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The Supreme Court deals a major blow to Planned Parenthood just days after the birth of a baby from a supposedly brain dead woman causes not only infanticidal leftists but even a prominent pro lifer to criticize the abortion ban that saved the baby's life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. The White House is officially embracing Trump as Daddy. They made a magnificent short film and post to social media that tells us that we are living in the very greatest timeline imaginable. I have a lot more to say, but first go to Hillsdale. Edu Knowles History, Economics, classic literature, Constitutional. Did your education cover these foundations? Maybe not. Or maybe you're just due for a refresher. While our world constantly evolves through time and technology, certain fundamental truths about humanity and our place in the universe remain unchanged. 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It's free. It's easy to get started. Hillsdale. Edu Knowles Hillsdale Edu Knowles Great news out of the Supreme Court. Here we have the decision. There's just one page of it. Obviously, these decisions are a little bit longer. But the upshot of this Supreme Court decision is, is that state Medicaid programs don't have to fund Planned Parenthood. Your tax dollars, through state Medicaid programs do not need to pay to murder babies. And this is a great Supreme Court decision. Huge congratulations to Alliance Defending Freedom, which just keeps racking up wins. But it shows you how much ground conservatives had lost in recent decades. The fact that we have to celebrate this victory, the fact that we have to celebrate the victory that, you know, I don't know. That men. That states are allowed to pass laws against castrating little kids so that men don't pretend to have a right to be women or something like that. I mean, it's crazy how much ground we've lost. But what specifically does this do? This case rules on a South Carolina woman and Planned Parenthood, which claimed a legal right to bring a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's decision to keep Planned Parenthood out of the state's Medicaid program. Now, South Carolina took Planned Parenthood out of the state's Medicaid program because Planned Parenthood exists to slaughter babies. Federal law already prohibits tax dollars from going to abortions. So you'd say, okay, well, how on earth does Planned Parenthood get the money anyway? And the answer is that Planned Parenthood pretends to do other stuff. So they say, okay, look, we. And they do. Technically, you know, they say, okay, we pass out condoms sometimes. So, okay, that means that not all of our money goes to abortion. So, hey, you give me millions and millions of dollars, and I'm not gonna use the millions and millions of dollars for. For abortion. I'm gonna use the millions and millions of dollars to keep the lights on or to keep the rent paid. But, of course, money is fungible. So if you're giving any money to Planned Parenthood, which is an abortion bill, then you are paying for abortions. So it's a 6:3 vote. And the court says, an opinion written by Neil Gorsuch, that the Medicaid act requiring states to ensure that Medicaid patients can obtain care from any qualified provider does not create a clear and unambiguous right that the Supreme Court would need to see in order to allow this lawsuit to go through. All good stuff. Really glad to see it. We need to set our bar higher. We need to set our aims higher. I think we do have our aims set higher. And we need to claw back as much ground as we possibly can. It gives you to me. Some people complain. They say these justices aren't doing enough or Trump isn't doing enough. Look how much ground we've lost. It gives you, I think, a great deal of sympathy for these guys, especially President Trump. It shows you how hard charging we need to be while we have the presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court, we won't have them forever. So we gotta make hay while the sun shines. Now on abortion, on pro life politics, there's an amazing story, really, it's a sad story. It's also got a ray of hope to this story, but it's a really bizarre one. This is a woman, Adriana Smith in Georgia. This woman was declared brain dead in February. She was pregnant and she was kept alive, but she was brain dead. But she was kept alive and her baby kept growing. And the reason that she was kept on ventilators and life support was so that her baby could be saved. And then she was born via emergency C section. This should be, you know, the silver lining in a storm cloud. This should be the ray of hope in this otherwise terribly sad story. Except people are furious about it. The pro abortion crowd is furious that this baby is alive. So there's one comment that went viral from the left, from the infanticidal left says, I still hope the baby doesn't survive more than another day or two. People are seriously not understanding the precedent across the country that will happen if the baby survives. It really is the absolute worst thing that can happen. 7.9 thousand retweets, 107,000 likes, 3.3 thousand bookmarks, not even ratioed under a thousand replies. So I was tempted to think initially that this was satirical dark satire, but there was satirical of the left wing position. I don't think it is. But even if it were, all of the retweets, all of the likes not being ratioed suggest no. This is a mainstream position saying, no, no, you can't. If we admit that the baby is a baby, if the baby survives, and it is possible, and now we have really firm undeniable proof the baby is a baby. The baby is a separate person. If we see this example of a mother living for a longer period of time on life support, then that'll kill our abortion ideology and our abortion ideology, our political ability to persuade people to kill babies is worth more than the life of this actual baby who happily survived. But it's not just the left. There is a very, very prominent pro life activist, Abby Johnson. I like Abby a lot, but Abby also had problems with this story she tweets out. I know I'm the very odd man out in this Georgia situation where a woman is being essentially used as an incubator to keep the child alive. She was pronounced brain dead when her unborn child was nine weeks along. And she is being kept artificially alive for now over 11 weeks in order to continue the pregnancy. I have a huge ethical problem with this. Death is natural. Keeping people alive by dehumanizing the mother into the form of an incubator is, in my opinion, unethical and dehumanizing. Women are not made to have babies even if they are dead. Natural death is okay. Life and death are two places in medicine where we have gone too far. We've created too many ways to create life. She's right about that. And we have created too many ways to extend life instead of letting people die peacefully. Abby is wrong, but she's right. She has a good point given her mistaken premise. And did you figure out what the mistaken premise is here? She is not wrong in the way that the people on the left are wrong. The people on the left are wrong because they hate innocent life and they want to. They're wishing death upon an innocent baby who survived in this beautiful way because it contradicts their abortion ideology, which is false and hideous. That's not what's going on with Abby Johnson. The reason Abby Johnson has gone wrong here is because of the mistaken premise of brain death. Because obviously the woman isn't dead. If the woman were dead, the baby wouldn't have been growing. If the woman were really dead, the baby would be dead now too. But the baby is alive, which should cause not only the left to reexamine their abortion priors, but it should cause the right, some people on the right to reexamine their priors, specifically on brain death. Cuz brain death is fake. It's fake news. The clinical category of brain death dates back TO I think 1968 and a study out of Harvard, but it's not real. I'll give you a good example. 2006, there's a little boy, very sad story. Little boy, four and a half years old, contracts bacterial meningitis and is brain dead. And when I say brain dead, I mean brain dead. I mean like doesn't have a brain anymore. By the time they performed the autopsy, his brain did not exist. There was some calcified material, there was nothing that was recognizably brain tissue. And yet that kid lived for 20 years. And not only did he live, meaning his lungs were on Life support. But not only were his lungs bringing oxygen into his blood and all that, he grew, he went through puberty, he was alive. He didn't have a brain, but he was alive. And what's very scary, I mean, there's story after story about this with brain death where a guy will go in, he'll be declared brain dead, and then the organ harvesters get ready to chop him up and take out the organs and he'll start twitching or a relative will touch him and he'll kind of flinch. This happened in one case. I think it was a cousin, I forget the guy's name, but was touching his fingernail and finally there was some doubt that he was actually brain dead. And then he woke up and he. He survived and he was perfectly fine. But he would have died from the organ harvesting. Because the actual immediate cause of death for people who donate their organs generally is the organ harvesting, which is why that's what's so ethically suspect. But you should not look at this case, this amazing case of, wow, at least the baby survived. Don't forget the original purpose of a cesarean section was to save the baby. It was a death sentence for the mother. Now, happily, we live in a medical age where you can almost always save the mother and the baby with a C section. But initially it was just a way to save the baby. It was pretty much just this. It was a rudimentary, ancient form of this. Now, instead of looking at this and saying, oh, good, out of this tragedy, at least we were able to save the baby. People are looking at it and saying, oh, this is really unethical. No, no. If you think that saving this baby is unethical, you need to reexamine your ethics. Not just on the left, but on the right as well. Okay, now one more abortion story was really crazy out of the Daily Caller. Hold on. Stop your car, sit down, take a breather, take your glasses off, rub your eyes, because I have to tell you about netsuite.com knowles. 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If your revenues are at least in the seven figures, download the free ebook Navigating Global 3 Insights for Leaders at netsuite.com knowles netsuite.com knowles Daley Calder has an exclusive you're going to hear that the abortion pill, which now accounts for over 60% of abortions officially I have heard from pro life people in the know that it's actually closer to 3/4 of abortions. You'll hear that this is just a medicine that is prescribed by doctors and it's very serious and clinical and has all sorts of there's no downsides to women, even though something like 11% of women who contract these abortions have serious complications afterward. But there are no downsides for women and it's all very medical and clinical and serious. Well, the Daily Caller just found that in about five minutes, pretty much anyone can get a prescription for an abortion pill. So Daily Caller finds five minutes. They were able to get them. They're obviously approved by the FDA. In 2021, the FDA removed a requirement that providers distribute this poison pill in person. So you can do it now directly through the mail. And the Daily Caller News foundation got five sets of this poison for 660 bucks. Sets ranged from $90 to $150 each just by filling out online medical forms. And that was it. Three of the five organizations that sent the pills to the Daily Caller use Gen Biopro. That's one form of this poison pill. The fourth used a different one. The final one sent pills in a plain manila envelope that did not indicate the drug's provider and the return address was listed as Supplement City. This is dodgy stuff, man. You can order vitamin supplements from AM talk radio that are taken more seriously than a pill that will kill a baby and will quite likely harm the mother too. This is crazy stuff. So look, I think abortion is horrifically evil and is always wrong and we need to protect the most vulnerable among us. And I'm as pro life as it comes. Even if you're not, though, even if you're one of these people in the middle who incoherently says, well, abortion is bad at eight months but not at four months or something. Somehow a human being becomes a human being at five and a half months or something. Whatever your view, even if you have that incoherent view, or even if you are super pro abortion, how can you possibly justify this? Just look, let's say we're sitting here, me and you, super pro abortion person, we're sitting in a coffee shop, no cameras anywhere. You're gonna tell me that's acceptable? A very powerful drug that ends a life that could have serious harmful side effects on women, almost certainly will have harmful psychological side effects, but could have harmful physical side effects too. You're telling me you should be able to just fill out an online form in five minutes, pay 90 bucks and get it in a manila envelope from Supplement City. Siri, are you kidding me? I can't get Tylenol with codeine here. I gotta go. If I want Tylenol with codeine, I gotta cross the border into America's evil top hat cuz that's too dangerous to get. But I can order an abortion pill online in five minutes. No way. No way. So this ties into what we're talking about at the top of the show. The conservative legal movement has so much ground to make up. We've lost so much ground in our culture, it's almost sad when we rack up our wins cuz it shows you how far we've fallen. Oh hey men, we're not gonna castrate the littlest kids anymore. Or well we will, but states can sometimes not castrate the littlest kids. Maybe if they want. Maybe. Woo. Yeah. Hey, maybe all of your tax dollars don't need to go to infanticide in some states. Hey, you know, so it, I, it's very, it's kind of sad how much. But we are racking up wins right now. And this is, this is one way to go after this. You should say, you know, you wouldn't treat colloidal silver with this kind of lax attitude. You wouldn't treat like vitamin D supplements like this. You're gonna treat an abortion poison that kills a baby and might kill a mother? Are you insane? On what grounds could you do that? One way to challenge it. Cause that is a scary report from the Daily Caller. Okay, now on the positive side of birth, good news coming out of South Korea. The birth rate in South Korea is up. That's the good news. Bad news is it was basically at zero. So it shows you how, I guess that's the theme of today's show, just how far we've fallen. So the overall birth rate, do you know what it was in South Korea? The birth rate in South Korea was 0.06. What is replacement like 2.1. It was 0.06 in April of last year. Now it's 0.79. So, okay, that's up still obviously well below what you need for replacement. Natural deaths also rose by 0.8. What caused this? The rise in births. According to statistics, Korea was influenced by increased marriages since last year, growth in the population of women in their 30s, in their early 30s, and various birth promotion policies by the central and local governments. So there was a pretty conservative leader in South Korea, and this was Yoon Suk Yeol. And he acknowledged that the birthright problem was a national emergency, which it obviously is. He got booted out of office because he declared martial law. And there are some issues in South Korea. But before he was booted out of office, the Yoon administration had a bunch of measures to reverse the demographic collapse, including more parental leave allowances, flexible working hours, support for childcare after school programs, subsidies for employers who need to hire temporary workers when the pregnant workers go on leave. Okay? However it works, this is the existential issue in our countries, the birth collapse. Not just in South Korea, not just in America, not even just in Europe. There is a global population collapse and it's going to crater and it's going to wreak havoc in our societies and it's going to cause our entitlement programs to collapse, and it's going to cause social solidarity to collapse. And it is as dangerous an issue. It's more dangerous than Iranian nuclear weapons. It's more dangerous. It's related to the open border. Because the only reason that politicians have been able to justify the open border is because we don't have babies ourselves. And so we import the third world and we try to use that as a Ponzi scheme to keep our economy afloat. This is the issue and we need to throw spaghetti at the wall to fix it. And there are gonna be some conservatives who say, well, I don't want the government getting involved. Get the government involved. Get the government involved. Get the police department involved, get the PTA involved, get Joe Blow down the street involved. Everybody needs to get involved. You need to get involved. You need. Look at me, look at me. Look right at me. Right now you need to get married and have a lot of kids. Right now you need to stop, stop using contraception. Well, first get married, then don't use contraception, then have a billion children. You have to do that in that order. Ideally, you have to do that. It's more important than you getting out and marching in the street. It's more important than almost anything you're doing. Have you gotten the message? It's very important and it can be done because you see, these government programs do appear to have helped a little bit in South Korea, in Hungary. Hungary is the only Western nation that has instituted a family policy that has been at all effective. And it happens to be the only Western nation that is turning the demographic problem around, albeit still well below replacement levels. I talked to Prime Minister Orban when I was over in Budapest just a few weeks ago. 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