Speaker 1: Well, a lot happened in the National conversation with Trump
Speaker 1: and abortion policy yesterday, so I feel like I have
Speaker 1: to comment on it, and I was tweeting about it
Speaker 1: much of the day, much of the afternoon yesterday, and
Speaker 1: sort of working on an article about it. So we
Speaker 1: had like three different bad things from Trump when it
Speaker 1: comes to abortion policy. Let me go through them. One
Speaker 1: Trump's he didn't flat out say this, but he was
Speaker 1: sort of being whiffle waffy about Florida. And Trump is
Speaker 1: a Florida resident, so Trump will be voting on Amendment
Speaker 1: four in Florida. Amendment four is a statewide ballot initiative
Speaker 1: in Florida to amend their state constitution. Choiceter's got it
Speaker 1: on the ballot, and what it's intended to do is
Speaker 1: to amend the Florida Constitution to mandate legal abortion in Florida,
Speaker 1: basically to reinstate the terms of Roe versus Wade, but
Speaker 1: also to put it in the state constitution, meaning the
Speaker 1: state legislature cannot pass a normal law to regulate it,
Speaker 1: and it will reinstate the terms of Roe v. Wade,
Speaker 1: meaning abortion will be legal for the full duration of
Speaker 1: pregnancy after viability I believe the terms are after viability,
Speaker 1: it's legal for a health reason, with health defined extremely broadly,
Speaker 1: and legal for the whole body of pregnancy. Florida's current
Speaker 1: law on the books is a heartbeat ban, a heartbeat
Speaker 1: ban that Ron DeSantis signed into law. This was to
Speaker 1: ban abortion after fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is
Speaker 1: at about six weeks now. Trump criticized is this Florida law.
Speaker 1: He criticized it during the primary campaign when basically, I
Speaker 1: think if ron de Santis had said the sky was blue,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would have criticized it's say, you know, fake news,
Speaker 1: Ronda Santis sky is actually orange. You know, if Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis had said grass is green, Trump would have disagreed
Speaker 1: with it. So Trump was already on the record saying
Speaker 1: he didn't like the six week Florida band. He said,
Speaker 1: it's too few weeks, it's too narrow, which, again, though,
Speaker 1: it makes you wonder, what about all that stuff you
Speaker 1: said when you were presidents, how you defended the right
Speaker 1: to life. And really, I think what's happening is Trump
Speaker 1: is responding to the polling. He realizes that that six
Speaker 1: week band in Florida was probably not all that popular.
Speaker 1: It got passed by the state legislature, but it might
Speaker 1: not have been that popular with voters in Florida. But
Speaker 1: Trump is probably two. He can't say totally that he
Speaker 1: wants that he supports Amendment for, but he's clearly undercutting it.
Speaker 1: He gave this interview where he said I wish it
Speaker 1: was more than six weeks and he wouldn't exactly say
Speaker 1: how he was going to vote on Amendment four. But
Speaker 1: obviously he gave this appearance to people as if he
Speaker 1: was going to vote for Amendment four, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people interpreted his comments as he's voting in favor
Speaker 1: of Amendment for now. I don't think that that's the
Speaker 1: one hundred percent correct interpretation. He had a spokesman after
Speaker 1: the fact kind of try to clean it up to
Speaker 1: say Trump has not said how he will vote. He's
Speaker 1: certainly not supporting the no vote, which should be what
Speaker 1: he does. He should be saying no, I am voting
Speaker 1: no on Amendment for and I encourage everyone in Florida
Speaker 1: to vote no. But he's not doing that. We had that.
Speaker 1: We had Trump saying I'm not going to enforce the
Speaker 1: Comstock Act if I get into office. Now, the Comstock
Speaker 1: Act is a federal law that could impact the single
Speaker 1: biggest driver of abortion in America today, which is the
Speaker 1: abortion pill, not the morning after pill. That's a separate drug.
Speaker 1: Morning after pill mostly functions as a contraceptive the morning
Speaker 1: after a sexual encounter to prevent ovulation, so mostly functions
Speaker 1: as a genuine contraceptive. I am talking about the abortion
Speaker 1: pill called mifipristone, which basically artificially recreates a miscarriage up
Speaker 1: to ten weeks into a pregnancy. The abortion pill has
Speaker 1: been massively deregulated over the last four years by President Biden.
Speaker 1: Particularly through this mechanism by President Biden in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: has allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed two women
Speaker 1: via a talamedicine checkup and to be shipped through the mail,
Speaker 1: to be shipped through the mail to individual women patients,
Speaker 1: and to be shipped to major pharmacies to be picked up.
Speaker 1: The Comstock Act is a law. It is a federal
Speaker 1: law that is on the books. It's an old law,
Speaker 1: but it's never been repealed. It was signed by Ulysses S. Grant,
Speaker 1: and it basically prohibits the shipment through the mails of
Speaker 1: various kinds of quote immoral materials. Now, given the sort
Speaker 1: of nineteenth century ish style in which it was written,
Speaker 1: the broad terminology that it uses in some of its provisions,
Speaker 1: there's probably many parts of it that would be difficult
Speaker 1: to enforce, and a lot of it has not been enforced.
Speaker 1: But it's still on the books, and a president could decide, yes,
Speaker 1: I will force it. But one of the things that
Speaker 1: very clearly prohibits is the shipment through the mail of abortifacians,
Speaker 1: which is precisely what the abortion pill is, and pro
Speaker 1: lifers have tried to argue the president has the authority
Speaker 1: to stop the shipment of abortion pills through the US
Speaker 1: Postal Service through the Comstock Act. With a snap of
Speaker 1: his fingers, President Trump just announced he's not going to
Speaker 1: do that. Not going to do that. Okay, you know again, though,
Speaker 1: the abortion pill, let's get the context for all of
Speaker 1: you who don't understand, abortion in America has been radically
Speaker 1: transformed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden through their deregulation
Speaker 1: of the abortion pill. The abortion pill is now the
Speaker 1: way that sixty three percent of abortions are done in America.
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that abortion is not most of the
Speaker 1: time is not a surgical procedure. Abortion is most of
Speaker 1: the time in America done by the abortion pill. It's
Speaker 1: not a surgical procedure. Most of the time. A woman
Speaker 1: takes the abortion pill. The first pill, she waits forty
Speaker 1: eight to seventy two hours. Then she takes a second
Speaker 1: drug called misaprostol, which results in basically inducing labor to
Speaker 1: expel the baby from her body. Up to ten weeks
Speaker 1: into pregnancy. Sixty three percent of all abortions are done
Speaker 1: through that method, not through surgical abortions. Okay, surgical abortions
Speaker 1: are the other thirty seven percent. The abortion pill is
Speaker 1: more dangerous than surgical abortions, but it's easier. It's easier
Speaker 1: for the healthcare provider. They can still get a big
Speaker 1: fat reimbursement from the drug. But it is more dangerous
Speaker 1: for women, and President Biden has dangerously deregulated it to
Speaker 1: the point where women can get a prescription for it
Speaker 1: without any in person visit, without an ultrasound to confirm
Speaker 1: justtational age, without an ultrasound to confirm that the woman's
Speaker 1: not having an ectopic pregnancy, which is where the baby's
Speaker 1: growing in the fallopian tube rather than the uterus, where
Speaker 1: if the baby keeps growing, baby's gonna die and Mom's
Speaker 1: gonna have a very serious health event. She could even die.
Speaker 1: No ultrasound to confirm just stational age to be sure
Speaker 1: that you're within that ten week period. The later in pregnancy,
Speaker 1: the more complications arise. So the abortion pill is the
Speaker 1: single biggest driver of abortion in America, and President Trump's
Speaker 1: has this tool in his toolbox that he could use
Speaker 1: to limit it, to roll back one of President Biden's
Speaker 1: singnal accomplishments I allowing the abortion pill to be shipped
Speaker 1: through the mail directly to people rather than picked up
Speaker 1: in a in the clinic or at the very least,
Speaker 1: to significantly hinder abortion provision in America. Not going to
Speaker 1: take it, Not gonna take it. Just know. And lastly,
Speaker 1: this will be more sensitive for a lot of you folks.
Speaker 1: President Trump announced that he wants to support a policy
Speaker 1: regarding IVF, that he wants to mandate coverage of IVF
Speaker 1: in health insurance plans, a health insurance mandate for IVF,
Speaker 1: and that he wants the government to pay for it
Speaker 1: for those who are maybe on government funded plans. Now,
Speaker 1: let's set aside the ethical issues with IVF that I
Speaker 1: want to explain to people because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't understand this, including a lot of people
Speaker 1: of goodwill with good intentions, who just don't really understand
Speaker 1: how the IVF process works. This is an insane idea.
Speaker 1: IVF is insanely expensive, and it is an elective issue.
Speaker 1: To mandate that it be covered in health insurance plans
Speaker 1: is insane just from a cost economics perspective. It is nuts.
Speaker 1: It is Trump pandering on this issue because he thinks
Speaker 1: he's vulnerable on social issues. That's all this is. It
Speaker 1: makes no sense. It's a bigger giveaway than the Democrats
Speaker 1: are doing now. It is completely insane of him to
Speaker 1: say this now. In IVF, it is in vitro fertilization,
Speaker 1: in glass fertilization. You take egg cells, you take sperm cells,
Speaker 1: You put him together on glass. They form the zygote,
Speaker 1: They form a blasticist. This is a very early stage
Speaker 1: few cells human organism. It is a living organism. Well
Speaker 1: is it really living? Yes, it is a living organism.
Speaker 1: It has its own metabolism. It works towards its own growth,
Speaker 1: transporting nutrients for itself. It works towards its own and
Speaker 1: goals of growth and flourishing. It is a living human organism. Okay,
Speaker 1: Amiba's single cell organisms are living organisms. From the moment
Speaker 1: of egg sperm fusion the moment a zygote is formed,
Speaker 1: you have a new living human organism. And in an
Speaker 1: IVF process, you naturally have to create way more. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't have to, but this is what's
Speaker 1: done in America all the time. With IVF. You're creating
Speaker 1: maybe ten embryos with the expectation that maybe one of
Speaker 1: them lives, and then you put the rest. The rest
Speaker 1: either are destroyed or maybe put on ice, put in
Speaker 1: deep freeze indefinitely. There might be more human organisms embryos.
Speaker 1: Blasticists call them what you want. They're living human beings.
Speaker 1: For lifers get really hung up on that. They don't
Speaker 1: like referring to early stage humans as fetuses or embryos.
Speaker 1: They think that that's dehumanizing somehow. I actually don't agree
Speaker 1: with that. These are just human beings at different stages
Speaker 1: of growth. Blasticist, embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult,
Speaker 1: middle aged. Okay, these are just stages of human growth.
Speaker 1: There are estimates that we might be killing more human
Speaker 1: beings through IVF, then we are killing through abortion in
Speaker 1: the United States of America. And they're not crazy at all.
Speaker 1: So that's really bad. And look, I understand that a
Speaker 1: lot of people have turned to IVF for very deeply
Speaker 1: serious reasons of struggling with infertility. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: to diminish that. I don't mean to diminish the pain
Speaker 1: you feel. But I have to describe this accurately. And
Speaker 1: I can't, you know, call a spade, call a spade
Speaker 1: anything other than a spade. That is what it is,
Speaker 1: that is what is involved. And there's really no difference
Speaker 1: between a human embryo other than location in a test
Speaker 1: tube versus in a uterus. There's no difference between an
Speaker 1: embryo that some you know, poor Latina woman aborts and
Speaker 1: an embryo that's in glass that gets wasted in an
Speaker 1: IVF clinic. There's no difference. It's the same kind of embryo.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. So for President Trump to go
Speaker 1: back to back to back with three things, undercutting the
Speaker 1: Florida pro lifers with Amendment four, proposing this insane IVF
Speaker 1: idea and saying Nope, not enforcing the Commstock Act not
Speaker 1: going to address the abortion pill, which is the single
Speaker 1: biggest driver of abortion in America. Since President Biden allowed
Speaker 1: the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail, We've
Speaker 1: had one hundred thousand more abortions per year in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four rather than twenty twenty. There are one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand more abortions per year happening in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: than we're happening in twenty twenty, and the sing biggest
Speaker 1: change that's happened is the abortion pill being available, the
Speaker 1: increase in the percentage of abortions being abortion pill abortions.
Speaker 1: That change in percentage perfectly corresponds to the one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand extra abortions that we're seeing in America. If Trump's
Speaker 1: not going to do anything to roll that back, I
Speaker 1: don't know how we can credibly say he's pro life.
Speaker 1: And it pains me to say this given all the
Speaker 1: great things he did on the abortion issue in his
Speaker 1: first term. I'm i am approaching panic mode for his
Speaker 1: campaign right now when it comes to his commitment to
Speaker 1: the pro life issue. And when we return, I'll explain
Speaker 1: that I don't think he's made ah commitment. That's next
Speaker 1: on the John Girardi Show. I want to just explain
Speaker 1: to people, like, this is why I was so ticked
Speaker 1: off about the platform, this is why I'm getting more
Speaker 1: and more nervous. Trump just yesterday says I'm not going
Speaker 1: to enforce the Comstock Act, which is federal law that's
Speaker 1: on the books that could allow the president to limit
Speaker 1: the shipment through the mails of the abortion pill. I'm not.
Speaker 1: He's whiffle waffling about whether or not he supports or
Speaker 1: opposes Amendment four in Florida. Amendment four in Florida would
Speaker 1: wipe out the good pro life law that Ronda Santis
Speaker 1: got passed to limit abortion in the first six weeks
Speaker 1: of pregnancy and replace it with basically forty weeks of
Speaker 1: legal abortion. Wiffle waffling on it, says he doesn't support
Speaker 1: the six week band that Ronda Santi's passed, presumably because
Speaker 1: it was Ronda Santis and which, by the way, if
Speaker 1: Florida undoes that in this vote that'll take place this November.
Speaker 1: In Florida, state pro life efforts are in huge trouble.
Speaker 1: And for all Trump's talk, well, we'll get to the
Speaker 1: idea of abortion being a state issue, but Trump wants
Speaker 1: abortion to be a state issue. If this goes the
Speaker 1: wrong way in Florida, we are facing a really, really
Speaker 1: dire stretch for the pro life movement as far as
Speaker 1: state level efforts to limit abortion. And Trump has this
Speaker 1: insane IVF proposal on top of that, though, on top
Speaker 1: of the crazy things, this insane IVF proposal, which an
Speaker 1: IVF insurance mandate, which also like, what about for employers
Speaker 1: who ethically think IVF is morally wrong, like Catholic employers,
Speaker 1: Are you gonna have a conscience protection exemption for them?
Speaker 1: No mention was made of that. Now, these are the
Speaker 1: things Trump has said. I want to point out to
Speaker 1: people all the stuff he hasn't said. The other thing
Speaker 1: pro lifers are concerned about. And before you start yelling,
Speaker 1: you're suppressing the vote. Your stop stop panicking about this,
Speaker 1: stop trashing Trump. You're gonna depress the vote, guys, I
Speaker 1: am not depressing the vote. First of all, I'm a
Speaker 1: local radio host in Fresno, California, a state that's not
Speaker 1: gonna vote for Donald Trump, so calm down about my
Speaker 1: influence on nationwide events. But secondly, I am responding to
Speaker 1: choices that Donald Trump made. I didn't make these choices.
Speaker 1: If Donald Trump had just done the same things he
Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen in twenty twenty, with regards to
Speaker 1: his pro life stances, I wouldn't be having this radio
Speaker 1: segment right now in twenty sixteen. In twenty sixteen, for example,
Speaker 1: the Republican platform very specifically laid out President Trump's gonna Republicans,
Speaker 1: if elected, will enact the Mexico City Policy, which is
Speaker 1: an executive policy that the president enacts cuts off all
Speaker 1: federal foreign aid to foreign enng that perform abortions. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not in the twenty twenty four platform. President Trump,
Speaker 1: if elected, is going to appoint conservative jurists to the court.
Speaker 1: Here's his list of perspective Supreme Court picks. We don't
Speaker 1: have a list in twenty twenty four, no list. We
Speaker 1: had the list in twenty sixteen. We continually had the
Speaker 1: list available to us through twenty twenty. No list. Whom
Speaker 1: is he gonna pick? I don't know. Antonin Scalia and
Speaker 1: Sam Alito are going to retire if Trump wins. Whom
Speaker 1: is he picking? I don't know. We have no commitment.
Speaker 1: What's he gonna do about the High Amendment? Is going
Speaker 1: to keep pushing for the High Amendment. We don't know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't in the platform. He hasn't said anything. Is
Speaker 1: he going to do anything to roll back Biden's deregulations
Speaker 1: of the abortion pill, the single biggest driver of abortion
Speaker 1: in America. All we know is Trump saying that he
Speaker 1: supports the abortion pill being accessible. He has given no
Speaker 1: commitment to rolling back the abortion pill. He's affirmatively said
Speaker 1: he wants the abortion pill to be accessible, meaning he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to roll back the various FDA approvals of
Speaker 1: the abortion pill, including the original approval by President Clinton,
Speaker 1: which was likely illegal, which he could roll back for again.
Speaker 1: The thing that's the single biggest driver of abortion in America,
Speaker 1: the abortion pill. In fact, if you go through all
Speaker 1: the federal stuff that relates to abortion, Title ten funding
Speaker 1: going to abortion providers, Trump cut it off in his
Speaker 1: first term, no commitments about it for this term. Federal
Speaker 1: funding for embryonic cells or aborted fetal tissue research. President
Speaker 1: Trump cut off federal funding for fetal tissue research using
Speaker 1: tissue from fetuses who had been aborted. No commitment about
Speaker 1: what he's going to do on that score this time.
Speaker 1: Enforcing the Weldon Amendment. I'm not even going to go
Speaker 1: there because he didn't do that his first term until
Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty. No commitment about the Weldon Amendment,
Speaker 1: which basically it cuts off federal funding for states that
Speaker 1: don't allow health insurance plans that don't cover abortion, such
Speaker 1: as California. Nothing about Mtala. These are the federal efforts
Speaker 1: by the Biden administration to try to force emergency rooms,
Speaker 1: even in pro life states, to perform abortions. So I
Speaker 1: can go issue by issue by issue all of these
Speaker 1: federal issues where the president has impact on abortion policy,
Speaker 1: and Trump has either said the wrong thing or nothing. Now,
Speaker 1: some of these he did act on in his first
Speaker 1: term and did the right thing. Bravo, President Trump, thank
Speaker 1: you for doing that. I appreciate it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that's sincere. I'm not just being a jerk like I
Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate his accomplishments in his first term. But he's
Speaker 1: made no commitments about any of this stuff. That's why
Speaker 1: the platform, why I was so upset about the platform.
Speaker 1: All that stuff was in the twenty sixteen platform. I
Speaker 1: have no commitments. Everything he said has been bad. The
Speaker 1: only thing they've said that has been good is in
Speaker 1: some way resisting late term abortion, which I'm not sure how.
Speaker 1: Now when we return, I want to just talk about
Speaker 1: this in more detail. One pro lifers are allowed to
Speaker 1: be angry right now, and two this abortion is a
Speaker 1: state's issue thing, which is just ignorant. Next on the
Speaker 1: John Girardi Show, I want to discuss this line of
Speaker 1: argument this way that it's mostly been people who are
Speaker 1: really hardcore Trump folks, and they see that pro lifers
Speaker 1: are getting more and more upset by stuff that Trump
Speaker 1: is saying. Ways in which Trump has changed his position
Speaker 1: on abortion, and yes, changed his position on abortion since
Speaker 1: his first term. In his first term, he was supporting
Speaker 1: federal restrictions on abortion. This term he's saying he will
Speaker 1: veto federal restrictions on abortion, which is insane. It's an
Speaker 1: insane turnaround, and for no reason other than politics, obviously,
Speaker 1: and the blowback I get when I say I think
Speaker 1: this is bad as people.
Speaker 2: Saying, look, the Supreme Court said abortion was for the states,
Speaker 2: an abortions the state issue. Now that's what Rovi Wade
Speaker 2: was about. That's what you wanted. That's what you wanted.
Speaker 2: So you need to stop complaining and be grateful to
Speaker 2: President Trump who gave you the overturning Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade. First of all, I am grateful for the overturning
Speaker 1: of Rovy Wade. It was a necessary, critically important step.
Speaker 1: But frankly, I know more than you person who says that.
Speaker 1: First of all, the Supreme Court did not say that
Speaker 1: abortion was given over to the states. The Supreme Court
Speaker 1: said that abortion is not mandated by the Constitution and
Speaker 1: that it is therefore able to be regulated through the
Speaker 1: normal lawmaking processes that we have in America. Yes, that
Speaker 1: can be by state legislatures writing laws for their states,
Speaker 1: but in an appropriate context, in areas where the federal
Speaker 1: government has constitutional authority to regulate, Congress can also pass
Speaker 1: laws to regulate abortion. Now, I think what folks who
Speaker 1: are giving blowback to me about.
Speaker 2: It's a state issue, should be it's best left to
Speaker 2: the states. It's not something that the federal government should
Speaker 2: concern itself with. Okay, I think what they're thinking about
Speaker 2: is that the only abortion related law are gestational age limits.
Speaker 2: How laid into pregnancy. Should we allow abortion, should we
Speaker 2: not allow it at all? Should we only allow it
Speaker 2: up to the first six weeks? Should we only allow
Speaker 2: it through the first trimester. Should we just ban it after,
Speaker 2: you know, in the third trimester to the midway point?
Speaker 2: And if you want to argue with me about the
Speaker 2: wisdom of pursuing a gestational age limit policy at the
Speaker 2: federal level in Congress, okay, I am willing to have
Speaker 2: that discussion with you. I'm willing to have the discussion
Speaker 2: of whether that is best left to the states.
Speaker 1: But let me give you a list here of abortion
Speaker 1: related topics that can't be left to the states. They
Speaker 1: are inextricably federal questions, and a president can't just punt
Speaker 1: on it and say, well, abortion is a state issue.
Speaker 1: I don't need to stake out a hard position on abortion.
Speaker 1: They're inextricably federal, and most of them are inextricably dependent
Speaker 1: on the president. All right, so here we go. Here's
Speaker 1: a list of ten things that impact abortion that are
Speaker 1: inextricably federal and really either entirely or very heavily rely
Speaker 1: on the president deciding how he wants to act. Number
Speaker 1: one the FDA status of the abortion pill MIPHA pristone.
Speaker 1: All right, MIFA pristone, aka the abortion pill. As I
Speaker 1: explained earlier in the show today, accounts for sixty three
Speaker 1: percent of all abortions. Sixty three percent of all abortions
Speaker 1: are not surgical anymore. They are done by taking a pill,
Speaker 1: a drug called mifa pristone up, which can be taken
Speaker 1: within the first ten weeks of a pregnancy. This is
Speaker 1: not the morning after pill. Morning after pill is a
Speaker 1: different drug called lebon or gestril that's taken the morning
Speaker 1: after a sexual encounter. Its main goal is to prevent ovulation.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about out the
Speaker 1: abortion pill, a separate drug called mifipristone, which is taken
Speaker 1: up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. It alters the
Speaker 1: lining of the woman's uterus, the baby detaches from the
Speaker 1: uterine wall, the baby dies. The woman then takes a
Speaker 1: second drug called misoprostal forty eight to seventy two hours later.
Speaker 1: This expels the baby from the woman's body. Basically, you're
Speaker 1: recreating artificially a miscarriage. That is how sixty three percent
Speaker 1: of abortions are done in the United States. It's a
Speaker 1: massive jump. Just in the last four years, went from
Speaker 1: about fifty percent of abortions via the abortion pill to
Speaker 1: now we're at like sixty three percent. That was done
Speaker 1: because of President Biden and how he deregulated the abortion pill.
Speaker 1: He allowed the abortion pill to be shipped directly to
Speaker 1: patients through the mail. He allowed the abortion pill to
Speaker 1: be prescribed without an in person visit, which is much
Speaker 1: more dangerous. Can't confirm gestational age, can't confirm if the
Speaker 1: woman's having an ectopic pregnancy. The FDA regulation of the
Speaker 1: abortion pill is under the control of the FDA, which
Speaker 1: is an executive branch agency that is under the ultimate
Speaker 1: control of the President. Under the Secretary of HHS and
Speaker 1: under the President, he is the only one who can
Speaker 1: regulate it. And by the way, the original approval of
Speaker 1: mifipristone in two thousand under Bill Clinton was very likely illegal.
Speaker 1: I think there's a very strong argument for it. So
Speaker 1: a president coming in and saying I think the original
Speaker 1: approval of this drug by the FDA was wrong, the
Speaker 1: FDA should disapprove it would be a legitimate thing to do.
Speaker 1: President Trump could have a massive impact on this totally federal,
Speaker 1: not anything a state can regulate. Number two, the Comstock Act.
Speaker 1: This is a federal law preventing the shipment of abortifations
Speaker 1: through the American Postal Service. Postal service is a federal thing.
Speaker 1: It's not a state thing. Texas can't regulate the postal Service,
Speaker 1: not in the same way the Feds can't. It's a
Speaker 1: federal question. Mister President, are you enforcing this federal law
Speaker 1: or not? Three? The High Amendment, Now this isn't one
Speaker 1: hundred percent in the president's control, but it's the president
Speaker 1: is one of the key decision makers. The High Amendment
Speaker 1: is a rider that gets attached to federal spending bills
Speaker 1: every year, and it prevents direct federal funding to pay
Speaker 1: for abortion through federal health care plans, chiefly medicaid. So
Speaker 1: California's flavor of medicaid is called medical Medicaid is health
Speaker 1: insurance for people under a certain income threshold. Will Medicaid
Speaker 1: cover abortion or won't it? The High Amendment, which has
Speaker 1: been this rider attached to the federal budget pretty much
Speaker 1: every year since nineteen seventy six, has prevented federal dollars
Speaker 1: from funding most abortion and has probably resulted in millions
Speaker 1: of children not being aborted. Does the President support it
Speaker 1: or doesn't he It's a federal question. A state can't
Speaker 1: decide whether federal dollars will or won't fund abortion. Now
Speaker 1: a state can say, well, medical will fund abortion just
Speaker 1: through you know, purely state dollars. Our California taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: pay for abortions through medical. But still, the High Amendment
Speaker 1: is a federal question. It's not a state question, and
Speaker 1: the president has to decide what his position is on it.
Speaker 1: He can't punt on this the Mexico City policy. Will
Speaker 1: federal foreign aid fund NGOs that perform abortions overseas like
Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood International? Are we paying for Planned Parented International
Speaker 1: to perform abortions in Africa or South America? Are other
Speaker 1: places in the developing world? Will the military perform abortions?
Speaker 1: Will military hospitals perform abortions? Again within the president's control?
Speaker 1: Next Title ten? Will Title ten fund abortion providers? It's
Speaker 1: a federal question. The president, through executive action, can determine
Speaker 1: whether they do or don't. President Trump cut off Title
Speaker 1: ten funding for abortion providers. Title ten was a program
Speaker 1: created under President Nixon. It was designed to help fund
Speaker 1: family planning entities, but he didn't want it to fund abortion.
Speaker 1: But what's happened well under Clinton and other Democrat presidents.
Speaker 1: Basically the money has still flowed to abortion clinics. Why
Speaker 1: while they do this legal fiction that within the four
Speaker 1: walls of Planned Parenthood you have their abortion clinic, but
Speaker 1: then you also have their Title ten clinic. Two clinics
Speaker 1: exist within the same walls, and the Title ten clinic
Speaker 1: can get all the Title ten money, and the Title
Speaker 1: ten clinic and the abortion clinic can refer back and
Speaker 1: forth to each other easily. President Trump cut this funding
Speaker 1: off for Planned Parenthood. At will he do so again
Speaker 1: in a second Trump term. I don't know. No commitment
Speaker 1: has been made on this point. But again, it's a
Speaker 1: federal question. It's not a state question. Greg Abbott in
Speaker 1: Texas can't do anything to alter who gets Title ten funding.
Speaker 1: Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research or research using
Speaker 1: fetal tissue derived from aborted fetuses. This is stuff that
Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci was doing. Anthony Fauci was funding different kinds
Speaker 1: of federal research using tissue derived from aborted fetuses. In
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, President Trump stepped in and cut this funding
Speaker 1: off after news reports came out that one of Anthony
Speaker 1: Fauci's subgrantees was doing research trying to graft tissue from
Speaker 1: an aborted fetus's scalp onto the back of a rat
Speaker 1: to do some sort of chimera project, which was so
Speaker 1: morally repulsive that Trump stepped in and cut this funding off.
Speaker 1: But beyond that, there's also research that is trying to
Speaker 1: get cells from embryos in a way that destroys embryos.
Speaker 1: That's been going on for a really long time, and
Speaker 1: President Trump actually never cut that funding off. It was
Speaker 1: the big one of the big pro life one of
Speaker 1: the big misses in his first term when it comes
Speaker 1: to pro life issues. Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci's boss was
Speaker 1: fund was brought in by Barack Obama in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine specifically to fund that stuff. But it's a
Speaker 1: federal question. The president decides are we going to fund
Speaker 1: this stuff or not. It's not a state issue. The
Speaker 1: Weldon Amendment states that prevent insurance plans from being on
Speaker 1: the market that don't cover abortion are in violation of
Speaker 1: this federal law called the Weldon Amendment, and if they are,
Speaker 1: then they are no longer eligible for certain streams of
Speaker 1: medicaid funding. California has been blatantly violating this rule for
Speaker 1: a decade now. President Trump tried to enforce the Weldon
Speaker 1: Amendment very late. He only started enforcing it in December
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, after he had already lost the election.
Speaker 1: President Biden reinstated it within a month or two. But
Speaker 1: this is a federal question. It's medicaid. It's a federal question.
Speaker 1: It's not a state issue. M TALA. This is a
Speaker 1: federal law, The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act federal
Speaker 1: law governing the provision of emergency care in emergency rooms
Speaker 1: around the country. The Biden administration's interpreting this to say
Speaker 1: that some abortions have to be performed in emergency rooms,
Speaker 1: even in states that have outlawed abortion. There was a
Speaker 1: big Supreme Court case about this in Idaho. Idaho's outlawed abortion.
Speaker 1: The Biden administrations trying to force abortions to be performed
Speaker 1: in Idaho emergency rooms under certain exigen circumstances in violation
Speaker 1: of Idaho's state law. It's a federal question. How this
Speaker 1: federal law gets interpreted is a federal question that depends
Speaker 1: on the president. Interstate abortion pills California set up this
Speaker 1: whole system where there are California companies that are deliberately
Speaker 1: trying to ship abortion pills into states where abortion is
Speaker 1: illegal so that women can get abortions, and California is
Speaker 1: trying to insulate those companies from any kind of civil
Speaker 1: or criminal penalties from those other states. How that's going
Speaker 1: to be worked out is federal its interstate stuff. And lastly,
Speaker 1: judges the interpretation of all of these questions. Disputes regarding
Speaker 1: all of these questions will have to be adjudicated by
Speaker 1: federal judges whom the President nominates and the Senate appoints.
Speaker 1: Again federal. So don't tell me abortion is just a
Speaker 1: state issue. When we return my lack of sympathy for
Speaker 1: dress code violations and Close Unified Next on the John
Speaker 1: Girardi Show, All right, this might be the dumbest story
Speaker 1: of the year. Close Unified School District has a dress
Speaker 1: code saying that shorts need to have at least a
Speaker 1: five inch in seam. A bunch of girls at different
Speaker 1: schools we're showing up in these Lululemon shorts that have
Speaker 1: a three inch in seme and they got in trouble.
Speaker 1: The parents are upset at drum roll, please the school district,
Speaker 1: how how are you so dumb? It's in the dress
Speaker 1: code it's in the dress code. Read the dress code.
Speaker 1: You were warned in advance. It's the most non sympathy
Speaker 1: inducing story I've ever heard. It's in the dress code.
Speaker 1: Read the dress code. Anyway, enjoy some college football this weekend, folks.
Speaker 1: Go Bulldogs beat Michigan. That'll do it for the Jean
Speaker 1: Girardi Show. See you next time.