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Again, I don't think the appreciation is there for how big of a deal this actually is. And some people have been paying attention to this for a really long time, those of us in the scientific world, those of us who have been fighting on the front lines of the pro life movement for a very long time. So I thought it was important today on the show to paint a little bit of a picture for you of what this change actually means and why it matters so much more than the mainstream media is going to give any credit for over the next few days. Back to today's incredibly important conversation in a second. But first, is it just me or did we not, like, just finish Christmas? Like, we blinked and now we're already talking about Easter? Lent is in five minutes. Apparently time is fake, but actually Lent is one of the most powerful seasons of the entire year. It certainly is one of my favorite times of the entire year. 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I am really curious to see how they write this up, if they even talk about this at all because this doesn't fit their narrative certainly of what follow the science actually means. Even though that quite literally is exactly what's happening here is following the science and realizing that we don't need to exploit innocent babies body parts in order to facilitate good science in a laboratory setting anymore. But to paint a little bit of a picture for you. I want you to understand that every single year the nih, the National Institute of Health, a taxpayer funded aspect of the executive branch of the government, funds upwards of 200 plus research projects all over the country that use human fetal tissue that take a baby's body and baby's body parts that are obtained mostly through elective abortions. When a woman goes into an abortion facility like a Planned Parenthood and that body is then transported or products of conception as they would label it, is transported to a research facility and spends hundreds of millions of dollars of US taxpayer dollars your money to experiment upon these babies bodies in different capacities, vaccine development in stem cell differentiation, and in so much more. In 2019, Congress put together a general FAQ page on their website on congress.gov about frequently asked questions related to fetal cell tissue research or baby body part research. You're going to hear me say that a lot today because I think that's actually important to keep reminding ourselves. This isn't a clump of cells or some random microscopic thing that nobody cares about. These are the body parts, the organs, the skin, the bones, all of it of actual human babies that we are talking about here. To humanize this a little bit for you. They put together this list of frequently asked questions and published this in 2019. And they're very open about this. This is from the United States government about what your money is being spent on. They wrote this how is fetal tissue acquired required for research? Pretty frequently asked question on this topic. And they wrote this. Fetal tissue for research is collected from healthcare facilities and then transferred to laboratories for research purposes, often through an intermediary such as a biotechnology company, a university or a medical center. Read that in like plain English language instead of government coded policy speak. Literally what they're talking about is human trafficking, but nobody wants to call it that but that's what it is. It's human trafficking. It is literally the harvesting of a human body, a baby's body, handing it to an intermediary. That's the word that they use, like a biotechnology company, a university or a medical center. That intermediary then transfers the product, the fetal tissue, the baby's body, a human being, to a laboratory for research purposes. Yeah, no, you're paying for that. Actually, they go on to say fetal tissue, babies, bodies used in research is mostly obtained from elective or induced abortions, like when you go to a Planned Parenthood for an elective abortion. Though statute also permits the collection of human fetal tissue from spontaneous abortions, which, by the way, is not an abortion, that's a miscarriage. And they specify that here. Or stillbirths for subsequent use in federally funded research. These events often occur during unpredictable circumstances where it is difficult to preserve the tissue for research purposes. In addition, the tissue from spontaneous abortions or stillbirths is more likely to have genetic or other abnormalities that preclude its use for research purposes. In other words, yeah, you might be given the opportunity if you have a miscarriage and you go to the hospital and you deliver your baby, you have a dnc, your baby is delivered prematurely, they're deceased already, you might have the option to donate their body to science, but chances are, if they passed away in the womb and they didn't make it to term, there's something genetically that's an abnormality associated with them, or they have some sort of physical abnormality that caused their miscarriage and their premature death. And so they don't really want to research upon those babies. They don't really want to experiment upon those babies, because that doesn't help research. So literally what the United States government is publishing here from Congress in 2019 is that they want intact, healthy babies who are sourced from abortion facilities, that the only thing wrong with them is that they were unwanted by their mothers, and they want to research upon these babies for research purposes, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. Various pro life organizations have tallied up how much money is actually being spent on this over the years, and it is shocking information, truly, when you look at the actual numbers and the grants individually that are given to universities and to biotechnology institutions, to research institutions all over the country. It is enough to make you want to vomit, genuinely, how much of your money is going toward the harvesting of innocent babies and their trafficking to research institutions all over the country. The Charlotte Lozier Institute put together a really interesting table here for fiscal year 2019, the same year that Congress published that FAQ where they were quite open about what they were actually doing. And they said that they found an estimated total funding for fetal tissue projects having a history exceeding $500 million. Then they put together this funding by organization and state for different universities, children's hospitals, et cetera, with where they're located, how many fetal tissue projects they were doing in fiscal year 2019 and how much money they received. As you can see as we look through this document, it's absolutely insane. Whether it's the California Institute of Technology or Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, my alma mater, Colorado State University, University of Iowa, Boston University Medical Campus, Boston Children's Hospital, Dartmouth, Duke, New York University, SUNY Downstate, Brown, ut, Southwestern University of Wyoming. I mean these are places at every level of academia in almost every state around the country in some capacity receiving, as you can see on the right hand column of this table, millions upon millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars, grants from the NIH to experiment upon babies bodies. And when we say it that plainly, of course that makes you nauseous, of course that makes you sick to your stomach, of course that makes you shudder and think how could we possibly have allowed this to go on for decades upon decades upon decades in our society, society thinking that this was the best way to conduct science, refusing to ask the question just because we can, should we? And removing all bioethics from the conversation about fetal tissue research in its entirety. The sad reality is we have tried to ask and answer this question over the last several years, but the media, elected officials, people in high positions of power in the science, like the Dr. Fauci's of the world have refused to give it the time of day and have even run interference for shady business practices and actual human trafficking that has gone on in the background of fetal tissue research for decades. And this is why independent media matters now, today more than ever before, why shows like this are exposing this information when the CNNs and MSN NBC's of the world are refusing to touch it with a ten foot pole. And mark my words, in the wake of this announcement from Dr. J. Bhattacharya on Ben Shapiro's show this morning, I guarantee you the New York Times and Politico and the Hill and all of these accredited journalism organizations are either going to refuse to talk about this at all because they're not gonna wanna pay any attention to the major policy change, or the way they write about it is going to be so deceptive that and so deliberately disgusting that they make the Trump administration the bad guy for stopping experimentation upon innocent babies bodies. Mark my words. I guarantee you this is how this is going to be presented. Especially with the March for Life happening tomorrow right around the corner. What's really fascinating is a literal decade ago, a decade plus ago, one courageous man named David Daleyden made undercover investigators investigative videos featuring Planned Parenthood executives. Reminder that Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States. Today they are responsible for the vast majority of abortions that happen in America. And he went to abortion trade shows. Yes, those actually exist. Apparently posing as a researcher from one of these middlemen intermediary biotechnology companies and, and caught these Planned Parenthood executives on camera, undercover filming, saying the most grotesque things possible about the harvesting of literal baby body parts and essentially their literal trafficking to research institutions and universities around the country. This footage is incredibly hard to watch, but it is jarring for a reason. Because we aren't supposed to have this level of crass indifference and revolting exploitation of innocent babies and their precious tiny bodies. Oh, this is hard to talk about as a mom. Sorry. That should be relying on us for their protection and their care rather than being sold out to the highest bidder. When these videos were produced by David Daleiden's organization, the center for Medical Progress, this caused a massive storm in the media and in the law, which we'll get to in a second. But I want you to watch these videos for yourself and take away your own logical conclusion before we get into the aftermath storm that happened a decade ago when they were first published. If you guys have been following me for a little while, you probably know that I've covered these videos several times in Instagram reactions and previously on my live stream before I joined the Daily Wire. But I will never stop talking about this until everyone is aware, aware that this has been going on for a very very long time in the United States. And by the grace of God, we finally have leadership at the NIH with Dr. J. Bhattacharya and under the leadership of Secretary Kennedy saying enough is enough. We're not doing this anymore. Mark my words. We still have a lot more work to do after all of this. This first video features David Daleiden as a posed researcher published by the center for Medical Progress, showing a Planned Parenthood executive bragging about how effectively she pulls off babies legs at Planned Parenthood facilities in Texas. Listen to this.