Allen Jackson: December 2, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now

December 2, 2024 | S24:E1202

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  • Good evening.
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  • I'm alan jackson and welcome to nashville.
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  • A year ago joe biden and kamala harris.
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  • And the democratic leadership
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  • Was going to ride the post-roe
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  • Supreme court decision on abortion into the white house.
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  • They were convinced
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  • That the court's decision
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  • In the dobbs case
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  • Had pushed voters to the point
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  • Where they would throw republicans out of office.
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  • What a difference a year makes.
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  • Our guest tonight has had his eye on this full time
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  • Ever since then.
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  • He's the chief legal officer and general counsel of americans
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  • United for life.
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  • Steve aden, welcome back to our show.
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  • Thank you.
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  • And it's always a pleasure.
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  • Well, from all the post-election facts and figures,
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  • It looks as though voters on both sides of the abortion
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  • Debate figured out that the rhetoric in the public
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  • Debate didn't match the reality in front of them.
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  • Donald trump wasn't running on a total abortion ban,
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  • As they had argued,
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  • And he was running on what the supreme court
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  • Had already decided that the laws
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  • Had been turned back to the states.
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  • How are the pro-life organizations
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  • Able to convince voters
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  • That trump's position was being misrepresented?
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  • Well, he said it loud and clear to his credit.
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  • It's a position that he has been firm on.
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  • It's not the position that we, think
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  • That a lot of people see it as, we think there are
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  • There are, sub issues to it and different parts of it.
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  • For example,
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  • Let me start with the role of the federal government
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  • When the president elect said there's no federal
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  • Role for abortion.
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  • What he means is that he's not going to sign
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  • A ban out of congress.
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  • But there's a lot the government does do
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  • With respect to abortion, for example, the hyde amendment,
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  • Which, keeps
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  • Taxpayer dollars out of the pockets
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  • Of abortionists and has been there for 50 years.
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  • There's an important federal role
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  • For the government to protect and defend the hyde amendment
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  • Amendment, especially since the biden administration
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  • Has been trying to recreate a federal right to abortion.
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  • And many different agencies.
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  • So when we hear the president elect say that, he is,
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  • Not going all in for federal,
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  • Action on abortion.
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  • What we think he means is that, he's going
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  • To defend the healthcare rights of conscience and federal law.
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  • He's going to defend the hyde amendment.
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  • He's going to keep
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  • Taxpayer dollars out of the pockets
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  • Of abortionists, both here and abroad.
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  • And that's all very important.
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  • And i think that's why,
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  • You see, he's chosen, some very good picks,
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  • For his cabinet members and for his medical,
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  • Institutional staff.
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  • We're looking forward to seeing what comes next.
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  • Well, in terms of your efforts at americans united for life,
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  • Tell us where you had success
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  • On the ballot choices at the state level.
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  • Well, the highlight, of course, was florida, which came in at
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  • Just under what was needed to change
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  • Florida's constitution to a pro-abortion constitution.
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  • They would have needed 60% of voters voting for,
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  • Abortion on demand, and they got somewhere around 58%.
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  • That's a good sign.
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  • They will be back, when they come back.
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  • We need to be ready.
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  • The key in florida is principally the hispanic,
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  • Christian population and especially, the,
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  • The fast growing, hispanic evangelicals.
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  • We need to be ready when they come back.
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  • And, we need to get the word out
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  • That this is abortion on demand.
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  • All, all the time,
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  • Every day, with taxpayer money paying for it.
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  • I hope and pray that if they come back,
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  • They get something less than 58%.
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  • Then they'll go away.
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  • But we'll have to hit them at least a second time.
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  • Unfortunate losses in arizona and missouri.
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  • And, encouraging wins in south dakota, nebraska.
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  • And as i said, florida.
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  • So we continue to fight
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  • In all these states that have a ballot initiative,
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  • And not all of them do.
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  • But every time they come up, we're there,
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  • Trying to marshal people, trying to get them to the polls,
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  • Trying to get understand that these, pro-abortion initiatives
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  • Really mean abortion on demand, and they have to be stopped.
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  • Well, there are battles ahead because seven
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  • Of the ten pro abortion measures on state ballots passed.
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  • And now the groups that back them are gearing up to fight
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  • With the pro-life teams that want to keep
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  • The existing abortion bans in place.
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  • Listen to what
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  • New york's democratic governor is saying about her agenda.
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  • I can also have my counsel who's
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  • Been working on this intensely, explain that that
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  • These are rights are now enshrined in the constitution,
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  • But i'm also. and i'll let them answer.
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  • But i'm also concerned about federal regulatory action,
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  • Like donald trump putting someone who's,
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  • Anti reproductive freedom in the department of health
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  • And human services or those agencies
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  • That would determine whether or not, medication
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  • Assisted abortion is legal
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  • Can you tell us how you're prepa
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  • Well, first of all, we make it loud and clear
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  • That there is no constitutional right to abortion
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  • In the us constitution.
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  • And that's what the dobbs case said.
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  • It reversed roe versus wade and 50 years
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  • Of finding a federal right in the constitution to abortion.
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  • And now it depends on the states,
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  • As president elect trump said,
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  • Unfortunately, in new york, they just passed that out and
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  • They just passed the about ballot initiative in new york.
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  • And, kathy hochul is probably referring
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  • To some state created in new york, right to abortion.
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  • But there are currently 14 states that protect life
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  • Almost to conception.
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  • Another four states protect life at some gestational age,
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  • And those, protections are enforceable.
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  • Unlike before dobbs, when they weren't enforceable
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  • Because of the road case.
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  • So we've got
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  • A lot of good ground to build on, and we're moving forward.
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  • The important thing is we have to marshal
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  • A pro-life army
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  • In every state
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  • Where these ballot initiatives come up,
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  • And in every other state in the country.
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  • And that's why americans united for life is focused
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  • Front and center
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  • On getting people out to the polls, getting them to,
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  • Their pregnancy centers to support women, in crisis,
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  • Getting them, in front of abortion centers
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  • So that women who go seeking abortion, not knowing
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  • That they have options here from our side,
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  • And our minister to, those are the keys.
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  • So the, the way that we win, that's how we've been winning,
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  • For 50 years.
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  • That's how row is overturned,
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  • Because we have a culture of life in the grassroots.
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  • Most folks don't like abortion.
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  • They, they're opposed to it.
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  • And you saw that with, mr.
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  • Trump's victory.
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  • You know, even the new york times
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  • Sounded a retreat shortly after the election and said,
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  • Look, the abortion issue isn't the
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  • What isn't what we thought it should be at the polls,
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  • And we're going to have to find another one.
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  • That's a huge statement for the new york times,
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  • But it's a recognition
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  • That, folks are not voting based on the abortion issue.
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  • And that's a very good thing for the pro-life movement.
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  • Amen.
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  • Well, you alluded to it, but i've always felt it's
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  • Unfortunate that more people aren't
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  • Aware of all the great options
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  • That exist other than an abortion.
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  • There are so many successful
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  • Parenting centers, adoption agencies
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  • There, church groups, benefactors
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  • Who step up to help avoid abortions.
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  • Why is it there more discussion or advertising
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  • Or success just in general on that end of this issue?
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  • Well, alan, word of mouth gets out
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  • And that's the main thing, right?
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  • Because there are 5 to 1 pro-life pregnancy centers
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  • To every abortion center.
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  • And those pro-life centers are staffed
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  • By loving volunteers,
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  • Whereas of course, the planned parenthood's are staffed
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  • By, career people who think abortion is a right
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  • And don't really care about women
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  • Or about the consequences of abortion.
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  • So we are getting our message out.
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  • And that's clear in that respect, that,
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  • The pregnancy center movement is strong and growing.
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  • And, that includes in states that have, pro abortion laws,
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  • Too, as much as, leaders like kathy hochul in new york,
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  • Want to harass and block pregnancy centers.
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  • Our side has met that threat,
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  • With lawyers, in court, and we're winning everywhere.
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  • And so,
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  • The future is right, for the right to life.
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  • And,
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  • We believe that going forward, god's people will be marshaled.
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  • They will come together as they did in florida,
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  • As they did in south dakota, as they did in nebraska.
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  • And they'll push back on these, and as the abortion issue dies
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  • Down, as the new york times said, it is, even those states
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  • Like arizona and missouri, that regrettably
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  • Made the wrong choice will reconsider it.
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  • And, they also have a court fight ahead.
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  • Look, it didn't solve things
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  • For the entire united states when roe versus wade,
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  • Came on the books in 1973, it was a 50 year battle
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  • To get it off the books
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  • And to restore the right to protect life.
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  • And that's what states like arizona and missouri have ahead.
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  • All they've done is bought, battle in court
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  • As long as it takes a battle at the ballot box,
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  • A battle for hearts and minds in those states.
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  • And folks in those states aren't giving up.
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  • We can't give up for the babies.
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  • And we won't.
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  • Amen.
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  • Well, stay with us.
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  • And in a moment, we'll be back with more from steve.
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  • Aiden, the chief legal officer of americans united for life.
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  • Aiden, the chief legal officer of americans united for life.
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  • We're back now with steve.
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  • Aiden, the general counsel of americans united for life.
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  • You know, steve, when this abortion discussion begins,
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  • It's been common for a long season
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  • Now, for decades now, that it begins with legal perspectives.
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  • But it seems to me that that approach misses
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  • The fundamental issue.
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  • This is really a worldview discussion that is rooted
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  • In the sanctity of human life, and how we understand that
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  • If we get that piece right, the legal discussion
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  • Gets really simple.
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  • In my understanding that correctly.
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  • Oh, absolutely.
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  • Ireland depends on whether you believe in know
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  • That were created in the image of a loving heavenly father.
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  • Or if you think that,
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  • Were the product of evolutionary change over time
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  • And that life is inherently meaningless.
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  • That's the great divide.
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  • And, persons of faith like us understand that.
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  • I, am proud to acknowledge my creator and my savior.
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  • And that's why i do what i do.
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  • And i know that's why you do what you do to.
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  • You know, it's not as complicated as we've made it.
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  • I think the root of this
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  • Is it acceptable to in the life of a child?
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  • I mean, that's what we're really grappling with.
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  • And if we follow the science, which seems to be the position
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  • That is championed, it gets really clear right now.
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  • There's all sorts of very talented
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  • Physicians across our nation that do surgical procedures
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  • On babies prior to their delivery.
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  • So it's clear that it's not just a mass
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  • Of protoplasm or a clump of cells.
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  • It's a living human being.
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  • How do we help get that message more broadly
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  • Into the general public?
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  • You proclaim it from the house, tops, allen.
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  • Loud and clear until the other side gets the message.
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  • Like even the supreme court has come around to this slowly.
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  • Not not fast enough, but they've recognized,
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  • For example, in the case in 2007, the the,
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  • Carhart case, they said it seems self-evident
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  • That women come to regret their abortion.
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  • They regret that they paid
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  • A doctor to dismember the baby in their womb, limb from limb.
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  • We have to speak the truth and say what abortion really is
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  • And does.
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  • And so when i'm interviewed on, media
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  • Outlets like new york times or washington post,
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  • I always make a point of saying what abortion really is
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  • And does, you are either chemically burning
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  • An embryo or a fetus to death,
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  • Or you are dismembering a baby limb from limb.
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  • And the more we do that, and say it with love and compassion.
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  • But the truth has to come with love and compassion.
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  • I think the more ground that we gain,
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  • Because you're right, half the country
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  • That would prefer to think abortion has some kind of
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  • Constitutional right are forgetting,
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  • The other human being in this equation, the baby.
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  • Not just the mothers.
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  • So when you support, as it turns out, mothers
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  • And families who are making these difficult decisions,
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  • They end up deciding to keep the baby.
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  • More often than not, because a woman only needs,
  • 00:13:05.276 --> 00:13:09.847
  • In her mind, an abortion
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  • If she feels like she has no choice.
  • 00:13:12.483 --> 00:13:14.685
  • It's trumpeted as, the ultimate choice.
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  • But really, it's when a woman feels like she has no choice.
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  • And when you bring home to her the choices that she has
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  • And the support
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  • That she has from many people, including those in the church,
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  • That, you know, they have financial support,
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  • They have, support for the baby.
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  • They have, emotional and moral support.
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  • Then usually, she'll end up deciding for life.
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  • And that's why the pregnancy care center
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  • Is so very important, because they're making the case
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  • One by one to women who need that.
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  • The choice for life is more powerful and more empowering
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  • Than the choice for death.
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  • Well, you know, one of my privileges as a pastor is
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  • I get to visit the hospitals when there's new arrivals.
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  • And so i've gotten to see lots
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  • Of parents and grandparents holding those new babies.
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  • And it's impossible to me to see a newborn child
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  • And not believe in almighty god.
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  • And to look at that child and think of it
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  • Simply is a choice that can be discarded
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  • Is a position that we just can't stand it.
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  • It darkens our hearts too deeply to tolerate that.
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  • So i am very grateful for the work you're doing.
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  • Don't grow weary.
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  • Oh, we won't believe me.
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  • We won't.
  • 00:14:34.398 --> 00:14:35.499
  • You know, i think we've got to hold up something else.
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  • The best practice on
  • 00:14:36.968 --> 00:14:38.135
  • This is sexual activity in the context of marriage.
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  • If families will pick that up,
  • 00:14:41.339 --> 00:14:42.907
  • Wouldn't that help all of us in this debate?
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  • I hope and pray
  • 00:14:46.077 --> 00:14:47.244
  • We head in the right direction on that many other issues.
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  • Helen, the election has given me a lot of encouragement
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  • More because i see that people are rejecting
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  • The radical leftist agenda,
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  • Which is really a product, of course, of the
  • 00:14:59.557 --> 00:15:01.192
  • Sexual revolution of the 60s.
  • 00:15:01.192 --> 00:15:03.394
  • And they're coming to realize that
  • 00:15:03.394 --> 00:15:05.863
  • Strong support of families are the way to go.
  • 00:15:05.863 --> 00:15:09.066
  • And, the more that we can build up
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  • The family, encourage strength and support it,
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  • The more we're going to win this fight.
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  • Well, i pray you have a season of effectiveness
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  • In impacting the hearts and souls and minds of americans.
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  • And i pray the church wakes up with the courage
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  • To tell the truth
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  • To this generation in ways we haven't heard yet.
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  • Steve aden, god bless you for all the work you've done
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  • Already. we're here to help.
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  • It's my privilege.
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  • Thank you so much.
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  • Well, in a moment i'll have some thoughts on
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  • How we can go forward from here.
  • 00:15:40.297 --> 00:15:47.001
  • How we can go forward from here.
  • 00:15:47.001 --> 00:15:48.840
  • You know, our guest today talked about abortion
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  • And his efforts on behalf of our children.
  • 00:15:51.676 --> 00:15:54.679
  • That's a part of a larger conversation.
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  • The attack that's taking place
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  • In our children across our nation.
  • 00:15:58.750 --> 00:16:00.685
  • It's not just unfortunate.
  • 00:16:00.685 --> 00:16:02.187
  • It's abhorrent.
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  • It's almost impossible to believe what's happening.
  • 00:16:03.755 --> 00:16:07.759
  • There's layers to this.
  • 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:09.027
  • You can find it almost anyplace you look in our public school
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  • Systems, in the libraries, for our young children.
  • 00:16:12.197 --> 00:16:14.933
  • They have books that are completely age inappropriate.
  • 00:16:14.933 --> 00:16:18.370
  • The material in them is not just pornography.
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  • It gets obscene.
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  • It's a grooming of our children, and we're having difficulty
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  • In our communities.
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  • Even the community where i live,
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  • Finding the moral courage to say that's inappropriate.
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  • It's not the banning of books.
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  • It's about age appropriate learning.
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  • We don't sell cigarets
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  • To our elementary children, or we don't put
  • 00:16:35.787 --> 00:16:37.956
  • We don't put beer in their lunchroom.
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  • They shouldn't be looking at illicit material
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  • And being groomed for activity outside the purview
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  • Of their parents. it's just wrong.
  • 00:16:45.130 --> 00:16:47.332
  • And we should have the moral courage to say so.
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  • We have medical
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  • Care systems that have imagined that our children are profit.
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  • Center for gender reassignment activities.
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  • Folks, if we create confusion in our children
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  • About something as fundamental is their biological sex,
  • 00:17:00.512 --> 00:17:04.015
  • We are violating our responsibilities as adults
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  • In the care and training
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  • And oversight of the children as they grow in mature.
  • 00:17:08.820 --> 00:17:11.990
  • You know,
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  • For all of the language we have around children
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  • And the value we attach to them and and all the energy
  • 00:17:14.726 --> 00:17:17.362
  • That's invested, the truth is the children
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  • In our homes, on our streets, in our schools are less safe
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  • And mean that long ago when our kids
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  • Could walk to school or they could play outside
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  • Without immediate parent supervision and without fear.
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  • We've lost those days, and it's going to
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  • Take the courage to acknowledge that
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  • And begin to bring a biblical worldview
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  • Back into our homes, our families,
  • 00:17:37.415 --> 00:17:39.317
  • Our attitudes towards children.
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  • We'll all be safe for our future will be better
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  • If we'll do that.
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  • I can promise you
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  • There will be more reasons for hope than despair.
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  • Your thoughts and perspectives.
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  • They're valuable as we plan the shows ahead.
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  • Alexandria, from mississippi writes
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  • I'm a cna for miss dorothy and i learned of you through her.
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  • Whenever i'm on shift with her and your programs on tv.
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  • I know that it's not the time
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  • To have any conversations or any inner
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  • Interruptions from his day.
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  • She enjoys your messages and how you deliver them.
  • 00:18:22.528 --> 00:18:25.298
  • At 88 years old with cerebral palsy herself,
  • 00:18:25.298 --> 00:18:27.900
  • She has brought joy to so many.
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  • As a retired teacher of 35 years to special needs students.
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  • I'm sure she would love a shout out to make her day
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  • Just a little bit happier and brighter.
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  • Well, miss dorothy, happy birthday and more than that.
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  • Bless you.
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  • Thank you for serving the children
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  • For whom an expression of love and kindness.
  • 00:18:45.218 --> 00:18:47.753
  • I'm quite certain, changed their futures.
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  • Your your sacrifices have been a strength
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  • In those children's lives.
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  • To their families and to our nation. god bless you.
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  • Stephanie from missouri wrote,
  • 00:18:59.198 --> 00:19:01.167
  • My friend's daughter in saint louis was at a concert earlier
  • 00:19:01.167 --> 00:19:03.669
  • This year where the artist gave
  • 00:19:03.669 --> 00:19:05.104
  • Emergency contraceptive pills to the guest.
  • 00:19:05.104 --> 00:19:08.407
  • Her daughter wasn't old enough
  • 00:19:08.407 --> 00:19:09.375
  • To be making that kind of a choice
  • 00:19:09.375 --> 00:19:10.810
  • Or the action required to even need that.
  • 00:19:10.810 --> 00:19:13.579
  • The only good thing from that action is the great conversation
  • 00:19:13.579 --> 00:19:16.249
  • They got to have about their beliefs around pro-life.
  • 00:19:16.249 --> 00:19:20.119
  • You know,
  • 00:19:20.419 --> 00:19:20.920
  • I think it's time
  • 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:22.021
  • For us to choose a whole new generation of heroes.
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  • I've decided to start to celebrate the people
  • 00:19:24.490 --> 00:19:27.460
  • Who make choices that bring a biblical worldview forward,
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  • And stop giving my time
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  • And attention, energy, and my ticket prices
  • 00:19:32.265 --> 00:19:35.468
  • To people who encourage ungodliness and immorality.
  • 00:19:35.468 --> 00:19:38.371
  • They're not the heroes that i want to emulate.
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  • I want to try to find people
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  • That will encourage me to do the right thing.
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  • Lord knows i can create enough momentum
  • 00:19:44.543 --> 00:19:46.045
  • On my own, going in the wrong direction.
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  • Well, gina from florida says thank you
  • 00:19:49.048 --> 00:19:50.616
  • For the informative programing.
  • 00:19:50.616 --> 00:19:52.084
  • Your guest are very interesting and i certainly learned a lot.
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  • I begin my evenings with huckabee,
  • 00:19:55.388 --> 00:19:57.189
  • Alan jackson now, and stackelberg,
  • 00:19:57.189 --> 00:19:59.659
  • So my evenings are packed with blessings. wow.
  • 00:19:59.659 --> 00:20:02.762
  • It's like the three musketeers on tbn.
  • 00:20:02.762 --> 00:20:05.798
  • It's an important time to find the truth.
  • 00:20:05.798 --> 00:20:08.768
  • Don't spend hours every day watching an endless news loop.
  • 00:20:08.768 --> 00:20:12.672
  • A few minutes every day with the truth will prepare you
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  • For the responses
  • 00:20:15.908 --> 00:20:16.976
  • You need to make in a very rapidly changing world.
  • 00:20:16.976 --> 00:20:20.246
  • And as long as we anchor that in a biblical worldview,
  • 00:20:20.246 --> 00:20:23.049
  • I believe we'll be prepared for what god has for us next.
  • 00:20:23.049 --> 00:20:26.585
  • A lot of fear in the world.
  • 00:20:26.585 --> 00:20:28.287
  • A lot of reasons that people think we should be intimidated.
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  • I'm quite confident.
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  • The one that who called us out of darkness
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  • Into the kingdom of his son is watching over our future.
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  • And if we will honor him with our lives,
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  • We can trust him for good things ahead.
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