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Here’s Why Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong on Pro-Life Issues

What’s happening?

Democrats are threatening a government shutdown if they don’t get their way on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program shielding illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation if they qualify.

Meanwhile, pro-life demonstrators are filling Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life event. Why are liberals advocating for DACA with the argument that we need to care for children, while supporting a process that is all about murdering children?

Glenn’s take:

Both liberals and conservatives are in the wrong when it comes to pro-life issues. Liberals say they have compassion but don’t want to protect babies in the womb, while conservatives aren’t nearly as passionate about protecting life as they are about issues like border security.

“If you’re so committed to compassion and helping the oppressed … how on earth are you killing children?” Glenn asked liberals.

As for conservatives: “Imagine for a minute if Americans on the right were half as passionate about protecting the unborn as we all seem to be about building a border wall,” Glenn said.

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GLENN: So DACA has been in the news lately a lot. Democrats in Congress threatening a government shutdown over DACA.

So much hand-wringing from the left over DACA, that you would think it was a matter of life or death. Let's be honest, we know it's going to happen. We know it's going to happen. And there is an actual life and death matter, but the left mysteriously ignores it.

Imagine for a second if Americans on the left were half as passionate about protecting the unborn as they are about DACA. How many lives would be saved?

It is to me incomprehensible that progressives promote the murder of babies. It's ironic. Because they're the party of compassionate. Right? They're supposed to be the party that stands up for the little guy. The poor. The people who can't fight for themselves. The complete defenseless human.

Now, I'm not making light of that compassion, because we're all called to have it.

Liberals don't have a monopoly on compassion. And they shouldn't.

But my honest question is, if you're so committed to compassion and helping the oppressed, the disadvantaged, the most defenseless of our society, how on earth are you killing children?

Why doesn't liberal compassion extend to the most helpful among us, the unborn people? And if you don't believe they're people, well, that's a lie. It is. It is. It's a lie. It's a lie that you've crafted for yourself to make it -- make yourself able to live with what is happening.

And even the New York Times just ran a story about surgery on an unborn fetus. And as they're talking about this baby having surgery in the womb, they talk about how this, quote, baby is so feisty.

Unborn babies are people, no matter how you try to spin it by calling them fetuses or anything else. Perhaps referring to a person as a fetus numbs the conscious just enough to allow you to stuff the dead human body into the disposal bag.

Maybe. I mean, it's happened before. This is what's happened with all the actual, decent people in Germany that just turned the other way. They stopped seeing Jews as people.

The thought of it is appalling. Most people, regardless of politics, would be horrified at the -- at the sight. And they would recognize it as evil, and that's why nobody ever shows it to you.

The left champions the overlooked and the oppressed, if you get out of the womb alive. Until then, you're on your own.

Do you remember Senator Doug Jones? He said recently: Once that baby is born, I'm going to be there for that child. That's where I become a right-to-lifer.

Okay. All right.

Okay. I'm sure that's great comfort to the children that have come so close to getting you to care.

But just had their head in the canal, the rest of their body, that was human. But their head...

Defenseless babies are one thing, but the helpless children of illegal immigrants, well, that requires a whole different level of outrage. Doesn't it?

Last fall, Planned Parenthood, the president, she -- she actually -- she didn't even notice this. She expressed her fury over President Trump's plan to end DACA, and she wrote, without any sense of irony: Here at Planned Parenthood, we firmly believe that every person has the right to live, work, and raise a family freely, without the threat of deportation or separation. And we will never stop fighting for this vision.

Except when you're killing babies. I'll never understand the moral gymnastics that let a person kill a baby with one fist and shake the other fist in a dramatic protest over Dreamers and deportation.

Now, let me flip this on its head. Imagine for a minute if Americans on the right were half as passionate about protecting the unborn as -- as we all seem to be about building a border wall.

Imagine how many lives would be saved.

In a sense, the burden falls more on the right, because protecting the unborn is actually part of a party platform, and we actually have not tried to convince ourself it isn't life. We all recognize that that's a baby. And we say we believe it. But do we put those words in action? I'm not condemning you, I'm condemning me. I should be at the march for life this year.

I went to my first march against abortion for the first time in my life this year. I mean, at least the Democrats aren't the hypocrites that I am, when it comes to murdering babies. They're unashamedly in favor of it. I talk a good game in private circles and just recently on the air.

We have to really examine ourselves, our apathy, our silence, perhaps our hypocrisy.

To say we're pro-life, yet never lift a finger to help those in the struggle.

It's bad. It's bad.

Saying I'm for Frederick Douglass or I'm for Martin Luther King. But I'm not going to show up.

Yeah, I'm -- I'm against what's happening in those concentration camps in -- in Germany. But, I mean, I'm not going to do anything about it. What are we afraid of?

What are we waiting for? Look at the difference just this audience made with the Nazarene Fund. Thousands of people were saved.

And when we're silent, we're complicit. Today is the march for life in Washington, DC. As we think about the massive Holocaust -- I was going to say tragedy. It's a Holocaust.

Let's each of us try to recommit ourselves to defending the unborn. To defend life and all that that means.

And to the thousands of men and women who are faithfully serving on the front lines of this battle, helping women every single day, saving unborn lives, people who are adopting children, thank you.

For those people who have taken a bus, have sent their children to Washington, have taught them what this is really all about, those who are standing for the 45th time this year in Washington, thank you for your diligence and your sacrifice. Be encouraged. Persevere in your work. Because it's nothing short of life and hope.

There's a lot of talk lately about dreamers. They're getting ready to shut down the government over it. But there's another set of dreamers that few are talking about. You're not going to see those dreamers on TV. You're not going to read about them in the headlines, but they are there nonetheless. They are real dreamers. Dreamers that never had the opportunity to wake up. An opportunity that was stolen from them. Not because of war. Not because of famine. Not because of disease. Not because of anything that we always say is so important. These dreamers will never open their eyes or take a breath in this life, because of a war on truth. A famine of the soul.

A disease of our own minds. These dreamers will never open their eyes and squint into the light. And yet, we are the ones who are blind to their reality.

These dreamers are the true victims of the aborted children. Last year, Planned Parenthood murdered 321,384 children. Governor that is more than the number of American soldiers killed in World War I, Korea, and Vietnam combined. Where is the headline? How many children have died today? Imagine the potential achievement, the joy, the intelligence that we will never know.

This is a Holocaust, and it is happening right now all around us. It's big. It's overwhelming.

No, it's not. It's really not. It all boils down to you.

Will you at least really look at it, knowing that looking at it may change your life.

Will you follow the path? Will you begin to pull the thread and commit?

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Will Vladimir Putin and Russia respond after President Biden crossed yet another one of Russia’s red lines? Rep. Cory Mills joins Glenn to discuss what may happen next after Biden allowed Ukraine to fire American long-range missiles into Russia; He tells Glenn why World War III might not be as likely as it looks, thanks to Donald Trump. Will Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Putin act differently because they know Trump’s coming back soon? Rep. Mills also comments on why the Biden regime appears to be leading us toward war. Do they really want to sabotage Trump so badly that they’re willing to risk nuclear war?

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

Vladimir Zelinsky used our long-range missiles, to attack Russia. Yesterday.

You know, it's something that Vladimir Putin said, would be a red line. On Monday, what happened.

On Monday, we said, when I say we. Whoever is president of the United States. Let's just use air quotes and say, Joe Biden.

Told Ukraine that they could use those long range missiles, again. Vladimir Putin said, red line.

In fact, they had something that they had proposed in September. But they -- they stamped it, and signed it, on Tuesday.

In response to our announcement on Monday.

The doctrine now says, an attack from a nonnuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, that would be us.

Will be treated as a joint assault on Russia!

Oh, that is -- oh, that's great.

So what is Putin going to do?

We don't have any idea. But I -- then again, I don't have any idea, why we would have done this, in the first place.

Cory Mills joins us, the congressman from Florida.

Hello, Cory, how are you?

CORY: Glenn, how are you?

GLENN: So how disturbed are you by what's happening?

CORY: Well, extremely concerned. Look for four years, Ukraine has been asking for long range capabilities. Have been asking to be able to hit within the outline areas inside of Russia. And trying to prevent continual assault. And it was denied, denied, denied.

And here we go, as we're getting into president Trump's administration as his presidency. He's continued to try to spiral things further out of control, and escalate them to another degree.

Benefit we have, however, is that we have an exceptionally strong president coming in.

And every one of the world leaders knows that President Trump does not suffer fools.

And that he does not have the weakness which invites aggression.

GLENN: Correct.

CORY: So I think that even with all this taking place. I think that both Putin and Zelinsky understand. President Trump coming in is not necessarily saying, it's okay for you guys to continue this back and forth. It's okay to continue the events that's occurring.

He's going to come with an actual solution. And say, what kind of sanctioning, what kind of imposement? Because, remember, it was President Trump who actually removed America from the INF treaty, which had been violated by Russia time and time again.

It was President Trump who removed us from JCPLA.

It was President Trump who enforced one of our adversaries, China, to actually buy billions of dollars in agricultural goods or face tariffs.

And it was President Trump who secured our borders remain in Mexico. Secured it by trying to build the wall.

People know this. They're taking notice. But it's disturbing to me, that President Biden is doing everything he can to leave President Trump with the biggest mess possible to stop him from actually getting on to the America first agenda.

GLENN: It also strikes me as the Deep State going in to survival mode.

CORY: Yeah. Well, it's the Deep State going into survival mode.

You add the nanny state. Who continues to want to keep the corruption. The power.

You know, just like you, Glenn.

Those absolutists.

I believe in completely eliminating a large amount of departments and agencies. Throughout DC. And returning those powers throughout the United States.

I believe that, again, we can harp on Woodrow Wilson's 17th amendment in 1913.

The power resides with the people. The power resides with the independent state.

And this is what the federal government. And this is what all these bureaucrats. These unelected bureaucrats who think they're lawmakers, want to hold on to.

So they will create as much chaos as possible. Whether it be through a pandemic. Whether it be through global warfare, whether it through regional destabilization. In an effort to try to maintain their power, so that it doesn't move away.

GLENN: So the president cannot -- the president-elect cannot call Putin or Zelinsky, and say, knock it off.

I'm 61 days. Or 62 days away from the president.

And you don't want to screw with me. Knock it off right now! He can't make that call, can he?

Legally.

CORY: He can actually to some extent. Look, we have a good friend of mine, Mike Waltz who was just appointed as national security adviser. I talked to him yesterday.

And there's a tremendous amount of world leaders who are calling to congratulate the president.

And the president can simply say, listen. As you know. I'm coming in, in 61 days.

I would ask that we go ahead and deescalate things now, before we come in and start thinking of a solution to work together. So we've already seen where Hamas, the minute that President Trump was elected. Asked for a cease-fire. I mean, you saw where Russia was starting to stop its continuation and now obviously, Biden has continued to ramp that back up.

So he can also do more to feed the defense military-industrial complex. Which you will need as future donors and future paychecks.

But, yeah. President Trump absolutely is already in talks with world leaders. And his national security adviser, Tulsi, the Director of National Intelligence. And everyone is very much in the know on this.

What was shocking, however, Glenn.

And this should be shocking for viewers as well.

During the transition, you're supposed to be transparent with the incoming administration.

And Michael Waltz, the National Security Adviser, wasn't even briefed that the actual long-range missiles had been approved by Biden and Jake Sullivan.

GLENN: I -- this is -- I mean, this is madness. I've never seen anything like this before.

Ever!

I mean, you just don't --

CORY: It's unprecedented. Look at FEMA. Look at all the weaponization. Look at what they've done to our economy. Look at what they've done to our open borders. Look at the 300,000+ children who have gone missing, who are being trafficked into the country.

Look at -- how FEMA has been weaponized and not helped those. If you have a Trump sign. As good practice.

I mean, look at what's happened with China's aggression, ramping up in the Taiwan Sea. Look at Paycom stress. Look at Russia and China.

Look at Iran's continual aggression with the October 7th incident on Israel.

Look at Hezbollah in Iraq, and how they're starting to ramp up.

Look, the list goes on and on, with how the world is being set on fire with this administration.

GLENN: So what do you expect Putin to do? Two days ago. Yeah. No. Yeah, two days ago, they said that it could be a nuclear strike.

I don't think they're going to do that. But it could be a nuclear strike.

And it would be war between us and that NATO ally.

That is supplying all of these things. That's us.

How does he continue to back down on his red lines without losing his position and credibility in his own country?

CORY: Well, I think it's a bit of saber rattling. And I think he knows things will change in the next 61 days. I think right now, he's trying to get Biden and everyone to be on notice. To say, this is enough. You're not going to be able to do this, and actually approve threats on to our nation. But we missed the boat a long time ago.

If you backed up to 1994, when we find the original Budapest memorandum, it was us, the Federation of Russia, Ukraine, and UK Northern Ireland.

That was recognizing Ukraine's independent sovereignty, and their borders as a nuclear nonproliferation agreement.

The minute that was violated in 2014. Oh, wait. That was under Obama and Biden.

The minute that was actually done. They should have levied that treaty.

Regardless if it has teeth on it or not, you could have brought that to the international committees, but they didn't.

And they allowed to continue on, until it was actually President Trump who came forward and said, the only way to stop this isn't by giving bandaids and by giving food. It's by allowing to have defense articles to be supplied to Ukraine for its own defense. And when that was approved. Russia then stood at bay, and Donetsk, and Lagonsk, and Mariopol (all phonetic). Now, fast forward foreword to when President Biden comes to his office, Russia immediately starts their invasion. Because they knew that nothing was going to happen. Because the precedent has been set.

So I think there's saber rattling that's going on by Vladimir Putin.

I think that's necessary. I wouldn't be surprised if he does have some type of a midrange, long-range missile strike. Increase in artillery. Things like that, are already hard impact to the area.

I think he understands that 51 days, there's a new boss in town.