WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.519 Attention. You're listening to the top Huff radio show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:08.720 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.439 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:33.079 to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Tod Huff. 5 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.640 That is right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's own for 6 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.759 conservative not bitter talk. I am your host, the one, the only, 7 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.560 the ever so beloved Todd Huff. You know the routine. Thoughts, 8 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:52.000 questions, feedback, adoration and praise can be sent to my email tome at 9 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.359 tot huffshow dot com. Just make sure that you make it count. The 10 00:00:55.439 --> 00:01:03.159 vast majority of you do. Some a couple every so often miss this golden 11 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:08.439 chance of a lifetime and they just I mean utter swings and misses. Here. 12 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.120 Be sure to include that adoration and praise. It's ten to fifteen percent 13 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:17.439 more than you might think appropriate and necessary. So it is good to be 14 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.799 here. Thank you for joining us. You know today I want to talk 15 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.719 since it's an issue that's front and center now in this campaign. I want 16 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:30.200 to spend some time talking about abortion. And that's because Trump now says that 17 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:36.040 abortion legislation should be left to the states. I'm looking here at a CNN 18 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.920 article. You might have seen this in any number any number of places. 19 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:42.400 So I want to talk about this today. I want to frame the issue 20 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:46.760 of abortion. I want to frame what's going on here, at least from 21 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:51.879 a political electoral process. We're in the heart of a campaign. But I 22 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.640 also want to make sure that we properly understand and identify what we should be 23 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:04.840 fighting for in the pro life for dare I say, the abortion abolitionist movement. 24 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.319 So we'll get to that and do course here today, my friends. 25 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:14.360 But I want to remind you, first and foremost that my Pillow, Mike 26 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:19.719 Lindell, my pillow, they have a twenty five dollar extravaganza. Now you 27 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.759 know that we use the My Pillow products Here in the huff household. 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So I don't know if the CEO of CNN is involved 51 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:24.160 with this or what stockholders, but CNN has at least four people that are 52 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.480 teaming up to write this article. Trump says abortion legislation should be open, 53 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.800 should be left. I should say to the states now, and we're going 54 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:38.199 to reference this. This will be on the stack of Stuff page at Toddhefshow 55 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:46.079 dot com. But first and foremost, let's identify what's happening here. We 56 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.120 have an election. We are in the midst of a campaign. It is 57 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:58.639 inevitable that it is now Trump versus Joseph Robinette bribery. Barring something crazy at 58 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:06.000 one of Trump's trial that could lead to some further consequence or development that could 59 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:11.639 potentially land Trump in the clink or some such thing. And even if it 60 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.519 does, I mean, I think, folks, Trump Trump is going to 61 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:21.040 be Trump is going to be running for president. I can't think of of 62 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:26.680 any scenario where he's not, but this, this is what they're hoping for, 63 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.600 or if something comes up at the convention, the Democrat convention, which 64 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:35.040 is there's been speculation about. You know, I think that they're content having 65 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:43.199 Biden as their their guy, not because he's qualified, because simply because if 66 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.160 they can use him to win the election. The folks that are behind the 67 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:54.439 scenes making the decisions are totally content with having any person candidly as the as 68 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:59.680 the front of the operation. But so that being said, it's it's intense 69 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.399 put times, and so Trump is happy. Trump is happy to be out 70 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:10.480 there campaigning on some key issues, for example, the economy. He wants 71 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:15.759 people to remember. He wants people to remember what they were experiencing under the 72 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:20.079 Trump economy versus what they are experiencing now under the Biden economy. I just 73 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:27.000 read the other day, maybe this week, in fact, that groceries have 74 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:31.839 increased, the average grocery bill has increased forty percent in the three and nearly 75 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:39.759 one half years since Biden assumed office in January of twenty twenty one. So 76 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:44.360 we've got a forty percent there increase there, We've got inflation off the charts 77 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:49.560 We've got massive amounts of government federal debt piling up. People are living in 78 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:55.720 incredibly tense economic times. They're being told by these puppets and pundits in the 79 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:59.639 media that this is a better economy than they believe. What are they talking 80 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:03.199 about, what are their problems? They're just not sophisticated enough to realize how 81 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:09.240 special this economy is. But people know better, and so Trump is prepared 82 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:15.160 and happy for this election, this campaign to focus on the economy. Trump's 83 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:24.240 also content with this conversation about American security or dare I say, the stability 84 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:28.920 of the entire world. Trump is happy to point out, happy to point 85 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:33.680 out that there was no Russia Ukraine war until Biden assumed office. Trump is 86 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:40.600 happy to point out that there was no botched Afghanistan withdrawal when he was in 87 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:44.639 office. That happened on Biden's watch. Now, the Biden administration wants you 88 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:47.680 to believe that Trump is the one. It was Trump's plan, in Trump's 89 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.759 timeline and so forth, and so they want to blame Trump for this, 90 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:58.000 even though anyone with half a percentage of brain power could say, hey, 91 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.160 the current president and adjust plans right if the timing isn't off, if things 92 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:09.040 aren't ready, if we're not in the position to withdraw and not cause complete 93 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.759 chaos, then we probably should delay that. Biden did not do that, 94 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.879 and of course we know what happened as a direct result of that. We 95 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.399 also know that there's problems all around the world. There was not they're October 96 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:30.560 seventh, which of course is when the pat the Hamas terrorists in Gaza decided 97 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:35.720 to attack the Israeli citizens on October seventh of last year. That had not 98 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:41.159 happened on Trump's watch as well. The world is a much dangerous place when 99 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:48.399 America is led by a president who is weak, because in fact, American 100 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:56.279 weakness is provocative. It is the biggest, most guaranteed way to provoke your 101 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.960 enemy. And so that's the world that we now live in. There is 102 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:07.799 nothing, there is nothing measurable today that is better than it was. Excuse 103 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.879 me, well, that is better than it was back in twenty twenty. 104 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.320 And that's even taking into account COVID. I mean, Trump's last year of 105 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:22.320 his presidency was completely just enveloped in the COVID reaction and everything that came from 106 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.960 that. But the three years prior to that, America was in wonderful shape, 107 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:31.799 and the average American knows it. And so we're in this campaign and 108 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:39.159 that the Trump has virtually every advantage that there is. Add to that, 109 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.960 add to that that people who vote for Trump are voting for Trump. People 110 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.080 that are voting for Biden are not actually voting for Biden, They're voting against 111 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:56.120 Trump. And so there's really nothing that this administration can do except for hope 112 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.759 that Trump makes some political missteps and that they can capitalize and make this campaign 113 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.000 about something other than any of the things that I've talked about, and one 114 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.639 of those things, which it's an important issue. Let me say this, 115 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.679 I'm just talking about it from the political perspective. I am pro life. 116 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:22.000 I am a person who dare one you could say I'm very close to or 117 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:30.759 maybe even could be maybe could even be identified as an abortion abolitionist. And 118 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.440 so and science is on my side, by the way, let me explain 119 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.559 this. Science is on my side. But before actually, before I do 120 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.240 that, before I do that, let me take let me take a quick 121 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:46.919 little breather here and tell you about Nick neck Naturals. Nicknack Naturals, one 122 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.200 of our newer advertisers on the program is an all American small business. 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Let's let's pause that discussion, and let's say, let's say 138 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.840 I want to talk to the people who have had an abortion, or even 139 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:28.960 even people who there are there are people whose mothers attempted an abortion on them 140 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.720 in the womb. And this there's a lot of emotion that comes with us, 141 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:39.000 a lot of a lot of a lot of negative emotions, a lot 142 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.799 of sadness, a lot of guilt. I've shared before. I don't think 143 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.960 there's a group currently at our church, but there is a group of women 144 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.759 that used to meet at our church who had had abortions in the past, 145 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.360 and they were there to help one another. This is this is something that's 146 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:01.559 often overlooked, are the women who have abortions and then carry with them extreme 147 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:11.320 amounts of guilt and sorrow and sadness and just absolute heart brokenness. And it's 148 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:16.039 ignored in many instances by the media and so forth. It's not ignored here 149 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.200 because we're going to talk about abortion, and I'm going to try to talk 150 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.840 about it as a matter of factly as I can and why I'm against it, 151 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.320 and we're going to talk about the political aspect there of Trump in this 152 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:31.519 twenty or twenty twenty four campaign. And so, but I like to say 153 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.720 this up front for people who have had abortions, because this is not about 154 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.120 heaping guilt upon you. This is about looking forward. The God of this 155 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:48.320 universe, through his son Jesus Christ, is here to forgive and to help 156 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:56.039 you heal. He is not here to continually heap insult or grief upon you. 157 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:03.600 He's here to forgive. And there are groups that will help you do 158 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.080 that, help you navigate that. I just want to be mindful of that 159 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.440 off the top, because oftentimes this is completely ignored. And so I'm even 160 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.679 if you want to email me, I think I can connect you. I 161 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:18.879 know I know one particular individual who could get you plugged in if you need 162 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.600 some sort of a support group or whatever. I welcome you to do that. 163 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.559 I do. You can email Todd at todefshow dot com and I will 164 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.399 put you in touch with Robin or someone on her you know in her group 165 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.840 that could help direct you. Or you can even if you prefer, you 166 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:39.639 can text this three one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty and just just 167 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:43.440 say abortion Support group or something and will help you from there anyway. So 168 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.720 I want to say that upfront. Now, so let's talk about science an 169 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.519 abortion, because science is on I'm pro science, my friends. I'm pro 170 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:58.399 science. I'm pro reality. I'm pro the way things are and the way 171 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:05.840 things are. Science has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that life, that life 172 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:11.559 begins a conception, biologically, logically, every way that you can think of 173 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.639 it. Life begins at conception, when the egg cell and the sperm cell, 174 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.960 meat fertilization takes place. Science has proven, my friends, that there's 175 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:26.000 an explosion of light and that there is a new life form that's created. 176 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:31.679 Now, I fully recognize that the stage at which that life form is as 177 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:37.240 far as its overall development, it is at the very beginning. In fact, 178 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:41.840 it does not have There is not an earlier phase of development prior to 179 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:46.840 that point. So it is at the very very beginning of development. But 180 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:50.799 to say that it is not human, and to say that that life is 181 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.440 not life is a lie straight from the pits of hell, my friends. 182 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.039 It is an absolute lie. It is one hundred percent a human life, 183 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.879 one hundred percent. And one of the jobs of government, one of the 184 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:11.879 jobs of government is to protect life right is to protect life liberty, and 185 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:18.720 our pursuit of happiness is to create a society where that is possible. It's 186 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.360 up to us to make the decisions and to make the choices and to walk 187 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:30.120 the path. But the government has a legitimate function and responsibility, especially as 188 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.240 it pertains to the protection of human life. If government cannot protect human life, 189 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:41.960 if government cannot do something to preserve life, then you can see how 190 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:48.080 quickly society can devolve into something that looks like it's from the purge or some 191 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:55.279 such thing. So life begins a conception. Scientifically, logically, it's absolutely 192 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:02.440 absolutely certain that that is the case. There's no ambiguity, nothing else, 193 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.640 a clump of cells. If someone is pushing that narrative on you, we're 194 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.640 just a clump of cells. Well, some human being at the early stages 195 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.839 of development is quote unquote a clump of cells, then the rest of us 196 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:22.279 are nothing more than clumps of cells. Either. It's a way to dehumanize 197 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.039 and to make the life not sound like a life, but rather as something 198 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.680 that they can as disposable. And so there are people like me, people 199 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:37.319 like me who say the human life begins at conception. We have a responsibility 200 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:41.839 to protect that human life. In fact, if we're not protecting human life, 201 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:47.720 what else, What other more fundamental things should government be involved with? 202 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:53.559 I mean, studying the migratory patterns of some shrimp in the bottom of the 203 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.720 Atlantic Ocean. I mean, what's going on here? This is of course 204 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:02.960 at the top of top of the list. Now on the other side, 205 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.559 on the quote unquote pro choice side, there's a couple of different groups. 206 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.400 The first is the rabid what I would deem or what I would call the 207 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.640 pro abortion side. These are the people who are leading the charge. These 208 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.640 are the people that are standing at the microphone at the podium at these rallies, 209 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:25.000 who are proud of the number of abortions that they've had. These are 210 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:30.200 people who just cheer from the mountaintops how many times they have terminated the life 211 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.319 of a child in their womb, as though it's something to be proud of. 212 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.960 This the leaders, and this is let me be clear, this is 213 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.519 not where most people fall. This is not where most people fall. But 214 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:47.599 the people leading this movement I would I would call them as pro abortionists. 215 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.839 These are people who want to live a certain way in their life and they 216 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.599 don't want any consequence. They don't believe. They don't want to be They 217 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:02.920 don't want to deal with the reality that there is a morality, and that 218 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.799 when there is a morality that exists in the universe, there must be a 219 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.160 moral lawgiver. That moral lawgiver, of course, is God Almighty. They 220 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:14.680 don't want to be accountable. They don't want to be told how to live 221 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.319 their lives. They want to live according to the flesh. They want to 222 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:22.680 live according to their pleasures. And if there's an inconvenience along the way, 223 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:30.519 they want to go out there and have sex without consequences. And something comes 224 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.920 up, like an unwanted pregnancy, they want it to be a quick, 225 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:40.359 easy fix so that they can continue to live a lifestyle, continue to live 226 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:45.799 in such a way that only makes this more likely more likely to happen. 227 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:52.279 They don't want any consequences, they don't want any any name, they don't 228 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.279 want any baggage with this. They want they want what they want, and 229 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:02.880 they are prepared to kill. They're prepared to kill in order to get it. 230 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.480 Now, this is not most Americans, well, I think most Americans. 231 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:12.640 The most pro choice Americans fall is they fall in a category where they 232 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:19.000 are. I think I would say that they're guilty. They feel guilty, 233 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:22.400 and what do I mean by this? I think these are people who, 234 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.720 when they look back on their youth, they think I was engaging in activities 235 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:33.960 that could have absolutely led to an unwanted pregnancy. And I don't want to 236 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.039 tell someone who actually has to deal with that consequence what they can do because 237 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.799 I didn't have to deal with it. I didn't have to deal with the 238 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:48.119 consequences of an unwanted pregnancy, and so I don't want to tell someone else 239 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:51.720 what to do. I feel guilty, I feel like a hypocrite. But 240 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:53.880 then the question becomes if what I said is true? And by the way, 241 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.559 at one is if what I said is true, and that life begins 242 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:03.440 a conception, And the question comes, at what point as a freedom loving 243 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:08.519 American, at what point, as an American who understands that we have a 244 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:17.279 responsibility to protect human life, at what point can we say I can't condone 245 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:22.759 something that terminates the life of another human being. And I think when it's 246 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.440 framed like that, I've actually had these discussions. I've said to people before, 247 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.559 Look, what do you I mean if you can't tell them? They 248 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.279 can't take the life of an unborn child in their womb because that child is 249 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:41.599 not fully developed. What's logically to stop you from telling them? What's logically 250 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.000 I should say, going to allow you to then say to them with a 251 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.880 straight face, you can't kill your newborn child. Well, Todd, that's 252 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:51.599 different. It's out of the womb. Well why is it different? Explain 253 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.880 to me why, because all it is is just further down the developmental process 254 00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:00.359 the child. We've had three babies in this house. The baby's still require 255 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.039 attention. 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We're talking here 270 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:19.960 today about this issue of abortion because Trump is now out there saying it should 271 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:26.400 be left to left to the states to determine what to do with abortion. 272 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.680 This, of course, has upset people in the pro life community because recently 273 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:37.240 Trump was talking about potentially a federal ban on abortions at fifteen weeks. Now 274 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:41.359 he's out there saying that this should be left to the states. Some people 275 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.440 feel like, what's going on here. Other people say that this is just 276 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.759 the reality of where we are in twenty twenty four when it comes to electoral 277 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:53.240 politics. I laid out kind of the campaign as it's going right now. 278 00:23:53.839 --> 00:24:00.119 The left wants Trump to do something like an abortion band because they will then 279 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:07.680 make the campaign about preserving the quote unquote rights of women to terminate the life 280 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:14.880 of their unborn child, and so they're looking for that opportunity, and so 281 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.640 there's a political game that's being played here. Now. I want to try 282 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:23.920 to look at this from as many different directions as I can. The first 283 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.720 is what is right. The first is what is right? Is what is 284 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:41.680 right, and what is best is that abortion abortion be ultimately eradicated. What 285 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.839 is best is for humanity to understand and come to grips with the fact that 286 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.200 an unborn child is in fact, that it is fully human, though it 287 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:57.839 is not fully developed, and taking the life of an unborn child is not 288 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:03.359 something that moral societies do. I know that there are complexities. I know 289 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:11.440 that there are that there are things that make some of these situations absolutely just 290 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:15.960 awful when you factor in rape and other things and other things like that. 291 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:21.519 But I also think in fact, I was having a conversation with the young 292 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:26.240 lady the other day when I said, not relatively recently, and she's pro 293 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.559 choice. But it's interesting again the number of people who say they're pro choice, 294 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.200 but they say I would never personally do it. I just don't want 295 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:34.799 to tell someone else again, I think a lot of that stems from guilt, 296 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:44.319 as I said last segment, but guilt aside what you did aside. 297 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.799 The question is what is right, what is moral? What is just? 298 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:53.799 And to take the life of an unborn child is not a moral thing to 299 00:25:53.799 --> 00:26:03.319 do. That child is quite literally incapable of being guilty of anything. That 300 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:10.559 child did not do anything wrong. Justifying those actions. The only things that 301 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:14.400 are justifying the well in the vast majority of cases, the vast majority of 302 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:21.119 abortions are done out of convenience or just personal desire. I don't want to 303 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:25.200 have a child, I want to live this life. I don't want the 304 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:30.000 consequence. And that's really awful. It's really awful if you stop and think. 305 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.079 Actually, you don't have to stop and think about it. It's just 306 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:38.880 really, really awful that people are prepared to make those to make those decisions, 307 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:45.079 to take those actions, and we've sanitized it, right, we've sanitized 308 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.880 I don't know. Recently, there was a video going around of medical students. 309 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.640 I think that maybe they have medical students or pre med students. They 310 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:57.640 were passing out from watching a C section, and of course that led to 311 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:03.039 the inevitable comments of wait, till they see an abortion, right, because 312 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:06.640 we haven't seen that what we have if we dig. But a lot of 313 00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:11.119 people have no idea. It sounds like they want it to sound like just 314 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.960 this, you know, it's like taking an advil for a headache or something. 315 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.480 That's what they want it to sound like. But that's not what's happening. 316 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:22.000 There's so much more going on there, taking the life of an unborn 317 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.200 child, and we can't just blow that off as though as though it's nothing. 318 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.160 So that's the moral position. The moral position. I will say this 319 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:37.480 too. I will say this too. If what I've been told by women 320 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.880 who have had abortions and they struggle with guilt and they look for healing and 321 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:48.920 and well, I guess reconciliation with God and instances or just to be able 322 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:55.400 to heal from that that trauma. I mean, that's kind of a second 323 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:03.680 a second degree impact of abortion is down the line. It's, of course 324 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.680 the immediate decision to terminate the life of the unborn child, but then it's 325 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:12.640 also the psychological impact that it's going to have on the vast majority of women 326 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:19.519 who've decided who've decided to have an abortion. And so if that's true, 327 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:25.480 then we have an obligation to at least make sure at least I'm saying, 328 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:30.359 at least make sure that these women understand that this is not something that you 329 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:37.960 just flippantly engage in. This is something that quite possibly can haunt you for 330 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:41.519 the rest of your life. And again, as I said last segment, 331 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:47.039 we serve a God who's willing to forgive and to heal. But it's one 332 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.640 thing to say that for something you've already done. It's another thing to say 333 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:53.839 that for something you are trying to justify to do in the future. That's 334 00:28:53.880 --> 00:29:00.240 a really dangerous place to be is when someone would basically say, well, 335 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.759 God's gonna forgive me I'm going to do this atrocious thing anyway, That's a 336 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:11.920 very very dangerous game to be playing. So there's the moral side of this. 337 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:18.119 There's the political side of this. Right politically, I mean, the 338 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:23.160 realities are, where where is the country today? Where's the country today? 339 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:30.440 Could we pull off a national fifteen week abortion band? And then of course 340 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:32.799 there's people who say, why would you just not of fifteen weeks? Why 341 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.880 can't you go all the way? Right? And the reality is is, 342 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.559 I don't know that you can. I don't know that you can't. Now, 343 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.000 now that opens the debate as to whether or not you say, well, 344 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:52.000 let's invest our political capital here into defending these unborn human beings defending their 345 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:59.319 lives. This is absolutely worth worth doing. And so there's political back and 346 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:04.480 forth on that. By the way, I agree, but you have to 347 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:11.240 also at least acknowledge that if you don't have political power, you wouldn't even 348 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.279 have the overturning of Roe versus Wade, right, that happened because of Trump. 349 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:19.200 Now do I agree with Trump on this? No, I don't on 350 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:25.559 this. But do I understand the political realities? And it's it's it's just 351 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:30.759 something that has I mean again, someone might say I see the reality, 352 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.160 but I want to make a different choice. I make a different conclusion here. 353 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:40.519 I understand and see that perspective. But there would not be this discussion 354 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:45.759 if Trump wasn't president in two thousand and sixteen, between twenty sixteen and twenty 355 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.440 twenty or twenty seventeen I guess when he got sworn in. But you know, 356 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.599 there wouldn't be this discussion. It would have been an academic pursuit and 357 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.960 a lot of times, and this is where it gets it gets really it 358 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:03.359 gets really hairy, so to speak, because you don't want a lot of 359 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:10.599 the things that I think that a temptation that is out there for conservative thinking 360 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:15.359 is that it becomes an intellectual pursuit where we want to understand and we can 361 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:21.640 see the truth, and we begin to piece together these thoughts and ideas and 362 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:22.880 we say, Okay, this makes sense, this makes sense, Okay, 363 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.720 this is the right position. But then when it comes to advancing that, 364 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:36.880 it's like we don't always put as much thought into that. And that's really 365 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.440 the most important part of this. And so it there's tough decisions to be 366 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:48.200 made. At what point do you say it's better to have circumstance X than 367 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:53.160 circumstance Why? Right, It's better, for example, to have the overturning 368 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:59.160 of Roe versus Wade than it is to have you know, Hillary Clinton had 369 00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.440 won the press NC in twenty sixteen, and she appointed Merrick Garland to the 370 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:07.799 Supreme Court and all that, and then you have a court that's never going 371 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:14.240 to They're going to build upon that atrocious Row decision for fifty years ago, 372 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.640 right, They're going to continue to push that into the American culture, the 373 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:21.920 American way of life, and you're never going to win. You're never going 374 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.839 to win that battle. So it's this is a discussion in a debate that 375 00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:30.519 needs to certainly certainly transpire and happen. But now that Trump's out there saying 376 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:37.599 he's not in favor of a federal abortion band at say fifteen weeks or some 377 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.519 number of weeks, that leads many people to say, well, here we 378 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:45.240 go. This guy is not a principled, you know, conservative, he's 379 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:52.079 not a pro life Republican. He's definitely not an abolitionist. You know that. 380 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:57.920 That's certainly one way of looking at it. But another way is to 381 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:04.680 say, do we want to win academic battles or do we want to win 382 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:08.480 battles in reality, because battles in reality are where real lives are actually saved 383 00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:14.319 in one. And I'm not saying he's right here. I'm just saying that 384 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:20.720 there is a very real thing out there that says if the Democrats are chomping 385 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:22.400 at the bit at this, they would love this to be with the twenty 386 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.319 twenty four campaigns about because that's all that they've got. And I would say 387 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:31.559 I would love it to be about this, and we invest in persuading people 388 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:36.519 to truth. But I just don't know. I don't know. I don't 389 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.200 know that the American people are ready for I don't know. I'm not sure 390 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.119 what to say about that. But the point is. The point is we've 391 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:51.440 made tremendous strides on the issue of abortion, and it's good for the American 392 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.680 people. It's good for unborn human beings. The direction that we've taken, 393 00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:01.200 and I think we may not have gotten all that we want, but it's 394 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:05.960 certainly better than it was prior to Trump taking office. So timeouts in order, 395 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:24.920 my friends, sit tight back in just a minute. Welcome back to 396 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:30.920 my friends. So I've been talking about abortion here today because again it's something 397 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.159 that has come up. I know that this, at least as it pertains 398 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:45.000 to the Trump campaign, A lot of pro life conservatives are not real happy 399 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:51.000 about this, and I understand, and I'm not either, But I also 400 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:55.760 try to look at this as we have to advance, We have to advance 401 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.719 in ways that we can if we look at it as all or nothing. 402 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:07.559 I understand, I completely understand, and it's a really, really terrible situation. 403 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:15.840 But sometimes sometimes I mean, this culture, my friends, is so 404 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:23.719 just corrupt and wicked that we may not be able many times, we may 405 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.320 not be able to advance it to where it needs to be. And it 406 00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:32.320 doesn't mean that we should give up. But if the choice truly is where 407 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.480 we were back when Roe v. Wade was actually the law of the land, 408 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:38.719 or where we are today, this is headed in the right direction. 409 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:43.480 I hate to say it that way, but we at least need to be 410 00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:47.280 we at least need to recognize that. So not saying that we're you know 411 00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:51.760 that that Trump's decision here to say that these rights should stay with the Saints 412 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:57.480 or where or what we should do. It's just, you know, there's 413 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.719 a reality here at some point that we just have to be mindful of, 414 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.599 I guess anyway. So that being said, I want to play this SoundBite 415 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.320 again. I don't want to get in the habit of playing too many sound 416 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:13.280 bites from the view, but this is WHOOPI Goldberg. I just the stupidity 417 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:17.800 of this stuff that's being espoused over there is too much to take in sometimes. 418 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.079 But here she is, she's talking about abortion, she's trying to make 419 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.679 her point, and she's just I mean, just some stupid stuff being said 420 00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.039 over here. She brings God into this the Ten Commandments as well. So 421 00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:32.239 I want to play this and comment on it in the time that we have 422 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:37.920 remaining. So here's what good Goldberg on the view. Talking about abortion, 423 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:46.559 no one is obligated to have an abortion, so you never have to have 424 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:52.679 one, and I hope no one ever has to have one. But if 425 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:58.239 you find yourself in a position where you have to, I want to make 426 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:02.760 sure, and I'm way past having kids. I want to make sure that's 427 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:10.000 way past. I want to make sure that if you decide this is what 428 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.079 you need to do, I'm going to get behind you because I don't know 429 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:17.039 your life. And if you say this is what you need, that's what 430 00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:22.159 I'm gonna do. Fifty weeks, seventy five thousand weeks, whatever happened, 431 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:30.000 it's nobody's business. It's you, your doctor, and God, and that's 432 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:36.119 who you have to be conversational to it. And it's not mentioned in the 433 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:38.679 in the Big Ten. I'm just gonna say, in the Big Ten, 434 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.880 it is not men. The Commandments. Yeah, you know, God was 435 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.920 pretty clear. Here's the stuff that will make your life better on earth. 436 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.559 Here's the thing. Don't lie because you don't want people to lie to you 437 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:55.159 don't mess with somebody's wife, because you're going to be mad if they're messing 438 00:37:55.159 --> 00:38:00.880 with you. You know, don't sense stuff not killed. Well, here's 439 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:07.679 the thing. I think, thou shalt not kill we cannot be used as 440 00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:13.880 as the as the block because we allow wars all the time, crusade, 441 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:21.719 we're about all these things. So there is some conversation to be having here. 442 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:27.679 So you can either you thou shalt not kill for everybody and everything and 443 00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:32.239 everything, or we have to talk about all the things that you and I 444 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:36.480 need to do and I have to Yes, I need to give you Okay, 445 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.039 So she's saying here, it's it's an all or nothing thing. You 446 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:46.559 know. You either say thou shalt not kill for everything, or we have 447 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:50.880 to start. Well, she's she's kind of right in a way. I 448 00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:52.679 mean, we all need to be looking at our lives and changing a lot 449 00:38:52.679 --> 00:39:00.079 of things if we get down to it. But the truth is the truth 450 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:08.920 is that perhaps the better translation of the ten commandments is now shall not murder? 451 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:14.960 Oh now, wait a minute. Now we're getting into an example or 452 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:21.119 into a situation where context really matters. What's the differentiating part of murder? 453 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:28.880 Murder is the unjustifiable taking of a human life. So not all killing is 454 00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:32.159 the same right. We know this just from the way things are charged in 455 00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:37.320 the criminal justice system. I mean, if you shoot someone and kill them 456 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:40.920 in pure self defense, that's not murder. My friends, you were reacting 457 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:47.280 to a circumstance that you did not create. The perpetrator created the circumstance in 458 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:54.280 which it was decided by the perpetrator that someone was going to face extreme bodily 459 00:39:54.320 --> 00:40:00.400 harm or death, and you decided it wasn't going to be you. And 460 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:05.719 so this matters. Not only that. I remember in college when people would 461 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:07.559 say these sorts of things, thou shall not kill, the Ten Commandments, 462 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:13.400 Exitus chapter twenty if you literally turn to Exitus chapter twenty one, which in 463 00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:15.519 many Bibles, of course, it depends upon the layout. But in the 464 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:20.679 Bible I was that had at the time, it was literally on the right 465 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.119 page right, So on the left was Exitus twenty the Ten Commandments, thou 466 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:30.159 shall not kill. On the right was a series of examples of when capital 467 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:37.400 punishment was justified. So clearly, clearly this is not the same thing. 468 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:44.480 But when is it right to murder an innocent unborn child versus When is it 469 00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:49.119 right to use self defense? When is it right to engage in in a 470 00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.280 war? Those are different questions of my friends. What he wants you to 471 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:57.360 believe that they're not. She's wrong as usual, But I gotta go have 472 00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:58.280 a great day, SDG.