Mr Bearded Truth – 32 – Whose body, whose choice with Natalie Bruno

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tonight uh because the whole nation’s talking about it abortions is it right is it wrong should we legislate on it
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how do we move forward as a nation and how what should the culture look like well
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doesn’t fit neatly into the pro-life side of things but i am so excited to sit down with the libertarian party
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natalie bruno natalie how are you doing tonight hey how’s it going good good
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so special episode we get to sit down and we get to talk about the thing that nobody likes talking about um
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everyone likes to scream yell and shout at each other um but you know just from
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our pre-show i i know that things are are going to go quite well i’m i’m so excited for
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today’s conversation but before we get into that i want to know natalie what’s been going
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on over there in oklahoma for your campaign how has everything been going and then we can dive in a little bit to
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what’s going on there first before we get into the national stuff yeah well
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every time i’m on your show and i see your plug-in for your wife i always feel like i have to also mention that uh
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kelsey is amazing and also did my logo and stuff as well so in honor of her my background today is actually a stamp and
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repeat she did for a um for a banner of mine that i use at my um tabling events and stuff like that so
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kelsey is really fantastic and outside of that you know my race has been going
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fantastic we just finished filing season in april so we finally have uh official
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candidates um on the roster so to speak so i was lucky that i had the entire support of
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the libertarian party of oklahoma and every other candidate so i’m not primary i get the uh i get to
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go straight through to the general election on november 8th but we will have
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primaries for the democrats and the republicans um it’s shaking up to be a really interesting race
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not only just because of our our dynamic here in oklahoma
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but you know everything that’s been going on you know obviously everybody’s talking about the leaked um information about
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the overturn of roe versus wade but here in oklahoma uh we’ve had two pieces of legislation over the last several weeks
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one um earlier this week and one last month that had to do with abortion
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as well and so it’s been shaking things really interesting for my campaign because of the fact that
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even though i personally approach uh poor pro-life i believe in pro-choice when it comes to keeping the government
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out of those decisions and based on how things are going with the other candidates so they um you know typically
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this is a strong democratic stance but the democrat that is looking to
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win that seat joy hofmeister she actually was a flipped republican that said she was only running as a democrat because
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the incumbent has taken over the party and even though right now she’s pretty
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much saying the same thing as me which is i’m pro-life but i’m letting other people make decisions that’s actually
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completely contradictory to a lot of statements she put out when she was running as a republican so it looks like i might be the only
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um women’s right and anti-government out of women’s health candidate that’s going to be on the general election ballot in
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november so it’s it’s uh shaking up to be um really interesting i’ll say that
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so are you saying that potentially this leaker or the roe vs wade was just there to help you and your campaign that’s a
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i’m just kidding like as horrible as it is and it is kind
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of almost shaking up to be that way because i you know we know as libertarians we have no
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problem standing up for beliefs that we believe in no matter how right or wrong they might seem to uh libertaria to
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democrats and republicans so it just so happens this this stance this time
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is going to propel me ahead of the other two candidates so it’s incredible um now you mentioned that you had two bills there in oklahoma
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did you want to briefly talk about those a little bit yeah absolutely so there was um senate bill 612 which essentially what it did
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was it made it a felony to conduct a abortion so like a doctor or
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anything like that um i believe it’s up to ten years and a hundred thousand dollars um of a fine
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and then um the newest one which is until 1503 made
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it illegal to have an abortion past six weeks oh wow and it also had the same snitch law
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written into it that texas had which basically gives ten thousand dollars to um
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individuals that snitch on somebody else that’s performing abortions so it’s it’s a really unfortunate thing especially
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considering um the average amount of weeks along that a woman is before she even finds out that she’s pregnant is about five
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and a half weeks and then due to in a lot of states you know and here as well
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there’s a lot of built-in things where you can’t get an abortion the same day that you go to the clinic or you know
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you have to go through certain things before you’re even allowed to have an abortion so you’re basically forcing it out of even possibility even
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if you do find out you know beforehand so um there’s some a lot of
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you know crazy things about it and i wish that things were as easy as people like to
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say it is which is just you know oh you’re murdering babies or oh this but it is not a black and white issue
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there’s so much gray so much gray which is why i as a personally pro-life individual
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believe that the government needs to stay out of it because there’s just there’s too much gray areas in between yeah definitely and and it looks like
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for both of those bills um what it encourages is is for if you’re wealthy enough you just leave the state you go
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get it done and and you’re fine if you’re a person lowering the income scale or
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don’t have uh don’t have the ability well it sucks to suck and and no doctor’s gonna wanna
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you know perform these abortions and and you know the poor like usual exactly and and for
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the six week thing i mean you know i don’t want to get into my wife’s personal health too much but you
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know after a heart surgery her schedule fluctuates quite a bit
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and you know she’s gone seven weeks before so we wouldn’t have even had a sign there to say hey you know you’re
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pregnant uh thankfully you know we haven’t been put into that circumstance but i’m sure that we’re not just an
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isolated case where you know there are plenty of women out there that have irregular cycles to where
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by the time that they have confirmation that they’re pregnant they’re already beyond that six week ban so it feels
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almost like um it feels like uh from from the outside at least that people are just
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would rather win on the legislative side rather than actually you know care the kind of like what you were saying it’s not just a black and
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white thing it’s there’s so many different details that that legislators and lawmakers just
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ignore entirely um well not only that but if you think about it i feel like a lot of the
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pro-life materials that i’m seeing out there or arguments really paint women who get
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abortions out to be these floozies that are just running around having unprotected sex
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and you know that’s not the case actually you know i there’s always things that we hear but i like to dig in
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and be like okay what’s really the statistic on that yes and i pulled up some stuff about how um
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like 59 of women actually already have at least one child and you know 73 of the reasons of
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abortion are actually financial you know it has nothing to do with the fact of oh uh you know i’m just an unmarried person
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that had sex you know these are women who already have children you know they didn’t want to have additional children
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because of the fact that they um you know could they already know they can’t afford it and obviously
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typically it’s the more conservative side that is against abortion but they’re also
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against welfare so you’re having these situations where you have women who can’t afford to fly out
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of state to have abortions who are already saying the reason they wanted to have an abortion is because they know they can’t afford it but by golly if
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they keep their baby and they ask to be on welfare you’re shaming them for why are you popping out all these kids when
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you know you can’t afford it and then on top of that we fail to recognize or realize
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that birth control and getting a tubal litigation and stuff is not as easy to
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get as we like to proclaim it is you know for myself even you know within the state of oklahoma
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the these christian um hospitals they do not allow tubal litigation so whenever i had my
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fourth child and i wanted to have a tubal done i couldn’t even have it during my
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c-section i had to have a completely separate appointment to go in
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and outpatient surgery just to have a tubal so it’s like hey so we’re going to
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fault you for not wanting to have a pregnancy but all these things that you can do as a woman to prevent pregnancy
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we’re going to either make it very difficult for you to do or we’re going to make it to where your husband has to sign off on it or we’re
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going to tell you no we’re not going to do it because you don’t have any children yet and you might change your mind
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and then even when it comes to birth control you can’t just go to a pharmacy and buy birth control like
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men can buy condoms it doesn’t work that way it’s so much more complicated
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you know than we’re making it out to be yeah absolutely and that that that point of
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you have to get your husband’s permission you have to get a permission slip oh daddy can i please have my uh
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my tube side it’s just like that that’s not we are working there’s so much of the
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system that works against everybody against men and women in this
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country from being able to make decisions for their own life and then when circumstances arise where you have
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married women who are having consensual sex with their husbands protected sex and doing all the right things and
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they’re still you know they still accidentally have a kid and they’re not you know just as you said they don’t
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have the financial means to take care of them now they’re stuck in this this pit where they get looked down upon for not being
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able to afford their lifestyle or they get looked down upon for trying to make a financial decision of not having a kid
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and and so there’s it’s only a lose-lose situation for so many people that
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it i guess it should be expected with kind of the um just kind of the views that political
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people typically have of the rest of the population if you don’t live the life that the way that i say that you do then
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you’re just destined to mess up and you know no sympathy no care no no no response at all um and go ahead
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even with that you know another argument is here we hear is oh well you’ve always put the chat up for you know adoption
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well the issues with that is number one it’s a lot harder if you’re an
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individual that didn’t want to have a child once you are actually carrying out a pregnancy now you are visibly pregnant
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to your family members to other you know people in society and the negative effects of being a person that puts up
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their child for adoption is almost as bad as putting your is getting an abortion
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to be honest with you and then especially when you go into terms of like i can only mostly speak to my state
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and i like to remind people as well you know i have a blended family of my own i
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birthed four kids i have two stepsons i would be willing to bet i probably spend
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more volunteer hours per week in the realm of children than any other politician that i know of in my state i
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was recognized last year for my service to children um you know by winning the
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judgement patent award so i spend a ton of time dealing with children who are in a
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situation where they’ve been removed from homes and stuff like that and to see the amount of children
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currently without having strict abortion bans that are not being adopted
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you know are seeing in the foster care system which i would like to remind everybody that 48 of children who exit
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out of the foster system say they have been either physically or sexually abused okay so we have these situations and then on
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top of that you know we’re not even talking about the fact that these bills don’t even cover when there’s something
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medically wrong with the baby you know like let’s say that a child is going to be you know severely mentally
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handicapped and you know not be able to live a normal life a normal pregnancy
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would allow for a woman to have tests done and then make that determination and if they know that you know it takes a special person
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to be a parent to a severely specialized child and not having that ability to abort
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that pregnancy you’re going to force them to carry out a pregnancy that they are going to put that child up for
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adoption that nobody will adopt because nobody wants to adopt children with disabilities right now any given day you
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know we are at a negative of 75 homes that are needed homes not children
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homes that are needed for fostering special needs children and whenever it comes to adopting
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special needs children that doesn’t happen you know and you know the expenses around it so if
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we’re talking about 73 of people are choosing abortion because they can’t afford you
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know i pulled some numbers and in the state of oklahoma on average we had about 4 780
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abortions okay so if we take 73 of those and say that you know those people it
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was for financial region reasons that’s 3489 additional people that could essentially be on welfare so
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you know if you take into the average cost of welfare in our state for a child that totals up to almost 67 million
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dollars additional that taxpayers are going to have to pay to fund children if they even stay at the home but let’s
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talk about abuse even in the state of oklahoma child abuse is the highest than any other state
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in the united states so we’re going to take these people who didn’t want to have children force them to have
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children and so either they’re going to end up in the system they’re going to end up abused or they’re going to end up
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waiting for homes where there’s not enough people to adopt them so it’s a lose-lose lose-lose situation yes
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and and you mentioned the adoption um just the mindset so i was adopted before
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birth i am one of the fortunate kids out there so um through
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my birth mother um was married to a man got
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they they separated for a little bit she got pregnant and then went back to her her husband and he said it’s not my kid
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i’m not going to raise them so i she had the option of either a abort me
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or b put me up for adoption thankfully her sister came along and and her and her
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husband adopted me so that’s my my mother and father i am incredibly lucky for that um
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you know and and this isn’t to say like uh abortion is the wrong thing it’s it’s
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it’s just saying that was what the path forward was i am incredibly fortunate for the path that was given to me by
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having somebody adopt me before birth if i if that wasn’t the circumstance
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um that you know how long would i have been in you know going from home to home how
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long would it have been until i was adopted and and thankfully you know um other than maybe just being a
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libertarian i’m i’m normal otherwise so there’s a there’s a large struggle there
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to begin with and my camera doesn’t want to focus on me anymore but um there’s a large struggle there and listening to my
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birth mother now that i i learned who she was and i’ve had built a relationship with her the mindset of
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somebody who gives their kid up for adoption is just as difficult as somebody who goes through abortion this isn’t these things are not something
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that that come lightly for anybody she saw me about eight months after i was born and it was so incredibly hard for
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her to give me up after then um these these are decisions that shouldn’t
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be made lightly and they aren’t but these are not ones that should be made a decision by a pen of a legislator that
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has never cared about you never known your name or anything about your life these are things that have to come down to individual choices
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absolutely and you know not only in regards to that yeah you’re
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a fuzzy camera super super distracting um but you know
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that’s i guess one of the things that just kind of angers me in general is that you know it really appears that we
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only care about the thought of helping children it’s so easy to wave your you know
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mostly i’ll say republican flag and say oh i’m here to save the babies or hey
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you’re pro-choice so you’re all about murdering babies when in all actuality with the amount of child trafficking we
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have in our state with it being a you know major cross section with 35 and 40 but the fact that we’re number one
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in domestic violence and child abuse and all of these things that just tells me no we’re not really for the children
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we’re just for controlling women’s bodies and liking to pretend like we care about the children because if it
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was really about caring for the children then we wouldn’t have our current life breathing children in the
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predicaments that we’re putting them in right now with our failing criminal justice system where most of their parents are imprisoned for ridiculous
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you know cannabis charges and you know i could go on for days in that regard you know how passionate i am about justice
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reform but and it just shows us at least in our state that we are really not
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for the child and we need to address the situation with you know the people that we can actively affect on a day-to-day
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basis before we try worrying about you know the personal private decisions that women should be able to make between
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them and their doctors on what is best for their personal situation because at the end of the day it’s forced pregnancy
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it’s easy for people to say because it is mostly men offense to you and
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that have really strong opinions about um you know abortion and
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life but they’re not it’s easy for them to uh run off and have a pack of cigarettes and then never come back
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women be physically carrying the baby it physically changes your body and if something were to ever happen you know i
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have two daughters and both of them have five functioning autism if one of them were to be raped
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and they wanted to have that choice to not have to be forced to permanently
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change their body you know by carrying a baby that they are not going to be in a position to
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take care of i’m not going to force them on that just because i feel from a morality standpoint
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that you know i have a better knowledge of what they should do with their life or their bodies than they should
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and you know so it’s not just standing up for me even though i you know like i said my tunes are tight i have no skin in the game myself
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because you know with the you know short of a miracle i don’t have to be worried about getting pregnant again but i am
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absolutely going to fight for that right to have that decision for all the other women and young ladies and children out
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there and i think it’s also important that while we talk about this choice you know as um
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this supreme court as the uh opinion was leaked at the draft of the opinion at
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least was leaked the idea that we go to federalism and and have all 50 states be able to make
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their own case as to how it goes there will be states where this is a majorly
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criminal activity um it’s going to be interesting to see the way that that plays out where um
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you know miscarriages are are something that you know you have people that are visibly pregnant and then they
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miscarriage those are going to come under criminal scrutiny and and i
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i you know you and i the last time we i had you on we were talking about the death penalty and we were talking about
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people’s lives being destroyed like actually being ended innocently
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and and we’re gonna see that when it comes to a woman now and when you have a a section or a state that that implements
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this and a woman has a innocent miscarriage because let’s face it a fetus inside the
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belly is still an incredibly susceptible thing it’s incredibly vulnerable there’s so many things that
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can happen that we will see more lives get destroyed because people felt a certain way morally rather than
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feeling with compassion and trying to help build up our communities there’s so many things that we could be doing
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absolutely well i’ve had too much character myself i had one at seven weeks but then
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i had one at almost six months um i had already knew i was having a boy his name was owen and it was a super
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unfortunate thing where the umbilical cord got wrapped around his neck and um i felt something was wrong i went
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into the emergency room um here at integris and there was no more heartbeat okay and i had to do a dnc so
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technically i guess you could say i have had to have an abortion because that is how you have to handle
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those miscarriages is i had to have a dnc in order to pass the child
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and how with as traumatic as that was for me then imagine how traumatic it
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would be if that was now wherein there would be an opportunity for someone to challenge me on whether i
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really lost my baby or if i just secretly had an abortion and how much more traumatizing that
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would be for a woman to have to prove that they had a miscarriage as opposed
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to um you know just not having it be an issue at all like i can’t imagine if i would
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have had to have gone through that on top of the fact of miscarrying a child that far along yeah
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and and you know for people who haven’t been in that i mean you know that’s gruesome for
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me because i’ve had plenty of friends and and that have been through that but if somehow somebody hasn’t i mean just
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imagine when you lost a loved one somebody who was walking around and you lost that loved one and while you’re
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still grieving you had an officer walk up to you and be like why’d you do it
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it’s traumatizing the grieving stage is such a hard part of life just for for so
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many people and then to have a baby or a fetus or whatever we want to call it at the time
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to have a lost one this isn’t an opportunity for us to to say now you need to have the government step in and
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i think that one of the other important things that when we talk about this um and this is where it gets really boring
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is the the idea that there are states that are looking at making life legally at conception or at six
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weeks or whatever that point is and it makes a very interesting thing because of the way the laws are already
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structured that at that point of once it’s life you basically have to have this documented if that’s why we have
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the the certificate of death and the certificate of birth the certificate of death or dead birth or stillborn um is
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now you’re literally open up this can of worms for more and more people to have
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the state intervene and and it hurts my soul to see good libertarians on on so many issues
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stand there and say no we need to we need to codify this as this is the point of life and we need to make it a legal
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matter i i i just look at how the state has handled so many of our other issues i i don’t
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see how welcoming them into another aspect of our of our most personal and
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loving parts of our lives how that’s going to make any of this better absolutely and at the end of the day
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you know it comes down to a personal moral issue it really does and whenever just like how they say it’s
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really impossible to argue about religion in general because it’s something that you believe right
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so you know we could go blue in the face you know about our different beliefs
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and because there’s no you know nothing tangible that we can like really argue with it it’s about our
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faith and and that’s why this abortion topic is so hot to people because
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you know it is highly moral based but we cannot make laws and legislation based off of morality and then being the
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morality police we just can’t do it because then where are we going to draw the line right there’s so many other
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things that and you know we fail to remember because you know maybe it’s because of
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the agents some of us were at that time but we tried it we made um abortion illegal and what we did was the
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mortality rate of women went through the roof you know that’s why this whole thing happened in the first place is because
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just like we see with the war on drugs prohibition doesn’t work okay it doesn’t i am all for less unplanned pregnancies
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i am all for less abortions but this is not the way to fix it it’s not all we’re doing
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is we are disproportionately uh targeting those who are low income and we really really cared about there being
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less frequent um unplanned pregnancies we would address some of these issues that cause these problems about the
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um you know not being able to um have female sterilization that we
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request and not having all these hoops that we have to jump through and making birth control more accessible and and
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all of these things that we kind of mentioned earlier if we really cared about women and cared about babies you know
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let’s not you know let’s actually fix the root of the problem not focus on you know the end result so
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to speak and you know i’m really really hoping that you know
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some things change the legislatively um because this is going to be a a really serious backlash and you know
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essentially you know we feel like it’s almost a war against women and you know it’s pretty unfortunate that’s happening
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yeah no absolutely and and i think what’s what’s kind of is the winning issue on this is that if you look at a
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national polling of of how people view abortions
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we we hear from the fringe groups we hear from the fringe pro-choice and we hear from the fringe pro-life but there
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are so many americans out there that that kind of see this more for what it is and they say look it’s it’s not my
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decision it shouldn’t be my decision and and i think that you know as well as long as we’re standing out here um
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saying you know people need to be able to live their lives and make the best decisions for themselves they may they
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may make a decision that they don’t like that leads to another decision that they don’t like but we need to be there to to
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help them and and to your point about you know we gotta go to the root and we gotta actually solve some of these
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issues a lot of people think that as soon as you you make as soon as you prohibit
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the uh abortions that suddenly all these problems are going away and as as you’ve eloquently put out
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you know we’re still gonna have issues in the foster care system those are gonna get exacerbated we’re still gonna have issues in the in the uh abortion or
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in the adoption realm um kids are not going to be getting picked up but they’re going to be over flooded there’s going to be more needy people in in
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plugging back into the criminal justice system kids that are in and out of foster homes are much more likely to be
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going into the prison system because they don’t have a structured life
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a structured family around them without a nucleus family you’re more likely to have that and so there’s so many aspects
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that we see where republicans and democrats typically try to nitpick at society and at the culture and so many
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of these things are so interwoven with one another and it’s like why don’t we actually look at the root of some of these problems and actually try to
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address them right republicans clearly have won out in oklahoma and they think that the death
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penalty is the way to to stop all the crime but you know as you were talking about the last time you were on here clearly that’s not it and you’re getting
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it wrong more often than you’re getting or not you’re getting it wrong enough to where it’s a major concern right well and one
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thing that you brought up a second ago so i’m actually going to segue back into when you’re talking about we usually hear from the fringe groups right
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is that one thing that really irked me about um signing this last bill was that he said
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i’m speaking for all four million oklahomans by signing the six week um
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you know bill but amber integrated which is a group that does uh political polling here just in december did
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political polling asking that if roe versus wade was overturned do oklahomans think that
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there should be a complete down abortion and even within the republican party it wasn’t over 40 um it wasn’t over 50
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there was 48 that said yes the rest either said no or undecided and it was
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in some groups you know 70 and 60 saying no no no like so no i’m sorry but a
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majority of us do not want a total ban on abortion you know do most of us think that abortion should
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be used as like just a you know come and go type of birth control no but we understand that there
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are too many gray areas that it shouldn’t be up to you and i to decide what is a good reason to have an abortion what a good reason isn’t it
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it’s between the woman and their health care provider especially considering you know the
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issue with like the late term abortions you know 85 of abortions are done before 13 weeks so
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in the first trimester and the only ones that are really done after that are when the mother’s health is in danger so we
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are already you know women don’t want to have an abortion after they already look like they’re pregnant they are already
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trying to again get in as quickly as possible to take care of the situation granted we’ve created all these rules
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like i said and i also want to mention too we as libertarians we do not believe
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in federal funded abortions we don’t believe in uh planned parenthood we don’t believe in any of those we do
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think that it should be private entities and stuff that handle these so we don’t we aren’t even saying that you as
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taxpayers should have to put a dime on it okay because there are non-profits still take care of that okay
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you know so we will say that we are against the federal funding of these programs but
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they should be allowed and they should not be illegal yeah and i i put out a tweet um i think
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it was last week when this was all blowing up but it was like you know funding is certainly a concern for
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libertarians not a single taxpayer penny should go to either abortion providers or their counterpart companies so that
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that way it can get slashed over and enable these things but you know in order to try to help that
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you know of course the voluntary donations those should all become tax credits just straight off the top like
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you know to allow for people the opportunity that they can fund what they believe in to help people get
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affordable health care um when it comes to these matters or other forms of health care it doesn’t really matter to
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me i i think that you know moving it in the way of allowing the people to speak with their dollars on what is needed for
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society rather than having government just be able to slosh a bunch of money into different programs and and allow
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for it to to go wherever it may actually give us the opportunity this is going to handle a lot of that that
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revenue issue that that you know people that are are adamant about pro-choice um that almost wants you to scream from
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the rooftops about it this will help at least subsidize some of that because we’ve seen in the past
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and i remember um there was a i don’t remember what the actress name was but she made large donations to
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planned parenthood under mike pence’s name and they made it very public and i was like you’re proving that you don’t
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need the tax money you guys just continue to fund what you guys want and and we’ll be all right
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so absolutely if it’s something that’s important to somebody there’s going to be a way to fund it you
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know we don’t need the government to fund those things and so when it comes down to it you know
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you don’t have to pay a single one-year tax dollars to support an abortion from somebody else and if you don’t want to have an abortion don’t have one
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and you know at least allow women the right to choose when they want to become a mother and
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when they don’t and you know the argument you know well when you have sex that’s just a risk that you take you
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know that’s you know it’s not the 40s or the 20s or anything like that anymore it’s 20 22.
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let’s just be realistic yeah and i would be willing to bet that most people i know did not save themselves to marriage
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okay accidents happen but you know most of the time when women are having
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these abortions a lot of the ones that i know who have which isn’t very many you know because it isn’t the thing it’s not
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like women are just having abortions all over the place you know these are situations where they were on birth
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control and it failed you know and different situations arose themselves and i will say that happens all of the
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time of my four children two of them are birth control babies i will tell you that um but mistakes you know mistakes happen
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and we have to allow women to choose what physically happens to their bodies and what doesn’t yeah especially when you look at what
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childbirth does to a woman’s body i mean it it’s not it’s not just a matter of
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like just looking at and and i don’t want to be i don’t want to be gruesome with it it’s
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not just a matter of like the vagina just like shrink it back and then you’re suddenly good you know like your teeth
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are ultimately weakened like it this affects the entire woman’s body and how it’s structured and how it repairs and
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everything else multiple childbirth is is incredibly difficult it’s it’s a it’s considered a major trauma on the woman’s
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body so if a woman has already been through a lot you know my wife um and i don’t i don’t like bringing up her
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medical health we had my my daughter a month later she had heart surgery a
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month later she had open heart surgery her body could barely handle all three of those and and having the discussion
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around her being able to handle just giving birth you know we we
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we do all the things to make sure that we don’t but this puts her at a much higher risk and so am i just not
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supposed to allow to to have intercourse with my own wife is that is that the standard society would like for me to
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have because i’ll i’ll be honest like it’s a it’s it’s a part of the marriage like
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we enjoy that time right exactly and you know and i’m sorry you know the argument
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that you know sex is only for uh procreation like i hate that argument and i hate to
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you know sorry if anybody’s children are in the room listening to this but we’re grown adults and you know i believe in
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having you know straightforward conversations about things but if sex was made for purely procreation then it
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wouldn’t be enjoyable it wouldn’t i’m sorry so and there has been speak
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of you know sex from a recreational standpoint even as much as in the bible
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so it is not just out there for procreation i’m sorry and yes you know
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that is a side effect of having sex is becoming pregnant but that shouldn’t mean that you know women are forced into
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that and you know there is a story actually of um that i have heard because obviously on facebook because this is such a thing
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everybody’s sharing their personal stories with abortion and you know we as women are the ones that have to
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sacrifice when these things happen you know there was a story of a young lady
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and her boyfriend that are college students they’re both college athletes and
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you know she became pregnant if she would have kept that it kept the pregnancy she would have had to have
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quit her college sports career okay would the father have had to have done
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that no father’s fine father still living life just helped you know the way that he was should we have required him
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to because she has to no longer play college sports because she has to physically carry the baby that has a
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sympathy that he should have but also play college sports because he doesn’t have those same responsibilities as the
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mom no of course that’s ridiculous but you know there are you know women are affected in such a different way
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and the man is in this situation and that’s just the way it is and i know that it’s frustrating to people that you
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know we as women hold all the cards but we’re also the ones that have to hold all the risk and you know unfortunately you know that’s
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just the way it is it is one of those struggles and and all too often i i think it’s so it’s so bad
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um when people downplay just that how much of a difference there is when it comes to the
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genders in this and i also think that i’m kind of also frustrated because
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there’s there is that section of people that say that men should have absolutely no say in this discussion at all and i’m
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like 1973 when bro versus wave was passed it was passed by an all male scotus but
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like the good ideas are good ideas and and we have to we have to look at that but that doesn’t mean that you know we
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have to say that there’s equal risk in this just as you had pointed out because there is a lot more
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at stake when it comes to a woman being pregnant versus a versus a man who
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pumped and dumped effectively you know he gets to he gets to continue on with his life and and he can he could
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do whatever in the court systems we know how broken the court system is and and how that’s you know that’s that’s a
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whole nother conversation of child support or child custody battles and et cetera et cetera um but i think that
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that really brings in a lot more of the nuance of this conversation of
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how is it that somebody is going to tell somebody else what kind of a life that they have to live because you know
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you can say for nine months i get to control you you can’t abort a child but for the next 18 years
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20 years and probably looking like 30 years coming soon based on the economy you know you’re stuck with these
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children so your entire life i have determined that you have to suffer for the next 30 years through these
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circumstances and hopefully you’re going to get it right or i’m going to criticize you even further we have to i think that there needs to
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be a lot more compassion when it comes to this conversation and all too often it’s just blanketed i have an idea and
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therefore my idea is good and at the end of the day the best thing that we can do is just listen to the people that are in these
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circumstances and say i really don’t know i don’t know how you had a situation of
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a woman here in oklahoma so and this is the kind of things that i think that we’ll continue to see so
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two-part situations one um is the story of there was a woman who had a miscarriage but because she had
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drugs in her system they decided to go ahead and charge her with murder or so that’s something that’s happening
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right now so she had a miscarriage but they believed it was due to the fact that she was on drugs so that is what
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she’s currently being charged for and to my understanding it could be manslaughter i might be mixing the two
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but she does have charges being pending for that so there’s situations like that that we’re going to see happen a lot
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more okay and then on top of that you know we have situation where we do have women
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who have um like mental health issues where they’re on medications for schizophrenia
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or things like that to where if they are not on those medications okay then
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you know they are at a severe risk to not only themselves than others but you also cannot take those medications
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safely while pregnant so are we going to force them to then get off of their meds and become unsafe so
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that way they can give birth to a child or are they going to continue to take these medications and hope that doesn’t affect the baby but by golly if it does
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then we’re going to hold you accountable for that too so there’s again so many gray areas that are going to pop
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up so we can’t dictate yes or no so we need to allow it and allow the individual
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choices that the women make that be between them their doctor and if you know and their god if it is a situation
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where it’s a morality thing for you yeah and and you know the the old saying of
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safe legal and rare i i think that the important thing is that we try to find ways to make it more rare when possible
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we try to make it easier for people and we don’t criticize those who make these incredibly hard decisions we we’ve
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covered a lot of those circumstances where it’s not easy on these people at all and
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i think it’s also important to know and this is definitely an outlier for a lot of people but there are people that are
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basically at the point of giving birth before they even realize they’re pregnant because of the birth control that
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they’re on they don’t have periods so they don’t have like a normal cycle but they get pregnant and they don’t realize
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it as i said this is a complete outlier but now you have people in circumstances where
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now they’re suddenly apparent and and the shock that they go through
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now of course when you don’t let people have abortions they get the gradual buildup of that shock of i have to live
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for the next 18 years 20 years with a child and and figure out my life and get things together
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it’s not so easy when it’s a 16 year old it’s not so easy you know as a 16 year old girl if if you’re having consensual
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sex with another 16 year old and you get pregnant the idea that
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you’re going to damn her schooling she can’t finish school because now she’s got a kid and trying to juggle that
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she’s not going to be able to have a fulfilling career not many people are going to be attracted to her and and so she’s going
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to struggle so severely that the opportunity has to be given for her or
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whatever circumstances she’s in to be able to make the best decision for her life going forward um i
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yeah i’m probably repeating myself way too much on this but i will say with that
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yeah i know i will say with that okay obviously there are so many fantastic
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success stories of women who chose to keep their babies right as teenage moms
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that ended up you know doing fantastic and raising these fantastic children by no means are we saying the young ladies
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are not fully capable and able you know to you know keep their children and be
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fantastic mothers but the point is though they should be able to make that choice for themselves if they do feel
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like they are strong enough to do it or not because we’re not we’re seeing
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people that are in their late 20s having children that we should probably second guess whether or not they should have had children or not you know so it’s
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yeah you know it’s a situation where it’s we’re not saying all
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the young ladies aren’t capable and yes we do know there are some women who have been raped that decided to keep their babies and we do know that there’s some
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women that decided to keep their babies and that’s amazing you know i love my children i love being pregnant i would
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you know i don’t think that there would ever be a reason where i would ever personally
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have an abortion no matter if you know something happened to my husband or anything like i would probably you know because i love my children so
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much but i’m not all women and all women are not going to you know have situations or react to the
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situations the same way you know i personally you know was raped when i was 12 years old
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and thankfully i did not have very much trauma from it i you know for whatever reason like i i
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went through a period of time but i’m able to talk about it i don’t get triggered and i use it as a really great
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example about how we’re not having certain conversations with our children and and that’s something that you know i
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could do a whole podcast over about how we don’t prepare our children um our young ladies for
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um certain things the way we should but not i know i know women who have been
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raped around the same age that still have nightmares to this day so i mean there’s every single situation affects people
47:53
very differently and you can’t make a decision for that person based off of how you feel or how you would handle it
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because you are not that person and they are not you we have to let people make the decisions that they know are best
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for them and their family yeah everyone’s an individual you don’t know like where they came from how they
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got where they are how they’re going to respond how they’ve responded to other things
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blanketed statements don’t work um and and with the society stacking the decks
48:23
against everybody in in our societies and and of course on the show we’ve covered you know how how hard it is to
48:29
start up a small business we’ve talked about the criminal justice system being stacked against uh certain demographics
48:35
and certain populations we’ve talked about um you know just the education system being a an absolute failure in
48:42
the public side uh there’s so many things out there that you don’t get to to force people into a
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shitty situation because you yourself was in a shitty situation just say you i support you regardless of
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which way you choose it’s amazing when you have success stories it’s it’s it’s heartbreaking to see people fail and and
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you know eventually the empathy has got to win out in the day and
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you know it it’s it’s incredibly important this has been such an incredible conversation we haven’t
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there’s been no one screaming in the comment section uh i’ve been i’ve been learning so much from you
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um i we got we’re coming up about surprise i i really expected there to at least be a couple people that are like
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you just love killing babies or you know stuff like that when when it comes down to it’s like guys it’s it’s all out of
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love you know what i mean like every on both sides we just either it’s just a matter of whether you have
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an outward love more for the women that are having to go through these issues or for those unborn babies
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i feel in i really feel in my heart that when some of these things are done i do think it happens with the best of
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intentions but we just don’t really think through all the things it affects and really
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think through you know how doing one thing negatively impacts
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so many other things because you just don’t understand it the way the same way somebody else says yeah
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and i think that that’s a it’s a really important note there of like you’re doing this with good intentions um
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because people are imagine being in a circumstance that you’re not
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comfortable where you are in your life and then finding out you’re pregnant people are not making this lightly as we
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said they’re trying to make the best decision for themselves and and they’re
50:32
trying with the best intentions and all that they need they don’t need to see you on facebook you know shouting them
50:38
down or shouting other people down who’ve had abortions if you want to build connections if you want to build
50:43
that compassion that empathy with people around you you have to be welcoming for people to make decisions that maybe you
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wouldn’t make yourself but you’re going to support them through that and and so i i you know i want to thank you so much
50:56
natalie for for coming on i want to give you the last couple of minutes to give you about five minutes or so to plug
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plug everywhere that we can find you um anything that you got coming up and and of course give you last last words on
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this yeah absolutely thank you um i appreciate you having me on
51:12
spike and i we’ve been playing tag where he had something come up and then i had something come up and then he had
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something so um having the ability to talk about this while it’s still so relevant and fresh on everybody’s minds i think is
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really important um when it comes to myself for anybody that is interested in all of my stances outside of abortion
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you can visit my website which is elect nataliebruno.com on there it’ll have my issues you can
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volunteer um you don’t even have to be in the state of oklahoma to help my campaign believe me when i say there are
51:43
many things that you can do and even if you’re in south carolina or
51:49
maine or anything like that um you know there is a job for you here
51:54
uh this has been so far a fantastic libertarian campaign um my ultimate goal
52:00
is obviously to win um you know but if by some crazy chance i don’t i do expect to pull some of the
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best numbers that a libertarian has ran so you know having the opportunity for
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people to come and join me and be part of that you know i’d be really fortunate to have um any extra people that i can
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um i also have facebook which is at natalie bruno llp i’m on twitter at
52:24
natalie bruno i’m also on clubhouse tick tock instagram
52:29
all of the things so come find me and then if you have any additional questions or if you want my um you know
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stamps on you know specific verticals within this issue reach out to me i am not one of those candidates that give
52:42
political answers where i don’t really tell you my stance on an issue if i just dance around it even if it’s a hard
52:47
topic like tonight or even if it is something that i don’t think is going to be the most popular stance i’m going to
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tell you because i would much rather voters know exactly where i stand than to allow the media or other people to to
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guess based off of you know the political affiliation that i have so thank you so much
53:04
for having me on and uh talking about this very passionate you know issue that we are all facing
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right now yeah thank you so much for for coming on and i i am so excited everything i’ve
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looked at and and seen from you is just it’s immaculate it’s perfect uh i’m i’m
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so excited to see you actually become the first governor elected um as a
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libertarian this is this is coming um so everyone please do go to uh elect
53:32
natalie bruno uh i did spell it correct uh like nataliebruno.com uh show her some
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support show her some love ask her questions um see if if you can get her to post publicly about the questions you
53:45
ask you know get her to get her stances out there encourage her let her know what’s on your mind so that
53:52
she can be the best candidate that she can be and and that’s only through your support um so please get out there and help her
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out i i my endorsement means nothing but i would endorse you for anything that you’re running for um you have a thumb this
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time they don’t know that joke that’s why i didn’t do it over here
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oh the ghost thump um but thank you so much for joining me
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tonight and uh i’m looking forward to seeing more success from you and everything else and looking forward to having you back on
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thank you have a good night a good weekend all right thank you all right what an incredible
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conversation that was i’m so excited every time i get to talk to natalie she is as she said she’s
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incredibly approachable you can ask her about anything she will be there she’ll give you those answers and
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she’s going to take care of oklahoma so make sure you guys get out there you support her if you’re in oklahoma go support her go canvas for her go help
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her make sure that she is the next governor of oklahoma if you’re outside the state donations
54:54
are available go ahead just make sure you’re not violating fec laws by the contributions that you’re trying to
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send her but make sure you’re following those but get over there to elect nataliebruno.com but as for the
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conversation tonight i mean this is the nuance this is the thing right we both come from the pro-life side on this
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conversation but we understand that there has to be compassion there has to be empathy we have to look at the
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circumstances and understand that there’s too much volatility there’s too many too many different aspects too many
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gears shifting around for us to be able to make a one-size-fits-all this doesn’t work in education this doesn’t work in
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healthcare this doesn’t work in the criminal justice system so why would it work in the abortion sector um you know
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so incredible conversation tonight i am invigorated to continue pushing out there and talking about this um but
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the show’s only an hour long so i want to thank you guys all for being a part of tonight hopefully you guys enjoyed the conversation i see a lot of you guys
55:52
joining in in the comment section thank you guys for so much for the support there and uh love you guys appreciate
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you guys all but if you guys want to tune in next week next tuesday night muddy waters of freedom with spike and
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matt as they traverse the current events uh it’ll be a great show of course wednesday night and maybe
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maybe natalie’s coming back for another uh good conversation with spycona my fellow americans thursday night will be
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matt wright with the writer’s block and then friday we’ll be back here with nate banks talking about um messaging and
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