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Welcome to Empower You. I'm Amy Stevens. You may have heard Pastor Steve's podcast

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where we had a conversation about public policy engagement or civic engagement.

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You know, COVID changed a lot of things in our community and this is where the

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road really exploded in membership and where people began to get engaged. And so

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Pastor Steve came to me and said, hey, would you consider volunteering to help

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lead this effort? We have all kinds of views in our church, diverse views. And

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really, how do we make sense of that? How do we move forward? People are exhausted,

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a lot of people angry, some just trying to raise their kids. How do we stay

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engaged? And I'm convinced it's through big, important little things, things that

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you and I can do every day. And that's what you're going to hear on these

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podcasts. You're gonna hear from people in the community, school board members,

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you're going to hear from people that work in the life, pro-life space. You're

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going to hear from legislators, people that are going to talk to us about what

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their lives are really like, what their jobs are really like, and actually how we

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can make a difference and or support them. And so that is the hope for Pastor

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Steve. That's the hope that I have. And we look forward to engaging with you.

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Hi, this is Amy Stevens. We're back with Empower You. And I am joined today by a

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wonderful dear friend and colleague, Diane Ferrara, who is the CEO of the

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Pro-Life Ministry, Save the Storks. Diane, welcome. Thank you, Amy. What a pleasure

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to be here. It's so exciting to be with you on this podcast and share more about what we're doing.

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Well, I'm excited about Storks. I want to say I have been around many a pro-life

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ministry. I have respect for the work that we have to do. But one of the things

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that so has attracted me to Storks and where Storks is going is the idea that

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Diane and some of the people that have joined Save the Storks, they didn't have

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their whole life in a nonprofit ministry. They didn't wake up and say, okay, I'm

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called to do this. They were believers working in the secular field of what?

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Global jewelry, global luxury jewelry. One thing I love about that is they

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completely understand the idea of customer service, customer first. What do

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we need? How do we think out of the box, right? I had not heard this in many a

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year, being at pro-life events, and I went, this is something. I really am

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intrigued. There's so many life ministries. We have a great thing in

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Colorado Springs. I mean, we have a lot of strong ministries, Life Network and just

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a number of other people. But what has attracted me to this has been how you're

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approaching things. And particularly, I want to hear how did you get to Save the

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Storks? How did you get there? I met you in D.C. and I was blown away by what I

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saw. And how funny, we share the same hairdresser. That's how you meet. That's

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how people...

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Blood for Shirley, right?

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That's how, you know, we met through our hairdresser. She said, oh, you need to

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meet Diane. And then she would tell Diane, oh, you need to meet Amy. And so

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here we are. I want to hear how you got with Storks.

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Yeah, Amy, thanks again. So my story actually begins as a child. So I was

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adopted as a baby. I was adopted in Orange County, California. In fact, on my

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birth certificate, my name is Baby Girl Martinez, because the birth mother who

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chose life for me, she was married to a gentleman, his last name was Martinez. And

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they decided not to name me because they knew adoption was their plan. They were

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married. They had four little boys at the time. But she had had a one night

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stand. It was the 60s. So for anyone watching that's, you know, saying, oh, we

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would never do that. The 60s, everything happened in droves.

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And 70s.

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So she went out to a bar, had a one night stand with a musician and found out she

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was pregnant. And she knew the baby was not her husband's. And in an effort to

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really save her marriage, she decided to drive to Mexico to abort me. So this this

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was 1966. And abortion was not legal at that time in California. So she went with

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another friend who was in an unplanned pregnancy. They drove south about 90

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minutes, two hours. And by the time she got to that clinic, she decided not to

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abort me. And I did not know that story until I started working at Save the

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Storks. And I shared my testimony. I think it was the video that they recorded it

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when we met in DC. Yeah, she watched that one night. And she said, I have

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something to tell you. So that that profoundly impacted me. But that was

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after I was already at Storks. I grew up in a living home. Again, adoption was

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just part of my DNA. That was part of my identity. I was so proud to be adopted.

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My parents made me feel very loved. My adoption

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mom died when I was eight years old. And so I really was without a mom, and I always wondered,

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like, would my mom remember my birthday? And so I had always thought about that,

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but always was so grateful that she did have me. And it wasn't until I was 26 that I met her.

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And I learned a little bit about my story, and a little bits come out here and there.

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But I had always considered myself to be pro-life. And we both grew up in Orange County as well.

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And I grew up about two miles from Disneyland, so the happiest place on earth. But on the way

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to one of my part-time jobs on Cotella Avenue, I would drive by a clinic that there were

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protesters outside. They had the pictures of the baby parts, and they had a bullhorn,

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and they were screaming at these women going into the clinic. And as a 16, 17-year-old teenager,

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all I could think was, there's probably friends from my school that are going there. And

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these people who were so well-meaning on the streets protesting, they were actually

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scaring the women into the comfort of Planned Parenthood, where it was probably peaceful. And

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they said, you're doing the right thing. And I had never really done much in terms of support

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the pro-life movement until I was involved in the foster care community. I was a volunteer in

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California, and I volunteered at a pregnancy center in Pasadena, California. And that was

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an eye-opener, because I realized there are options for women. They strategically had a

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location on Lake Avenue, and it was about a half-mile from Planned Parenthood. The challenge

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was they had a big neon sign that said, open, pre-pregnancy test. But it brought some women in.

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Of course it would.

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It did. But again, having a marketing background working in retail, working most of my career with

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brand experience.

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An incredible marketer and brand management. Amazing.

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Yeah. I think I knew at this pregnancy center, they weren't really attracting women

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in the way that maybe they could be.

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Yes.

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And by the way, during your time, I was working in the abortion industry, right?

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And where people aplenty were in the waiting room, and where it was great pay.

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Yeah, right.

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You could, you know, it was great pay, and gorgeous offices, and you just don't need

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counseling. You can just come right over here, rush them in, rush them out. Just, yeah. I mean,

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it's so-

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The rushing part is what gets me. And that's when I learned about Save the Storks in 2018,

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I think, and joined as a marketing director here. And what I loved about Save the Storks

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as a ministry was it wasn't about rushing women. It was about educating women. It was about letting

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women know that they were loved and that they were cared for. And they had a choice, and that

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choice didn't have to be abortion. And that was the first time I heard choice used in a way that

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wasn't the narration of the left. It was something that Save the Storks was using with,

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I mean, just complete love and letting women know, look, we know you have this option. We know that

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you are pregnant, that you don't want that baby, but we want to give you another option. And that's

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where the mobile medical units came into play. And I thought, what is this organization called

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Save the Storks? I thought the name was clever, but I thought, is this for real?

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Yeah, no. I thought the same thing.

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I met the people based here in Colorado Springs, national organization. At the time,

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we had around 40 mobile medical clinics. Now, five years later, we have 95 on the road in 33 states.

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I've never heard of that either. I've never heard of a mobile medical. But

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one thing Diane and I have been talking about is this concept that, yes, we have volunteers. And

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yes, there are pregnancy centers that do noble work throughout the United States. But the idea is

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pregnancy testing, the idea of finding out doesn't just happen between the hours of nine

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and 4 p.m. And the thing I love about these medical units is the idea that you start at four,

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you can go to midnight, right? I mean, you could literally, in a way, be like an Uber to say,

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great, you found out you think you're pregnant. We can verify that. We can get some counseling here.

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I just love that idea, concept. And one thing I did not realize was

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on the mobile medical clinics, they're given the pregnancy test, which is medical grade. And then

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they have an ultrasound, which is free. And the women are able to hear the baby's heartbeat and

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see the baby on alert. We have a huge screen in these mobile medical clinics. And what I found

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out was these women go to Planned Parenthood for the free pregnancy test, and then they're sold

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on abortion. When they have the ultrasound, they turn off the volume and they turn the screen away

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so the woman can't see the baby. And I thought if they are all about women's health care,

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and they are about true women's choice, why are they afraid to let her hear that heartbeat?

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Nothing to see here. No, no, nothing. And we had a coworker just last Friday,

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we had her 16-year-old daughter call Planned Parenthood.

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Just for a little, you know, secret shopper. That's what we do in marketing, we do secret shoppers.

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This woman didn't even ask a 16-year-old girl, and she sounded younger on the call,

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didn't ask her what her mental state was.

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You know, what's your condition? How are you feeling about this?

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What puts you in this position?

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You know what they said?

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Well, if you don't have insurance, we'll get you on, you know, state aid.

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I think it was $680 for an abortion.

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We can do a chemical abortion or a surgical abortion.

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Do you want to come in tomorrow, Saturday, or Sunday?

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Less than 24 hours.

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And you don't have to tell your mom anything.

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So if this young girl had any kind of suicide ideation, or if it was a date rape,

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they didn't even ask those questions.

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It was like, come on in, this is the cost, we'll get you in and out.

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Holy moly.

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They even told her, you know, if you come in for the abortion pill,

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which is now given out like candy, sadly.

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Kids in junior high school are selling it on the grounds.

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Supposed telehealth, where literally I could be sitting, you know, like this,

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and say, yeah, I'm six weeks.

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And no ultrasound.

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And no one to tell you.

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How's that health care?

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Right.

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And where's the science, right? There's no science behind that.

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Exactly.

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But this young lady was told, you know, you can drive yourself,

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if you want to come in, we'll give you a little bag with your abortion pills.

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Or if you want to do the surgical abortion, you just need someone to drive you.

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But again, you don't have to tell your mom.

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Right.

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It would be harder for me to make an appointment to get a filling.

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Oh, please.

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They would have asked me 20 questions before they would have hung up.

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Exactly.

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Yet to abort your baby.

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Or me at Walgreens trying to get a prescription filled.

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I mean, it was literally like DoorDash.

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It was so sad.

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But that is the state Colorado finds itself in.

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I mean, we are an abortion destination.

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There has been millions of dollars given for such, right?

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Yes.

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And our governor proudly just says, hey, you know, we're an abortion destination state.

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Which makes, in my mind, the whole criticalness of having something like a mobile medical van available.

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It would be great if we could just get one.

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Right?

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I mean, never mind two or three.

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Throughout the state, particularly around campuses or other areas where, you know, someone...

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You generally get the idea of where people are calling from.

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But, I mean, in Denver alone.

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They're flying into Denver Airport.

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Women are getting $4,000 from their employers.

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They're flying in from Texas, Oklahoma, you name it.

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They're flying into Denver Airport.

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And there is actually a brand experience manager from Planned Parenthood who's greeting these women.

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It's basically like they have a first-class vacation.

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They have their hotel booked, list of restaurants.

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Oh, and by the way, the abortion appointment is at this time on this day.

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Talk about your navigation.

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You don't have to think a thing.

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And the state is profiting from it.

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Oh, yeah.

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Profiting.

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And the sad thing is, and the contradiction here, as I saw in the news a couple of weeks ago,

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you know, they were talking about all the immigrants coming through.

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And the mayor of Denver, bless his heart, you know, we wish him well.

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We pray for him.

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But he said, you know, we need help.

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We need federal funding to help with these immigrants and cover the cost.

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And I'm like, yet you're taking money, $4,000 a shot, to bring women in to abort their babies.

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And our tax dollars.

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And tax dollars, yes.

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Which I just don't even think in this last session, unreal, right?

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It was unreal what we heard when we were at the state capitol.

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Yeah, so for those who may or may not know, there was a bill this past session,

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a Senate Bill 190, 23-190, that really is trying to close down pregnancy centers,

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and really by gag rule and intimidation, not have you say the word abortion pill reversal,

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which really, let's be clear, that is progesterone therapy.

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I have a son through in vitro.

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I had to take progesterone.

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Women who are prone to miscarriage take progesterone.

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Doctors prescribe progesterone in a number of different ways to help women keep a pregnancy, first of all.

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But what they want to do, under deceptive marketing practices, is make an outlaw the use of that.

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If a young girl, let's take this 16-year-old girl, right?

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And she takes her first abortion pill and then goes, oh my gosh, what did I do?

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I don't want to do this, right?

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And so she's frantically looking to where she can go to reverse that, right?

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That's really what this is really about.

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Sorry, we're not here to save your baby, or if you've had a change of heart.

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of mind. And by the way, working even within the abortion industry, you would see people

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change their mind all the time, right? They would take their birth control pills and then

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they would get an argument with their boyfriend and dramatically, as want some teenage years

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or whatever, throw them out the window. And then they come back pregnant because, oh,

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I made up with my boyfriend, right? Make up sex. And then, boom, you know, you're pregnant.

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And we saw changing of minds all the time. But now this issue of choice really isn't

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choice. It's really a gag rule. And I think we've got a number of free speech issues,

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but they're serious. They're serious about shutting it down. What they're going to try

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to do is use the medical board, the nursing board, the pharmaceutical board as the heavy

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hand of law to try to, you know, so doctors, people who are brave, who might, or even

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be in an ER, right? Girls show up in an ER. I took this pill. I took mifepristone. I want

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to reverse, you know, what, what kind of position does that put doctors in? It's just terrible.

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It's terrible. And you know, doctors are called to save human lives. And what we've heard

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is if a woman does go to the emergency room and she changed her mind or, you know, she's

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bleeding for whatever reason, because of that pill, she's told to tell the doctor on staff

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in ER that she's miscarrying. She's not even to tell them that she took the abortion pill.

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So they're being told to lie. So this poor woman who, you know, 20 years ago, if you

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go into an abortion clinic, you can say, you know, the abortionist gave you that abortion.

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and minds forever is that they gave themselves the abortion. How is that treating women with

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love and equality? You're putting this horrible burden on a woman who's already, you know,

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no woman, I don't believe any woman wakes up and says, well, I hope I'm pregnant today

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because I really want to have an abortion. It's a last resort for women. It's something

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that they feel like they're, they're not ready to be a mom for whatever reason. And they

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feel desperate. And it's also what society's been telling them. And many of these girls,

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it's not just their generation. It's, you know, our generations, we've been told since

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we were young, oh, and abortion's okay. It just takes care of the problem, right? That's

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what feminism is. That's what empowerment, having your career, get your career, go to

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college. So these young girls, like they're, they're probably third generation thinking

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that abortion's okay, but now they're taking the pill and they're, they're basically their

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own abortionist. And we, we talk to people because we have to think as parents, even

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Christian parents. Think about your daughter coming home from college. She's afraid. She's

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like, oh my gosh, how am I going to face my parents? I'm pregnant. She's going to take

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that abortion pill in the bathroom upstairs while mom's making the turkey dinner and all

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the fixings. And she's going to have this horrible guilt on her shoulders and isn't

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going to be able to talk to anyone. And if this woman is already prone to depression

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or has any kind of, you know, just mental health challenges, which so many people do

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nowadays, it's a crazy world we live in. If she can't go to her mom and dad, what are

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her chances at life? You know, she might take her own life because of this decision she

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made. You know, it is so odd about that. I mean, someone would go, Diane, you're, you're

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scaremongering. You know, again, how many, you know, you're the fear based, you are the

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fearful. And yet we sat in a hearing to hear if taxpayers didn't pay for this, people would

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kill themselves, right? Got to do, got to, got to do that. Got to pay for it. They'll

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kill themselves, but nevermind if you said, how does this already affect the mental health

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of what's going on? I mean, we have so many kids right now over the age of really even

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over 15 on, on mental health issues, right? We were, this burden is only growing more.

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I want to switch that to then another outreach. You've two outreaches within Save the Storks

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that I'm that I love first is for every woman, right? And then also your newest one, dare

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to be a dad, which I took a look at your video the other day and just went, wow. I sent it

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to my son. I thought, wow. But so talk about that. Yeah. So Save the Storks a few years

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ago, we partnered with Matt Hammett. Matt Hammett is lead singer of the band Sanctus

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Real Swin Dove Awards, Grammy nominations. Many of you probably know him from a song,

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gave me that beautiful song that makes me cry every time about a man who just wants

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to step up for his wife and kids. And Matt just had it on his heart that young men who

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are accompanying their girlfriends to, um, it might be Planned Parenthood. It might be

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a pregnancy center. Um, when she finds out she's pregnant, oftentimes the dads are told,

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Hey, wait in the car or just drop her off. You know, we've, we've been at Planned Parenthoods

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with sidewalk advocates where the men are not allowed to go in. We hear from, from men

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across the country that they are not allowed to go into Planned Parenthood.

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Pregnancy centers, they are allowed to walk in.

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fantastic pregnancy center here in Colorado Springs.

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They encourage dads to come

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and they have a beautiful program for dads

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that teach them how to be a father.

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when he speaks up for that preborn child

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and tells his girlfriend,

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hey, I'm gonna be here for you.

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I wanna be that dad for the child.

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79% of the time that woman will choose life for her baby.

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And Matt, when he started to hear these statistics,

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he had a situation with his third child

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where he was diagnosed in the womb with half of a heart

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and it was a life-threatening illness.

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I have a career, I have a beautiful wife,

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we have a roof over our head.

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What about that man who maybe lives with his parents

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he can't afford a child.

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there's online curriculum as well.

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like, you were created for this.

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ideally God wants us to wait until marriage to have sex.

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That train left the station.

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And it's really a seven-day curriculum

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that's encouraging a young man

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to learn what it takes to be a dad.

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They were really built for this.

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and popular culture, especially,

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that a lot of men don't have a voice.

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And we just encourage men in youth groups even,

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We could do it here.

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I mean, we can get something like this going.

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I mean, Barone has a fantastic,

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you have a new fatherhood program.

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They have a new fatherhood program.

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I think there's so much we can do to uplift.

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will be on YouVersion soon.

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So it's a seven-day devotion.

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we feel that, you know,

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in order for that woman to be equipped

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to choose life for her baby,

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you know, we need dad involved as well.

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So let's give men a voice, right?

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Let's be on the outside.

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Isn't that actually what choice should be about, right?

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And again, I applaud this just because we have,

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on just single moms and the loneliness

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and the lack of fatherhood,

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the lack of male presence in a life, right?

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For a young boy, it's desperate.

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And we can, we should do better.

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We can do better.

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Now talk a bit, tell me about For Every Woman then.

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What's going on there?

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For Every Woman is something

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that we just both connected over.

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I think I'm pregnant, it's two in the morning,

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she's on her phone, she's terrified.

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Planned Parenthood will spend money.

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to reach that woman, to reach that.

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She could be 16, she could be 12, she could be 35.

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Planned Parenthood is just taking over the internet.

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Again, spending almost half a million dollars a week

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with abortion messaging is tragic.

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That's why they don't want you on the internet.

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They don't, no.

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They wanna take you off under deceptive advertising.

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the great pregnancy center around the country,

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any pro-life organization, they want us off.

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So For Every Woman is really something that we've built

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to lift up the entire pro-life movement.

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Life-affirming services.

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So that woman, again, when it's two in the morning

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and she's afraid, she's seeing those ads that are paid ads.

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hey, you have other options.

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It's giving her time to pause,

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to click some different sites,

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find life-affirming organizations in her local town

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where she can go, no pressure, right?

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No cost.

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Find out.

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If housing's her challenge and you're afraid,

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we've got housing partners.

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If it's health insurance, we've got partners for that.

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It might be daycare.

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Man, if I could say one thing on this podcast today,

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I would love for churches to consider opening your doors,

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having daycare Monday through Friday.

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Have a sliding scale.

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The moms who can afford to pay the full price,

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they will help offset the cost for that single mom

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who can't afford daycare.

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why a woman will abort her child.

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Yet we have these empty buildings across America

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Empty schools, right.

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And I really believe that as Christians,

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we would help pay for that, right?

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We could help.

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That could be an offering above our tithes.

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We could help cover the insurance, the teachers,

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the daycare providers, whatever is needed at churches.

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collaborate and said,

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we're gonna have a community daycare

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and we're going to be pouring into the community.

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one of those beautiful buildings.

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but they had a daycare for the community.

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why aren't the evangelical churches doing it?

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having daycares for the kids?

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Anyway, that would give single moms

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and just young families who don't have a lot of money

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that opportunity to choose life.

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taken care of, you know, job training, education.

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to finish up high school,

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this baby's gonna hamper that.

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they can easily afford a baby,

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but they feel that baby will cramp their style.

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Let's figure out a way to make sure

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that she can have her baby and her master's degree.

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We have a campaign called My Baby, My Career,

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and the coolest thing is it's our staff

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that came up with that idea.

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We had five young moms pregnant at the same time,

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and they were all kind of wondering,

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how are we gonna do this?

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They all joined together and said,

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you know, if we're having this question here

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at Save the Storks where we're pro-family

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and kids are always sitting in Zoom calls

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with their babies on their laps,

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moms and dads, what are moms doing

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who work for, you know, Amazon

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in their customer service center,

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or, you know, maybe they're-

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It's a good question.

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I mean, Amazon will pay for your abortion.

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Surely, would they pay for your daycare?

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Right, or really, someone should ask.

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Let that mom work from home, and why not?

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People are so impactful and effective working from home.

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just collaboration of other ministries around,

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not just ministries, there's some, you know,

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just government entities that, you know,

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are providing services that women don't know about

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that we're really getting the word out.

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The awesome thing is, For Every Woman

460
00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:39.880
is now coming to life because we have

461
00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:41.000
a mobile medical clinic.

462
00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:42.880
So something Save the Storks has done,

463
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:44.560
you know, in terms of our life-saving vehicle

464
00:26:44.560 --> 00:26:48.600
for the last 11 years, we have this beautiful

465
00:26:48.600 --> 00:26:50.280
new mobile medical clinic.

466
00:26:50.280 --> 00:26:53.720
It not only has basically an OBGYN office on one side,

467
00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:56.240
we have a counseling room on the other side.

468
00:26:56.760 --> 00:26:58.480
It's beautiful, it'll be here in Denver next week.

469
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.880
It's great, that is so great, I love that.

470
00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.680
Yes, and we had some social workers at an event,

471
00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.200
and we had one of the senior social workers

472
00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:08.160
said, where was this when I was 19?

473
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:09.000
Yeah.

474
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:09.840
Just broke your heart.

475
00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.680
Right, it does.

476
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:13.800
Because we really want to recognize that for a woman,

477
00:27:13.800 --> 00:27:16.280
you know, it's not just about the baby she's carrying,

478
00:27:16.280 --> 00:27:18.720
she's afraid, you know, how am I going to be a mother?

479
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:22.000
There's so many other components to the decision.

480
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:22.840
It really is.

481
00:27:22.840 --> 00:27:25.800
We need to, like, make sure that she's mentally healthy,

482
00:27:25.800 --> 00:27:27.880
that we have her physical needs met,

483
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:29.800
that we have that community support.

484
00:27:29.800 --> 00:27:32.680
And that's what, for every woman, it's,

485
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.280
the mobile clinic's really bringing our website to life.

486
00:27:35.280 --> 00:27:36.120
Yes.

487
00:27:36.120 --> 00:27:39.280
So we're not just preaching and telling women what to do,

488
00:27:39.280 --> 00:27:41.680
and then leaving her after she has the baby, right?

489
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.280
Well, good luck, here's a box of diapers.

490
00:27:43.280 --> 00:27:44.760
You chose life, way to go.

491
00:27:44.760 --> 00:27:46.280
Right, no, we're going to be with her.

492
00:27:46.280 --> 00:27:49.440
There's an organization called Life of a Single Mom.

493
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.320
They take care of moms until the children are 18,

494
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and even into college.

495
00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:55.120
It's fantastic.

496
00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:56.480
Yeah, they've offered scholarships

497
00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.440
to some of our moms in our pregnancy centers,

498
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.360
because a lot of moms who are single moms in the church,

499
00:28:02.360 --> 00:28:03.840
they feel a little bit lost, right?

500
00:28:03.840 --> 00:28:07.560
Mops is usually on a weekday, they have to go to work.

501
00:28:07.560 --> 00:28:10.600
There might not be a single mom's Bible study, right?

502
00:28:10.600 --> 00:28:11.440
Right, or something.

503
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:13.000
So they feel a little out of place.

504
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.640
So Life of a Single Mom is really partnering with churches

505
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:17.600
to make sure that single moms feel like

506
00:28:17.600 --> 00:28:18.920
church is home for them.

507
00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:21.920
You also partner with Every Mother's Advocate.

508
00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:23.760
Oh, fabulous organization.

509
00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:26.000
Yes, I'm really impressed by them.

510
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.360
Every Mother's Advocate is so cool.

511
00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:31.320
It was created by Charlie.

512
00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:32.760
It's Billy Graham's great-granddaughter.

513
00:28:32.760 --> 00:28:33.760
Oh, wow.

514
00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:36.720
And she had this vision, this idea in college,

515
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:39.640
in her dorm room, that women who lose their children

516
00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:42.280
to foster care, again, it's not intentional,

517
00:28:42.280 --> 00:28:44.480
but they don't have any support system.

518
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:46.280
So Every Mother's Advocate,

519
00:28:46.280 --> 00:28:48.080
they partner with social workers,

520
00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:49.800
and the social workers come to them saying,

521
00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:52.360
hey, we've got a mom who needs a little extra help.

522
00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:53.200
Right.

523
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.160
Maybe she needs help with her finances

524
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:56.880
so she can figure out how to keep her apartment.

525
00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:58.960
She might need emotional support or a mentor

526
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:01.160
so she can get out of an abusive relationship.

527
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:02.000
Wow.

528
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:02.960
A lot of times, these are the reasons

529
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.840
women lose their children to foster care.

530
00:29:04.840 --> 00:29:05.680
Sure.

531
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:06.840
It's not because they're hurting their children.

532
00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:07.800
Poverty, huge.

533
00:29:07.800 --> 00:29:08.640
It's poverty.

534
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:09.480
Poverty.

535
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:10.320
It's poverty and maybe neglect.

536
00:29:10.320 --> 00:29:11.160
Yeah, neglect.

537
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:12.640
Neglect, yeah.

538
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.040
Yeah, so Every Mother's Advocate is interceding,

539
00:29:15.040 --> 00:29:18.960
and as of last year, I think they had 260 women

540
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:23.000
who were able to parent their children.

541
00:29:23.800 --> 00:29:24.640
Before they fostered care.

542
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:25.480
So they weren't taken by the system.

543
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:26.320
Yes.

544
00:29:26.320 --> 00:29:27.160
And the system.

545
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:28.000
The system.

546
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:29.760
The social workers are thrilled because they don't want,

547
00:29:29.760 --> 00:29:32.040
I'm sure social workers would love to have that child.

548
00:29:32.040 --> 00:29:32.880
They prefer to have that child at home.

549
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:33.720
Right.

550
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:34.560
They would.

551
00:29:34.560 --> 00:29:35.400
They would prefer that.

552
00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:37.600
So again, there's so many incredible organizations

553
00:29:37.600 --> 00:29:39.040
out there that are life-affirming.

554
00:29:39.040 --> 00:29:39.880
Yes.

555
00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:41.280
And we're just trying to bring them all together

556
00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:42.680
and create awareness.

557
00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:43.520
Yes.

558
00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:47.160
In closing, and because this is part of Empower You,

559
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.680
I've been impressed with the number of young people

560
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:51.960
you have on staff and engaged.

561
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.520
How can our next generations get engaged

562
00:29:55.520 --> 00:29:57.720
with Save the Storks and other ministries like this?

563
00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:58.560
Yes.

564
00:29:58.560 --> 00:29:59.400
Oh, thank you.

565
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:00.240
Well, we have.

566
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.160
a network of volunteers at Save the Storks.

567
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:03.720
So you can do anything from blogging

568
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:05.800
to helping with their social media.

569
00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:07.800
You can volunteer at an event.

570
00:30:07.800 --> 00:30:10.220
You can be an advocate for a mom.

571
00:30:10.220 --> 00:30:12.480
You can set up a table at your college campus.

572
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.880
You can volunteer on one of our mobile clinics.

573
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.040
We have over 700 volunteers in our database now,

574
00:30:18.040 --> 00:30:19.800
but we're looking to grow that.

575
00:30:19.800 --> 00:30:23.200
We hear from volunteers and young people,

576
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:25.840
sometimes 12 or 13 year olds, they can do something.

577
00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:28.160
We do have a young staff.

578
00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:31.360
We have folks, you know, 22 years old,

579
00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:33.920
you know, we have young dads, young moms.

580
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:34.760
It's amazing.

581
00:30:34.760 --> 00:30:35.580
It's awesome.

582
00:30:35.580 --> 00:30:36.420
Just amazing.

583
00:30:36.420 --> 00:30:38.640
Well, I, you know, listen, I applaud you.

584
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:40.480
I applaud all the ministries

585
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:42.720
that are really working so hard here.

586
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:45.720
And there are ways to get involved.

587
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.760
There are ways to be empowered.

588
00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:49.000
This is one of them.

589
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.440
The other thing is, you've got Dare to Be a Dad.

590
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.160
There's a lot going on.

591
00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:57.000
And this may be the avenue that you feel prompted

592
00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:58.780
to get engaged in.

593
00:30:58.780 --> 00:31:01.320
That's what Empower U is all about.

594
00:31:01.320 --> 00:31:04.640
And they can look it up, Save the Stork, right?

595
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:08.640
Savethestorks.com, and take advantage.

596
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.600
Diane, thank you so much for being here today.

597
00:31:11.600 --> 00:31:12.440
Really appreciate it.

598
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:13.260
My pleasure.

599
00:31:13.260 --> 00:31:14.100
Thank you.

600
00:31:14.100 --> 00:31:14.940
Thank you.

601
00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:15.760
Thank you.

602
00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:16.600
Thank you.

603
00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:17.440
Thank you.

604
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.260
Thank you.

605
00:31:18.260 --> 00:31:19.100
Thank you.

606
00:31:19.100 --> 00:31:19.940
Thank you.

607
00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:20.760
Thank you.

608
00:31:20.760 --> 00:31:21.600
Thank you.

609
00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:22.440
Thank you.

610
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:23.260
Thank you.

611
00:31:23.260 --> 00:31:24.100
Thank you.

612
00:31:24.100 --> 00:31:24.940
Thank you.

613
00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:25.760
Thank you.

614
00:31:25.760 --> 00:31:26.600
Thank you.