WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.599 It is the height of megalomania to basically have a 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.119 radio show in the first place, and to think, yes, 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.160 an entire city, an entire region worth of people should 4 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:18.000 listen to my opinions about things. Definitely, that makes sense. 5 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:21.839 There's certainly more than a little bit of ego involved 6 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:26.000 in an enterprise like this. But what might be even 7 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:32.159 more megalomaniacal is on your own radio show reading an 8 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:33.640 op ed piece that you wrote. 9 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.600 So that's what we're doing right now. 10 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:42.079 This Saturday kind of had a resume altering kind of 11 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:49.960 deal in which National Review, the big conservative national publication, 12 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:53.920 one of the most important conservative publications in America, decided 13 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.320 to run a little op ed column that I wrote 14 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.359 about the abortion pill. And I'm going to talk about 15 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:03.039 it with all of you because I think it's really important, 16 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:08.159 especially as it seems that RFK Junior is on track 17 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.359 to get confirmed as HHS Secretary. And basically in the piece, 18 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:18.879 I'm talking about miff of pristone, aka the abortion pill, 19 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.640 and I'm talking about why it needs to be regulated, 20 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.319 and I want to sort of tell you guys about 21 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.159 kind of the history of this. 22 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:28.640 A little bit of it ties. 23 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:34.400 Into USAID and those kinds of foreign funding type deals 24 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.000 because of how the abortion pill got developed in the 25 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.560 first place, how it came over from Europe. Basically, the 26 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.719 abortion pill was invented in France. I think in the 27 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.439 late eighties it became a more and more popular way 28 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.840 to perform abortions in Europe, and Bill Clinton said, boy, 29 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.000 I sure could use that. Let's bring that over from Europe. 30 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.200 So Bill Clinton working through allies at things like the 31 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:03.480 Ford Foundation, and I now wonder if USAID was paying 32 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:09.719 for this, just as foreign aid, you know, for different 33 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.240 kinds of big nonprofits. The Ford Foundation was getting a 34 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.680 lot of money from USAID anyway, just my wild speculation. 35 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.000 Clinton and the Ford Foundation worked for eight straight years 36 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.080 to bring the abortion pill mif of pristone over from 37 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.719 Europe to America and to go through all the necessary 38 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.520 work through the FDA for the drug to get FDA approval. Now, 39 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.240 let me explain what the abortion pill is. So first 40 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:37.199 point of clarification, the abortion pill is not the morning 41 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.759 after pill. I just want to clarify that for you. 42 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.840 The morning after pill largely functions as a contraceptive. Its 43 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:49.680 goal is the morning after a sexual encounter to prevent ovulation. 44 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:57.199 A woman, a woman's ovicular follicle rupturing and releasing an egg. 45 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:05.080 That is the goal of the morning after pill, also 46 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:11.000 known as levonne or gestrel, So the goal is to 47 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.000 prevent ovulation. There is some thought though that it does 48 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.360 alter the lining, the interior lining of the uterus, to 49 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.199 make it hostile to the implantation of a new embryo, 50 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.120 so it could be abortifation, but its chief goal is 51 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:31.439 to prevent ovulation. The abortion pill is what I'm talking about, mifipristone. 52 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.520 And what a lot of people don't understand is that 53 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:39.840 the abortion pill is the dominant method of abortion provision 54 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.039 in America today, and that the entire face of abortion 55 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:48.680 provision in America was changed just in the last five years, 56 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:53.639 really starting in twenty twenty one, when President Biden's FDA. 57 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.439 Something I called, by the way, that you know, anyone. 58 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.159 Who was listening to this show or listening to who 59 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.639 write to Life Radio, Jonathan Keller and I were calling 60 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.120 this during the twenty twenty election. One of the most 61 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:09.120 undertalked about things in the twenty twenty election related to abortion, 62 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:12.199 and it was basically, if Trump is reelected, he will 63 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.759 keep whatever existing restrictions there are on the abortion pill. 64 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.399 If Biden's elected, he's going to loosen those restrictions to 65 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:22.920 make the abortion pill far more widely available. And that's 66 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:31.920 precisely what happened. Starting in twenty twenty one, Biden issued 67 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:36.680 his FDA issued new regulations, as he had been urged 68 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:42.279 to do by various pro abortion public policy medical public 69 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:45.079 policy advocates who had been agitating for this throughout the 70 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:51.439 Trump administration. Biden put in place new regulations allowing the 71 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:57.560 abortion pill MiFi pristone to be prescribed without an in 72 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:04.040 person visit to a doctor or a clinic, so via 73 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.879 a telemedicine appointment, and for it to be shipped through 74 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:10.720 the mail, so you never have to leave your house 75 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.519 to get an abortion. Basically, this resulted in basically pill 76 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.279 abortions went from about fifty percent of all abortions to 77 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.560 now over sixty percent of all abortions, and the total 78 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.720 number of abortions in America during the Biden years spiked 79 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.160 from nine hundred thousand a year to a million per year, 80 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:36.240 so it jumped like one hundred thousand per year. Now, 81 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.000 what does the abortion pill do. The abortion pill, you 82 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.199 take it up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. It 83 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:49.920 cuts off this hormone called progesterone. Without progesterone, basically you 84 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:53.399 can't maintain a pregnancy. The lining, the interior lining of 85 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.000 the uterus is altered such that the embryo or fetus 86 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.360 who has adhered. 87 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:00.560 To the interuter and wall. 88 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:06.079 The embryo or fetus detaches from the interior lining of 89 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.879 the uterus, is cut off from food and oxygen, and 90 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:15.480 dies about twenty four to forty eight hours later, the 91 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:19.920 woman takes a second drug called mesa prostole, which results 92 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:24.279 in the child being expelled from the woman's womb. Mesaprostol's 93 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:29.879 a legitimate drug. It's used to induce labor. Now, this 94 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.720 is the most common way abortion happens in America. I 95 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.720 think most people when they hear the word abortion, they 96 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:40.160 still think like a surgical intervention. What I'm telling you 97 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.720 is no, that's most of the time. That's not how 98 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:46.680 it's happening anymore. Most of the time it's happening as 99 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:53.519 a drug intervention. I'm not going to say treatment, because 100 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:58.519 what illness exactly is abortion treating? What sickness is it treating? 101 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.319 If it's treatment, if it's healthcare, what is the illness 102 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:07.800 it's correcting. Pregnancy is not an illness, guys. It's a natural, healthy, 103 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.560 bodily process that we are artificially arresting, making abortion not 104 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:19.439 really healthcare but maybe something kind of healthcare adjacent adjacent. No, 105 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.639 Like you know, Michael Jackson getting a nose job was 106 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.000 not a healthcare intervention. There was nothing wrong with his nose. 107 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.720 It was something he chose for some kind of social reason. 108 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:34.720 That is the case with abortion in the overwhelming majority 109 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:36.839 of cases, and in cases where it is chosen for 110 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.480 health reason, often it's not exactly abortion. I won't get 111 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:41.720 into that whole discussion. 112 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:47.480 Now. In my piece, I make the point. 113 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:53.079 So basically, the sequence of events has been Democrat presidents 114 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:59.240 work like mad to deregulate the abortion pill, take away 115 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.920 safety respondrictions imposed on it, in order to make it 116 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.600 more accessible and to increase the total percentage of American 117 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.079 abortions done via the abortion pill. Why the abortion pill 118 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:17.800 increases abortion quote access. And this is the buzzword that 119 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.279 the abortion industry today likes. They don't want abortion to 120 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:25.600 be safe, legal, and rare anymore. They want abortion to 121 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:31.720 be legal. They're willing to sacrifice safety for the sake 122 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:39.679 of legality and not rare, but accessible. They want the 123 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.039 abortion pill to be accessible. They want you to be 124 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:45.000 able to get an abortion even if you're in a 125 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:46.879 state where it's illegal. They want you to be able 126 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.360 to get an abortion even if you don't live near 127 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:54.840 an abortion clinic. And yeah, the abortion pill is less 128 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.559 safe than a surgical abortion by any standard. The abortion 129 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:07.480 pill process involves usually heavy, extremely heavy bleeding, extremely heavy cramping. 130 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:12.639 About five percent of the time, it involves what's called 131 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.159 an incomplete abortion, meaning not everything is expelled from the 132 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.679 woman's body. She has dead tissue remaining, which can lead 133 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:26.519 to serious infection and requires a follow up surgery. Meanwhile, 134 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.399 the abortion pill is being marketed to people as if 135 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:33.039 it's a nothing burger intervention that erzos saypher's taking a 136 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.240 tile andol, by which they mean the complication rate is 137 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:47.679 about the same as overdosing on tilenol. So again, the 138 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.039 history of this has been. Clinton worked furiously for eight 139 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:54.120 straight years to get the abortion pill FDA approved, gets 140 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.840 it approved through an expedited FDA process in September of 141 00:09:57.879 --> 00:09:59.960 two thousand because he realizes he's running out of time. 142 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.039 George W. Bush could win the election. 143 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.639 He doesn't want to leave it to chance, so he 144 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:09.399 does this expedited process that was probably illegal. There was 145 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:15.240 this expedited FDA process to approve medications that treat quote, 146 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:20.240 serious diseases or illnesses, which again does not fit the 147 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:23.120 abortion pill. The abortion pill does not treat a disease 148 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:27.200 or an illness. It treats pregnancy. Then it doesn't treat it. 149 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:32.840 It ends it. 150 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:39.440 It's not making the situation better. So for eight years 151 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.159 Clinton worked to get the abortion pill FDA approved. He 152 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:47.919 gets it FDA approved months before leaving office. George W. 153 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.840 Bush is president for eight years and does nothing. Then 154 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.360 Barack Obama comes into office. Barack Obama lessens a bunch 155 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:58.840 of the health and safety restrictions around the abortion pill. 156 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.080 Instead of needing three appointments, a preliminary appointment, an appointment 157 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.639 to get the pill, and a follow up appointment, Obama 158 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:11.039 reduces it to just one appointment just to get the pill. 159 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.399 Obama increases the time frame during which it can be 160 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.399 prescribed from the first seven weeks of pregnancy through the 161 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.600 first ten weeks of pregnancy, and yeah, the complication rate 162 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.120 increases the further along into pregnancy. You are, just like 163 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:28.279 with miscarriages. The later into pregnancy, a miscarriage happens, the 164 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:36.039 more likelihood there is for adverse outcomes, for risks to 165 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.360 the mother's health. So Obama gets rid of all these 166 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:42.120 safety precautions, including the need for follow up care. Why 167 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.000 do you need follow up care? Well, what if you 168 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:47.039 have an incomplete abortion and you need a follow up surgery. 169 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:51.279 That's the really helpful thing of having follow up care. No, 170 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.200 Instead they say, ah, well no, you don't need to 171 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.399 have the follow up care. Now, just come in the 172 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.519 one time and if someone's feeling bad, just go to 173 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:04.440 the er. Leaves someone to the vagaries of the er, 174 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:13.080 because again it's about access. Fewer needed drives to a 175 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:19.480 clinic equals readier access. So Obama deregulates it. And as 176 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:27.080 he's getting rid of these health and safety standards, Obama decides, basically, 177 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.159 he decides, we're going to get rid of all adverse 178 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:33.960 outcome reporting for the abortion pill other than deaths. You 179 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.840 have to report deaths, but you don't have to report 180 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.960 anything else. So now we're flying blind. Now we have 181 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.120 pretty good info for the first like sixteen years of 182 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:47.960 the abortion pills life cycle, the first sixteen years of 183 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.240 its being FDA approved, in America for its health and 184 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:51.919 safety risk. 185 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:54.240 They're not negligible. 186 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:58.799 But ever since twenty sixteen, we're flying blind because Barack 187 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:00.120 Obama's like, ah, we don't need. 188 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.399 To collect adverse health data. 189 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:10.840 So Obama issues those regulations three appointments to one, seven 190 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.799 weeks to ten, no adverse reporting data in twenty sixteen. Again, 191 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.360 just like Clinton did. Months before the twenty sixteen election, 192 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.120 here's Obama saying, well, you know, maybe Donald Trump will win, 193 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:29.519 you know, let's not leave it a chance. Trump then 194 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.879 spends four years, maybe Trump will win, Let's not leave 195 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.399 it a chance. Trump administration one point zero doesn't do 196 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:38.639 anything about the abortion pill for four years. 197 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:41.240 Then Biden comes in. 198 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.679 Immediately after he comes in, Biden deregulates the abortion pill again, 199 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.639 gets rid of more safety standards, gets rid of the 200 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:49.879 need for any in person appointment, says you can just 201 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.519 do it via a tele medicine appointment. Get a prescription 202 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.159 via tele medicine appointment, which, by the way, how many 203 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:56.600 weeks gestation are you? 204 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:03.720 I think ten? You can't. You can't expect. 205 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.240 Hundreds of thousands of American women to all guess that 206 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.639 they're within ten weeks of pregnancy. You know how many 207 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.879 of them are probably gonna get that wrong. And I'm 208 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.600 not saying they're idiots or something. Sometimes it's hard to 209 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:21.639 tell exactly how far along you are. That's the point 210 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.279 of having an appointment in person, so you can have 211 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:27.519 an ultrasound to confirm gestational age. So someone's gonna get 212 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.879 the abortion pill for a baby that might be twelve 213 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:34.919 weeks along, that's gonna severely increase that. That's gonna big 214 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.759 time increase all the risks for adverse health outcomes. Eh whatever. 215 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:44.399 Or if a woman's having an ectopic pregnancy, which is 216 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.440 where the baby's growing in the filippian tube instead of 217 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.639 the uterus, Uh, well, I got a positive pregnancy to us, 218 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.240 all right, let's just have the abortion pill. Well, what 219 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.480 if she's having an ectopic pregnancy, So if the baby's 220 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:57.399 growing in the Filippian tube, the abortion pill. 221 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:57.960 Is not gonna work. 222 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.519 The baby's gonna keep growing in the fillopian tube until 223 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.360 it bursts, which is going to be serious danger for 224 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:08.960 both the mom and the baby. In fact, New England 225 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.240 Journal of Medicine covered a case like that about a 226 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.360 year ago. Mom trying to do an abortion pill process 227 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.559 didn't realize she was having an actopic pregnancy, was doing 228 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:25.200 the abortion pill process online not in person. Fillopian tube ruptures, 229 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:36.840 you know, she almost dies. So with after President Obama 230 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:40.399 did his twenty sixteen regulations seven weeks to ten, three 231 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.720 visits to one visit, it resulted in the number of 232 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:47.200 pill abortions spiking from about thirty nine percent of all 233 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:50.200 abortions in America to fifty three percent of all abortions 234 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.000 in America. After President Biden deregulated the abortion pill further 235 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.679 with no required in person visits. Have the abortion pill 236 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.840 be shipped to your house or shipped to a major pharmacy. 237 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.320 It's from fifty three percent of all American abortions to 238 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.600 sixty three percent of all American abortions. So you're talking, 239 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.120 and under the Biden regime, the total number of abortions 240 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.080 spiked from nine hundred thousand to a million, and probably 241 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.919 that extra hundred thousand was all the result of pill abortions. 242 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:27.519 So in comes Trump two point zero incomes RFK junior. 243 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:32.120 Will RFK junior want to regulate this? Why would RFK 244 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.320 junior want to regulate this? Let's how should RFK junior 245 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.279 regulate it? Let's talk about that. In the next segment. 246 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.480 This is the John Gilready Show on Power Talk. So 247 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.559 we've been talking about my piece that was published in 248 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:48.480 National Review about the abortion pill if a pristone and 249 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.120 why Trump and RFK should regulate it now one of 250 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.039 the things that has amused my wife and me over 251 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.879 the last So the National Review agreed to run the start. 252 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:04.119 I wrote very grateful to my friend's the Spencer family 253 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:06.599 who kind of helped me with getting it submitted. 254 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:07.440 Thanks Susie. 255 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.720 I got it submitted, it was edited last week. I 256 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.759 was really excited. I mean, this is the biggest publication 257 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:17.480 I've ever had anything I've written published in. 258 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:18.640 So I'm super excited. 259 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:25.319 And it gets posted on National Reviews website Saturday Saturday, early, 260 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:32.079 early Saturday morning, and I wake up at about I 261 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:35.440 woke up actually extremely early because our two year old 262 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.559 Jimmy's been waking up crazy early. 263 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:38.640 For some crazy reason. 264 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.119 And I woke wake up at like five thirty or 265 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.720 six or something, and I look at pull up the 266 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.000 website on my phone and I see it and I 267 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.640 see just a ton of comments. It's like over four 268 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.799 hundred comments. As of today, it's over four hundred comments. 269 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.319 But even you know, early Saturday morning. Right ever, was 270 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.960 posed a ton of cos and the thing that astonished 271 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.720 me was how many of the comments were really negative 272 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:10.240 on it. Wow, National Reviews readership apparently far more pro 273 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:15.559 choice than I expected, and it was ninety nine percent 274 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:17.720 of the comments seemed to indicate that they hadn't really 275 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:19.480 read the piece, that they thought it was just a 276 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:26.480 generic anti abortion piece, or like some of them were like, 277 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:30.920 why should RFK do anything that National Review wants to do? 278 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:32.799 Which I'm like, well, I'm not National Review. 279 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.839 I just got a thing published, So why is there 280 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:39.960 any reason RFK would want to REGULARLYMPH for pristone. Now, 281 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.960 RFK was specifically asked about the abortion pill, which, again 282 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:46.640 for context if you've missed the first segment, MEPH for 283 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.440 pristone's the most common method of abortion provision in America. Today, 284 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.359 sixty three percent of all abortions are done via MIPH 285 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:56.480 for pristone. Since President Biden got rid of a lot 286 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:58.880 of the health and safety standards around it and allowed 287 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:02.119 the abortion pill to be ship through the mail, it 288 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.759 has spiked the total number of American abortions from about 289 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.200 nine hundred thousand a year to a million per year, 290 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.880 and the total the percentage of all abortions done via 291 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.599 the abortion pill has massively increased as well. So my 292 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.359 contention is this administration, if it's going to do anything 293 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:27.279 abortion related, this is a federal problem. The FDA regulatory 294 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:29.960 status of mif A pristone is a federal question. 295 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.359 State governments can't do anything about it. 296 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.240 As much as people want to say, oh, abortions for 297 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:39.160 the states, now, all right in certain respects, Yeah, yes, 298 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:42.039 states can regulate it. But states can't do anything about 299 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:48.880 the FDA approval and FDA restrictions on a drug. That's 300 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:52.400 a federal question. And it was brought before RFK during 301 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.680 his Senate confirmation hearings. Now, RFK said a couple of 302 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.400 things about abortion that I thought were really interesting, and 303 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:00.599 most of them pretty good. 304 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:01.119 Honestly. 305 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.720 Now he is pro choice, he admitted, But he said, 306 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.480 you know what, he really sounds like. RFK sounds like 307 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.440 a Democrat from nineteen ninety two. When you talk about 308 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.279 abortion with RFK the way he talks about it, he 309 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.079 sounds like a Democrat from nineteen ninety two. I think 310 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:21.519 he's still stuck in that kind of Democrat party and 311 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:25.480 the rest of the rest of the Democratic Party abandoned 312 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:30.160 his position. They the most of the Democrats moved way 313 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.440 to the left on abortion, and RFK is still kind 314 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.400 of living in this nineteen ninety two Democrat attitude where 315 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.559 he says, look, I think every abortion is a tragedy. 316 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:40.240 I don't think we can be a moral nation if 317 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.519 we have, you know, over a million abortions per year. 318 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:48.200 You know, I don't support federal funding for abortion. I 319 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.680 safe legal and rare. RFK Junior is still living in 320 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.599 the safe legal, rare era of abortion. And while I 321 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.279 certainly don't think that's an adequate summation of like what 322 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:01.319 our country's moral and legal approach to the question of 323 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.960 abortion should be, it's certainly preferable to the modern day 324 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.920 Democrat approach to abortion, which is basically, abortion should be 325 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:13.559 universally accessible with no restrictions on anyone being able to 326 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.880 get abortion, meaning you, the taxpayer, should fund it. It 327 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:20.240 should be shipped through the mail to people's houses directly, 328 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:23.319 without even needing to see a doctor first. Like that, 329 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.400 that's the level of insanity we're talking about with Democrats 330 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:32.440 and their abortion activism. All right, So RFK said a 331 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.160 couple of good things, and when asked about and if 332 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:36.599 Pristoni said, I haven't decided how I want to regulate it. 333 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.000 President Trump hasn't decided what how to regulate it. We're 334 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.359 going to discuss it together. So I wrote this column saying, 335 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:44.920 I think the whole pro life movement needs to orient 336 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.960 its focus on this issue. I think everything else practically 337 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:53.759 pales in comparison, because again, the deregulation of the abortion 338 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.400 pill under Bien, under Biden has led to one hundred 339 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.480 thousand more abortions per year. So what could be done well? First, 340 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:04.799 the FDA could look back at the original approval of 341 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.839 the abortion pill by the FDA. President Obama's loosening of 342 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:13.480 safety restrictions in twenty sixteen three mandated doctor visits before 343 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:16.039 to receive the drug and follow up reduced just to 344 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:20.640 one visit, extending the timeframe from seven weeks into pregnancy 345 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.039 to ten weeks in pregnancy where there are more complications, 346 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:27.400 and getting rid of reporting requirements for adverse health outcomes. 347 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:30.920 That was the twenty sixteen regulations and then the twenty 348 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:35.400 twenty one Joe Biden regulations. First, there's already been a 349 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:38.279 federal court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, that has 350 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:44.920 held that the twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one deregulations 351 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.720 violated federal law, violated the Administrative Procedures Act, basically that 352 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.119 they were arbitrary and compricious regulations that had no relationship 353 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.079 whatsoever to the actual health and safety data that was available. 354 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:59.920 So the Fifth Circuit is ruled that it violated them 355 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.279 Inministrative Procedures Act. I think that gives the FDA pretty 356 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:05.880 good grounds to say we're going to roll back those regulations. 357 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:08.200 Make it much more difficult to get the abortion pill. 358 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:10.559 You need three in person visits, it's only within the 359 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:14.359 first seven weeks. Also, they could just reassess the original 360 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:18.680 approval of miphipristone in two thousand. Clinton's FDA approved MiFi 361 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.000 pristone in the year two thousand with an expedited process 362 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:24.960 that was meant for this FDA process that's meant for 363 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:30.240 drugs that treat quote, serious diseases and illnesses. The abortion 364 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.599 pill doesn't treat a serious disease. It treats pregnance. It 365 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:37.799 ends pregnancy, it terminates pregnancy. Pregnancy is not a disease 366 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:42.839 or an illness. There's also been huge problems with the 367 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:46.440 abortion pill being shipped illegally into being shipped into states 368 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.960 where abortion is illegal from states where it is legal. 369 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:54.720 So California company or doctor shipping the abortion pill through 370 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:58.039 the mail to Texas, and California set up these shield 371 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:02.599 laws to prevent doctors, prevent companies from any kind of 372 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:08.319 adverse legal action from Texas. Well, maybe the Trump administration 373 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:10.880 could enforce this thing called the Comstock Act. Was that 374 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:14.119 Ulysses says, grant law that prevents shipping abortifations through the mail. 375 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:16.519 So I really encourage you guys. 376 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.400 Go to Fresno Johnny on Twitter dot com slash Fresno 377 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:20.920 Johnny read my piece. 378 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:22.119 I think it's really good. 379 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:25.240 When we return how Trump could restore the executive branch 380 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:29.640 Next on the John Girardi Show, I think one of 381 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:35.519 the most significant and potentially long lasting outcomes we could 382 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:40.240 see of Trump two point zero is the way that 383 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:48.599 it will possibly restore executive power to its proper constitutional constraints. 384 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.240 And this is happening on a number of fronts that 385 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.200 there are a lot of court challenges that seem to 386 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:57.240 be getting set up on a number of different fronts 387 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:00.759 for basically allowing the Trump and min Stration to do 388 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.799 its job and chipping away at a bunch of laws 389 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:07.920 that were passed at a time when the Supreme Court 390 00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:11.000 just really did not care very much or just sort 391 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:16.000 of the political culture was just not as caring about 392 00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:18.160 separation of powers problems. 393 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:20.400 Let me explain what I mean. 394 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:25.839 We have like a federal workforce. Now, these are employees 395 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:30.240 who work for the various federal executive branch agencies, and 396 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:36.000 we now have this classification system between well, there's political 397 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.960 appointees and then there's career appointees, political employees and career. 398 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.079 Employees of the federal government. 399 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:46.119 That the career employees are allegedly nonpartisan, and they stay 400 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.680 when even though a new administration comes in, a new 401 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:49.559