Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: And we're back.
We actually didn't leave. We're still here. We're recording several episodes in a row today on the parish circuit. Theparish circuit.com. david, did you know that we have over 1600 followers on Facebook now? What? It's true. 1600 followers. And we've crossed past.
We've crossed into the four digits in podcast listens.
Oh, okay, look, that's a big deal. That's not bad. Okay, webtran, I think we're getting close to over a million views.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Like, it's really fascinating what the Lord is doing with this.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: I heard that the bank account is close to three digits.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
We could, like, we can almost go to dinner.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: We could buy a couple pizzas.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: I think we could. We should throw a pizza party for the staff. That's it. The Parish circuit pizza party. That's what we'll do. We cross 2000. It will be the Parish circuit pizza party, and it will be epic. It will be amazing.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Hey, if any local, you know, pizza joints want to sponsor our 2,000 follower pizza party. Oh, yeah. Just let us know.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: I'm looking at you, Pizza Shack.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: That would be fire.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: I'm looking at you.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: All right, so today we're talking about abortion pills by mail.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: So this is a thing that's going on still in Louisiana. So Louisiana passed a law.
You can't have abortions here.
The progressive left went around that by.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: You can kill your babies with a simple click of a button and get pills, poison, mailed directly to your door.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Directly to your door.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: And then you take the pill and you risk tremendous medical complications, both for you and the baby. If it survives, he or she survives.
But don't. But thank you, Internet, because of this wonderful little telehealth appointment, you can have this delivered to your door in Louisiana.
Okay, now the.
All right, so Liz Merle talked about this. What did she say? She had a great quote.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Well, she basically was just saying
[00:02:16] Speaker A: how
[00:02:16] Speaker B: it's going to be difficult to overcome this because while Louisiana has passed laws that forbid, you know, a doctor, if you can call them that, from killing a baby in the womb to stop, you know, mail carriers and abortion providers outside the state from simply mailing something to residents in the state because they
[00:02:40] Speaker A: don't have jurisdiction for that, it's very difficult.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: And the abortion pills that are being married, married, mailed have FDA approval.
So there's a couple of hurdles it sounds like that would overcome.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: Hold on. We got to talk about this one real fast. Okay. This is important. The thing that you just said is incredibly important.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: It's ironic.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: The Food and Drug Administration, okay, fda, right.
They have said that we approve these pills that kill babies.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Just let that sink in. The thing that kills humans is approved. FDA approved.
[00:03:19] Speaker A: FDA approved. Yeah. Okay. So we have to nail through this for a little bit just to kind of help everybody have this on their heads. You cannot just by default trust things that come down from on high from our federal government.
Your default disposition can't just be, ah, well, you know, they said it's safe.
This is an amazing thing because they're currently approving the murder of babies via pill. It's FDA approved. This is safe.
No, there are tremendous complications, obviously, for the woman. There are lots of stories of those. You can go look them up on the Internet. There's tremendous risk, tremendous complication. But there's also, you're killing a human.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Right. But this just goes right in line with the whole incredibly successful propaganda that has convinced many Americans that abortion is health care.
Crazy. You can call it. You can call it health care.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: And you talk about this in our abortion episode.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Yeah, we go into more detail in a previous episode. But yeah, it's right in line with that. So something being FDA approved, calling the ending of a human life intentionally the innocent human life helps healthcare. It all is part of the same kind of propaganda machine and an effort to really change our culture over the last many decades. And it's worked, unfortunately, very well.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Yeah. That is unfortunate.
I want to also spend some time talking about what Liz Merle said. So she said it's going to be very difficult to control what people outside of the state are doing.
To which I'm kind of like, good, because if we're thinking about what it means to be local, focused, okay, we're trying to deal with us and we're not trying to expand into the other states. Let's just get our house in order first. So in other words, there's a restriction between what she can do outside of state line. Okay, great. That sounds great. I'm not worried about over there. I'm worried about right here.
But I would push back on what she said.
She's like, it's very difficult. We can't. We can't stop them from mailing things in. Okay, Liz, then what's the next step?
How do we preserve the spirit of the law in Louisiana?
Right. There's a difference. Now, this is Justinian versus case law.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Right. Or English common law?
[00:05:47] Speaker A: Common law, thank you very much. Yeah. This is Justinian law versus common law. Okay, okay. The Justinian law says. Well, technically Justinian. Read on. The law, Napoleonic law, which Louisiana is. Has it. Well, technically we can't do anything about this because they're not breaking the rule that we wrote. The rule that we wrote says that we can't provide abortions in Louisiana. But people can mail the pills in. They're not breaking the rules. That is completely and utterly against the spirit of the law that we just wrote into our Constitution.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: Right.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: We said, hey, listen, I can't remember exactly the way that we phrased it in the Louisiana Constitution whenever we did that amendment, but I would. Could you pull that up? Because I would love to see it.
But the gist of writing things like that in for us to follow is to say we don't want abortion here.
Not only can you not provide it, but the logical conclusion is that you can't participate in it either.
Okay.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: Right.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: And so that means what?
That means that we have to prosecute and hold accountable the women who are ordering these pills. That's the next logical step. We have stopped the providers. Great. The pills are still coming in. Why? We can't control the people outside of Louisiana. Okay. That's right. But we can upright laws that apply to the people inside of the state.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Right.
Here's the wording.
To protect human life. Nothing in this constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: To protect human life.
That's the goal.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: Hey guys, seems like we've got the foundation that we need to walk through this.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: This is a big deal. So the next step for our people on the state level is this.
Ban abortion not just on the provider level, but also on the end user level.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: Right.
Because murder's wrong.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: Because murder is wrong. And we already know this as Louisianians. We've got it written into our constitution.
We already know that this is the case.
So let's get to work.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: Absolutely. Now I do. The more I'm thinking through this, I guess I'm still hopeful that we could do something outside of the state as well.
Because at least from my understanding, most of these male and abortion pills are being provided through these telehealth health in quotes providers.
There could be a ban, a restriction of those healthcare providers. There could be pressure put a rule changed that does not allow these healthcare providers to approve shipment or appointments in Louisiana specifically. That'd be great.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: That seems maybe possible. It'd be great if we won that case.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: We should have that law too.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: Yeah, we should have that one too. As long as it's. As long as abortion is still legal anywhere in the United States, which hopefully someday it won't be, that would still be something to push for. But yeah, I think you're right. The more maybe near and important fight could. Could happen here.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Louisiana. Well, the.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: The easier to.
Bring responsibility to bear.
Is. Is this law to say, hey, as Louisianians, we are sitting down and we are saying, this is.
It's illegal to do this here. This is against the, the law of God and it is against the law of Louisiana, period. Full stop.
Do you know why that the pelican is our seal?
[00:09:30] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: So this is actually pretty amazing.
So originally this happened around early 1800s. So the original seal for the state of Louisiana was the bald eagle with stars. With, I think it was 13 stars for the 13 colonies. Now, I believe that, that. I'm not totally sure about this part. I believe that that translates back to the Louisiana Purchase whenever there were actually bald eagles.
Louisiana Purchase. But then whenever the, you know, the more contemporary borders of Louisiana was actually established, when the boot was established, somebody, you know, wise person looked around and said, hey, there's no bald eagles here. We're going to have to figure something else out. And so they looked and they were like, what do we have here? And their next logical conclusion was pelicans. What can we do with a pelican as our state seal? Okay, here's the cool part.
The actual representation of the state seal, state flag of Louisiana, but the pelican, the pelican is tearing at its chest to feed its children with its blood. Okay, so in other. The. The story goes, the children are dying and the pelican is tearing at its chest. Actually, it's a mother pelican. The mother pelican is tearing at its chest to feed the children and give them life. Okay, now that story traces Back to like 200 A.D.
very, very early Christian tradition. Okay. I would jokingly call this like the early Christian nursery rhymes where they would. They created stories to go with different animals and they would have Christian principles integrated into those stories. And this particular story of the pelican shedding its own blood for the life of its children reminds us of who? Obviously, it's Jesus. Yeah, it's Jesus. And the point that we're trying to communicate here, whenever I say things like that is that is the antithesis of allowing a law in our state for our mothers to just elect to kill their children.
Louisiana is a distinctly Christian state.
Our seal is a distinctly Christian seal that specifically advocates for the mother giving of herself for the life of her children as a representation of the way that Jesus Christ laid down his life for his church.
We not only should not have this, because it most definitely fits. It is most definitely against God's law, moral law, call it whatever you want to call it, but it goes against everything we are as Louisianians.
This is just not who we are. We've got a course correct here. Does this make sense?
[00:12:11] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. I didn't know that about the flag. That's cool.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: It's very cool.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: The history of. Yeah, you'd appreciate that. You're a history guy.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: I love it. I love it.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So. Ag.
Ag. Liz Merle. We would implore you, challenge you, encourage you. As though she listened to this podcast. Maybe one of her, like, interns might listen to this episode one day.
We have.
Okay. It's too hard to enforce this particular law. Let's push it down a new way.
Let's make it illegal to kill our children.
Amen, guys. Thank you all so much for listening to another episode of the Parish Circuit. You can go to the parishcircuit.com to find more articles, stories, news, podcasts, all that stuff. And if you scroll down a little bit farther, you can also find a button where you can click to support the show.
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