WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.120 Well, a lot happened in the National conversation with Trump 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:08.039 and abortion policy yesterday, so I feel like I have 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:10.759 to comment on it, and I was tweeting about it 4 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:15.240 much of the day, much of the afternoon yesterday, and 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.920 sort of working on an article about it. So we 6 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:26.359 had like three different bad things from Trump when it 7 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:34.600 comes to abortion policy. Let me go through them. One 8 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:39.359 Trump's he didn't flat out say this, but he was 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:46.000 sort of being whiffle waffy about Florida. And Trump is 10 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.960 a Florida resident, so Trump will be voting on Amendment 11 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:57.039 four in Florida. Amendment four is a statewide ballot initiative 12 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.719 in Florida to amend their state constitution. Choiceter's got it 13 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:04.799 on the ballot, and what it's intended to do is 14 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.200 to amend the Florida Constitution to mandate legal abortion in Florida, 15 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:14.920 basically to reinstate the terms of Roe versus Wade, but 16 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.400 also to put it in the state constitution, meaning the 17 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:20.159 state legislature cannot pass a normal law to regulate it, 18 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:23.480 and it will reinstate the terms of Roe v. Wade, 19 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.760 meaning abortion will be legal for the full duration of 20 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:32.239 pregnancy after viability I believe the terms are after viability, 21 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.719 it's legal for a health reason, with health defined extremely broadly, 22 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.359 and legal for the whole body of pregnancy. Florida's current 23 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:46.920 law on the books is a heartbeat ban, a heartbeat 24 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:52.040 ban that Ron DeSantis signed into law. This was to 25 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.280 ban abortion after fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is 26 00:01:55.319 --> 00:02:02.439 at about six weeks now. Trump criticized is this Florida law. 27 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.599 He criticized it during the primary campaign when basically, I 28 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.520 think if ron de Santis had said the sky was blue, 29 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.639 Donald Trump would have criticized it's say, you know, fake news, 30 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.280 Ronda Santis sky is actually orange. You know, if Ronda 31 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.000 Santis had said grass is green, Trump would have disagreed 32 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:22.560 with it. So Trump was already on the record saying 33 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:24.639 he didn't like the six week Florida band. He said, 34 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:29.240 it's too few weeks, it's too narrow, which, again, though, 35 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.400 it makes you wonder, what about all that stuff you 36 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.879 said when you were presidents, how you defended the right 37 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.919 to life. And really, I think what's happening is Trump 38 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:41.759 is responding to the polling. He realizes that that six 39 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.879 week band in Florida was probably not all that popular. 40 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.280 It got passed by the state legislature, but it might 41 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.800 not have been that popular with voters in Florida. But 42 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:57.360 Trump is probably two. He can't say totally that he 43 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.000 wants that he supports Amendment for, but he's clearly undercutting it. 44 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.159 He gave this interview where he said I wish it 45 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.639 was more than six weeks and he wouldn't exactly say 46 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:10.560 how he was going to vote on Amendment four. But 47 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.520 obviously he gave this appearance to people as if he 48 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.560 was going to vote for Amendment four, and a lot 49 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.199 of people interpreted his comments as he's voting in favor 50 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:27.039 of Amendment for now. I don't think that that's the 51 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.240 one hundred percent correct interpretation. He had a spokesman after 52 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:31.759 the fact kind of try to clean it up to 53 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.240 say Trump has not said how he will vote. He's 54 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:39.240 certainly not supporting the no vote, which should be what 55 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:43.120 he does. He should be saying no, I am voting 56 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.360 no on Amendment for and I encourage everyone in Florida 57 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:53.159 to vote no. But he's not doing that. We had that. 58 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:56.759 We had Trump saying I'm not going to enforce the 59 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.159 Comstock Act if I get into office. Now, the Comstock 60 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:05.680 Act is a federal law that could impact the single 61 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:09.400 biggest driver of abortion in America today, which is the 62 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:13.800 abortion pill, not the morning after pill. That's a separate drug. 63 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:19.120 Morning after pill mostly functions as a contraceptive the morning 64 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:25.240 after a sexual encounter to prevent ovulation, so mostly functions 65 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.040 as a genuine contraceptive. I am talking about the abortion 66 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:35.079 pill called mifipristone, which basically artificially recreates a miscarriage up 67 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:44.879 to ten weeks into a pregnancy. The abortion pill has 68 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:50.800 been massively deregulated over the last four years by President Biden. 69 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:57.839 Particularly through this mechanism by President Biden in twenty twenty one, 70 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.279 has allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed two women 71 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:06.920 via a talamedicine checkup and to be shipped through the mail, 72 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:12.439 to be shipped through the mail to individual women patients, 73 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:18.399 and to be shipped to major pharmacies to be picked up. 74 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.000 The Comstock Act is a law. It is a federal 75 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:25.399 law that is on the books. It's an old law, 76 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:29.040 but it's never been repealed. It was signed by Ulysses S. Grant, 77 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:34.079 and it basically prohibits the shipment through the mails of 78 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.600 various kinds of quote immoral materials. Now, given the sort 79 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:43.360 of nineteenth century ish style in which it was written, 80 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:49.680 the broad terminology that it uses in some of its provisions, 81 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.319 there's probably many parts of it that would be difficult 82 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.639 to enforce, and a lot of it has not been enforced. 83 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.600 But it's still on the books, and a president could decide, yes, 84 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:03.120 I will force it. But one of the things that 85 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:09.160 very clearly prohibits is the shipment through the mail of abortifacians, 86 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:13.680 which is precisely what the abortion pill is, and pro 87 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.800 lifers have tried to argue the president has the authority 88 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.240 to stop the shipment of abortion pills through the US 89 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:25.519 Postal Service through the Comstock Act. With a snap of 90 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:30.399 his fingers, President Trump just announced he's not going to 91 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:36.480 do that. Not going to do that. Okay, you know again, though, 92 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.920 the abortion pill, let's get the context for all of 93 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:43.680 you who don't understand, abortion in America has been radically 94 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.759 transformed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden through their deregulation 95 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.160 of the abortion pill. The abortion pill is now the 96 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:54.480 way that sixty three percent of abortions are done in America. 97 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.399 Let me repeat that abortion is not most of the 98 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:06.319 time is not a surgical procedure. Abortion is most of 99 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.079 the time in America done by the abortion pill. It's 100 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.759 not a surgical procedure. Most of the time. A woman 101 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:20.959 takes the abortion pill. The first pill, she waits forty 102 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.000 eight to seventy two hours. Then she takes a second 103 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:29.079 drug called misaprostol, which results in basically inducing labor to 104 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.800 expel the baby from her body. Up to ten weeks 105 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.240 into pregnancy. Sixty three percent of all abortions are done 106 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.160 through that method, not through surgical abortions. Okay, surgical abortions 107 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.920 are the other thirty seven percent. The abortion pill is 108 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:54.920 more dangerous than surgical abortions, but it's easier. It's easier 109 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.319 for the healthcare provider. They can still get a big 110 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:02.199 fat reimbursement from the drug. But it is more dangerous 111 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.639 for women, and President Biden has dangerously deregulated it to 112 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.639 the point where women can get a prescription for it 113 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.920 without any in person visit, without an ultrasound to confirm 114 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.560 justtational age, without an ultrasound to confirm that the woman's 115 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.240 not having an ectopic pregnancy, which is where the baby's 116 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:19.000 growing in the fallopian tube rather than the uterus, where 117 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.560 if the baby keeps growing, baby's gonna die and Mom's 118 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:27.319 gonna have a very serious health event. She could even die. 119 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:30.959 No ultrasound to confirm just stational age to be sure 120 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.559 that you're within that ten week period. The later in pregnancy, 121 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:38.799 the more complications arise. So the abortion pill is the 122 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:42.519 single biggest driver of abortion in America, and President Trump's 123 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:46.159 has this tool in his toolbox that he could use 124 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:52.320 to limit it, to roll back one of President Biden's 125 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.960 singnal accomplishments I allowing the abortion pill to be shipped 126 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.120 through the mail directly to people rather than picked up 127 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.360 in a in the clinic or at the very least, 128 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:07.320 to significantly hinder abortion provision in America. Not going to 129 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:15.279 take it, Not gonna take it. Just know. And lastly, 130 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.240 this will be more sensitive for a lot of you folks. 131 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.960 President Trump announced that he wants to support a policy 132 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.720 regarding IVF, that he wants to mandate coverage of IVF 133 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:35.159 in health insurance plans, a health insurance mandate for IVF, 134 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.080 and that he wants the government to pay for it 135 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:45.440 for those who are maybe on government funded plans. Now, 136 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.159 let's set aside the ethical issues with IVF that I 137 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:51.759 want to explain to people because I think a lot 138 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:53.879 of people don't understand this, including a lot of people 139 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.960 of goodwill with good intentions, who just don't really understand 140 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.799 how the IVF process works. This is an insane idea. 141 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:09.559 IVF is insanely expensive, and it is an elective issue. 142 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.720 To mandate that it be covered in health insurance plans 143 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:20.759 is insane just from a cost economics perspective. It is nuts. 144 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.519 It is Trump pandering on this issue because he thinks 145 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:31.320 he's vulnerable on social issues. That's all this is. It 146 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.200 makes no sense. It's a bigger giveaway than the Democrats 147 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.960 are doing now. It is completely insane of him to 148 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:48.519 say this now. In IVF, it is in vitro fertilization, 149 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:53.600 in glass fertilization. You take egg cells, you take sperm cells, 150 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:58.519 You put him together on glass. They form the zygote, 151 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.960 They form a blasticist. This is a very early stage 152 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:12.480 few cells human organism. It is a living organism. Well 153 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:15.559 is it really living? Yes, it is a living organism. 154 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.440 It has its own metabolism. It works towards its own growth, 155 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.320 transporting nutrients for itself. It works towards its own and 156 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:29.960 goals of growth and flourishing. It is a living human organism. Okay, 157 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.399 Amiba's single cell organisms are living organisms. From the moment 158 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.720 of egg sperm fusion the moment a zygote is formed, 159 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.799 you have a new living human organism. And in an 160 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:47.200 IVF process, you naturally have to create way more. Well, 161 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.639 you don't, you don't have to, but this is what's 162 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.919 done in America all the time. With IVF. You're creating 163 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:59.120 maybe ten embryos with the expectation that maybe one of 164 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:03.840 them lives, and then you put the rest. The rest 165 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.440 either are destroyed or maybe put on ice, put in 166 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:16.360 deep freeze indefinitely. There might be more human organisms embryos. 167 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:22.039 Blasticists call them what you want. They're living human beings. 168 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.039 For lifers get really hung up on that. They don't 169 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.919 like referring to early stage humans as fetuses or embryos. 170 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.039 They think that that's dehumanizing somehow. I actually don't agree 171 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.600 with that. These are just human beings at different stages 172 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:49.039 of growth. Blasticist, embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult, 173 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:53.159 middle aged. Okay, these are just stages of human growth. 174 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.519 There are estimates that we might be killing more human 175 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.159 beings through IVF, then we are killing through abortion in 176 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:05.720 the United States of America. And they're not crazy at all. 177 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:16.840 So that's really bad. And look, I understand that a 178 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.960 lot of people have turned to IVF for very deeply 179 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:23.480 serious reasons of struggling with infertility. And I don't mean 180 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.679 to diminish that. I don't mean to diminish the pain 181 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:32.320 you feel. But I have to describe this accurately. And 182 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.799 I can't, you know, call a spade, call a spade 183 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:40.000 anything other than a spade. That is what it is, 184 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:45.720 that is what is involved. And there's really no difference 185 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:52.080 between a human embryo other than location in a test 186 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:57.120 tube versus in a uterus. There's no difference between an 187 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:06.320 embryo that some you know, poor Latina woman aborts and 188 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.799 an embryo that's in glass that gets wasted in an 189 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.799 IVF clinic. There's no difference. It's the same kind of embryo. 190 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:22.080 It's the same thing. So for President Trump to go 191 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.720 back to back to back with three things, undercutting the 192 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:33.080 Florida pro lifers with Amendment four, proposing this insane IVF 193 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:38.360 idea and saying Nope, not enforcing the Commstock Act not 194 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.519 going to address the abortion pill, which is the single 195 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.919 biggest driver of abortion in America. Since President Biden allowed 196 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.559 the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail, We've 197 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.039 had one hundred thousand more abortions per year in twenty 198 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.039 twenty four rather than twenty twenty. There are one hundred 199 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.159 thousand more abortions per year happening in twenty twenty four 200 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:00.679 than we're happening in twenty twenty, and the sing biggest 201 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.799 change that's happened is the abortion pill being available, the 202 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.840 increase in the percentage of abortions being abortion pill abortions. 203 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:11.039 That change in percentage perfectly corresponds to the one hundred 204 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:16.399 thousand extra abortions that we're seeing in America. If Trump's 205 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.320 not going to do anything to roll that back, I 206 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.799 don't know how we can credibly say he's pro life. 207 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.519 And it pains me to say this given all the 208 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.360 great things he did on the abortion issue in his 209 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:34.240 first term. I'm i am approaching panic mode for his 210 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:39.080 campaign right now when it comes to his commitment to 211 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.200 the pro life issue. And when we return, I'll explain 212 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:45.799 that I don't think he's made ah commitment. That's next 213 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.360 on the John Girardi Show. I want to just explain 214 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.360 to people, like, this is why I was so ticked 215 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:58.399 off about the platform, this is why I'm getting more 216 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:04.600 and more nervous. Trump just yesterday says I'm not going 217 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:08.000 to enforce the Comstock Act, which is federal law that's 218 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.440 on the books that could allow the president to limit 219 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:16.279 the shipment through the mails of the abortion pill. I'm not. 220 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.159 He's whiffle waffling about whether or not he supports or 221 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.879 opposes Amendment four in Florida. Amendment four in Florida would 222 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.159 wipe out the good pro life law that Ronda Santis 223 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.039 got passed to limit abortion in the first six weeks 224 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.120 of pregnancy and replace it with basically forty weeks of 225 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.679 legal abortion. Wiffle waffling on it, says he doesn't support 226 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.720 the six week band that Ronda Santi's passed, presumably because 227 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:44.960 it was Ronda Santis and which, by the way, if 228 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.879 Florida undoes that in this vote that'll take place this November. 229 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:55.519 In Florida, state pro life efforts are in huge trouble. 230 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.639 And for all Trump's talk, well, we'll get to the 231 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.000 idea of abortion being a state issue, but Trump wants 232 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.799 abortion to be a state issue. If this goes the 233 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.960 wrong way in Florida, we are facing a really, really 234 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.160 dire stretch for the pro life movement as far as 235 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:15.960 state level efforts to limit abortion. And Trump has this 236 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:21.119 insane IVF proposal on top of that, though, on top 237 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:24.559 of the crazy things, this insane IVF proposal, which an 238 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:29.480 IVF insurance mandate, which also like, what about for employers 239 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.759 who ethically think IVF is morally wrong, like Catholic employers, 240 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.480 Are you gonna have a conscience protection exemption for them? 241 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:43.640 No mention was made of that. Now, these are the 242 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.559 things Trump has said. I want to point out to 243 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:54.079 people all the stuff he hasn't said. The other thing 244 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:56.640 pro lifers are concerned about. And before you start yelling, 245 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:01.440 you're suppressing the vote. Your stop stop panicking about this, 246 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:06.240 stop trashing Trump. You're gonna depress the vote, guys, I 247 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.000 am not depressing the vote. First of all, I'm a 248 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.720 local radio host in Fresno, California, a state that's not 249 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.799 gonna vote for Donald Trump, so calm down about my 250 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:21.559 influence on nationwide events. But secondly, I am responding to 251 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:27.240 choices that Donald Trump made. I didn't make these choices. 252 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.079 If Donald Trump had just done the same things he 253 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:32.400 did in twenty sixteen in twenty twenty, with regards to 254 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.359 his pro life stances, I wouldn't be having this radio 255 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:43.680 segment right now in twenty sixteen. In twenty sixteen, for example, 256 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:51.720 the Republican platform very specifically laid out President Trump's gonna Republicans, 257 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:54.799 if elected, will enact the Mexico City Policy, which is 258 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.319 an executive policy that the president enacts cuts off all 259 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:02.839 federal foreign aid to foreign enng that perform abortions. Well, 260 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:09.079 that's not in the twenty twenty four platform. President Trump, 261 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.440 if elected, is going to appoint conservative jurists to the court. 262 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:16.559 Here's his list of perspective Supreme Court picks. We don't 263 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:22.200 have a list in twenty twenty four, no list. We 264 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.319 had the list in twenty sixteen. We continually had the 265 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:31.680 list available to us through twenty twenty. No list. Whom 266 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.799 is he gonna pick? I don't know. Antonin Scalia and 267 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:38.359 Sam Alito are going to retire if Trump wins. Whom 268 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.720 is he picking? I don't know. We have no commitment. 269 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:48.240 What's he gonna do about the High Amendment? Is going 270 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:50.079 to keep pushing for the High Amendment. We don't know. 271 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:53.920 It wasn't in the platform. He hasn't said anything. Is 272 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.400 he going to do anything to roll back Biden's deregulations 273 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.000 of the abortion pill, the single biggest driver of abortion 274 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.079 in America. All we know is Trump saying that he 275 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.440 supports the abortion pill being accessible. He has given no 276 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:13.680 commitment to rolling back the abortion pill. He's affirmatively said 277 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:18.200 he wants the abortion pill to be accessible, meaning he 278 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.400 doesn't want to roll back the various FDA approvals of 279 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.319 the abortion pill, including the original approval by President Clinton, 280 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:30.079 which was likely illegal, which he could roll back for again. 281 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:35.440 The thing that's the single biggest driver of abortion in America, 282 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:45.039 the abortion pill. In fact, if you go through all 283 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:51.799 the federal stuff that relates to abortion, Title ten funding 284 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.599 going to abortion providers, Trump cut it off in his 285 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:59.000 first term, no commitments about it for this term. Federal 286 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:03.000 funding for embryonic cells or aborted fetal tissue research. President 287 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.039 Trump cut off federal funding for fetal tissue research using 288 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:09.319 tissue from fetuses who had been aborted. No commitment about 289 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:11.039 what he's going to do on that score this time. 290 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:14.960 Enforcing the Weldon Amendment. I'm not even going to go 291 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.160 there because he didn't do that his first term until 292 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:25.680 December of twenty twenty. No commitment about the Weldon Amendment, 293 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:28.519 which basically it cuts off federal funding for states that 294 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:36.359 don't allow health insurance plans that don't cover abortion, such 295 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:42.039 as California. Nothing about Mtala. These are the federal efforts 296 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:45.359 by the Biden administration to try to force emergency rooms, 297 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:54.359 even in pro life states, to perform abortions. So I 298 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:58.000 can go issue by issue by issue all of these 299 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:01.799 federal issues where the president has impact on abortion policy, 300 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.640 and Trump has either said the wrong thing or nothing. Now, 301 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.119 some of these he did act on in his first 302 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:13.799 term and did the right thing. Bravo, President Trump, thank 303 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:17.240 you for doing that. I appreciate it. And by the way, 304 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:20.079 that's sincere. I'm not just being a jerk like I 305 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:26.440 sincerely appreciate his accomplishments in his first term. But he's 306 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:29.759 made no commitments about any of this stuff. That's why 307 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.240 the platform, why I was so upset about the platform. 308 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:39.160 All that stuff was in the twenty sixteen platform. I 309 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:44.519 have no commitments. Everything he said has been bad. The 310 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:47.440 only thing they've said that has been good is in 311 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:52.279 some way resisting late term abortion, which I'm not sure how. 312 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:55.759 Now when we return, I want to just talk about 313 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:01.960 this in more detail. One pro lifers are allowed to 314 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:06.640 be angry right now, and two this abortion is a 315 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:10.240 state's issue thing, which is just ignorant. Next on the 316 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:16.000 John Girardi Show, I want to discuss this line of 317 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:21.359 argument this way that it's mostly been people who are 318 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:26.039 really hardcore Trump folks, and they see that pro lifers 319 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:28.519 are getting more and more upset by stuff that Trump 320 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:31.720 is saying. Ways in which Trump has changed his position 321 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:35.200 on abortion, and yes, changed his position on abortion since 322 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:41.599 his first term. In his first term, he was supporting 323 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:44.680 federal restrictions on abortion. This term he's saying he will 324 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:51.119 veto federal restrictions on abortion, which is insane. It's an 325 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:57.000 insane turnaround, and for no reason other than politics, obviously, 326 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:01.640 and the blowback I get when I say I think 327 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:03.000 this is bad as people. 328 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:06.720 Saying, look, the Supreme Court said abortion was for the states, 329 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:10.160 an abortions the state issue. Now that's what Rovi Wade 330 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:12.359 was about. That's what you wanted. That's what you wanted. 331 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:16.599 So you need to stop complaining and be grateful to 332 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:19.079 President Trump who gave you the overturning Roe v. 333 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.839 Wade. First of all, I am grateful for the overturning 334 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:27.440 of Rovy Wade. It was a necessary, critically important step. 335 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:36.039 But frankly, I know more than you person who says that. 336 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:43.240 First of all, the Supreme Court did not say that 337 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:48.119 abortion was given over to the states. The Supreme Court 338 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:54.759 said that abortion is not mandated by the Constitution and 339 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:58.640 that it is therefore able to be regulated through the 340 00:24:58.759 --> 00:25:04.279 normal lawmaking processes that we have in America. Yes, that 341 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:10.799 can be by state legislatures writing laws for their states, 342 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:18.440 but in an appropriate context, in areas where the federal 343 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:24.119 government has constitutional authority to regulate, Congress can also pass 344 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:30.079 laws to regulate abortion. Now, I think what folks who 345 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:31.960 are giving blowback to me about. 346 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:35.119 It's a state issue, should be it's best left to 347 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:37.319 the states. It's not something that the federal government should 348 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:40.559 concern itself with. Okay, I think what they're thinking about 349 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:46.839 is that the only abortion related law are gestational age limits. 350 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.400 How laid into pregnancy. Should we allow abortion, should we 351 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:53.440 not allow it at all? Should we only allow it 352 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:55.160 up to the first six weeks? Should we only allow 353 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:57.519 it through the first trimester. Should we just ban it after, 354 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.200 you know, in the third trimester to the midway point? 355 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.680 And if you want to argue with me about the 356 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:09.720 wisdom of pursuing a gestational age limit policy at the 357 00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:14.440 federal level in Congress, okay, I am willing to have 358 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:20.640 that discussion with you. I'm willing to have the discussion 359 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:24.119 of whether that is best left to the states. 360 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.759 But let me give you a list here of abortion 361 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:36.400 related topics that can't be left to the states. They 362 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:44.559 are inextricably federal questions, and a president can't just punt 363 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:46.680 on it and say, well, abortion is a state issue. 364 00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:48.720 I don't need to stake out a hard position on abortion. 365 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:55.359 They're inextricably federal, and most of them are inextricably dependent 366 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:01.279 on the president. All right, so here we go. Here's 367 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:08.559 a list of ten things that impact abortion that are 368 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:14.480 inextricably federal and really either entirely or very heavily rely 369 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:20.680 on the president deciding how he wants to act. Number 370 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:27.759 one the FDA status of the abortion pill MIPHA pristone. 371 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:32.319 All right, MIFA pristone, aka the abortion pill. As I 372 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.960 explained earlier in the show today, accounts for sixty three 373 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.480 percent of all abortions. Sixty three percent of all abortions 374 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.759 are not surgical anymore. They are done by taking a pill, 375 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:46.160 a drug called mifa pristone up, which can be taken 376 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:49.519 within the first ten weeks of a pregnancy. This is 377 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:51.599 not the morning after pill. Morning after pill is a 378 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:54.839 different drug called lebon or gestril that's taken the morning 379 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:58.319 after a sexual encounter. Its main goal is to prevent ovulation. 380 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:00.319 I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about out the 381 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:03.519 abortion pill, a separate drug called mifipristone, which is taken 382 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:08.160 up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. It alters the 383 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:11.000 lining of the woman's uterus, the baby detaches from the 384 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:13.480 uterine wall, the baby dies. The woman then takes a 385 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.160 second drug called misoprostal forty eight to seventy two hours later. 386 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:21.000 This expels the baby from the woman's body. Basically, you're 387 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:24.960 recreating artificially a miscarriage. That is how sixty three percent 388 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.119 of abortions are done in the United States. It's a 389 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:30.000 massive jump. Just in the last four years, went from 390 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.240 about fifty percent of abortions via the abortion pill to 391 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:36.640 now we're at like sixty three percent. That was done 392 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.160 because of President Biden and how he deregulated the abortion pill. 393 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:42.440 He allowed the abortion pill to be shipped directly to 394 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:44.920 patients through the mail. He allowed the abortion pill to 395 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:47.720 be prescribed without an in person visit, which is much 396 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:52.759 more dangerous. Can't confirm gestational age, can't confirm if the 397 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:58.440 woman's having an ectopic pregnancy. The FDA regulation of the 398 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:04.359 abortion pill is under the control of the FDA, which 399 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:07.200 is an executive branch agency that is under the ultimate 400 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.480 control of the President. Under the Secretary of HHS and 401 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:14.079