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Cover-up Culture in the Abortion Industry is Really Bad

78 min
Feb 17, 20263 months ago
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Summary

AJ Hurley, National Outreach Director for White Rose Resistance, discusses his legal persecution after exposing fetal tissue harvesting at UC medical centers and born-alive abortions in Washington D.C. The episode examines alleged cover-up culture in the abortion industry, internal divisions within the pro-life movement, and strategies for Christian activism against abortion.

Insights
  • Legal weaponization (lawfare) is used systematically against pro-life activists who expose abortion industry practices, with charges often dismissed but causing years of legal and financial burden
  • Major established pro-life organizations actively lobby against equal protection bills that would criminalize all abortion, revealing ideological divisions between incrementalists and abolitionists
  • The shift from clinic-based to pill-based abortion (70% at-home) requires fundamentally different legal and cultural strategies than traditional pro-life approaches
  • Effective cultural change on abortion requires integration of gospel messaging with political/legal action, not separation of religious and political spheres
  • Fetal tissue research at federally-funded institutions violates existing federal law (Born Alive Infants Protection Act) but faces no prosecution or investigation
Trends
Increased use of lawfare against pro-life activists as primary suppression tactic rather than legal prosecution of abortion providersFragmentation of pro-life movement into competing ideological camps with opposing legislative strategies and goalsShift from abortion clinic activism to home-based abortion pill activism as primary battleground post-Roe v. WadeState-level ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments becoming primary mechanism for abortion policy (replacing federal approach)Integration of presuppositional apologetics and worldview arguments into pro-life college campus activismOrganized government protection of abortion providers and researchers despite apparent federal law violationsCross-state mailing of abortifacient drugs creating enforcement challenges for state-level abortion restrictionsReframing of women as victims rather than perpetrators in abortion cases, limiting legal accountability optionsEmergence of decentralized, grassroots pro-life resistance units as alternative to established organizational structuresUse of FOIA requests as primary investigative tool for exposing abortion industry practices and fetal research
Topics
Fetal tissue harvesting and research at UC medical centersBorn Alive Infants Protection Act enforcement and violationsLawfare and legal persecution of pro-life activistsPro-life movement internal divisions (incrementalism vs. abolitionism)Abortion pill mailing and cross-state enforcementCriminal accountability for women in abortion casesCollege campus pro-life activism and presuppositional apologeticsGovernment cover-up of abortion industry practicesState-level abortion policy post-Roe v. WadeChristian activism and discipleship in political causesPlanned Parenthood organ harvesting investigationsMedical waste handling and fetal remains discoveryJustice for the Five case (Washington D.C. aborted babies)White Rose Resistance organizational structure and tacticsCoercion laws and reproductive autonomy legal frameworks
Companies
UCLA Medical Center
Where Hurley worked as respiratory therapist and discovered fetal tissue harvesting practices occurring at affiliated...
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Identified as 'belly of the beast' for fetal tissue research and experimentation; subject of FOIA requests revealing ...
Planned Parenthood
Subject of David Daleiden's undercover investigations documenting organ sales; lobbies against equal protection abort...
Washington Surgery Center
D.C. abortion clinic where 115 aborted babies were discovered in medical waste, including five third-trimester remains
National Right to Life
Major pro-life organization that publicly opposes criminal sanctions for women who obtain abortions; lobbies against ...
Susan B. Anthony List
Established pro-life organization accused of lobbying against equal protection bills in Republican-majority states
Concerned Women for America
Pro-life organization that Hurley alleges actively opposes legislation protecting prenatal children equally
Heartbeat International
Pro-life organization mentioned as opposing equal protection bills despite Republican legislative majorities
ACLU
Civil liberties organization that lobbies alongside abortion providers against pro-life legislation
National Abortion Federation
Abortion industry trade organization that lobbies against pro-life equal protection bills
White Rose Resistance
Pro-life organization founded by Seth Gruber; Hurley serves as National Outreach Director with six state chapters
Students for Life
College-focused pro-life organization that has historically opposed equal protection abortion bills
People
AJ Hurley
National Outreach Director for White Rose Resistance; exposed fetal tissue harvesting at UCSF and faced four-year leg...
David Daleiden
Created undercover videos documenting Planned Parenthood organ sales; prosecuted while abortion providers faced no ch...
Seth Gruber
Founder of White Rose Resistance; pro-life activist and speaker whose organization Hurley leads outreach for
Cesare Santangelo
Abortionist at Washington Surgery Center where 115 aborted babies were discovered in medical waste
Marjorie Taylor Greene
U.S. Representative who intervened to prevent destruction of evidence in Justice for the Five case
Anna Paulina Luna
U.S. Representative who intervened in Justice for the Five case to prevent evidence destruction
Ted Cruz
U.S. Senator who intervened in Justice for the Five case to prevent evidence destruction
Mayor Bowser
Washington D.C. mayor who held press conference stating no investigation would occur in Justice for the Five case
Mike
Host of BibleThinker podcast conducting interview with Hurley about abortion industry cover-ups
James O'Keefe
Investigative journalist quoted by Hurley regarding willingness to endure persecution for exposing truth
Quotes
"The cover-up culture inside the abortion industry is a real thing. They will prosecute you. They will declare war on you. They will attack you in all manner of ways."
AJ Hurley
"I was looking at 10 years in federal prison for exposing live dismemberment of babies, that viable children that could survive outside of the womb."
AJ Hurley
"Everyone has a price, but if your price is not your life, then you are for sale."
James O'Keefe (quoted by AJ Hurley)
"Abortion exists right now in America, not because we love babies too little, because we love our lives too much. We love our comfort too much."
AJ Hurley
"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies and remains alone, it will not produce fruit. The cost of abandonment, the cost of dying to yourself, that is what it takes to change the world."
Mike (host)
"You can kill a baby to the day birth in DC. So no investigation will be performed. No autopsies will be done."
AJ Hurley (describing Mayor Bowser's statement)
Full Transcript
The cover-up culture inside the abortion industry is a real thing. They will prosecute you. They will declare war on you. They will attack you in all manner of ways. And so I have a guest today. AJ Hurley is going to talk about what he found and what they did to him to try to cover it up. So AJ, why don't you take it away, man? Yes. So thanks for having me on, Mike. I, man, was the target of the abortion industry. I was looking at 10 years in federal prison for exposing live dismemberment of babies, that viable children that could survive outside of the womb. Locked up in D.C., all of a sudden tried to be extradited from D.C. to California, being held on felony stalking charges for a woman I'd never met. I, uh, exposed through freedom, freedom of information act requests, uh, the grisly practice of fetal organ harvesting and our nation's UC systems, um, exposed it to the world. And for two years did a public information kind of blast. And they came after me with pretty much everything they had i uh i'm facing fifty thousand dollars in fines and uh narrowly escaped a four year legal battle whereby they were uh trying to lock me up to upper upwards of 10 years in federal prison for free speech expose public information blasts and letting the world know of uh babies He's being born alive in our medical institutions. Yeah, we're talking. That's the gist of it. We're going to let you tell the whole story. And I went, this is, the thing is, AJ is just one example of one guy. You're not even the only guy that this has happened to in recent years. Who's tried to expose what's going on inside the abortion industry and then was met with intense lawfare, I think is the popular term for it now, right? Where basically they're, they're immorally trying to use the law to oppress you. I've seen people who are outside just calling out to women who are on their way to an abortion clinic, hey, do you need any help? And then getting arrested for it. So this is not like a gentle, let's see if we can change things in our culture on abortion nice and gently. It's a war. This thing is a war. And I think that as Christians, we should be like, let's fight this battle. And let's use whatever we can that we can use under God, you know, and to do that with. So tell us from the beginning. Let's back up. We'll go through it all in detail. You have a lot to share. Mostly AJ will be talking today, you guys. I brought him here because I met him when I was at an event last year, basically told me his whole story. And I said, hey, can I please get you on? I want you to tell this to everyone because it's insane that this isn't being carried by all the news media, if you ask me. It's crazy. It's crazy. But it really is entrenched. It is so entrenched. The abortion multibillion dollar industry is so entrenched. And it's evil, satanic, and we should do whatever we can in a godly way to fight against it. So, AJ. Amen. Well, feel free to- Guide us through the journey. Yeah. Feel free to interrupt me along the way. I'd like to make it conversational if you have any questions or anything. I'd imagine if you have a question, the audience does too. So, a little bit of my background. So, I work with Seth Gruber. I'm the National Outreach Director for the White Rose Resistance. I'm Southern California, mainly kind of people around there, wildly popular, but becoming a movement across the nation, super happy to be at the forefront of that on the leadership team. But so my name is AJ Hurley. I grew up in Southern California, went to the master's university, studied, got my education there, became a respiratory therapist. I grew up kind of in the medical field. I worked on the ambulance and then went back to school, became a respiratory therapist and then got my dream job at UCLA medical center, putting little babies on ventilators. I, uh, never in a million years thought I'd be doing that, but it was really cool. So I like to say my, my journey to the pro-life movement was so unusual. It didn't start in a, in a, uh, you know, at a rally or at a Seth Gruber speaking event. Um, it started in the halls of a sterile hospital where I was essentially looking into a womb. Now, my wife always tells me, you need to clarify what you mean by that, AJ, looking into a womb. What does that mean? What I mean by that was this, is I was putting these little babies that should be in a womb on my life support breathing machine. And essentially these little babies were valuable because we said they were. And little children in another area of the hospital, another building was the area where the abortion clinic was that I wasn't even aware of. Babies way older than the ones I was saving, Mike, were being lifelessly ripped apart, arms torn off their bodies, skulls crushed. And every single day, this painful reality as a Christian man that I was doing nothing about this wholesale genocide of image bearers of God in the womb, that they're valuable. It was like this dichotomy, this hypocrisy that we're putting millions of dollars of resources into this little child in the name of healthcare and babies way older in the same name of healthcare or being violently torn apart. And the only difference between that baby over there and this baby there is literally a fiat decision as to his mother, as to which one was valuable. And this baby was valuable just because we said there were. and if they weren't they were subject to die so i started so important i want to encourage the audiences are watching right now like don't please don't look away i know that this this video and the contents we're about to talk about it's it it never does well on youtube almost never to do any video on this kind of stuff um i know it's hard because there are people who watch who are even pro-life who were like i'm already on the same page as you i just don't want to hear it but what i want to encourage you guys with is we are the agents of change if we choose to be on this topic. We really are. You are. You can be an agent of change on this issue. And there's a ton of different ways you can do that. But what we have to do is as a culture, we have to look long and hard at this. Like Josiah's reforms, amazing reforms that happened in the Old Testament. The King Josiah, they find the book of the law and then they went ahead and read it. And they sat there and read it. And it just exposed them like, oh my goodness, look at the evils we're doing. We have so much wickedness in our culture. They literally were doing all the wicked things, but weren't seeing it clearly, what we're doing right now is trying to help people see it clearly. Okay, call this the reading of the book of the law, right? Thou shalt not murder. This is the idea that we're made in God's image. We're reading these things to us and then taking a serious look at abortion in our culture, abortion and the way the industry handles. And we'll talk later about the pro-life movement. Towards the end, we'll get into that and the debates you were bringing up with me privately about that. Yeah, sure. We'll talk about some of that. So let's just get into all of it and say, please, Christians, watch this. Please, Christians, care about this. this is the holocaust of our time, except that the numbers are far larger. This is way worse than probably any atrocity you've ever read about in human history. And it's happening right now. And it's considered a right and protected and those who raise their voices are persecuted for it. So there's so many of us that if we just take a long look at what's happening, we can raise up an army, a godly army to come against it. So AJ, please continue. 100%. Yeah. But thank you for sharing these things. Well, I was one of those Christians that just was like, I don't want to get involved because this is political. And then I was just more than more aware that, wait, hold on. If everything that's good and moral and decent and right, and we as Christians are called to fight against is labeled as political. Satan lights up and says, oh, amazing. All I have to do is label everything that's godly as political and I can ensure the silence of the church. And this was what I was gripped at. So I'll never forget the day that I changed. And as I was being convicted, as these babies were rebuking me with the force of 10,000 armies, that I refused to be silent. I literally went down into the lunch counter and it was a huge department. were eating lunch and the head of my department walks in and something on the TV triggered her. And she said, I can't believe these Republican men telling women what to do with their bodies. And the Holy spirit was just tugging on me. Like, are you, say something, defend these children. She brought it up. It's not like you're getting political at the lunch hour and this long silence and you could have heard a pin drop. And I said nothing. And I went back into the elevator, went up to the fifth floor, looked into a womb, as I say, and I just literally ran to the bathroom in tears. I got on my knees and said, Lord, today's the day. I'm never being silent about this any longer. And man, my life was transformed. I started getting involved with the pro-life movement with an organization called Survivors of the Bullshit Holocaust down in Southern California. And then I became aware of a guy named David Daleiden's work. David Daleiden did those expose videos of Planned Parenthood where he haggled the organs. He created a fictitious organization buying organs. And he just recorded these people selling the organs of children for research contracts. And I was just blown away by this. And then I said- Completely illegal. Completely illegal. And then I said, is this happening at my hospital? What is going on? So we started FOIA requesting tons, hundreds of FOIA requests for fetal organ tissue logs and anything having to do with Fetal Information Act requests in reference to fetuses and fetal research, fetal tissue. and what we got back was absolutely unbelievable. I mean, fetal tissue logs, brother, lungs and livers and thymuses, and I mean, literally, I hate to be grotesque, but clitorises and penises of six-month gestational babies that they were grafting on lab rats for every type of diabolical experimentation you can imagine. And this is all public information and nobody was talking about this. So we found out that the belly of the beast in terms of fetal tissue research, fetal exploration and experimentation was happening at the University of California, San Francisco, UCSF. And so we just exposed it all. We had pictures of intestines of children hanging off of lab rats. And we did a two year, it's actually still ongoing. So it's been about six years now, but we did a two year public information campaign, exposing it, standing on public property at UCSF with huge signs, with links to the Federal information act, FOIA, transparency documents. We're going to, we're going to put some links down below when we're done here. You're going to send me some stuff. Yeah. Yep. I have tons and tons of research. Yeah. Lots of research. You guys, there'll be linked down below as well. So what we found got worse and worse. We actually found that through David Daleiden's research, that the way that they were doing this in order to get viable tissue, they have to do it in such a way that violates the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. And for all intents and purposes, by every single amount of research available to us, babies are being either born alive or they are violating the Born Alive Infants Protection Acts and federal law. So I could get into that, the specifics of that if you want. I don't know if you want me to continue and just tell where you want to go from here, but it would take about five minutes for me to explain how how that's even possible. Sure, we can do that. But let's put it in context for everybody just so we know. Like what they're doing is no matter how they're killing these humans, that it's evil and wrong and immoral. Yes. But what we can do is we can say, hey, at least as we're searching to try to stop things and put a stamp on things, we can use laws that are present to say, hey, you guys are even violating the not enough laws that we do have. The stated laws that you put in place. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And you're even violating those things. It's to show that this stuff is so depraved. I guarantee you these people go home and they sleep peacefully in their bed and they have no conscience about it. And they laugh at us for even thinking that it's a problem. The depravity and the conscience being seared is so hard. It's just exactly what scripture says. God gave them over to a debased mind. And this issue of killing of humans is always wrong. But what can we do except try to get laws passed and then try to use whatever laws we have present to prosecute at least the violations of those laws while we're seeking to change things in a bigger way. And we'll talk about that more as we go, but go ahead and tell us. And abortion is already wrong, but like what everybody should see as like, regardless, even if you're pro-choice, they are doing this on viable children. We have fetal tissue logs of six month gestational babies, 24 weeks old. You babies have survived outside of the weeks, just over 20 weeks. I know one, my friend's daughter. Yeah. Yeah. And so they have to violate these laws. And if I'm wrong on this, please sue me because I would love to actually take you to discovery and show and prove to the world that this is all happening. But so how it works is second, after the first trimester, there are two abortion procedures. There's four total. There's four ways to kill a baby through abortion. One, the first two are happened in the first trimester. The second late term happened in the second and third. So in order to kill a second trimester baby, the ones that we're getting these tissue requests for, you have to do what's called either a dne dilation and evacuation or a labor induction now basically just for simplicity's sake you dilate the the woman's cervix for two days for two days by inserting something called laminary it's a big big sponge makes a big gaping hole and then you either insert surgical instruments and tear apart limb by limb or you just induce labor and you give birth to a child. Now you ask, how does this baby could not come out alive? If you're doing an induction, if you're inducing labor and delivering the child, well, they, a day before they take a long needle through the woman's stomach and they gave a, gave a lethal dose of a drug called digoxin that stops the baby's heart. Now, the problem is if you need to get these organs for fetal research, that drug nukes all of the stem cells of the tissues that you need for fetal organ research. So no money. So now if you do it through a disarticulation with the first procedure, the DNC, the only way to get viable tissue is to change the abortion procedure and specifically alter it to where you cannot damage the tissues that you want. The problem with that is it's a huge violation of federal law. The Border and Alive Infants Protection Act and the partial birth abortion ban says that you cannot alter the abortion procedure in any way. And so either way, if you abide by the law, You cannot get at the end of the process legal, a legal way to acquire these organs. So we caught them red handed in this. And rather than change their policies, I mean, we went to every single level, lever of power. We lobbied the regents. We showed up at regency meetings and city council meetings, the whole thing, bringing forth our research. and they just would hand wave it. So after two years of being there on public property with a sign and handing out tens of thousands of literature pieces from the UCs, all of the hospitals around, all of the university medical buildings, the university, the colleges, they started just illegally arresting me. So they would arrest me for trespassing on public property. And then the DA would just throw it out because I was on public property. So they arrested me about eight times. They arrested my colleagues. They were just doing everything they can to make us go away and have us not shed light on this. Well, what we did was we kept on. We just did big protests. We got people on there causing a ruckus and doing prayer events. We did rallies, the whole deal. And the, the Annie just started getting elevated and elevated. They just wanted us to go away. Well, I don't know if you guys remember, but there was this thing called justice for the five that happened. Do you, do you know what that is, Mike? Only a little bit. You should explain it. Okay. Yeah. So, um, we did a West coast tour hitting all these spots and an East coast tour hitting all these spots on the East coast tour. I was in Washington, D.C., where two of my friends were outside of one of the abortion clinics, and they found a box of aborted children on its way to a medical waste facility. they picked this box up and it was essentially given to them by the medical waste driver who had transported them from the abortion clinic into his truck and had no clue that he was picking up dead babies uh they convinced him to let a pastor have these children and give them a burial They opened this box There 115 aborted babies inside Five of them were third trimester nearly full term children And they had overwhelming evidence of everything we talking about Born alive abortions partial birth abortion One of the babies was still in its amniotic sac. Never before in 20 years had anybody ever seen this or knew that it was still happening. I mean, we knew it was happening, but the world just said, oh, that's a, that's a, you know, conspiracy theory that third trimester happens, or they only happen if the mom's, you know, dying. And, um, and so, um, this became a huge news story because of the overwhelming evidence that babies were being born alive. And the thing is, this is, it's not just, this is a random box. This is a one random box of aborted tens of thousands of boxes every day that are picked up across the nation. One box in the last 20 years. And this is right. It shows. Where was this? Where was this at? This was in Washington, DC at the Washington Surgery Center. Washington Surgery Center. An abortionist named Cesare Santangelo. So this made national news. We turned the babies over to the DCPD. Mayor Bowser and the head of the chief of police did a public press conference and said, nothing to see here. You can kill a baby to the day birth in DC. So no, you know, no investigation will be performed. No autopsies will be done. Go away. And they would have, they would have incinerated these babies, but Congress got involved. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna, Ted Cruz, a bunch of people said, no, that this is murder and don't, don't destroy this evidence or we're going to come after you. I think that part of the hubris that they have to do this, knowing that there's got to be so many people in the hospital on staff individuals who who know the parent the mothers themselves who know that these procedures are happening that are not legal but they there's this sort of you're you're what state are they in again dc yeah so they know yeah it's not nothing's going to happen here they know the mayor's going to come out and be like don't worry we won't even investigate we will not even investigate to confirm the details of what happened guys yeah continue as you were, that's a dog whistle for the rest of the abortion clinics keep doing business as usual. Absolutely. Even when you catch these people red-handed with either our FOIA requests at UCSF or literally held, I mean, I took photos and videos, Mike, of babies this big with overwhelming evidence that they had born alive. Every single one of these babies, Mike, could have survived at UCLA with little to zero medical help at all. And I mean, babies can survive at that gestational age. The only reason why you need to kill them and not adopt them is specifically because you want these children to be killed. But I mean, we saw that with David Daleiden, he exposes this whole thing, gets video evidence of these people admitting it over lunch, admitting it in public. And the only person who has ever prosecuted is the man who exposed it themselves. It's insane. Absolutely insane. This is, this is high level organized government coverup. 1000%. So huge national news story breaks forth all the photos and videos of these babies, justice for the five. You can look it up, Washington, D.C., Justice for the Five, go everywhere. And all of a sudden I get swooped up by the police in D.C. And they hold me in, I kid you not, brother, a cage that was this wide and about the length of my body for two days. And I wish I was in solitary confinement because they put me in there with the lice ridden schizophrenic man, screaming and maniacally laughing for 48 hours. Oh my gosh. And they don't tell me- They're just trying to wear you down. They don't tell me why I'm being held. They don't tell me what's going on. They don't tell me when I'm getting out. And I'll tell you what, the psychological effects, it was so dark in there. They don't tell you what time it is. So I don't know whether it's night or day, when I'm getting out, and just the psychological effects of none. I cannot imagine what the J sixers went through for that for six months to a year, even longer. Um, but it was just so traumatizing. So they put me in a bigger holding cell for about six days and they finally bring me for a judge and they start reading my charges. Mr. Hurley is a fugitive from justice being held on felony stalking charges and list a whole litany of charges from vandalism to face act to trespassing, resisting arrest, all of these things. And I'm just like, dude, you've got the wrong guy. This is must be some huge clerical error, something. they they try to extradite me from dc put me in a bus all the way to um to san francisco thank god the judge was like dude this guy has no charges he's never he's never been he's never been arrested before his life he's got no convictions on his record like what are you trying to do has mercy on me and lets me fly back the next day to turn myself in they held me six days there. And I entered a four year legal battle on felony stalking charges for a woman. I've never said two words to, or even met, I've met her once in my life in passing. And all of a sudden, this is what I'm looking at up to 10 years in federal prison, up to $50,000 in charges and fines, which I'm still facing and, um, all for exposing babies born alive in DC and babies being harvested in our federally tax funded research projects at the university of California, San Francisco. So that's, that's, that's the gist of it. I mean, I can go into more of, I mean, they, they came to my house. They took all of my guns on red flag laws, um, just strict conditions of release. I had to call twice a week to actually initially first for the first two years, it was three times a week. And then they knock it down to two twice a week, letting them know where I'm at, what's going on as if I'm some, uh, you know, mass murderer or something, um, all for standing up and exposing what these people are doing in secret. It's insane. It's absolutely insane. You've got all this going on. Do you get to hit back with malicious prosecution or something like that? So how that works is, the answer is no. You have to beat all the charges first. And they know they have you by the, you know what, because how it works in these liberal cities is they charge you with everything under the sun. And then they say this, okay, you can either plea to X charges, which they were saying, we want you to be a felon, never be able to vote, never be able to own firearms again. And then we'll let you plea to this. I'm like, plead a felony stalking? I didn't stalk anyone. What are you talking about? Or they say, okay, you can go to a jury trial in San Francisco on stalking an abortionist and see how that goes for you. So every single lawyer I'm looking at, I've consulted with and plenty of them independently say this, AJ, none of this makes any legal sense whatsoever. They don't have a single shred to convict you of this stuff. But if you go to a jury trial in San Francisco, they will just basically convict you for just being pro-life there. You have close to a 0% chance of coming out without, everyone is saying you're probably looking at least two years, probably three years in federal prison when this is all done. This is what you're expecting to be the outcome of what's happening now. So thankfully, we shed massive light on this. And after a four-year legal battle, I took a plea deal of two misdemeanors for zero time. But until the 11th hour, none of them were saying they would offer that. And we basically lawyered up to the hilt and we put as much of legal pressure as possible with the best lawyers you could probably put on this. Right. You're in a rare position where you actually, because things got so much media, you were able to get more support. You had a lot of people coming behind you to support you. Whereas the average person would just, would have no recourse. They would have, they would just be in jail. And what'd you get in jail for? And be like, I don't know. I don't, I don't know. I tried to say that I showed evidence that these guys are breaking the law. and now I'm in jail because we have a corrupt system, because we have corrupt leaders, because we have corrupt jurors that are convinced that the evidence doesn't matter, that they don't want any laws guarding and protecting babies. They just want abortion on demand, paid for by taxpayers, happening as much as possible. It blows my mind that we live in a culture that actually has something called the shout your abortion campaign yeah that's celebrate you killing your own kid campaign totally yeah and the fact of the matter is like how the system has worked is set up is you know all of these judges are all appointed by either obama abiden all these people and i mean you saw this at my plea hearing is i mean i was just treated like an absolute piece of trash you This abortionist goes on the record saying that somehow she felt threatened for her life. I don't know why. We've never said anything but loving things to her, pleading the gospel to her. But if I was to go to a trial on this, how it works is none of the justifications for what we did, all the Freedom of Information Act requests, none of that is a legal defense. None of that. They will say you can't bring in any of that in court. They, I mean, my friend was prosecuted under similar things and they said, you can't even say the word abortion in your defense because it has to be about the facts of the case and whether or not this or, so a justification of the rights or protections of pre-born is specifically barred from court. And they will call you in contempt if you make it about any reasons or justifications for the legality of what you were trying to highlight. that sounds crazy. That sounds insane. The jury would need to have that information to make a judgment, wouldn't they? Anyway, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I just know morality. That's wrong. Exactly. That's immoral, okay? I don't know the law. I know morality, and that's immoral. And so you, because you took a plea deal because the advice of your attorneys are saying you're going to lose because they're going to bring you to San Francisco for this, and you're going to get the San Francisco people. um and um does that mean you don't have the ability to like do something about the malicious prosecution or whatever the right term for it is well i i i would if i hadn't taken a plea deal how it works is you you have to win all of the charges outright um you have to beat those in court and then you can present that forward but the price is just too high and i think this is this is the right if there's a silver lining here brother it was this you know as when i when i they put me in dc and i'm sitting in this this dungeon of tiny cages i was put on this bunk bed with no mattress no pillow it's literally a sheet sheet metal sleeping on and like god is just And I'm like, to say that I wasn't afraid in that situation, to say that, like, I would totally be lying to you. I mean, my anxiety was through the roof. And I had this, it was just like a crisis of conscience. Like, AJ, what are you doing? Here, you, you know, you had the six-figure salary. You had the dream job at UCLA Medical Center. you know you had the great place to live and the beautiful wife and the everything only to be facing like you're sitting in this tiny cell picking lice out of your hair like surely god this is not what you had envisioned for my life but what was amazing about that time was god he didn't peel back all the anxiety was still there. But what he showed me was something that was just profound. It was that like, you know, James O'Keefe has this classic line. He says, everyone has a price, but if your price is not your life, then you are for sale. And to me, it was like all of a sudden, the secret to ending abortion was like right in front of me. We don't, it's abortion exists right now in America, not because we love babies too little, because we love our lives too much. We love our comfort too much. And I'm sitting there and God is saying, if the price that you're willing to endure to end abortion is not at least this in as much as your life if the cost that literally the cost of discipleship is the cost to end abortion and until we recognize as christians that the price that we should be willing to pay whether it be our jobs or our careers or our money or time or treasure or influence. If that doesn't reach the level of what Jesus says, if anyone comes after me and wants to be my disciple and is not willing to go to the cross for me, is not willing to die for me, he's not fit to be my disciple. And we understand that Mike, when it, if somebody puts a gun to your head and says, reject Christ, or I'm going to kill you. We understand that as the sacrifice for discipleship. We quickly see that in a different category when the price is, how much are you willing to suffer to love the least of these? how much are you willing to endure for the price to end this great great demonic evil of child sacrifice in your land what is your price and if the your price is not the cost of discipleship if you see it as anything else we will never end this evil i would i would i think those are i think there's a lot of wise words um and a good sober wake-up call and i think there's another element to it for for people which is we want to be guaranteed that when we pay a price for something that it's going to work and i think there's an element where we have to go no you have to actually go in pay the price and not know if it's going to work or not but know that what you did was worthy it was a worthy act i stepped out and i tried because there's so much defeatism that keeps people from even trying because they just think i just don't see how that's going to work i don't see how that's going to be successful. And I'm going, man, people who've changed the world, in hindsight, it's like they just bootstrapped the whole thing. You know, God used them in great ways. And it's not like you could have predicted this will work. You couldn't have mostly. It's just, it worked. And it worked because not only they did it, but before them, lots of other people tried and that ended up being the groundwork for transformation, but they never knew this for their whole lives. They never knew it. And so I think that there's something healthy about going, I will lay my life down for godly causes to serve the Lord. And I won't look back to test the fruit because that will only slow me down. I just need to march ahead and serve. It's so good. I mean, so one of the talks in our training for White Rose Resistance, we talk about the three things that you need to do to change the world. This is a talk I gave. It's like, one, you need to know the truth is Christ. You need to live the truth and you need to die for the truth. And so the last thing is the thing that nobody wants to do, you know, is we're willing, if we could, as you said, if we could have this guarantee, you know, if I said to anybody, any Christian listening, would you give up your life if you could be guaranteed that abortion would end? I'd imagine most people maybe would say yes to that, but it's the unknown of, will we labor and tarry and give our lives for something that we will never, ever maybe even see the fruit of? And I mean, that's what Jesus says. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies and remains alone. And he says those two things, dies and remains alone. those are two probably the two worst things maybe something worse than death is just abandonment yeah well i think it says if he unless it dies it does remain alone it will be it won't produce fruit right has to die to to you know multiply yeah and and so the cost of abandonment the cost of dying to yourself that is what it takes to to change the world i mean that's what changed the world and 12 ordinary bumbling fishermen idiots overthrew in three centuries, the Roman empire through a peaceful revolution of sorts of just not with strength of chariots and horses and swords and armor but with the message that gives life of this second person of the Godhead who went through every single stage of human development, dignifying once and for all the embryonic stage, the fetal stage of human development, that birth freedom and has echoes of liberty and justice that reverberated into human history and ended slavery and give, gave, um, dignity to women and ended abortion and infanticide. And there is no secret, you know, to changing the world. It's, right. It's through the gospel. It's through the gospel. Yeah. And it was, it was Christians in the early church who would, um, so Romans would take their, you know, there's some sure they would take their babies that they didn't want, and they would leave them out on the porch or on the street, and then the dogs at night would go through the city, and basically that was their way of getting rid of the kids they didn't want. And Christians would come and rescue these children and raise them as their own. And this was something that believers did. You know, the Didache, one of the earliest extra biblical texts we have from Christianity, is saying that, you know, we don't do this. We don't expose our children. Like, this is something Christians don't do. We rescue them, we don't expose them. And, um, and that's not the case. Well, in the Didache even talks about abortion. It says like literally starts off, there's two paths to life, one of life and one of death. Thou shalt not kill a, uh, kill a child from abortion or destroy that which has already been generated. And St. Basil in the fourth century used his power and influence to make abortion a crime throughout the Roman empire. And it, He literally says, she who deliberately destroys a fetus shall be guilty of the crime of murder, along with those who give her the abortifacient poisons. So it wasn't this thing merely of babies with infanticide outside of the womb on high places being exposed to the elements. It was also because they understood something. The incarnation shatters every single demonic ideology that dehumanizes what's in the womb, because abortion is literally a Christological heresy, because it would assert that at some point God was fully human, but not a divine person. So this is one thing I love to ask pro-choice Christians, if you could even call them that, is I say, well, you believe in the Trinity, right? Like you believe that Christ is fully divine. Well, at what point in Christ's human life did he become a divine person? And you're putting this really big quagmire because that would violate the hypostatic union, right? Jesus was fully divine from the single second that he became a human being. It took upon human flesh. And there was no point in his life that he wasn't that second person, divine person, a God man in the womb. Yeah. Amen. I mean, yeah. In the Imago Dei, and there's so many theological principles that just make this very plain and clear. What we have, though, is we have questions that remain. Like, what do Christians do? what are the most effective ways of actually bringing change in the culture? What is like the marching orders for how we can over the next, whether it's 10 years or 50 years or a hundred years, change everything and put a stop to it. And you, you know, you guys spend more time thinking about this than I do. What do you think? Well, I love this question because I always, I always say there's a biblical middle ground and then there's ditches on either side of the road. Um, so on one side of the ditch is this kind of social gospel or liberation theology where it says essentially clean up society, you know, put a bandaid on everything, make people really moral. and that's the call of Christians, right? Christianity is just this liberating force that just is a social kind of cleansing apparatus where we clean everybody up their lives and give this Christless redemption. On the other side of the ditch is something you and I grew up in Calvary Chapel and the Harvest Crusade and the whole thing, which tends, I love the movement, but I think what I heard growing up was like, we don't get involved in the politics. We just preach the gospel. So it's like, as if the gospel didn't have to do with loving your neighbor, the gospel didn't have to do with like issues in society that intersect with laws and legal things that dehumanize the human person. And so I think the biblical ground is Christ, not only the gospel, but in the great commission. and it starts with all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and preach the gospel. And when I do, the gospel affects every single area of life, right? So if I meet a guy on the street and he tells me he's been sleeping with his girlfriend, well, I tell him, hey, that's wrong. That's something that God has explicitly forbid that separates you from God, be reconciled to God, repent of those things and come to Christ and he will regenerate you, give you a new heart and everything in your life is transformed. We understand that in a personal capacity of personal sin, but for some reason we don't make those like, is just like suddenly if abortion is in view that those aren't things that the gospel is touches, you know? And so it's huge, obviously. Yeah. There's no reason in any way, shape or form for Christians to cede any ground or, or any, any like authority to speak to the topic of abortion. We're to cry out for the oppressed. True religion is what it's helping the weak, right? Fatherless, the orphans, the widows, these are the people you help out. And how much does a child need to be helped when their own mother is trying to get them killed? When doctors and government are colluding against them to get them killed? I mean, the Egyptian midwives are lauded in scripture for the same reason that I would applaud anybody, even if it's messy, and they're getting involved in pro-life causes and trying to help and make a difference and make a change. And I'd be like, you guys are reaching out to save the ones who about to be destroyed. This is a beautiful and good thing. Yeah. And so, I mean, there have been pro-life organizations that I know of that will make people sign a statement saying, I will not use the gospel. And it's like, what are you talking about? I mean, what we're- Who makes you, what organizations make people sign those statements? Oh man, I don't want to put them on blast publicly. I do. Hey man, you're making people sign it. What are you talking about? I know, I know, I know. They have since softened some of their stance on that. I want to be very careful because I work with these people. Tell them that they need to stop or maybe I'll put them on blast for you. But it's like you're destroying the one force that can actually change a human heart. I mean, what I'm experiencing all the time on college campuses is more and more as society is being degenerated, young people, they know what's in the womb. It's not like 50 years ago when people said, oh, if wombs had windows and if people just saw a 5D ultrasound, they would all be pro-life. We could just convince them of the science that human beings are human beings in the womb. They all know it's a human being now, a majority. Most of the young people on college campuses I talked to, they're like, no, I know it's a human. It's not a person yet. And so at that point, what do you do when they agree with you that the science confirms exactly what you've been saying? But they just say, I think we should just have the choice to be able to kill it. This is what Bill Maher said a number of years ago. Yeah. He was like, let's just be honest. We know this is a baby. We just think it's okay to kill it. Yep. He just, he said, he said, I, I know it's murder. I'm just okay with that. So AJ, you're on a college campus. You have a student come up to you and they say that and they, they, what, what do you say? Is there anything that like changes their minds that you find useful? All pro-life talk goes out the window. And now we are having, and I don't know, I love the presuppositional model of apologetics. It's like, okay, let's talk about morality. Let's talk about truth. What is your epistemic justification for morality, even in your worldview? And then just breaking them down, helping them see that all truth belongs to God, all morality. If you reject God, you have no basis for these things because morality is just a societal convention and it's a gospel conversation. And I think it's such a shame that Christians have kind of divorced these political issues because the success of Charlie Kirk and why we're seeing a mini revival take place among young men right now is because he went into the public square in an area that the church had essentially abandoned for so long in this area of politics. but politics now is like core identity. Who am I? Like, what, what, what am I like? What is the meaning of life? You know, what is my core identity? Am I trans? Am I this? Am I homosexual? Am I that? And the world is offering solutions to these that are hotly political issues. And this is the place where Christians need to be championing the dignity and, and the humanity and the ontology of the human person and giving people a worldview that is so much greater than this reductionistic kind of nihilistic materialism that is being pushed upon them in college campuses now. This is the place, the darkest places of America where the church needs to engage. Yeah, we could talk about that for a long time, but I want to target something that you brought up earlier. So I'm genuinely, and I'm going to tell this to the audience, guys, I don't know the details here okay i don't know if i'll even fully agree with whatever aj says here i'm probably not qualified to weigh in yet so i but i want him to give him a chance as someone who knows more about it than i do to just kind of talk about it um the issue of the internal disagreements that are inside the pro-life movement yeah um now i'm aware that there's like the abolitionists and there's different camps of abolitionists and i'm aware and i don't want to get too into the weeds on this because it's just, but one thing you brought up to me privately, we were talking is that there are some pro-life organizations that will actively seek to stop legislation from being passed, which would protect kids in the womb, babies in the womb. Can you explain that to us? Yes. So let me just briefly break down the definitions of these groups. Okay. The far end, I would consider myself an abolitionist. I want to abolish abortion. So if that, and I think it should be a crime for anybody who kills a child. So if that makes me an abolitionist, sign me up. I'm not married to the term. I'm not going to change. If that's all abolitionism is, I'm signed up to a hundred percent. Although I know there's people who use the term and they mean other things that I don't, I don't hold. So what they mean by that, and they wouldn't consider me an abolitionist because I will, I will accept incremental progress along the way, provided it's actually and truly the best we can get. So if I can get a heartbeat pass in heartbeat bill passed in California, sign me up. I'm voting for it. If that's truly the best we can do. Right. So me and you actually are on the same page here. Yes. Yes. So they would say, no, that if you vote for that heartbeat bill, you're actually telling America that you can kill babies without heartbeats. And I would say, no, that's completely not true at all. The law is already doing that because of along in California, you can kill every single child up to the moment of birth. So what we're doing is we're giving back the rights of children with heartbeats. And we recognize that if we don't, all of the babies are going to be killed and legally have our open season on them. So they would appeal to passages like in Isaiah, woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees to rob the poor of my people from justice, justice and only justice shall you pursue. I don't think that they hold that consistently because, okay, what about taxation? You know, like if I'm getting taxed, if you combine everything right now, probably up to 50% of my income, if you just add everything up. But if we could get that down to 11%, I doubt you'd be opening up for Samuel saying, this is a judgment that, you know, if you take a king to rule over you, that you're going to take your sons and daughters to war and tax you up to a 10th. You know, God says the 10th is judgment. I can't do 11. So I would, I would point out biblically speaking, the passage you quote, or they quote for that. Um, it's not just the passing of an unjust law. It's the result of the passing of the unjust law. So you pass an unjust law too, and it has a negative impact on the poor, the destitute, or those who can defend themselves. And so that is where to me, the break goes, I go, hold on. I'm sorry. If I flash forward a year, it's, let's say 10,000 babies are saved because this law was passed. And if we don't pass it, 10,000 babies die. The result of the law is positive. But the thing that gets me is, is the homosexual movement, their incrementalism worked fantastically, right? When they passed civil unions, you didn't have, now you had some people going, oh, I don't want to do this because it's not good enough. We should have gay marriage, not civil unions. This is like us saying that we don't really count as marriage. But the real advocates knew that this was just a stepping stone. Absolutely. No, 100%. I think in a pragmatic way, you look at it and you go, it doesn't mean I'm fully a pragmatist in every way. It's like every time you say pragmatic in any way, people accuse you of being a pure pragmatist. But it seems to me that an incremental path is viable sometimes when you can't get something done right away. And I think that this has happened with uh the the in england with slave stuff all the all because because they didn't overcome it with the civil war they overcame it slowly they would find any loophole any political angle they could take and it worked so this seems viable to me yep and then so the far end of the other spectrum is the what i call the pro-life establishment where you know we're at the five yard line and they're kicking field goals essentially you know like let's get it like, and they've actually lost, in my opinion, this is demonstrated. We've been dealing with Roe v. Wade for so long and fought this incrementally for 50 years that I believe some core just fundamentally feminist ideology has crept in and become foundational in the perspective of of these people that where they actually see all women who get abortions as victims and they essentially outright reject any criminal sanctions at all. So right now in Texas, this is where we're at. We, we actually did the incremental thing and we passed a life at conception bill saying all abortions are illegal in Texas from conception. Okay. That is the law now. And only with one clause that none of the above applies to a mother who is pregnant. So right now in Texas, a woman who is eight or nine months pregnant can order pills online, have them shipped to her house and induce with misoprostol side attack an eight or nine month abortion and do so in front of a police officer and not a single thing will happen to her. Now, if her boyfriend put those pills in her drink, he would get a murder charge because we have this kind of fundamental dogma that women who kill their babies in America are our victims. So this second victim narrative is the problem, I think, that we're facing. So National Right to Life put out a letter saying that not only will we never support criminal punishment for women who get abortions in the future, but there will never be a time where we support that. And the problem right now is there was 30,000 up to upwards of between 25 and 30,000 legal abortions in Texas last year. And the pro-life movement is totally okay with this loophole provided the mom does it herself. so there's tons of establishment groups concerned women for america uh national right to life susan b anthony list that the the big five or four uh largest pro-life organizations in america white rose resistance and a few others are the only organizations that say what we all know is fundamentally true and our very own declaration of independence champions is that all men are created equal and down there by their creator with inalienable rights, such as the right to life. And so if you believe that children in the womb have equal rights, none of that means anything. If you make it legally available and legal to sanction the murder provided their mother does it. So we want the same laws passed eventually. Now, how we get there is another question, but what's happening right now is I was just in the areas that we can get this done in the areas that we don't need to change culture. Like we had all the votes, areas with Republican super majorities like Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Dakota, South Carolina, the very organizations that are showing up to lobby with Planned Parenthood, with ACLU, with National Abortion Federation to kill bills that give prenatal children the same rights as toddlers have are being killed by these pro organizations I have so many things I want to say right now So let me start with one question. Sure. Is there any reason why you shouldn't name these organizations that are actively doing this? Oh, I just did. Yeah. I don't think so. I mean, it's if, if you publicly stand up and do this in public, then I think it's fair game for you to be called out in public. So, so who is it that tell us again, then who is, who, what are the orgs? Susan B. Anthony list, uh, national right to life, uh, concern women for America, heartbeat international. Um, let me think, um, in the past, uh, they're, they're kind of moving away from this a little bit now, but in the past organizations like students for life have done this as well. So, um, yeah, there's all the major ones, man. So there's two reasons I can think for people to do this. One is the one you just enumerated, which is like a type of, um, I would call it critical theory that comes in and it sees the woman as like kind of an oppressed category. And so she can't be seen as perpetrator in this context. Um, another would be people who think, okay, privately between you and me, AJ, I think that, yeah, we should prosecute parents who get their kids killed. Like, yeah, that's a thing you're supposed to do. But I don't think that strategically we should say that out loud because it's going to, it's going to be used to stir, you know, opposition to the movement very successfully because of our culture. And, um, that, that I, I understand that. Like that makes sense why you're like yeah if we if we if you're asked certain questions that's to move the conversation onto something that isn't even really on the table right now um but it doesn't mean it's not true and there's something that's bold and true about people saying look if these if these babies have human rights then you prosecute people who kill them right isn't that how it works totally now they can push back and say but but maybe the woman didn't know i've known women who had abortions didn't really didn't know what was going on and found out when they were in the bathroom and then they see their child in a toilet. And then they're going, they lied to me because these abortion clinics routinely lie to the ladies. Absolutely. So that obviously has to be factored in and you have to factor in all the different things. But to say- And our laws do that. Yeah. Yeah. But to say that like a woman who knowingly, intentionally kills her own baby, and you're going to you'll factor in everything pressures or she was forced or lied to you but to say that we will we will always oppose there being any criminality to that seems like what you're doing is you're saying i don't really believe this is a human yeah well so a few things on the whole um women that are true like i totally agree that there are probably very many women who really are victims and, and our laws account for that. Right. So the law itself treats everyone as innocent until proven guilty. But I think the, the women's that the women that are coerced, the women who actually have been sex trafficked, who have been had pimps, the women who have had abusive boyfriends or fathers or whatever that are forcing them to go to the abortion clinic and doing this, those women actually are true victims. But the problem is, is right now the law actually doesn't protect them. And in treating women as a whole class of victims outright at the onset, you're actually not protecting them. This is what I mean by this. So right now, coercion only applies to violence, right? So it might be illegal for me, Mike, to force you to take Tylenol, but there are many ways of me forcing you to take Tylenol, right? Outside of me shoving Tylenol down your throat or slipping into your drink, I can tell you, hey, I'm going to kick you out in the street. I'm going to break up with you. I'm going to do X, Y, and Z unless you do this. those are all legal ways of force if the underlying action of taking Tylenol is legal now right now the underlying action of taking mifepristone misoprostol the abortion pills is seen as that legal as taking a Tylenol in these states so now it's being shipped across state lines people don't often know this but so there'll be a state where they say this abortion is illegal in the state. And then without proper medical examinations, California, other countries, other states. It's like another country. I live there, I know. But they'll actually mail over these abortifacient drugs to women. Completely legal. Yeah, and so what they're seeing is this increase in mailing. Because at the same time as Roe v. Wade gets overturned, then they approve of another pill that people can take to kill their kids. And so the battle's extensive. And actually pro-choicers use this, and actually some pro-lifers, it disgusts me, they use this as an argument against overturning Roe v. Wade because they say, well, we overturn Roe v. Wade, but there's actually an increase in the number of abortions. As if there's like some magical correlation causation thing going on here. And you're like, dude, they approved a new drug. They're shipping it around the world. That's the cause. Overturning Roe v. Wade was good because it was evil and wrong and illegal. But so it's an old wine, new wineskins. I mean, for the last 50 years, we're used to fighting abortion in a facility. And so we need to shut down these clinics. Now the number is 70% of the abortions that are taking place are being taken place at home. And the only abortionist is the mother. So it doesn't work anymore. Just tactically, if you're wanting to save babies and you're actually wanting to change culture, it doesn't work just by prosecuting doctors. You need to prosecute everyone involved. And so if I make it illegal back to the coercion thing, guess what? It's illegal to put social pressure on you to commit homicide. That makes you a co-conspirator. And actually in our laws, it would make you as the principal offender in this and would absolve the woman in that case. So if you really want to protect women from coercion, stop making the underlying act of killing a child legal for her to do it. And it's not about punishing women. Like no one in their right mind would say, oh, you want to make it illegal for women to drown their toddler in a bathtub? You want to punish women. You want to prosecute mothers. No one would say that. No, we want to protect babies. and the only way to really dumb dumb claim you're trying to punish hold on wait there's like why are you dividing the law into male versus female in the first place it's only because you want special treatment for certain people this is why they came up with this is controversial i'm sure hate crime laws was to create special treatment i'm like if you stab me to death that's a hate crime automatically why are we asking what race we are or or what motivation it was you know if it was if i was motivated because I just despise you personally, that's less of a hate crime than if I did it because of your race. I don't, this makes no sense to me. So these categories, all are, they're critical theory. It's putting people into special classes that get extra rights and less accountability. And it shouldn't happen. It shouldn't happen for white people or rich people or women or men or anybody. That's what biblical justice is. This is the whole concept of justice is justice is blind. But then you're trying to punish women. This is pulling the blind off justice and going, wait, is it a woman? I have different standards. And you know what? You mentioned a burger fell. I think that's a great example in terms of what we're talking about culturally. They did incremental steps along the way, but do you know that when a burger pub passed, um, they, America was polled on how many people supported gay marriage. Did you know that at the time that 70, at least 70, some polls showed 80% of Americans were against gay marriage when that went down. Now it's not even been 10 years later, Mike, and there is hardly a single GOP elected official that would have the courage to say that gay marriage in a burger fell should be overturned. So when you say, I mean, I'm all for this statement that Andrew Breitbart made that politics is downstream of culture, but like, hold on. The other thing is also true that our laws, as we know, the law is a tutor to lead us to Christ, right? The laws actually fundamentally say something about the value and dignity of human beings. And if our laws create a two-tiered system of justice where there are second class victims, where even the pro-life movement is saying you can kill all human beings except for these human beings that are killed by these certain people. And if they are, then they're completely absolved. What you do is create a milieu by women in America now are from the time in their infancy, grow up thinking inculcated by this cultural ethos or spirit of the age that says pre-born children are nothing other than pieces of trash and you have the full ability as a victim to get rid of them provided that you do it with a pill at home they have totally subjective value if the if the mom values them they're valuable she doesn't they're not and then she can yell about reproductive rights and other dumb empty headed slogans that if you actually stop and think about them and this is so this is the thing the the number one move for pro-choice is um it's like an emperor has no clothes thing they don't call it what it is don't acknowledge what it is try to get everyone to to not talk about what it is they'll they'll even in print they'll in fact below this video on youtube i guarantee you there will show up if it's not there already like a little thing about abortion about and it'll it'll talk about a baby and it'll use the word like pregnancy, ending a pregnancy and removing a pregnancy. And you're like, you're not removing a pregnancy. That's not how language works. You're, you're, you're killing a kid, a human child. And it, I, I like to use the word baby and child and kid, because you know what, if someone was in a car accident and they lost, they had a miscarriage and they're like, say three months pregnant. And if then they went to the person who say a drunk driver who caused the car accident and they said, you killed my kid. Would anybody be like, technically, that's not your kid. Technically, all of a sudden they know exactly what this is. There's no, no one's going to argue with them. No one's going to even, they're going to be like, you're right. That person did that. So evil, but it's a baby if you want it to be the same lady takes a pill or gets a procedure to kill. Now it's, well, I want to use a latin word to describe it because then it seems less human so how do we not even not even at ucla medical center when i worked in the er there would would if a woman came in and pregnant they would always call it a baby no one would ever dare to have the audacity to carte blanche call their baby a fetus because they all understood something fundamental that you are pregnant with your child unless you don't want it and then we use some other dehumanizing euphemism it's evil it's it's It's it's pulling the blinders down to so what do you think about like March? Okay, obviously you guys have white rose resistance. People could support your guys work. They could go to your website Which is which is is it white roseresistance.com? What is it? No, it's the white rose dot life the white rose dot life The white rose dot life you guys can check that out. But but other than like financial support Marching orders for Christians like locally. What what? steps do you think people can take? Maybe someone's going, dude, I'm willing to, I want to get involved in a cause. This is a cause I care about. What do they do practically? What do they do tomorrow morning? How can they make a difference? You're talking to the right guy. So I run all of the outreach for White Rose nationally. We have six state chapters across America right now. We have tons of resistance units. So we have chapters and units. Units are the volunteer-led ones. Chapters have full-time dedicated chapter leaders for that state, that all they do is just dedicate full-time work to that movement. So I would say email me, aj at thewhiterose.life, ccmerrick, M-A-R-E-K at thewhiterose.life. I believe that the church needs to do three things. We need to inform, engage, and enrage. So if you permit me, I'll just give you down the list of things, right? Inform is like the woman at the well meets Jesus, doesn't go back to her town and even preach some lofty sermon. She's just asking questions. Hey, come meet a man that told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah, right? We need those type of people that are just geared more towards that. So inform. We need the people that can engage. So we need to go into the highways and byways, like Paul at the Areopagus, contending for the faith, you know, debating those about the value of pre-born children. And then we need to do, be the kind of John the Baptist. So the third category is in rage. We need to break up the status quo. You know, we do tons of things like pro-life rallies and we'll go to college campuses and we'll do demonstrations. We'll even, I mean, I've even like crashed Planned Parenthood fundraising galas and stuff like this. We need to break up the status quo and shake up the establishment. So all those three things is what the White Rose Resistance is about. We have a mercy component where we save babies outside of the front of the abortion clinics. And then we have the justice component, which is both cultural and political. We have a C4 whereby we're getting these equal protection bills passed in states where we can. So all of that, I mean, all politics now is local, right? We are getting killed at the ballot initiative. Roe v. Wade had obvious great things about it, but the downside is we have, we kind of underprepared right now. The battle is by and large at the state level and states can either enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions, or they can completely get rid of it altogether. So now more than ever is the time where Christians have to be adamantly just like zealous for their time and their energy at the local level of getting engaged in their local community. We have every reliability, every single type of privilege right now in full, all of the rubber bands or the stop guards have been taken off now that Roe v. Wade is done and we can end abortion. And the question is, is will the church rise up? What I like to say is, and why I'm out here at the White Rose Resistance is because Jesus promised one thing. He did not promise that the gates of hell would be prevailed against by the GOP, the Republican party or X organization. He said, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. So I believe the secret to ending this is Christians owning their calling with the force of the gospel going out and preaching the good news and the values and dignity of the pre-born child. All right, man. Look, I think that's a good place to wind it up. I think that's awesome. I'll warn you ahead of time, AJ. When I click in, it's going to cut not only live, but it's going to kill our conversation. So this is me genuinely saying— Well, thank you for the opportunity, Mike. Thank you for sticking your neck out. Thank you for the things that you've suffered. I appreciate that you're looking at this as not like, oh, look at me. I'm a great hero. I've done—but rather, hey, Christians, I think we're all called to take some risks and to be ready to make some sacrifices in order to do these things. In my mind, the issue of abortion is the great moral issue of our time. Amen. and has been for generations, but we have not seen the church, you know, Christians stand up like they could, like they can now, like more than ever before. It's harder to silence us than ever before. Amen. It is harder than ever to silence us. And so it's raising our voices thoughtfully, intelligently, but we need to restore the shame of abortion to our culture. We need to be ashamed. We need to not be embarrassed about that. Well, you're trying to make me feel bad. Yes, you should feel way worse than even you think I'm trying to make you feel. Now you can find grace in Christ for that, but I can't go on for 20 minutes about the grace of Christ and not actually give you the thing that shows you you need it by saying you did this to your child. You helped kill your own child. You vote for people because you say things like, it's complicated, abortion's complicated. And then you vote for your pro-choice candidates and you turn a blind eye to what's happening because you've absorbed the propaganda. So I think what you guys are doing helps to restore that awareness. This is biblical Christianity. It really does. Jesus did this in his ministry. He restored shame in regards to some of the ungodly practices that were happening in the temple or were happening with different people. John the Baptist did this, and Jesus says, woe to you. He straight up just says, would it be okay for a Christian to go to an abortion clinic and just literally stand there and just say, woe to you, woe to you. You guys are killing children, and you'll stand before the living God who made them in his image one day. I think that those things are appropriate too. We have the, let's grace you, let's help you. Let's give you help, not only with abortion, but to stop from having an abortion and delivering a child, but also afterwards. We'll provide all kinds of aid and help for women after the child's born, despite what the pro-choicers claim about us. We do it all the time. But we also need to do the other stuff too. So I'm glad you guys are doing it. And I thank you so much for joining and for sharing your story. I hope that more Christians get in trouble for standing against abortion in the near future. Yeah. Praise God. Thank you, brother. Yeah. Thank you too, man. I appreciate you very much. So white rose, white rose resistance, www.thewhiterose.life. There it is. Okay.