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Kristen Hawkins
Hey, pro life Jen. Welcome back to the Kristin Hawkins show. Today we're going to talk about a victory that just happened in Texas. I have a phenomenal update about a Texas bill that's actually going to hold illegal chemical abortion pill vendors accountable. Finally, I also had to talk about a shocking new UN report on surrogacy. And I have a feeling you're going to want, you're really going to dig into this one because it's, it's shocking and disgusting. It's unbelievable. I also want to talk about the devastating impact of these new abortion numbers. New numbers have been released about the number of children in Gen Z who are being aborted. And I'm going to end on a positive note as our defund abortion vendors continues nationwide. As we just saw a victory in Maine with a federal judge telling us something we all know was, which is Congress has the right to go tell abortion vendors and Planned Parenthood to go fund themselves. All right, first things first, let's start today's show on a victory. The last time we spoke, the Texas legislature had failed to pass the Women and Child Protection Act. This is a bill modeled off of Students for Life's very own anti chemical Abortion Trafficking Act. I know it's a lot of words. This bill attempts and was written to attempt to stop the illegal shipping the trafficking of chemical abortion pills into pro life states because as you all know, many states have acted with courage since Roe fell to end abortion. But as you also know, if you've been tuning into my show, abortions are still happening in those states because. Because it only takes a young woman, a boyfriend, a rapist, 30 seconds to go online and order chemical abortion pills into a state. This violates the federal Comstock act which says you can't ship abortion related materials. It also violates the laws of states, but no one cares in Democrat states. In fact, many Democrat states like New York have set up these shield laws promising to always protect abortionists who are sending illegal chemical abortion drugs into pro life states. By the way, that's going to be the next Supreme Court case on abortion. Just wait for that. But here's what happened in Texas. We had this bill. Texas meets every two years for their state legislature. So it's crazy down in Austin when this legislature meets. The bill was introduced, it was killed because even though it was voted out of committee in May, a pro life Republican chairman, Ken King, failed to get the bill even though it was voted out of his committee, scheduled for a floor heater hearing. We were very angry. This man should not win reelection. He's not pro life anyway. So Governor Abbott calls a special session because there are a lot of things that the Texas legislature hadn't done in their short window for this this session, which is like I said every other year. We introduced the bill again in the first special session. There was a whole fight, you remember about the redistricting and creating the had ordered Texas. By the way, no one's talking about this to redistrict. A fight ensued. The Democrats threw a hissy fit. Remember they escaped the state and like Gavin Newsom and others were like paying them to like leave the state so they didn't have quorum. Well anyway, the Democrats finally came back home and they got the redistricting bill passed. Just a little fun update. One of the students for our very own alumni, Representative Texas Representative Briscoe Cain is now going to be running for for one of those redistrict seats. So Briscoe will be running for US Congress. So heads up Texas pro lifers. We're going to be asking you to door knock pretty soon around Houston. We're very excited for potentially have our very first alumni elected to the U.S. house Representatives. We're going to have a lot of fun guys. But anyway, so the redistricting thing happened. Then we had a second special session of the legislature and we reintroduced the bill again. More hearings happened and this time it finally passed. Last Wednesday night the Texas Senate took the final vote to pass the bill with a 17 to 8 margin. It is now with Governor Abbott to sign and take this bill and sign it into law. It took us three times this spring to do this. The reason I want to share that kind of drama with you is because the pro life gen does not give up. We introduced the bill. The bill died because of a feckless Republican politician Ken King. We introduced it again. It got diluted and died because of the redistricting fight and the Democrats in Texas legislature escaping in the state. But we finally got it done. Guys, this is massive. This is massive. Why students who have action introduced our anti chemical abortion trafficking act in a number of state legislatures this spring. We got very close in Oklahoma. We got very close in West Virginia in Oklahoma. The bill passed the house and then a Republican senator in the Oklahoma Senate killed the bill in her committee after an abolitionist had tried to amend our bill and kill the bill. And we fixed what the abolitionists did, took it off. But she used that as an excuse to kill the bill. Next time someone tells you abolitionists don't kill pro life bills, come See me. I'll give you a shining example. In West Virginia the bill passed the Senate this year. But the speaker of the House, Robert Hanshaw would not let the bill get a vote in the House. Representatives killing the bill in the House. I have a meeting with him in a couple weeks. Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer. Texas we saw introduced and finally it was passed. This is a first in a nation bill and as we know anything about the south politics, Oklahoma doesn't like to be outdid by Texas, let's put that way. So I'm very hopeful that Oklahoma will be now the second state come January 2026 to enact this bill because Oklahoma is also a pro life state like Texas. This is massive and I think this reminds us why we can't give up and why, you know, the courage, it reminds us of the courage, the courage that Senator Brian Hughes and Representative Leach in Texas, these two co sponsors of this bill, what they had to do to get this bill passed was heroic. And legislators Texas had to keep calling on the governor, had to keep this at the forefront. And because of their heroic tactics and non stop advocacy, we now have a model bill that has been passed in Texas that's showing the rest of the country that we can act. This bill has a lot of provisions in it that you need to know about. The main one is anyone can sue a chemical abortion vendor for shipping drugs into the state, for violating the state laws, for shipping the drugs to $100,000 per occurrence. Anyone can sue. So this can be the mother of the child who regrets the abortion. It could be the father as soon as the drugs are shipped. It could be the family member, it could be a pro lifer. Anyone can now sue a chemical abortion vendor for violating the Comstock act, for violating the laws of the state and shipping these illegal drugs into the state. It's now done. It's a blueprint. While we're waiting for the governor to sign it now we have to march forward and get West Virginia, Oklahoma, a number of other pro life states, states like Idaho, states like Indiana who've acted with courage since the fall of Roe to say we don't want abortion in our state. We now need to guard against these illegal abortions that are happening up, happening. So moral of the story, do not give up after the first try, do not give up after the second try. We never give up for moms and babies, no matter how many times it takes. And it will finally happen and it will get done. And Texas once again showed up three different legislative Sessions in the past six months to fight for the passage of this first donation bill. And it was a lot of late nights, a lot of unpredictable moments, a lot of political games we had to play and engage in. A lot of students who rallied at the Capitol. Duke, our students Life Action Captain was there on his 17th birthday testifying. Love, Duke. He's the boy in the cowboy hat. And all the students for Life Action Instagram pictures. We had so many people working tirelessly on this and you all made it possible. So thank you because it paid off. And now babies will be saved. The illegal abortions which we heard were about. The last estimate I heard was that there was maybe 13,000 illegal abortions happening in Texas a year, likely higher. There are going to be thousands of babies saved because of this action, because of the courage of the legislature, because of the non stop work and advocacy of the pro life movement, which by the way, all united around the bill. There was one pro life group that was trying to kill the bill, but at the end of the day, now they're finally for it. So I guess I'll take it. All right, topic two. This is not a happy note story. Sorry. I started out with the positive. I'm going to give you a sandwich of victory and I'll end with a victory, I promise. All right, so there's a new report out of the UN and it has restored some of my faith in humanity at the un, which my faith in the UN is already pretty low. So I mean, it's a little higher today. Okay. The UN has this position, it's called the Special Reporter on Violence Against Violence Against Women and Girls. The person who fills the role, her name is Raim Assalim. She's not pro life. I'm just gonna start that with that. In fact, she signed on to a previous UN document condemning pro life progress. When the Dobbs v. Jackson decision came out, the decision to overturn Roe, she called the ruling regressive, claiming that Roe's reversal put millions of women and girls at serious risk. This is why I was so shocked to see her new report on surrogacy, because she takes a thoroughly pro life position in this report and actually goes to great lengths to underscore that not only how surrogacy harms surrogate mothers, but how it also violates the rights of children. I know, I'm going to get into it. I'm going to put the report in the show notes so you all can dig into it as well. The report is called the report of the Special Reporter. On violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences in the context of surrogacy. That's a very long name. Alright, so the context of the report is this. It's becoming, which is, by the way, stuff we already know in the pro life. It's becoming increasingly common for wealthy couples from Western countries to rent the wombs of women in poor nations, literally using poor women as incubators. You know how they always say, like pro lifers want to use women as incubators? Yeah. No, IVF and surrogacy does that. And she's saying that the women, the poor women, are at risk because they're vulnerable, they desperately need the money. So they're doing this. The contracts that these women are signing turn them into incubators for someone else's child. They carried the babies to term, have to hand them over a birth. And in some cases, according to the report, they call it the commissioning parents, meaning the ones who paid the bill and are, you know, paid to create a human being, can force the mother to undergo an abortion if they find out through the prenatal screenings that the child doesn't meet the requirements of the intended parents. Remember how the abortion industry used to be all about bodily autonomy and how you can't tell women what to do with their bodies? Oh, yeah. Except when it comes to surrogacy. The report even claims that children who make it to birth and then are diagnosed with a disability at birth are at risk of being abandoned at birth because the commissioning parents stipulated they're only willing to take home and buy a healthy child. This is not empowerment of poor women. This is straight up human trafficking with prettier marketing. That's what this is. One section of the report contrasts surrogacy with adoption, and it's a lengthy section, but I'm going to read this kind of three paragraph section to you because I think it captures perfectly how morally bankrupt IVF and the surrogacy industry really is. Unlike in adoption, where parental assessment is recognized as an essential child protection measure, very few if any background checks are carried out on commissioning parents. This is the one that's paying the bill instead. The primary requirement placed on attending parents is the financial capacity to pay a substantial sum for the surrogacy procedure. This poses particular risk for children born in this way, including the risk of sexual exploitation of girls, as there have been reports of sex offenders commissioning children for surrogacy, the risk of becoming victims of human trafficking, the risk of abandonment, especially when the child is born with disabilities. Children born through surrogacy may also face long term identity struggles which are intensified if they are conceived through gamete donation. Knowing one's origins is important for many individuals for psychological emotional reasons as well as for family medical reasons. In other words, the UN is now acknowledging that anytime the creation and gestation of a child is happening, everything the adults that are involved with what they should be doing, should be doing with the child's best interest in mind. That should be their primary concern. But with surrogacy, that's not the deal. That's not the option. Do you adjust me? The UN just admitted that sexual predators are paying to create human beings to sexually assault babies children. The UN just admitted that. That's what I just read. The report also talks about how surrogacy is carried out with the full known intention of separating the mother and child. And despite science, established science showing us that the child's mental and emotional development are harmed by this, which by the way, we all know this right? That's the whole argument for a national paid family leave program. Because we all know scientifically children need to be with their birth mother. They need to be with their mother. It even points out that since many surrogacy agencies require prospective surrogate to to be the mother of at least one child already, such separation also creates confusion for existing children of a surrogate who see their mother pregnant but cannot expect to have a sibling. And the separation also affects the mom too. The report says no regulatory framework can fully prevent the serious psychological harm that may result from the separation process. Some surrogacy agencies offer detachment therapies to compel expectant mothers to emotionally separate from children. But the result might be cognitive disassociation between their body and their feelings, rising to levels of post Traumatic stress disorder. As Salam also points out that the girl children who are conceived in IVF and with the surrogacy process are disproportionately being targeted for sex selective abortion and surrogacy arrangements. A practice that by the way, the pro life movement has been blowing the whistle on for decades. While often, you know, our, our concerns are dismissed as like racist conspiracies, like no one would ever do that. No, the UN just disadvanted because we already know some cultures actually do value sons, men more than daughters, women and they kill their daughters. This report actually echoes the UN 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Throughout that convention document insists that children's rights have to be honored globally. Look that. Well, that's an important Document too. In a world where IVF and surrogacy are being normalized and accepted by many pro life Christians, where wrong sex hormones and gender mutilation surgeries on children are considered routine health care, where killing children and abortion is just reproductive rights, any entity affirming the fundamental rights of children, even the UN is welcome in my book at this point. The report also brings attention to the abuse of surrogate mothers and others who are involved in creating children to sell them through surrogacy. One example talks about the way eggs, human eggs are acquired for use in the IVF surrogacy quote. Some reports, including from China, of course it's China, describe scenarios of egg retrieval and embryo transfers being conducted in unregulated underground laboratories operated by biotechnology companies where the women undergoing the procedures were identified by codes and categorized as high end or low end products on the basis of their appearance and health status. With each egg priced accordingly. Women with disabilities are not being spared such exploitation and abuse. I mean we've seen this in the country, right? Like I went to one time to the University of Washington and I was flipping through their student newspaper and there's tons and tons of ads of asking white 3.5 GPO minimum student willing to healthy $30,000 for egg donation. That's like in newspapers in America, we say that people are doing that. That's the high end eggs right there. They further went on to talk about how women can, you know, enter these contracts, but they're, but they're not as free as you might think. It says in many contracts, surrogate mothers are required to waive in advance the right to make their own medical decisions or the way, or to waive the confidentiality information obtained by doctors during treatments. Other examples of harmful practices reportedly justified using a contract include the implantation of the number, maximum number of embryos to increase the chances of successful birth. Recourse to selective abortion. So that's when there's multiples in the womb, they're going to be able to, they'll tell her she has to abort some of the babies, right? Constant monitoring by the intended parents, including through uninterrupted camera surveillance and restrictions on the freedom of movement. Numerous women also reported to the UN that they weren't paid for the surrogacy or abandoned and if they miscarry the baby, bottom line, children and women have fundamental rights that are violated in every single surrogacy transaction, every single one, every single case of surrogacy violates the rights of children and women. There is no ethical way. There is no ethical way to do surrogacy. It's just wrong. And I understand this may be hard to hear, especially for those who are struggling with infertility, but my job is to tell the truth, just like I do on college campuses and I get shouted down for it. For those who are pro choice and pro abortion, I also have to tell the truth to pro lifers. The truth is surrogacy violates the fundamental rights of women and children. And I strongly encourage you to read the full 23 page UN report. I'll put it in the show notes. In fact, I'm copying right here because I'm going to use it on a college campus in a few hours when everyone tells me I'm lying. And I'll get to pull up the UN report as proof that this is happening in our world. Women are being bought and paid for. They're being forced to have abortions, have selective reductions. Their movements are being monitored. 24 hour surveillance. It's not empowerment. And this is sadly the logical end of where we've come with abortion culture in our country. Because children have become commodified once children became commodified in abortion, something you can choose, something not someone, something you can choose to kill at your convenience because somebody else might be inconvenient to you. This is a logical end to it. The fact that sex abusers now aren't being. There's no screening. All you're being screened as a commissioning parent is if you're how much money is in your bank account that you can be a sex abuser and then pay some woman to carry a child in the womb that then you can legally adopt. And there's no screening this, that children are being born and then given to homes of known sex abusers. Yeah, we have a major problem on our hands, guys. Major.
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Kristen Hawkins
All right, the next topic is also a sobering one. There's a viral post going around saying that 28% of Gen Z has been aborted. It's really hard to verify this number. We've been looking into it from our side at Students for Life of where did this come from? How are you going to verify? Because we don't actually have a national abortion reporting law in our country, as I've talked about, I think in like every other podcast since the existence of my podcast, even when it's called explicitly pro life. But this has raised some really important, I think, conversations and awareness of the vast reach of abortion. Because the old Bill Clinton mantra. So when Bill Clinton, if you know, if you don't know, he was the president of the United states in the 90s, he was elected twice when he was running for president from Arkansas and from the South. How he got a lot of Blue Dog Union Democrat voters, people like my grandfather who voted for the first time around. How he got a lot of people to vote for him while overcoming the abortion issue was he ran on the mantra of safe, legal and rare, that he wanted abortion to be safe, legal, but also rare. Kind of admitting that, like abortion's a little bad right now. The abortion industry, by the way, has totally dropped that word rare, because they realize you can't say it's rare because if you say you want abortion to be rare, you're kind of admitting there's something wrong with it. So now the abortion industry says safe, legal, acceptable, but this is how Bill Clinton won. But there's so that mantra, though, was demonic in the sense that it seeped into the psyche of Americans, where Americans are like, yeah, yeah, it's rare. We want it to be rare. And even today, when you're on campuses or you're having a conversation with pro abortion friends, people do not believe you when you tell them just how many abortions are being committed every day. Because everybody likes to to think of abortion as being rare or just, you know, Planned Parenthood is just like helping out that one poor woman who has an abusive boyfriend who's going to get kicked out of her apartment and is going to end up as a prostitute on the streets if she has an abortion. That's who Planned Parenthood helps. That's the one abortion they don't like. I was on the campus yesterday talking about abortion quotas, and they're like, you're a liar. There's no abortion quotas. I was like, well, one, this is kind of like my job to know what abortion facilities do. Two, I have many friends who've worked in abortion facilities have actually testified to the abortion quotas. And like, there's actually pictures on the Internet. I think Abby Johnson and others have put up of like, their certificates when they met their abortion quotas. And they would get rewarded by Planned Parenthood for committing X number of abortions, killing that many babies a month. Yeah. So I don't know for a fact if the 28% stat is correct, but I would not be surprised if it's not even higher. The sad reality is our government doesn't track abortions now. We have government tracking in other countries. And so I'm pretty sure this is. That's where this number is coming from. I think it's wild to me that time and time again when I'm, when I'm talking about abortion, even when we were calculating just a couple months ago the tonnage, how many tons human remains are entering our wastewater every single year because of chemical abortions. Right. The child, the chemically tainted placental tissue, pregnancy tissue and blood. I mean, we were estimating using the Guttmacher Institute's own stats on chemical abortion. So we are saying there's at least 50 tons of chemically tainted medical waste going into our wastewater because of chemical abortion every single year. But that's even using their own stats. We don't even have our own stats. So I think it's very difficult to make a claim like 100%. I'll stake my career it's 28%, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not even higher. Hopefully it's getting less in America with Roe versus Wade falling. Hopefully with states like Texas and their bill to clamp down on illegal chemical abortions, we'll start to see that number fall. But we do know we do have data to believe that there are literally tens of millions of children dying globally every year. Some estimates say it's over 50 million children dying every single year from abortions in China. I think it's over 30,000 abortions just a day. A day. And I think it's hard because how do you even quantify that? Right? When you're talking about mass tragedies, when you start to hear these numbers, your brain starts to tune out on them. And that's why a lot of times in marketing, they'll tell you, don't focus on the 18,000 children, Palestinian children who've been orphaned since the war and are living in refugee camps taking care of themselves with no living family. Focus on the one Palestinian child who is now an orphan and is struggling for food and is helping raise two other children. Because we can mentally comprehend that. It's hard for us to comprehend that there's 18,000 orphaned children in Palestine living in refugee camps with no living family. Which, by the way, is a number from the un if you add. I did some math. If you add up the populations of more than 100 of the world's smallest countries, you still do not reach the global death toll of abortion every single year. Think about that. 100 countries still does not reach the global death toll of abortion every year. I was debating a girl yesterday on campus, and she kept. She was at the end of four hours of being yelled at for four hours. It was lovely. But she finally was like, why do you care if I go and have an abortion next week? Why do you care? It doesn't affect you. In fact, then when I checked into the hotel three hours away, the person at the hotel asked me the same question, which, by the way, I just want to get in my hotel room, buddy. And I had to lock my door and put, like, a thing in front of my door because it freaked me out that he was debating me and knew my room number. But this is. This is the deal. Yeah, I may not know your child that you're aborting, but maybe I would have. Maybe the child you were aborting was going to be the spouse of one of my children. Maybe the child you are aborting was going to cure some, Was going to cure cystic fibrosis for my kids, was going to cure cancer. Every single time a woman aborts a child, even if that woman is on the other side of the country, you've never met her. You'll never meet her. Our society, our humanity loses something we've all personally lost. Siblings and cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, fellow church members, classmates, fellow gym goers, friends, co workers. We've all lost people to abortion, every single one of us. And we don't know who we've lost. But every abortion hurts humanity. It's not just this. I don't understand that thought because especially when you talk about progressives and liberals and they're always so focused on the society and how everybody works together and how everybody has a valuable part to play and a role to play. Everyone's uniquely valuable. It doesn't matter where they're born. Right. Or it doesn't matter what religion they are. Everyone's valuable in adding something to this common thing, this humanity. But yet when it comes to abortion, like, you're not missing anything. Why do you care? Why do you care what I do? Because we are all missing these people. We don't know who they are, but we're missing them. And we're all losing out on knowing them, their unique contributions they were going to make in our world because they're not here. Oh, and by the way, we're in a population decline and that's kind of a big deal. All right, final segment today. Promised you to sandwich it for you. I'm going to end on a win. I just made myself hungry by saying that. Sorry. We started on victory. We're going to end on the victory. Let's talk about Maine. So, as you know, I've been talking a lot about the one year defunding of Planned Parenthood that was passed by Congress in the big beautiful bill that was signed into law by President Trump on July 4th of this year. The law removes about 80% of Planned Parenthood's annual funding. It stops, essentially, Medicaid money from going to Planned Parenthood or any abortion vendor for one year. This is a big deal because as I said before, we've been able in the pro life movement to stop certain grants from going to Planned Parenthood, but the majority of their taxpayer money is Medicaid money. So that's health care for people who can't afford health care, which, by the way, like, no one can afford health care anymore. Thank you, ACA and Obamacare. It sucks. I should do a whole podcast on health care. I've been dealing with it a lot lately. Obamacare made everything worse. Anyway, so the law also says, so if you can't get Medicaid funding if you provide abortions, commit abortions. So Planned Parenthood, or if you're a local abortionist and make more than $800,000 a year in revenue, this included a company called Main Family Planning. It's an abortion vendor with a network of locations across Maine. It's not Planned Parenthood. It's an independent mom and pop chop shop. This is the good news. Just like Planned Parenthood, Maine Family Planning instantly filed a lawsuit against the defunding provision when it was signed into law. Now, in Planned Parenthood's case, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Planned Parenthood facilities should and must, must receive our Medicaid funding while it makes its way through the court system. And there's a whole injunction. And the DOJ and Pam Bondi really need to step it up and fight this with everything they've got. Right? Just like how they fought all the other BS court cases against President Trump's deportation stuff. Right? This is important, and we need the DOJ to step up. So if you can tweet at the Bondi, that'd be fantastic. Thank you for helping. It's also crazy. If you read the Massachusetts case, the reason why she's saying they must be. They must get refunding. Is she saying it's unconstitutional for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood because it's their First Amendment rights to speak out for abortion and that they were targeted because they are of their speech? No, they're targeted for their actions, and their actions are killing 402,000 babies a year, just FYI. But here's the news. In the case of the main family planning lawsuit, the judge was a whole lot smarter and actually, you know, applied the law. The judge said he was a Trump appointee from Trump's first term, Judge Lance Walker. Walker's ruling had some good truth bombs that you would appreciate. He said it took a special kind of judicial hubris to undermine the defund law. He quote, congress is entitled to withhold federal funds and otherwise disassociate from conduct that is not enshrined as a constitutional right, including through incremental measures and notwithstanding resulting harm to some beneficiaries of its broader Medicaid programming. Translation. Sorry. Not sorry. Main family planning. Too bad. So sad. I don't care. Because that's the deal, right? Congress. The last time I checked, their job in the House of Representatives is to write and pass bills to decide how to use our taxpayer dollars. Then it goes to the Senate, gets approved, literally. It's Congress's job. They get to decide who gets money and what gets money, where our taxpayer dollars go to. There's nothing in the Constitution that says we have to keep giving money from our paychecks to abortion vendors. It's crazy to fathom that we actually have to have this debate of whether or not our taxpayer dollars should go to subsidize people who kill babies for profit, who actually make money and a profit off of killing babies. I think sometimes you have to step back from the legal weeds of some of this and appreciate how stark the lines are between good and evil. Sometimes debates are and can be gray and nuanced, and they can be really difficult. This one is not. It's super simple. Killing babies is evil. The federal government taking money out of your paycheck as a pro life American and sending that money to a business that violently kills babies for profit is something I have hardly have words that aren't curse words for. But yet that's the reality that we've been living in for decades. And the pro life movement has been fighting for decades, literally since we started Students for Life of America. 20 years to get where we are today. We are now living in the first year of a major abortion business, being told by Congress that they can't be subsidized with our taxpayer payments for the first time ever. Yet they're still getting it because of the court injunction, but the precedence is there. As a reminder, we are not done with this battle yet. This is a legal battle that's going on, and this is only for one year. This battle may actually end up all the way at the Supreme Court. And by the way, one year isn't gonna cut because we know Planned Parenthood's friends, you know, George Soros, Warren Buffett, all those like megalomaniacs that have a ton of money, they are gonna just give them a loan, one year, they can get a loan. They can go to a bank and get a loan. There's much more we have to do. First thing we have to do. I just had a call with Majority leader, Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office telling them the same thing. John Thune must fire the Senate parliamentarian. The Senate parliamentarian reduced the provision. When the BBB was passed out of the House, it said defunding for the maximum allowed amount, which was 10 years, by the way. Everyone told us that was impossible. But you, all your calls, your district office visited, made that possible. Even my pro life friends in Washington D.C. were saying we needed to stop saying that. But we got done. And that was you? That was the Students for life action difference. 100%, trust me. But when the bill got to the Senate, there were all these, like, private negotiations going on. And we had to have the Senate parliamentarian who advises the Senate on procedures. Somehow the bill came out with only one year. Senate parliamentarian was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who was a Democrat and has been there for 15 years. The Senate majority leader has the authority to fire the Senate parliamentarian. Also The Senate majority leader doesn't have to listen to the parliamentarian either, as has happened many times in our past. The second thing we have to do is we need to make sure Congress in their next budget reconciliation bill, which is going to BE before the 2026 midterms, we have to ensure that the next budget reconciliation bill includes defunding for 10 years. It's going to start like in the next few weeks, like this fall. Negotiations have already started privately. The third thing we need to do is we need to make sure our elected officials know that funding big abortion is a non starter and that we're watching them and we're gonna hold them accountable. Because now we know this can happen. Now we know this can be done. Now we expect it done every single time. So we're gonna be tracking this defunding saga for you every day. I'm probably gonna bore you with a lot of like in the Weeds details in the coming months and for that I'm apologizing in advance. But there's gonna be more action items to come. Thank you all for joining today's episode of the Kristen Hawkins Show. Make sure you subscribe and follow for more discussions and news like this. If you want to hear from me daily, make sure you sign up for my daily text. Sign Monday through Friday you'll get a short text from me about an interesting news item or an action item, something going on in the movement that I think you should know about. 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