Trump Flails on Life

sort of being whiffle waffy about Florida. And Trump is a Florida resident, so Trump will be voting on Amendment four in Florida. Amendment four is a statewide ballot initiative

in Florida to amend their state constitution. Choiceter's got it on the ballot, and what it's intended to do is to amend the Florida Constitution to mandate legal abortion in Florida, basically to reinstate the terms of Roe versus Wade, but also to put it in the state constitution, meaning the state legislature cannot pass a normal law to regulate it, and it will reinstate the terms of Roe v. Wade, meaning abortion will be legal for the full duration of

pregnancy after viability I believe the terms are after viability, it's legal for a health reason, with health defined extremely broadly, and legal for the whole body of pregnancy. Florida's current law on the books is a heartbeat ban, a heartbeat ban that Ron DeSantis signed into law. This was to ban abortion after fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is at about six weeks now. Trump criticized is this Florida law.

He criticized it during the primary campaign when basically, I think if ron de Santis had said the sky was blue, Donald Trump would have criticized it's say, you know, fake news, Ronda Santis sky is actually orange. You know, if Ronda Santis had said grass is green, Trump would have disagreed with it. So Trump was already on the record saying

he didn't like the six week Florida band. He said, it's too few weeks, it's too narrow, which, again, though, it makes you wonder, what about all that stuff you said when you were presidents, how you defended the right to life. And really, I think what's happening is Trump is responding to the polling. He realizes that that six week band in Florida was probably not all that popular. It got passed by the state legislature, but it might not have been that popular with voters in Florida. But

Trump is probably two. He can't say totally that he wants that he supports Amendment for, but he's clearly undercutting it. He gave this interview where he said I wish it was more than six weeks and he wouldn't exactly say how he was going to vote on Amendment four. But obviously he gave this appearance to people as if he was going to vote for Amendment four, and a lot of people interpreted his comments as he's voting in favor of Amendment for now. I don't think that that's the

one hundred percent correct interpretation. He had a spokesman after the fact kind of try to clean it up to say Trump has not said how he will vote. He's certainly not supporting the no vote, which should be what he does. He should be saying no, I am voting no on Amendment for and I encourage everyone in Florida to vote no. But he's not doing that. We had that. We had Trump saying I'm not going to enforce the

Comstock Act if I get into office. Now, the Comstock Act is a federal law that could impact the single biggest driver of abortion in America today, which is the abortion pill, not the morning after pill. That's a separate drug. Morning after pill mostly functions as a contraceptive the morning after a sexual encounter to prevent ovulation, so mostly functions

as a genuine contraceptive. I am talking about the abortion pill called mifipristone, which basically artificially recreates a miscarriage up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. The abortion pill has been massively deregulated over the last four years by President Biden.

Particularly through this mechanism by President Biden in twenty twenty one, has allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed two women via a talamedicine checkup and to be shipped through the mail, to be shipped through the mail to individual women patients, and to be shipped to major pharmacies to be picked up. The Comstock Act is a law. It is a federal law that is on the books. It's an old law,

but it's never been repealed. It was signed by Ulysses S. Grant, and it basically prohibits the shipment through the mails of various kinds of quote immoral materials. Now, given the sort of nineteenth century ish style in which it was written, the broad terminology that it uses in some of its provisions, there's probably many parts of it that would be difficult to enforce, and a lot of it has not been enforced. But it's still on the books, and a president could decide, yes,

I will force it. But one of the things that very clearly prohibits is the shipment through the mail of abortifacians, which is precisely what the abortion pill is, and pro lifers have tried to argue the president has the authority to stop the shipment of abortion pills through the US Postal Service through the Comstock Act. With a snap of his fingers, President Trump just announced he's not going to

do that. Not going to do that. Okay, you know again, though, the abortion pill, let's get the context for all of you who don't understand, abortion in America has been radically transformed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden through their deregulation of the abortion pill. The abortion pill is now the way that sixty three percent of abortions are done in America. Let me repeat that abortion is not most of the time is not a surgical procedure. Abortion is most of

the time in America done by the abortion pill. It's not a surgical procedure. Most of the time. A woman takes the abortion pill. The first pill, she waits forty eight to seventy two hours. Then she takes a second drug called misaprostol, which results in basically inducing labor to expel the baby from her body. Up to ten weeks into pregnancy. Sixty three percent of all abortions are done through that method, not through surgical abortions. Okay, surgical abortions

are the other thirty seven percent. The abortion pill is more dangerous than surgical abortions, but it's easier. It's easier for the healthcare provider. They can still get a big

fat reimbursement from the drug. But it is more dangerous for women, and President Biden has dangerously deregulated it to the point where women can get a prescription for it without any in person visit, without an ultrasound to confirm justtational age, without an ultrasound to confirm that the woman's not having an ectopic pregnancy, which is where the baby's growing in the fallopian tube rather than the uterus, where if the baby keeps growing, baby's gonna die and Mom's

gonna have a very serious health event. She could even die. No ultrasound to confirm just stational age to be sure that you're within that ten week period. The later in pregnancy,

the more complications arise. So the abortion pill is the single biggest driver of abortion in America, and President Trump's has this tool in his toolbox that he could use to limit it, to roll back one of President Biden's singnal accomplishments I allowing the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail directly to people rather than picked up in a in the clinic or at the very least, to significantly hinder abortion provision in America. Not going to

take it, Not gonna take it. Just know. And lastly, this will be more sensitive for a lot of you folks. President Trump announced that he wants to support a policy regarding IVF, that he wants to mandate coverage of IVF in health insurance plans, a health insurance mandate for IVF, and that he wants the government to pay for it

for those who are maybe on government funded plans. Now, let's set aside the ethical issues with IVF that I want to explain to people because I think a lot of people don't understand this, including a lot of people of goodwill with good intentions, who just don't really understand how the IVF process works. This is an insane idea. IVF is insanely expensive, and it is an elective issue. To mandate that it be covered in health insurance plans

is insane just from a cost economics perspective. It is nuts. It is Trump pandering on this issue because he thinks he's vulnerable on social issues. That's all this is. It makes no sense. It's a bigger giveaway than the Democrats are doing now. It is completely insane of him to say this now. In IVF, it is in vitro fertilization, in glass fertilization. You take egg cells, you take sperm cells, You put him together on glass. They form the zygote,

They form a blasticist. This is a very early stage few cells human organism. It is a living organism. Well is it really living? Yes, it is a living organism. It has its own metabolism. It works towards its own growth, transporting nutrients for itself. It works towards its own and goals of growth and flourishing. It is a living human organism. Okay, Amiba's single cell organisms are living organisms. From the moment of egg sperm fusion the moment a zygote is formed,

you have a new living human organism. And in an IVF process, you naturally have to create way more. Well, you don't, you don't have to, but this is what's done in America all the time. With IVF. You're creating maybe ten embryos with the expectation that maybe one of them lives, and then you put the rest. The rest either are destroyed or maybe put on ice, put in deep freeze indefinitely. There might be more human organisms embryos.

Blasticists call them what you want. They're living human beings. For lifers get really hung up on that. They don't like referring to early stage humans as fetuses or embryos. They think that that's dehumanizing somehow. I actually don't agree with that. These are just human beings at different stages of growth. Blasticist, embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, child, adolescent, young adult, middle aged. Okay, these are just stages of human growth.

There are estimates that we might be killing more human beings through IVF, then we are killing through abortion in the United States of America. And they're not crazy at all. So that's really bad. And look, I understand that a lot of people have turned to IVF for very deeply serious reasons of struggling with infertility. And I don't mean to diminish that. I don't mean to diminish the pain you feel. But I have to describe this accurately. And I can't, you know, call a spade, call a spade

anything other than a spade. That is what it is, that is what is involved. And there's really no difference between a human embryo other than location in a test tube versus in a uterus. There's no difference between an embryo that some you know, poor Latina woman aborts and an embryo that's in glass that gets wasted in an IVF clinic. There's no difference. It's the same kind of embryo.

It's the same thing. So for President Trump to go back to back to back with three things, undercutting the Florida pro lifers with Amendment four, proposing this insane IVF idea and saying Nope, not enforcing the Commstock Act not going to address the abortion pill, which is the single biggest driver of abortion in America. Since President Biden allowed the abortion pill to be shipped through the mail, We've had one hundred thousand more abortions per year in twenty

twenty four rather than twenty twenty. There are one hundred thousand more abortions per year happening in twenty twenty four than we're happening in twenty twenty, and the sing biggest change that's happened is the abortion pill being available, the increase in the percentage of abortions being abortion pill abortions. That change in percentage perfectly corresponds to the one hundred

thousand extra abortions that we're seeing in America. If Trump's not going to do anything to roll that back, I don't know how we can credibly say he's pro life. And it pains me to say this given all the great things he did on the abortion issue in his first term. I'm i am approaching panic mode for his campaign right now when it comes to his commitment to the pro life issue. And when we return, I'll explain that I don't think he's made ah commitment. That's next

on the John Girardi Show. I want to just explain to people, like, this is why I was so ticked off about the platform, this is why I'm getting more and more nervous. Trump just yesterday says I'm not going to enforce the Comstock Act, which is federal law that's on the books that could allow the president to limit the shipment through the mails of the abortion pill. I'm not. He's whiffle waffling about whether or not he supports or

opposes Amendment four in Florida. Amendment four in Florida would wipe out the good pro life law that Ronda Santis got passed to limit abortion in the first six weeks of pregnancy and replace it with basically forty weeks of legal abortion. Wiffle waffling on it, says he doesn't support the six week band that Ronda Santi's passed, presumably because it was Ronda Santis and which, by the way, if Florida undoes that in this vote that'll take place this November.

In Florida, state pro life efforts are in huge trouble. And for all Trump's talk, well, we'll get to the idea of abortion being a state issue, but Trump wants abortion to be a state issue. If this goes the wrong way in Florida, we are facing a really, really dire stretch for the pro life movement as far as

state level efforts to limit abortion. And Trump has this insane IVF proposal on top of that, though, on top of the crazy things, this insane IVF proposal, which an IVF insurance mandate, which also like, what about for employers who ethically think IVF is morally wrong, like Catholic employers, Are you gonna have a conscience protection exemption for them? No mention was made of that. Now, these are the things Trump has said. I want to point out to

people all the stuff he hasn't said. The other thing pro lifers are concerned about. And before you start yelling, you're suppressing the vote. Your stop stop panicking about this, stop trashing Trump. You're gonna depress the vote, guys, I am not depressing the vote. First of all, I'm a local radio host in Fresno, California, a state that's not gonna vote for Donald Trump, so calm down about my influence on nationwide events. But secondly, I am responding to

choices that Donald Trump made. I didn't make these choices. If Donald Trump had just done the same things he did in twenty sixteen in twenty twenty, with regards to his pro life stances, I wouldn't be having this radio segment right now in twenty sixteen. In twenty sixteen, for example, the Republican platform very specifically laid out President Trump's gonna Republicans, if elected, will enact the Mexico City Policy, which is an executive policy that the president enacts cuts off all

federal foreign aid to foreign enng that perform abortions. Well, that's not in the twenty twenty four platform. President Trump, if elected, is going to appoint conservative jurists to the court. Here's his list of perspective Supreme Court picks. We don't have a list in twenty twenty four, no list. We had the list in twenty sixteen. We continually had the list available to us through twenty twenty. No list. Whom is he gonna pick? I don't know. Antonin Scalia and

Sam Alito are going to retire if Trump wins. Whom is he picking? I don't know. We have no commitment. What's he gonna do about the High Amendment? Is going to keep pushing for the High Amendment. We don't know. It wasn't in the platform. He hasn't said anything. Is he going to do anything to roll back Biden's deregulations of the abortion pill, the single biggest driver of abortion in America. All we know is Trump saying that he supports the abortion pill being accessible. He has given no

commitment to rolling back the abortion pill. He's affirmatively said he wants the abortion pill to be accessible, meaning he doesn't want to roll back the various FDA approvals of the abortion pill, including the original approval by President Clinton, which was likely illegal, which he could roll back for again. The thing that's the single biggest driver of abortion in America,

the abortion pill. In fact, if you go through all the federal stuff that relates to abortion, Title ten funding going to abortion providers, Trump cut it off in his first term, no commitments about it for this term. Federal funding for embryonic cells or aborted fetal tissue research. President Trump cut off federal funding for fetal tissue research using tissue from fetuses who had been aborted. No commitment about what he's going to do on that score this time.

Enforcing the Weldon Amendment. I'm not even going to go there because he didn't do that his first term until December of twenty twenty. No commitment about the Weldon Amendment, which basically it cuts off federal funding for states that don't allow health insurance plans that don't cover abortion, such as California. Nothing about Mtala. These are the federal efforts by the Biden administration to try to force emergency rooms,

even in pro life states, to perform abortions. So I can go issue by issue by issue all of these federal issues where the president has impact on abortion policy, and Trump has either said the wrong thing or nothing. Now, some of these he did act on in his first term and did the right thing. Bravo, President Trump, thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. And by the way, that's sincere. I'm not just being a jerk like I sincerely appreciate his accomplishments in his first term. But he's

made no commitments about any of this stuff. That's why the platform, why I was so upset about the platform. All that stuff was in the twenty sixteen platform. I have no commitments. Everything he said has been bad. The only thing they've said that has been good is in some way resisting late term abortion, which I'm not sure how. Now when we return, I want to just talk about this in more detail. One pro lifers are allowed to be angry right now, and two this abortion is a

state's issue thing, which is just ignorant. Next on the John Girardi Show, I want to discuss this line of argument this way that it's mostly been people who are really hardcore Trump folks, and they see that pro lifers are getting more and more upset by stuff that Trump is saying. Ways in which Trump has changed his position on abortion, and yes, changed his position on abortion since his first term. In his first term, he was supporting

federal restrictions on abortion. This term he's saying he will veto federal restrictions on abortion, which is insane. It's an insane turnaround, and for no reason other than politics, obviously, and the blowback I get when I say I think this is bad as people.

normal lawmaking processes that we have in America. Yes, that can be by state legislatures writing laws for their states, but in an appropriate context, in areas where the federal government has constitutional authority to regulate, Congress can also pass laws to regulate abortion. Now, I think what folks who are giving blowback to me about.

it through the first trimester. Should we just ban it after, you know, in the third trimester to the midway point? And if you want to argue with me about the wisdom of pursuing a gestational age limit policy at the federal level in Congress, okay, I am willing to have that discussion with you. I'm willing to have the discussion of whether that is best left to the states.

on the president. All right, so here we go. Here's a list of ten things that impact abortion that are inextricably federal and really either entirely or very heavily rely on the president deciding how he wants to act. Number one the FDA status of the abortion pill MIPHA pristone. All right, MIFA pristone, aka the abortion pill. As I explained earlier in the show today, accounts for sixty three percent of all abortions. Sixty three percent of all abortions

are not surgical anymore. They are done by taking a pill, a drug called mifa pristone up, which can be taken within the first ten weeks of a pregnancy. This is not the morning after pill. Morning after pill is a different drug called lebon or gestril that's taken the morning after a sexual encounter. Its main goal is to prevent ovulation. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about out the abortion pill, a separate drug called mifipristone, which is taken

up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. It alters the lining of the woman's uterus, the baby detaches from the uterine wall, the baby dies. The woman then takes a second drug called misoprostal forty eight to seventy two hours later. This expels the baby from the woman's body. Basically, you're recreating artificially a miscarriage. That is how sixty three percent of abortions are done in the United States. It's a

massive jump. Just in the last four years, went from about fifty percent of abortions via the abortion pill to now we're at like sixty three percent. That was done because of President Biden and how he deregulated the abortion pill. He allowed the abortion pill to be shipped directly to patients through the mail. He allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed without an in person visit, which is much more dangerous. Can't confirm gestational age, can't confirm if the

woman's having an ectopic pregnancy. The FDA regulation of the abortion pill is under the control of the FDA, which is an executive branch agency that is under the ultimate control of the President. Under the Secretary of HHS and under the President, he is the only one who can regulate it. And by the way, the original approval of mifipristone in two thousand under Bill Clinton was very likely illegal.

I think there's a very strong argument for it. So a president coming in and saying I think the original approval of this drug by the FDA was wrong, the FDA should disapprove it would be a legitimate thing to do. President Trump could have a massive impact on this totally federal, not anything a state can regulate. Number two, the Comstock Act. This is a federal law preventing the shipment of abortifations through the American Postal Service. Postal service is a federal thing.

It's not a state thing. Texas can't regulate the postal Service, not in the same way the Feds can't. It's a federal question. Mister President, are you enforcing this federal law or not? Three? The High Amendment, Now this isn't one hundred percent in the president's control, but it's the president is one of the key decision makers. The High Amendment is a rider that gets attached to federal spending bills every year, and it prevents direct federal funding to pay

for abortion through federal health care plans, chiefly medicaid. So California's flavor of medicaid is called medical Medicaid is health insurance for people under a certain income threshold. Will Medicaid cover abortion or won't it? The High Amendment, which has been this rider attached to the federal budget pretty much every year since nineteen seventy six, has prevented federal dollars from funding most abortion and has probably resulted in millions

of children not being aborted. Does the President support it or doesn't he It's a federal question. A state can't decide whether federal dollars will or won't fund abortion. Now a state can say, well, medical will fund abortion just through you know, purely state dollars. Our California taxpayer dollars pay for abortions through medical. But still, the High Amendment is a federal question. It's not a state question, and the president has to decide what his position is on it.

He can't punt on this the Mexico City policy. Will federal foreign aid fund NGOs that perform abortions overseas like Planned Parenthood International? Are we paying for Planned Parented International to perform abortions in Africa or South America? Are other places in the developing world? Will the military perform abortions? Will military hospitals perform abortions? Again within the president's control? Next Title ten? Will Title ten fund abortion providers? It's

a federal question. The president, through executive action, can determine whether they do or don't. President Trump cut off Title ten funding for abortion providers. Title ten was a program created under President Nixon. It was designed to help fund family planning entities, but he didn't want it to fund abortion. But what's happened well under Clinton and other Democrat presidents.

Basically the money has still flowed to abortion clinics. Why while they do this legal fiction that within the four walls of Planned Parenthood you have their abortion clinic, but then you also have their Title ten clinic. Two clinics exist within the same walls, and the Title ten clinic can get all the Title ten money, and the Title ten clinic and the abortion clinic can refer back and forth to each other easily. President Trump cut this funding

off for Planned Parenthood. At will he do so again in a second Trump term. I don't know. No commitment has been made on this point. But again, it's a federal question. It's not a state question. Greg Abbott in Texas can't do anything to alter who gets Title ten funding. Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research or research using fetal tissue derived from aborted fetuses. This is stuff that Anthony Fauci was doing. Anthony Fauci was funding different kinds

of federal research using tissue derived from aborted fetuses. In twenty eighteen, President Trump stepped in and cut this funding off after news reports came out that one of Anthony Fauci's subgrantees was doing research trying to graft tissue from an aborted fetus's scalp onto the back of a rat to do some sort of chimera project, which was so morally repulsive that Trump stepped in and cut this funding off.

But beyond that, there's also research that is trying to get cells from embryos in a way that destroys embryos. That's been going on for a really long time, and President Trump actually never cut that funding off. It was the big one of the big pro life one of the big misses in his first term when it comes to pro life issues. Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci's boss was fund was brought in by Barack Obama in two thousand and nine specifically to fund that stuff. But it's a

federal question. The president decides are we going to fund this stuff or not. It's not a state issue. The Weldon Amendment states that prevent insurance plans from being on the market that don't cover abortion are in violation of this federal law called the Weldon Amendment, and if they are, then they are no longer eligible for certain streams of medicaid funding. California has been blatantly violating this rule for a decade now. President Trump tried to enforce the Weldon

Amendment very late. He only started enforcing it in December of twenty twenty, after he had already lost the election. President Biden reinstated it within a month or two. But this is a federal question. It's medicaid. It's a federal question. It's not a state issue. M TALA. This is a federal law, The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act federal law governing the provision of emergency care in emergency rooms

around the country. The Biden administration's interpreting this to say that some abortions have to be performed in emergency rooms, even in states that have outlawed abortion. There was a big Supreme Court case about this in Idaho. Idaho's outlawed abortion. The Biden administrations trying to force abortions to be performed in Idaho emergency rooms under certain exigen circumstances in violation

of Idaho's state law. It's a federal question. How this federal law gets interpreted is a federal question that depends on the president. Interstate abortion pills California set up this whole system where there are California companies that are deliberately trying to ship abortion pills into states where abortion is illegal so that women can get abortions, and California is trying to insulate those companies from any kind of civil or criminal penalties from those other states. How that's going

to be worked out is federal its interstate stuff. And lastly, judges the interpretation of all of these questions. Disputes regarding all of these questions will have to be adjudicated by federal judges whom the President nominates and the Senate appoints. Again federal. So don't tell me abortion is just a state issue. When we return my lack of sympathy for dress code violations and Close Unified Next on the John Girardi Show, All right, this might be the dumbest story

of the year. Close Unified School District has a dress code saying that shorts need to have at least a five inch in seam. A bunch of girls at different schools we're showing up in these Lululemon shorts that have a three inch in seme and they got in trouble. The parents are upset at drum roll, please the school district, how how are you so dumb? It's in the dress code it's in the dress code. Read the dress code. You were warned in advance. It's the most non sympathy

inducing story I've ever heard. It's in the dress code. Read the dress code. Anyway, enjoy some college football this weekend, folks. Go Bulldogs beat Michigan. That'll do it for the Jean Girardi Show. See you next time.