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Colorado is trying to silence free speech again. A state law forces businesses to use customers preferred pronouns even if they're biologically inaccurate. With the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian bookstore and a sports apparel company are challenging the law, but a court recently ruled against them. They appealed the ruling, and with ADF's help, they'll keep fighting another attempt by Colorado to skirt the First Amendment. Learn more about how you can support free speech by texting Wire to 83848 or going to joinadf.com wire Ryan Reynolds
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Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month Required intro rate first 3 months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees, extra fee, full terms@mintmobile.com the media is down again about the fact that way too many women are waking up and realizing that birth control pills just probably aren't it. Oh my God. Okay, it's happening. Everybody stay calm. And weren't it for the last several decades that they've been shoved down our throats by Big Pharma and most of the health care professionals in our life? And of course, completely expectedly, who is to blame Donald J. Trump? How did they come up with that? Politico just this last week ran this headline, Trump is going After Birth Control. Here's why Bobby Newport's Never Had a Real Job.
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Bobby Newport never had a real job in his life. Bobby Newport. Bobby Newport.
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And we'll get into all of that. But you know, I'm incredibly transparent about my own experience with birth control because I think it matters for our generation to just be honest about why so many young women are quitting the pill. Like most of the women my age, I was first put on hormonal birth control pills when I was 15 years old because I had run through every other pharmaceutical product on the market for horrible systemic acne. And if you've ever been a teenage girl, you'll know that's just about a death sentence for your self esteem, your social life, getting brutally bullied by everyone else in high school. It's not fun. So I was willing to try just about anything and everything to finally have clear Skin that I didn't feel the need to cake pounds of makeup on top of in order to remotely feel good about my. Which is why eventually, after trying everything else on the market, I landed at Accutane, which, at the time, I'm not sure if this is still true, required that you also be on an actual birth control pill while you took Accutane as a medication. Because if you don't, if you do happen to get pregnant, your baby can have some very serious side effects. And so the government was trying to mitigate that by requiring that you take birth control pills. Technically, they actually require that you have two forms of birth control. Luckily, my dermatologist was my next door neighbor and the most amazing woman ever. So she actually believed me when I was able to select abstinence as my second form of birth control. But even if you were not sexually active, you had to be on the pill, period, full stop. I took Accutane. I actually was one of the very small percentage of people that had to take it twice, unfortunately. But it worked. But from there on out, virtually every single doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, everyone in my life told me that if I quit the birth control pill, all of a sudden, I was going to get really fat. All my acne was going to come back. I would be crippled with periods, and who wants to get their period? Isabel? Even though, logically speaking, especially as a scientist, I should have taken the time, logically, to sit there and think not getting your period every month is probably a sign that something is really, really wrong as an adolescent and young adult, young woman. But I didn't. Because every single expert out there told me I had to stay on it, whatever the reason.
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Boy, that escalated quickly.
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So I did for up to nine and a half years of my life, until I picked up a magic book that now I have since loaned to every other woman in my life, including my producer, who has it in her bag. It's right here. Thanks, Jess. This is your brain on birth control by Dr. Sarah Hill. This woman is an absolute brilliant writer. She is currently a professor at Texas Christian University. Go frogs. And this book completely broke my brain. I suppose that was the point. And I instantly threw my birth control in the trash. Turns out the very serious mental health issues I had been dealing with throughout all of my teenage years and into my college experience could probably be explained by the magic pill I was taking every single night. My dating history, being attracted to not really the right type of guy could probably be explained to the birth control pill, completely changing who I was attracted to. The fact that I had lost interest in a lot of my hobbies and my biggest passions in life, the fact that I had a weird stress response, the fact that I was just struggling, period, could probably be attributed to the fact that I was regulating my hormones, when in reality, I was pretty much just dysregulating everything in my body, thinking I was choosing the path of health and wellness. As a young woman, my story is wildly tame compared to most young women out there when it comes to horrible birth control side effects. And I hear horror stories every single day from you guys on instagram and on TikTok and even here on the show of people struggling with strokes, with blood clots, with tumors, with cancer diagnoses, or even knowing someone who has died because of how truly horrible the birth control pill actually was for you and your life. And the scary part is we have normalized this for an entire generation. Right now in America, more than half of all women between the ages of 15 and 49 are currently on some type of birth control. And most of the women who aren't are pregnant or trying to get pregnant actively or are just not sexually active. So effectively, we have normalized for multiple generations of women that if you are in a long term committed relationship and you are not currently actively trying to have a baby, you must be on this hormonal regulation system in order to be healthy, which is objectively a lie pushed by the pharmaceutical industry. So knowing all of that, why is the media freaking out about this? The more of us that have been honest about it, the more we are seeing a revolution of young women across the political spectrum. It doesn't matter whether you agree with Trump or conservatism or generally traditional family values or not throw their birth control in the trash too. Back to it in just a second. But first, in case you are not paying attention, Mother's Day is right around the corner, people. And if you're anything like me, you've probably put off finding a gift up to this point. And also, finding a gift for the moms in your life that actually feels meaningful can be really tough. So many options end up feeling generic or rushed. And that's why I was so excited to discover our friends at Kexi, a family owned bakery that truly puts so much love into what they do. They have created a special Mother's Day cookie box this year filled with amazing flavors crafted just for moms. They are delicious. We love Kexi cookies in my house. I am nothing if not a cookie snob. Okay, it cannot be too crunchy. It can't be too sweet, it can't be too overwhelming. It's gotta be just right. And every single Kexi cookie I've tried up to this point has hit that perfect sweet spot. No pun intended. What I love the most though is that they don't feel like a grab something quick kind of gift that you give to someone. Kexi cookies feel personal, like you really put thought into it. Flowers are always wonderful and you should get the mom in your life flowers, but cookies are something that she can actually sit down, savor and enjoy. Their German chocolate cookie is absolutely delicious. Their Texas chocolate chip cookie Chef's Kiss Classic rich, done right. Plus their Mother's Day box arrives in a beautifully designed limited edition beautiful package so you don't even have to wrap it yourself. They will ship it straight to your door or directly to your mom's, which makes everything so, so easy. But heads up, these are limited. They do sell out every single year, so do not wait. You can go to kexi.com to order your Mother's Day box today. And if you want to try anything else, you can also use code Isabelle for 15% off all of their other products. Again, that's Kexi k e k s I.com code Isabel and while we're talking about young women everywhere, I hear a lot from young women that they are just really sick and tired of all the ridiculous indoctrination on college campuses. Which is why we are so, so proud to be supported by our friends at Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, nonprofit Christian university based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. People out there say higher education is outdated and irrelevant. But GCU doesn't settle for the status quo. They shatter it. At gcu, they have academically rigorous, industry driven programs that are built to move at the speed of relevance, with practical skills and career readiness and opportunities for every learner. GCU believes that education should not be a privilege, but instead an affordable path forward for everyone. And because of that, they have kept their tuition at the exact same rate on the traditional campus for the past 17 years and are going to continue doing that into the 202627 academic year. Plus they awarded over $400 million in institutional GCU scholarships back in 2025 to support and encourage education grounded in Christian truth. GCU is working to empower the next generation to lead with integrity, to serve with purpose, and to help transform their communities when we need it the most. Building a future that matters. GCU is Purpose Driven Education. Take action. Find your purpose at gcu. Private Christian, affordable nonprofit. Head to gcu Edu to learn more. This is one of the biggest trending conversations I'm seeing on the Internet social media right now. And the media overlords of our society and the so called experts of all things healthy empowered women are really upset about it. Back in 2024, the New York Times ran this huge profile on the voices young conservatives are listening to online and I was incredibly honored to be featured in that as we got closer to the 2024 election with so many of my friends. But they specifically targeted me as someone who has previously been critical of birth control. A young woman said she loved listening to me and my friend Brett Cooper because we often directly political topics like relationships. The New York Times said both have given attention to the concept of trad wives, although neither of us are actual tradwives. Ms. Brown has also criticized hormonal birth control. They more recently ran a whole spread about how evil Alex Clark with Turning Point USA has been for actually making an impact in young women quitting birth control across the cultural and political spectrum. And now you have Politico coming back to this, running this whole story about Trump going after birth control. Just this week they said this. The Department of Health and Human Services recently released new guidance that outlines a major overhaul of federal family planning programs, prioritizing childbirth over contraception and privileging natural family planning like period tracking apps over far more effective methods. That's literally not true, by the way. Like the birth control pill. The Trump administration is also poised to establish new regulations that would end further funding for Planned Parenthood chapters. I am keeping my fingers crossed ardently for that to happen, by the way. Please God, can we get there with that type of conservatism on offense? Call your representatives in Congress, please. But before I even get into what any of that means, what's so bad about that? Anything? What's so evil about prioritizing childbirth over the prevention of children? Aren't these the same people that have been screaming about how no one is prioritizing childbirth and it's too expensive and no one pays attention to it? What's so evil about making sure women understand how their body is naturally working and taking care of that instead of covering up all of their natural symptoms with a pharmaceutical? What's so wrong with that? What the Trump administration is actually doing, by the way, which is an amazing step forward to prioritizing actually making America healthy again, is restructuring how Title 10 grants are given from the federal government to various organizations like public health departments around the country for local and state governments nonprofits or other eligible organizations. This money doesn't go toward individuals, but it's a massive package to the tune of about 200 citizens, $57 million in funding through about 90 different grants that are awarded from the federal government. And the projects that get these grants can last about five years. Usually these grants go towards stuff like sexually transmitted disease tracking and testing, birth control counseling and services, family planning conversations, infertility services, health education and everything else you can imagine. Technically, by law, Title 10 funds are not supposed to be going toward abortion services, although they do keep the lights on of the buildings that do provide abortion services like Planned Parenthood. So indirect. And the money goes across all 50 states, Washington D.C. plus U.S. territories like Puerto Rico. So all the administration announced is that that money of your money actually is going to prioritize helping with childbirth services instead of contraception more often than not is going to help people embrace natural family planning over pharmaceutical birth control intervent more often than not. What that doesn't mean is a ban on the birth control pill. It doesn't mean the government is telling the college of Obstetricians and Gynecologists how they are supposed to practice medicine. It doesn't mean the FDA has suddenly revoked approval for the birth control pill or an IUD. It simply means for $257 million of the federal budget through Title 10 grants, they want to prioritize the making of families instead of the destruction or breakdown of families. What is so wrong with that? Politico's whole spread here claims that this is a wildly unpopular thing for the administration to do. And they cite all of these statistics about how everyone everywhere supports birth control. But come our generation continuing to age into adulthood, I don't think that's always going to be true. Ask any woman under the age of 40 if she has a birth control horror story in her own life or in her friends and family's lives. I guarantee you, eight times out of ten, someone probably has one. And I'm sure you guys do too. So classic that the mainstream media doesn't really understand what actual real people are living through every day. Or maybe they do and they're just choosing to blatantly ignore it. But I think we should tell them what's actually happening with this pharmaceutical intervention that was promised to save every problem in our lives and actually has only created infinite problems instead. What's your why I quit birth control story or your birth control horror story? Drop it in the comments of today's episode.
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