesting piece in The Spectator written by Amber Duke, the Reality of Homeschooling. 261 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.400 Reporters claim that abuse is rampant, but the data tells a different story. 262 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:08.680 Are children more likely to be abused in homeschool in a homeschool environment than in 263 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.880 a public school? That key question has emerged in response to the recent surge 264 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:17.160 of parents who have chosen to homeschool their children. Late last year, I 265 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:22.880 wrote in this newsletter Spectator about an anti homeschooling series by the Washington Post. 266 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:29.279 The Post series argued that parents regularly use the homeschooling as a shield for abuse, 267 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:34.240 most aggressively in an article headlined what homeschooling hides a boy tortured and starved 268 00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:40.559 by his stepmom. Most schools, this is the Post writing here, Most 269 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:45.440 schools have teachers, principles, guidance counselors, professionals trained to recognize the unexplained 270 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.359 bruises or erratic behaviors that may point to an abusive parent. Home education was 271 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.319 an easy way to avoid the scrutiny of such people. The article says. 272 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.400 The research suggests that when abuse does occur in homeschool families, it can escalate 273 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:00.519 into especially severe forms, and that some parents exploit lack home education laws to 274 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:07.839 avoid contact with social service agencies. Now, Duke writes in this piece in 275 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:12.079 The Spectator, there are several serious problems with the quote research presented by the 276 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:18.240 Post. One study only collected data from six school districts across a period of 277 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:25.160 a few years to claim half of students who are homeschooled were removed from school 278 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:30.079 after an allegation of abuse at home. Not only is this not a representative 279 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:34.720 sample of homeschooled kids, but it also lumps in substantiated with unsubstantiated allegations of 280 00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:38.920 abuse. The Post cites another survey of children who ended up in the hospital 281 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.200 with signs of torture. About half of them had been homeschooled. The sample 282 00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:52.079 size seventeen children. So this is just the Washington Post taking these certain different, 283 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:59.000 very small sample sizes to try to extrapolate it into half of homeschooling parents 284 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.799 are monsters who are ready to abuse their kids. One thing that really caught 285 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.079 my eye continues when looking into the suggestion that homeschoolers are more likely to be 286 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:12.880 subjected to severe abuse, was the media's prominent citation of a group called the 287 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:21.799 Coalition for Responsible Home Education. The CRCHE says they are a group of formerly 288 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:26.680 homeschooled kids who are either abused or not properly educated and want to reform the 289 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.920 homeschooling system. They mostly advocate for tighter regulation of homeschooling, random home drop 290 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:36.680 ins, registration with the state, social worker check ins, etc. The 291 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:41.160 group sounds innocent on its face, It's not totally unreasonable to believe that homeschooling 292 00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:44.359 children should not be totally isolated from the outside world in the case they need 293 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.720 to report abuse. However, as I dug further into the group's assertions and 294 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:52.920 accompanying research, there were some fundamental dishonesties I couldn't overcome. I was led 295 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.920 to believe that CRCHE and the media outlets who were reflexively citing it as an 296 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:03.480 expert organization are just part of a first step to discredit homeschooling entirely. The 297 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.759 first red flag popped up when I was digging around in Croch's database of what 298 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:12.839 they referred to as quote victims of homeschooling abuse. The database is called Homeschooling's 299 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:18.200 Invisible Children and compiles public cases of children who were abused in a homeschool environment. 300 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:23.319 The HIIC database is cited by many media organizations as evidence of widespread homeschooling 301 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:29.000 abuse. On its website, CROCH publishes a chart purporting to show that abuse 302 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.880 fatalities among homeschool children are higher than children who attend public or private schools, 303 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:42.359 even though they admit the difference is not statistically significant. So I discovered that 304 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:48.200 the croch Lives lists, for example, Elizabeth Smart as one of these victims 305 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:53.240 of homeschooling abuse. Now, you guys remember the Elizabeth Smart case. She 306 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:59.039 was that girl in Utah who got abducted from her home. Yeah, she 307 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:06.039 was abducted from her home, not by her parents. Wasn't abused by her 308 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:12.720 parents at all. Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom by a depraved couple that 309 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:18.039 raped and tortured her. The only connection she has to homeschooling is that her 310 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.920 kidnappers instructed her to tell strangers that she was homeschooled to avoid investigation. So 311 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:29.880 Elizabeth Smart was not a homeschooling She was not being homeschooled. She was abducted 312 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:37.119 by strangers who were torturing her and threatened her and told her, you need 313 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:44.400 to tell people that you're homeschooled. Perhaps an intellectually dishonest person could make the 314 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.920 case that Smart's kidnappers took advantage of lax homeschooling regulations to avoid questions and ultimately 315 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:53.759 prevent her rescue. But what regulation proposed by proposed by anybody would have prevented 316 00:30:53.799 --> 00:31:00.759 this. No social workers were going to drop into these people tent in the 317 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:07.640 woods where they were torturing this girl. So when you keep digging, So 318 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:15.160 basically, there's this one database that all of these anti homeschooling people use to 319 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.400 say, oh, look at all these examples of homeschoolers who are tortured or 320 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.920 abused. But it's got cases like Elizabeth Smart in it, who that is 321 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:29.640 not an example of a homeschooler being abused. That's an example of someone being 322 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.559 abducted by a complete stranger who then tells her to lie and say that she's 323 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:40.039 homeschooled. Like that is not You cannot lay that at homeschooling's door. I'm 324 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:48.880 sorry, that's ridiculous that no regulations would have stopped that. No homeschooling regulations 325 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.640 would have stopped that. There were at least twenty other children listed in that 326 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:59.720 database who had been abducted from their parents and whose abductor claimed to be homeschooling 327 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:05.759 them. So again, though homes regulating homeschooling wouldn't stop that because those kids 328 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:15.519 were not actually homeschooled, they were just abducted. Furthermore, a lot of 329 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:22.079 the other incidents of kids being abused or harmed by homeschooling. There's situations where 330 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:27.680 there's no there wasn't any kind of prior warning sign or anything that any kind 331 00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:31.920 of regulation would have stopped and they could justice and that homeschooling wasn't really an 332 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:38.480 issue with it. So like some case where you know a dad, Like 333 00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:45.440 there are certain kinds of suicide cases with usually with men, called family annihilation 334 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:47.799 suicide, and these these horrible incidents you probably heard stories about it, where 335 00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:55.039 the dad snaps, kills his family, kills himself. They're counting that as 336 00:32:55.079 --> 00:33:00.279 instances of homeschool abuse when that can just that doesn't have anything to do with 337 00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:05.960 homeschooling. That could happen just as well with a kid in a normal school 338 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.440 as it could with a kid who is home. Doesn't have anything to do 339 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:13.839 with it. That's a horrible thing, obviously, but the idea that homeschooling 340 00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:20.000 makes a kid so much more particularly susceptible to that is an enormous stretch at 341 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:32.039 best. So all of these arguments that you're seeing to say that homeschooling needs 342 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:37.440 to be regulated because kids are being abused be a homeschooling it's relying on this 343 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:47.200 data set that is completely divorced that basically is riddled with flaws, and there 344 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:55.519 are other flaws with this data set, and again it kind of ignores the 345 00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:04.160 reality that the place where a kid is most likely to be abused is the 346 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.119 public school system. That's the most likely place where a kid is likely to 347 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:13.320 be sexually abused. So with all of those people around to oversee things, 348 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:20.199 that's where sexual abuse is happening most often. When we return the dumbest event 349 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:24.960 in all of Washington in the last year, the barf worthy Saint Patrick's Day 350 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:32.199 Party at the White House next on the John Jerardy Show. The stupidest thing 351 00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:38.000 that I have seen that I saw a bunch of photographs of and the little 352 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:43.480 reports of and things like that over the last week had to have been the 353 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:50.519 Saint Patrick's Day party that was held at the White House under our beloved Irish 354 00:34:50.559 --> 00:35:00.039 Catholic President Joe Biden. Joe Biden's Irish Catholicism is basically redu down to the 355 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.400 level of it's a thing that he kind of does that sort of is like 356 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:12.199 a cultural thing, and his Catholicism basically has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on his 357 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:19.280 actual policies, his actual as far as I can tell, no actual bearing 358 00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:23.840 on his public life whatsoever, even like, even in ways that would be 359 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:30.360 easy for a liberal like you know, the church. The bishops in the 360 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.800 United States have been opposed to the death penalty for decades and decades and decades. 361 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:39.679 Here and probably not the right time to dig into all of the debate 362 00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.000 around the death penalty within Catholic contexts and Catholic teaching surrounding the death penalty, 363 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.559 but let's just suffice it to say that in present American conditions, the American 364 00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:51.039 bishops don't think that death penalty is a good idea and that it should be 365 00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:57.360 opposed. Okay, Biden says he opposes the death penalty. The Democrat Party 366 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:01.000 says they opposed the death penalty. Biden becomes the president of the United States, 367 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:05.599 where he can one hundred percent tell the Justice Department, hey, don't 368 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:10.960 pursue the death penalty for federal cases, or he could just grant clemency to 369 00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.400 people convicted who are sentenced to the death penalty in the federal system. And 370 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:20.960 he hasn't. He basically let Merrick Garland go ahead and pursue the death penalty 371 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:27.360 for the guy who did that horrible shooting in Buffalo like his Catholic faith impacts 372 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.639 him so little that even for something that would be a slam dunk, he 373 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:37.400 either doesn't know or doesn't care, like he just does not care. It 374 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:43.360 is unbelievable how little his actual governance is impacted by Catholicism. And let's not 375 00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:47.559 even get into obviously he ignores what the church teaches wholesale about abortion, about 376 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:53.079 same sex marriage, about transgenderism. It's a not insignificant thing that Biden himself, 377 00:36:53.119 --> 00:37:04.840 as Vice president, officiated two gay weddingsitiated them. So they have the 378 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:10.360 Saint Patrick's Day Party, and all of these liberal Catholic writers like James Martin 379 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:16.760 and Thomas Reese, the'se like Jesuit priests, who are super duper lefty commentators, 380 00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:21.719 have these groveling Twitter posts say, oh look, you can see me 381 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:27.880 in this picture with Joe Biden. Oh Andy, This Saint Patrick's Day Party 382 00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:40.159 was basically the everything I hate about boomer baby boomer liberal sort of pseudo Irish 383 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:52.400 tinged Catholicism in America. Every sappy, emotive, non substantial thing about American 384 00:37:52.440 --> 00:38:00.239 Irish Catholicism all boiled down into one party at the White House, including someone 385 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:05.679 playing on a violin, the worst hymn in the history of the Catholic Church, 386 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:13.440 on Eagle's Wings. If my eyes rolled in my head any harder, 387 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:16.119 they would have rolled out of their sockets. That'll do it for John Girardi 388 00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:17.679 Show. See you next time on Power Talk.