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Matt Walsh (8:49)

So it had the positive effect that we hoped for, but it also had the negative effect that we anticipated but did not hope for. Over the year that followed, I was, along with my family, doxed, harassed, threatened. I had to pick up my family and move to a new home because they were showing up to our house in the middle of the night. People showing up, taking pictures of my children when they're playing outside in the front yard. I was hacked. All of my personal information was exposed, demonetized on YouTube. We lost millions of dollars in advertising dollars, smeared in the media, defamed relentlessly. Wah, wah, wah. The whole story. All the bad things did, in fact happen, and in many ways worse than I thought it would be. And I would do it all again in a heartbeat. It was all worth it, every bit of it. The thing that I was worried about a couple of years ago and that I've worried about many times before and since is the safety of my wife and kids. I care about other people's kids. I care the most about my own kids, and I'm responsible for them as their dad. But what's propelled me into this fight and kept me in it and kept me going and compelled me to take certain risks is precisely this. That I'm a dad and I want to protect my kids. Trans ideology is an unprecedented threat to children. Not just children in general, but like my children, your children. If this hideous evil is not defeated if it's allowed to grow and gain more power and influence in the culture. No child is safe. No child is immune. We've all heard the horror stories from parents whose kids fell prey to the trans culture. Seeing your child's mind and soul claimed by the delusion is like watching him die a thousand deaths. It's an unspeakable horror. And the only way to make absolutely sure that this never happens to my kids is to burn the whole ideology to the ground, to destroy it, to rip it up by the roots and throw it into the fire. It's the only way to be sure. As a father, I know this is the surest way to protect my kids. And that's why I joined this cause. And I won't be done until the job is done. I believe that trans ideology is a unique evil, and the danger it poses to our children is likewise unique. Now, why is that? Why is trans ideology so uniquely dangerous? The answer seems obvious. This is a movement that wants to perform sick Frankenstein medical experiments on our children. It wants to turn our kids into lab rats. It wants to castrate, sterilize, mutilate them. And it's done exactly that to untold numbers of innocent children. That's what makes it so especially dangerous and wicked. But that doesn't tell the full story. You know, the medical abuse is a symptom of the underlying sickness. It is an outcrop. It is the visible thing that we can see on the surface underneath all of that. What makes trans ideology so insidious is that it is a complete and total rejection of truth. Now, not just a rejection of one particular thing that is true, but a rejection of truth itself. Truth as a category. A society that embraces trans ideology, a society that declares itself God over itself. It claims the right and power to define reality on its own terms. And there are consequences to this. There are serious consequences. Many terrible things follow from a collective flight from reality, and the consequences are more and more dire the more deeply the untruth burrows into the mind and into the culture and the truth at the core. The untruth, rather, at the core of gender ideology, reaches down to the deepest conceivable level because it wages its assault against our knowledge of ourselves. You know, a person fully enthralled to this lunacy has lost grip not just on reality in general, but on the reality of himself. Transgenderism doesn't simply replace one notion of the self with some other, newer notion. Rather, it replaces one notion of the self with no notion at all this is the whole reason why the gender ideologues can't answer the what is a woman? Question. It's because there is no answer for them. It doesn't mean anything to be a woman. It doesn't mean anything to be a man. It doesn't mean anything to be anybody. Your very identity has no meaning and therefore has no value, has no purpose. And that's because the gender ideologue seeks to replace what is definable and knowable with a hazy, indecipherable mess of contradictions and falsehoods. He replaces light with darkness and soon gets lost in it himself, and will probably eventually succumb to despair. And that's because a person cannot live in such a state. A person can't live in a state of self rejection. They certainly cannot thrive or be happy in that sort of state. So this is the great danger of transgenderism. But there is an even greater danger, one that has destroyed the lives of many more children and destroyed them in a much more direct and final kind of way. And that brings us to the other great threat, one that's never been very popular to talk about, probably less popular now than it's been before, and that is abortion. Now, abortion is still the defining issue of our time, and it is still the wall that separates one side of the political divide from the other. It's a wall that is built with the bodies of 60 million dead babies. Over 60 million babies have been killed through abortion. And so anytime I hear anybody, especially anyone on the right, tell me that, well, this issue is not that important, really. What's more important than 60 million? Can you point to something that has a bigger, greater death toll than that? You can't. Not one single genocide in the whole history of the world. Not one single plague, not anything. The death toll is staggering. Greater than anything the world's ever seen. These victims, these children have been killed legally by human hands in a little building in your local shopping mall that you drive by on your way to work or to run errands. And they've been killed at the behest of their own parents, with the help of so called doctors, facilitated by the government. Every kind of person that children are supposed to rely on to protect them. All of those people have turned against them, to destroy them. The most innocent of all people are children. And they're the precise ones that have been targeted for extermination. They've harmed no one. They're filled with joy and potential and love. If we can't see the value and worth of a child, then who can we see it in? I remain confounded by the sorts of people who would look at an unborn child and see only a clump of cells. Clump of cells. I mean, we're all clumps of cells. If you go to Walmart sometime, you'll see many people who are far clumpier than your average infant. I'm just kidding. I like Walmart. I'm also kind of clumpy these days. But can you really not see the miracle in this life? Can you really not see the beauty of this life that you call a clump of cells? Can you really not see the tragedy in destroying it? And it's a tragedy that is compounded threefold, because with abortion, we not only reject our children, but we reject ourselves. You know, we have to remember the miraculous thing about conception, that moment when a new life comes into being. What is so mystical and beautiful about it is that when you think about it, it's not just one life being created, but three. There is the child, a precious, vulnerable new life plucked by God out of eternity and sent here to begin its earthly existence. Then there's the woman who goes from being a woman to being a mother. She herself is created in this moment. It is a moment of becoming. She becomes something. She is born alongside her child. And the same is true of the man. He goes from being just a man to being a father. As a father myself, I can attest to the transformative nature of this moment of parenthood. I look back on myself before I had kids. I don't even recognize that person. I don't know who that person was. It was a different person. It was me. But it was me before I became what I was meant to be. It was me before I knew why I was here. That was all prologue. That wasn't even the story.

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Matt Walsh (19:03)

But the reality is that while three lives are created at conception, only one is killed through abortion. The child is gone from the earth forever, never to be seen again in this world. The mother and father are still who they became, despite what they're told. They don't go back to being just a woman and a man. You can't reverse the clock, you can't go back on it. She's still a mother, he is still a father. They are still parents. But now they are the parents of a dead child. Now there is no way to get around the fundamental fact that the pro abortion movement wishes to deny, which is the humanity of the unborn, the personhood of the unborn. The pro abortion advocate will try to say that the child's not a person because he's still developing and you know, he's entirely dependent on his mother for survival. And this means he'll say that the baby lacks some kind of moral standing. But and it's always funny hearing that kind of argument from a lot of people who themselves are still relying on their parents living in their parents basement, but very late stage fetuses as they would put it. But you know, this view that personhood is acquired by degree and that it's forfeit if you're dependent on someone else for survival clearly implicates more than just the unborn. It would seem that the sick, the infirm, the disabled, the elderly all get caught up in this de personing net by this line of reasoning. All of these people have at a minimum slightly less personhood. If personhood is on a spectrum, if it's contingent, then by this logic we have de personed many categories of persons which is a feature, not a bug of pro abortion logic. You know, they intend to whittle away at both ends of life, the young and the old, unpersoning one subset after another until the right to life has been extinguished for all but the privileged few. The only other option, aside from personhood being attained by degree, contingent upon other factors like self sufficiency, is that personhood and its attending moral rights and dignities is inherent to all living humans. And if something is inherent, that means it belongs to the essential nature of a thing. The idea that our human dignity, our personhood, belongs to our essential nature and cannot be lost or diminished is an idea that lies at the very foundation of this country, at the foundation of any notion of human rights. You cannot have human rights if you don't first have it built upon the idea that human beings have inherent dignity now, and this is an idea, by the way, that everybody in America pretends to believe most of the time. There's not a single person in America you could ever talk to who would, or very few anyway, who would reject the notion of human rights. They all accept it. Well, guess what? Human rights. That's a doctrine. That's not science. That's not something we found in a science book. That's a doctrine. That's a religious doctrine, human rights. And part of that doctrine all stems from this idea about the value of a human. And if you're taking value away from human beings, from one set of human beings, you're taking it away from everybody. If an unborn baby does not have inherent value, then human value is not permanent, is not essential, and thus, if he does not have inherent value, then neither do you. You cannot gain inherent value. You either have it from the first moment of existence or you never do, ever. Those are the only options that make any sense. Now, the personhood argument for abortion is actually even worse than it sounds at first. It's so bad that even if it were true, it would do almost nothing to prove the pro abortion case. Because the personhood argument for abortion is a syllogism with a missing premise, it seems to go like this. Premise one, an unborn baby is not a person, it's merely a potential person. Conclusion, Therefore, we can kill him. Now, wait a second. Two does not follow logically from one. You're missing something. You skipped a step. Just because someone isn't a person doesn't necessarily mean that it's okay to kill them. Since what is that the rule? Anything that isn't a person can be killed. That's a whole separate case you need to make. That's a whole other premise you have to establish. So even if I conceded the point, even if I let you make the first logical leap to say the unborn child is not a person but a potential person, you still have an even bigger leap you have to make, and I'm not going to spot you that one. So now you're out on an island. You need to now prove that it's okay to kill the potential person. And I don't see how you make that case. Because if I agree it's a potential person, for the sake of argument, it would seem to me to be the most valuable non person thing on the planet. It would seem to be then at worst the second most valuable thing next to a person. And I don't see why it would be okay to kill the second best thing. It would still be more valuable than, say, a sea turtle egg. And sea turtle eggs are federally protected. Now, to be clear again, I don't even for a moment buy the idea that an unborn person is just a potential person. I reject it outright on SC moral, scriptural and logical grounds. I'm just trying to establish that the argument doesn't even work on its own premise. This is the truth that cannot be escaped. Abortion is the intentional destruction of innocent human life. And intentionally destroying innocent human life is always wrong. Period. That is our case as pro lifers. It's as simple as that. Now, tragically, recently, a contingent of people who are supposed to be on our side have abandoned this simple truth. Indeed, it's one of the most shameful and twisted ironies I've ever seen. Pro lifers won the greatest human rights victory of all time with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But rather than some conservatives being emboldened by our historic achievement, rather than celebrating, rather than acting confident and triumphant, rather than saying, let's pile on now like the left does, we got this huge win. Let's go get another one. Oh, you guys are crying now. We'll give you something to really cry about next. That's what the left does. Instead, some conservatives have, over the past many months and last couple of years become very shy about this issue. Very shy. Even blaming pro lifers for some of the electoral defeats in recent elections. They claimed this last election was going to be the greatest defeat of all time, largely because of pro lifers. They were scapegoating pro lifers ahead of time. Well, how did that turn out? In fact, it turns out Trump gained ground with the women who were supposed to be the demographic that was going to rally against him to get revenge For Roe didn't happen. But even if it had turned out that way, it wouldn't change my view on the topic. It wouldn't change how I talk about it. I would not compromise on abortion, even if it really did mean losing every election from now till kingdom come. And the reason is simple. It is that to accept child murder is to forfeit your soul. If we are really a country where child murder is so fundamentally popular that it's impossible to win by opposing it, then we're not a country worth saving anymore. We deserve, at that point, whatever destruction comes our way. God will strike us down for our sins. And I couldn't stand in the way of that if I wanted to. And I don't want to. I'll never accept abortion. I'll never compromise on it. I won't give up any ground, not one inch. Nothing. All abortion is wrong. Always. It's never okay to kill an innocent human being, ever. Under any circumstance, ever. It is always our obligation to protect the innocent, especially our children. There are no exceptions. None. Period. Ever. But finally, the good news. The good news is that the whole premise is flawed. We don't have to give up every election until kingdom come. As we just discovered, the pro life message can win in this country. It is winning, but only if we have the courage to fight for it and the intelligence to fight well. The pro life message has already won in so many ways on so many battlefields. Just like the anti trans ideology message has won and is winning. We are winning on both fronts. After so many years and so many sacrifices and so much put on the line by so many people, people in this fight way longer than me, before I was even born. There have been people for decades and decades giving everything to this. And they're winning. We are winning. Winning is our destiny. Because the truth always prevails in the end. Always. If you're a Christian, you have an advantage because you have the book. And you can skip to the spoilers at the end of the book and you can see how it ends. And so we know that we win. We stand in the truth when no one else will. For that reason, we speak for those who cannot speak. We say what must be said and we do what must be done. And if we continue to do that without fear or compromise, eventually the day will come when every child is free to be born and to live and to be safe and to be innocent, as they should be. Now I see that day in the future. It's approaching. But we're not there yet. And so for now we fight. Thank you. The executive producer of the Matt Walsh.

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Show is Sean Hampton. Our Associate producer is McKenna Michaelis. The show is directed by Mark Jones and Trey Miller. Our production manager is Austin Michaelis. The show is edited by Jeff Tomblin. Our lead audio engineer is Mike Koromina.

Matt Walsh (29:35)

Our audio engineer is Ryan Reese.

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Our hair and makeup artists are Cherokee Hart and Andrea Bauer.

Matt Walsh (29:41)

Our wardrobe stylists are Kristin Galarraga and Cameron Ladsko.

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Our director of post production is Matthew Kemp. Director of production operations is Pavel Vadoski. Our chief broadcast engineer is Jeff Govin. And our assistant broadcast engineer is Allegra Rohr. Our lighting director is Keith Duggan. Our playback operators are CJ Hickish and Finn Pope.

Matt Walsh (30:02)

Our show assistant is Holly Merritt. And our production assistant is Mike Moran.

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Executive in charge of production is David Wormis.

Matt Walsh (30:09)

Executive producer is Jeremy Boring.

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Matt Walsh show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2024.

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