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Is the food you're consuming poisoning you?

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Also, Senator Ted Cruz is here.

How close are we to losing Texas?

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Dr.

Casey Means is with us.

He's Level's chief medical officer and co-founder and the co-author of the book, Good Energy.

Welcome.

Casey, how are you?

Great to be here.

It's been wonderful.

How are you?

Good morning.

I am good.

You know, I'm new to this, and it's funny because I was reading some of the stuff that you have written.

And about

maybe seven, eight years ago, I became very, very sick with some kind of chronic disease.

And every doctor I went to, we described the symptoms and they every single one said, you're being poisoned.

And I said, well,

I don't think I am.

I mean, you know, we're keeping tabs on George Soros, I think I'm not being poisoned.

And

every single one said, and we did all of the stuff and I wasn't, I didn't have, you know, heavy metals or anything else.

And I thought, in reading your stuff, maybe that is just in a completely different way.

Maybe we're all being poisoned a little bit at a time.

You know, I'm sorry you had to go through that, but I think so many people in America are sort of feeling something like this.

We're all trying really hard to be healthy.

We're going to the doctor's visits.

We're going to all the specialists' office.

And yet, somehow, Americans don't feel very good, and we're getting very, very sick.

And

the statistics in American health, as you've probably seen in some headlines, although it's not being talked about enough, it's not very good.

Life expectancy in America is actually, it's been going down for the past several years.

We're living eight years less in America as our friends in Japan and Sweden, even though we spend almost twice as much as any other country in the entire world on health care.

So it makes you scratch your head a little bit.

It's not like we're prescribing, it's not like we're not prescribing enough medications.

We prescribe 221 million statin prescriptions per year, and yet heart disease is still the number one cause of death in the United States, taking almost a million lives per year.

So it's not for a lack of medication.

It's not for a lack of spending.

So what is it?

Then you get to the question of things like, are we being poisoned?

And, you know, it's not to be alarmist, but the U.S.

does allow 10,000 chemicals in our food system, whereas other countries allow vastly fewer than this, allow only about 400 in Europe.

And you can actually just go to the FDA website and see the chemicals that are allowed in our food system.

And it kind of makes you shudder.

Things like acetone, benzene, these are allowed in our food, 10,000 of these.

And there is not a strong push to have these be proved as safe before they go into our food system.

That was one of the things that really amazed me is if you want one of these things approved in the food, you as the food maker have to hire a research team, do your own research, then present that to the FDA while you're paying them to do it.

And then they approve it based on your own research.

And then every time you make a batch of that stuff, you have to continue to pay them.

I mean, it sounds like bribery.

There's a program called GRAS, which is generally recognized as safe.

And the FDA uses this program.

It is a self-designation on the part of a company.

It is a process that allows a company or individual, an individual to independently determine that a food ingredient is safe for its intended use.

Doesn't that seem a little strange that the company would be the one to have to do this?

So let's just take an example here.

Let's say you're creating a product in the United States, like a drink, and you want to have that drink be strawberry flavored.

It is not cheap to grow a bunch of strawberries and extract strawberry extract or strawberry juice from those products.

That's very expensive and time intensive.

You could, quite literally, call up a scientist, a food chemist, a food chemical company and say, I need a molecule synthesized that tastes like strawberry.

It doesn't really matter what that molecule is.

And we're going to put that in our food.

Much cheaper, much easier.

And the onus is on the company to say that it is safe.

So you can then have that in the food system for years, and it may be causing health effects.

But if you think about it, it's very hard to prove that one chemical is causing issues in kids, for instance.

And so they get away with a lot.

I just talked about food dyes last night.

That's all we covered, was just one.

And it said that the studies have to show that the amount in, let's say, jell-o is not going to be harmful,

at least if they don't eat too much of it over their lifetime.

But

does the research include how many times that dye is used in every other product?

Or do they just,

Glenn, you've nailed it.

So that's one chemical, which is in, might be in 15 foods kids are eating.

It's in their fruit loops.

You know, let's talk about like Red 40, which is getting a lot of attention this week because history was made on Tuesday of this week in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Vonnie Hari and several other food advocates, doctors, pediatricians went to go fight Kellogg's about RED 40 40 because the science is extremely clear.

Red 40 is causing attention disorders in children.

The research literature or peer-reviewed studies is showing this.

We've got ADHD in children skyrocketing and behavioral issues.

We have a chemical in so much of their food that we know is linked to it.

And RED 40 and these other food dyes, they are derived from what?

From oil petroleum.

These are crude oil that are going to our kids' bodies.

They also contain benzene, which is a known carcinogen, and Kellogg's and other food companies are not taking that out of foods, even though the exact same products these companies like Kellogg's sell in Europe, they have a different formulation because these chemicals are banned in Europe.

So American companies are serving American children foods that have chemicals that are banned in other countries that we know are causing issues like attention disorders and maybe causing cancer.

And of course, we have young adult cancer skyrocketing in the U.S.

up 79% in the past 10 years.

So these foods, this is one chemical we're talking about, Glenn, out of 10,000.

And of course, the way these are studies, we can say, oh, the average kid eating one bowl of fruitlets a day, this isn't going to cause a problem.

But what about the Skittles?

What about the fruit roll-ups?

What about the red food coloring on the cake they're eating in class?

It's adding up.

And it's unbelievable how sneaky the companies are about this.

It was so interesting.

I was actually

the night before Callie and I did Joe Rogan last week.

We were at a steakhouse and I I got a mocktail.

I got a nogrony, sort of like a non-alcoholic nogrony.

And I, right after I drank the drink, I was actually feeling really off.

And so I looked up the ingredients of what was in this drink.

And I saw under the ingredients for this Apertif that was in it called Giffard Apertif Bitter, there was an ingredient called E129.

And I thought, what the hell is E129?

What did I just put in my body?

So I Google it.

It's Red 40.

It's another name for Red 40.

So they're even actually changing the name on different packages so you don't know how much you are getting.

You know, this is the tip of the iceberg of the issue, what we're talking about here.

I'm just, because I lived at the time where they started to ban cigarette ads on television, I remember that.

I remember seeing, you know, my doctor recommends that I smoke filtered camels.

And it's like, your doctor recommends that?

And I remember the game that was played.

And then in the 80s and the 90s, where big tobacco came under scrutiny, it took forever to get to the point to where you're like, wow, they knew this forever and we're making things more addictive.

Well, those people, R.J.R.

Reynolds and others, went and they bought our food companies.

That's right.

And

why wouldn't they?

I mean, here's

one study said the tobacco company-owned food manufacturers focus on, quote, the rise of hyper-palatable foods, which contain potent combinations of fat, sodium, sugar, and other additives that drive people to crave and overeat them.

So they're doing the same thing they were doing with cigarettes.

That's exactly right.

So some of the largest mergers in American history up until the 1980s were exactly as you say.

They were cigarette companies, which were falling out of favor in American culture because doctors and scientists finally woke up to these being lethal, they bought food companies.

And this is exactly when we saw the stark rise in ultra-processed foods as a percentage of our diet.

Now, 67% of all calories we are eating in the United States is ultra-processed food.

This is non-food, chemical, chemical substance essentially made by scientists in factories.

that are look like food, but are actually made of a combination of chemicals.

And that's now almost 70% of American calories.

Of course, we're getting sick.

Of course, we're getting mentally ill.

Of course, we're becoming less competitive.

We're eating literally a science experiment that was invented by the cigarette companies to addict us.

And that's exactly what it does.

They took their food scientists, their team of brilliant PhDs, and said, dopamine is a business model.

We are going to turn our attention from how do we make cigarettes addictive to how do we make food addictive because how do they meet their quarterly profits?

They get more people insatiably eating this food.

And it worked.

We are now eating ourselves to death in the United States.

74% of American adults have overweight or obesity.

52% of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.

And of course, all the downstream diseases from these heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, dementia are all going through.

going through the roof.

And the food is quite literally designed to reach us to our bliss point, the use of chemicals that make our brain go crazy for this.

And they include other chemicals like high fructose corn syrup that turn off our satiety signals, meaning they tell our brain that we are not full.

And normally, of course, when you eat whole real food, you get full.

You literally can't overeat grass-fed steak, right?

You can't eat so much that you would get sick.

You can get full.

Say that again.

Amen, sister.

Amen, sister.

But the box of Pringles tells you exactly what they're trying to do to you.

Once you cop, you just can't stop.

And that's biochemical.

That is food science.

And of course, now we're spending 20% of the largest GDP in the world on health care costs, and Americans are getting sicker.

Why?

Because we're not focusing on the root cause, which is the environmental factors like toxic foods, which are government subsidized and allowed by our government and are absolutely taking down the American population in front of our eyes.

And they're ignoring it when

grassroot efforts like what happened in Battle Creek, Michigan this week at the Keller's headquarters, it is absolutely being ignored.

So we have got to scratch our heads about this.

I think this is going to be a time in history that we look back on with

real sadness of what we're doing to kids and to the adults in the American population with food.

You know, in every way,

the

medical associations have so discredited themselves.

The scientists have so discredited themselves

that, you know, it's not a wonder we

question.

authority.

It's not a wonder why we are questioning the government.

They were in bed.

They were with the COVID vaccine where the government, the Federal Reserve, and Moderna are all making money off of something they are forcing you to take.

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Let's talk to Senator Ted Cruz.

How are you, Senator?

Glenn, I'm doing terrific.

How are you?

Great.

You killed it on the debate with all red.

Just, I mean, it shouldn't have surprised anybody.

I think maybe he was a little surprised that he did so poorly, but you could tell he was just nervous.

He knew what he was walking into.

You, Buzzsaw.

Well, look, I also think he had a difficult task to begin with because what he is doing in this campaign is trying to run away from his entire record.

He's trying to present a picture to the voters that is fundamentally false.

His actual voting record in his time as Congress has been extreme left.

His first four years in Congress, he voted with Nancy Pelosi 100% of the time.

He voted with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, their first two years in office, 100% of the time.

So he's voted for open borders over and over again.

He's voted for releasing violent criminals from jail over and over again.

He's voted for Texas and spending and debt.

He's voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's assault on energy and oil and gas and jobs in the state of Texas.

All of that is a terrible record if you want to run statewide in Texas because that's directly contrary to the values of Texas.

His whole campaign is millions of dollars trying to present a false image of who he is.

And my objective in the debate was very simple, lay out his record and lay out mine.

His objective was try to hide his record, and I don't think that objective succeeded.

No, it definitely did not.

Senator, you mentioned that Alret had voted

on the issue of men playing in women's sports multiple times.

I think you said four times.

He kept trying to basically huff and puff and say it wasn't true.

What's the truth on this?

Well, the truth is straightforward.

And actually, going into the debate, I mean, we had run several TV ads laying out his record on supporting boys playing in girls' sports, men playing in women's sports.

And he, look, those ads were doing damage.

His negatives were going up, and it was having a real impact.

And so last week, he put up a TV ad where he's just him standing, looking straight to camera, saying, this is not true.

I do not support boys and girls' sports.

This is a lie.

Ted is a liar.

That's his ad.

Now, it was, we had, within 48 hours, we had a response ad up that had what he said and then just laid out the facts.

And so I did the same thing in the debate, where he likewise said, I do not support boys and girls' sports.

And what are the why did you vote for it?

What are the facts?

Why did you vote for it?

The facts are he supported it four separate times.

Number one, he's a co-sponsor of and he voted for a bill called the Equality Act.

The Equality Act mandated that boys use girls' restrooms, be able to use girls' changing rooms, be able to use girls' locker rooms, and be able to compete in sports.

That's number one.

Number two, there was a bill that was called the Protecting Girls and Women's Sports Acts.

It was a very narrow bill.

It did one thing.

It said that

girls' sports are protected and boys can't compete in them.

Women's sports are protected and men can't compete in them.

It's all it did.

Colin Allred voted no.

The third thing he did, he signed on to something called the Transgender Bill of Rights.

He was a co-sponsor of it.

The Transgender Bill of Rights explicitly says boys should be able to compete against girls if that's how they identify.

He proudly signed on to that.

That's number three.

And then number four, number four is something he did just a couple of weeks ago.

He joined with over 100 very left-wing Democrats.

He signed a letter about our military.

And here are the changes he said that he believes believes we need in our military.

He said, number one,

our military bases need to have drag shows.

Number two, he said,

taxpayers need to pay for sex change operations on soldiers on our military bases.

Number three,

taxpayers need to pay for sex change operations and sterilization of children on our military bases.

And number four, he demanded that military bases be able to fly the transgender flag above the base.

Now, look, that is a radical agenda.

That is wildly disconnected from where Texans are.

When it comes to our military, call me old-fashioned.

I think our military ought to be the finest fighting force on the face of the planet.

I think they ought to be their job is to defend the United States of America, to keep Americans safe and to be prepared to kill our enemies if necessary.

And all of this left-wing politics has no business being forced upon our military.

That sadly is who he is, and that's what he wants to see.

I have to tell you, we talked about it.

We've been talking about it quite a bit, but earlier this week, we mentioned that

your campaign is not getting any help from the Senate GOP.

Mitch McConnell is not offering a dime to you, and you have Soros and every big leftist group coming down to try to make sure you are not the senator from Texas.

These are all, that's all out-of-state money.

And Mitch McConnell isn't doing, the GOP is worthless.

They're not doing anything to help you.

It is infuriating.

Chuck Schumer has been explicit.

I'm his number one target in the entire country.

He is flooding cash into the state.

He is going to spend between $100 million and $150 million in this race.

We're being massively outspent.

Glenn, you live in Texas.

Yeah, I know.

You know well, Colin All Red has been statewide on TV for four months.

Oh, and it's relentless.

Everywhere.

I just got up on TV a few weeks ago.

And, you know, I was reading something criticizing.

Well, Cruz really should have been on TV four months ago.

I would have loved to.

It takes tens of millions of dollars that we didn't have.

And you're right, Mitch McConnell has a super PAC with $400 million that he's spending in Senate races.

He spent zero in Texas, even though there have been a dozen polls that show this race as a one-point race or a two-point race or a three-point race.

By the way, Mitch did the same thing in 2018.

My last election was, at the time, the most expensive Senate race in U.S.

history.

I was outspent three to one.

I ended up winning by less than three points.

And again, Mitch spent zero.

And there's a reason.

He uses that money to reward the senators who obey him and to freeze out the senators who stand up to him.

And if you're at home frustrated, wondering how come so few Republican senators have a backbone and stand up to leadership,

the answer is it costs you $10 million or $20 million or $30 million or even $40 million.

That's right.

And so what it means is I have to rely on patriots in Texas across the country.

I want to ask your listener, please come to Tedcruz.org, Tedcruz.org, come right now to Tedcruz.org and make a contribution.

Give 10 or 25 or 50 or maybe someone could give 100 or 500 or even 1,000.

Because the only way we counteract the $100 million plus from Chuck Schumer and George Soros is

patriots and conservatives and common sense freedom lovers coming to Tedcruz.org, making a contribution right now.

And I'll tell you, we're 19 days out from Election Day.

Literally, you go on Election Day, you give $100 right now, and tomorrow that money goes out on T V to communicate with the voters because it's real simple.

If the voters know my record and his record, we will win.

But the flip side is simple too.

If we don't have the money to let the voters know my record and his record, he will win.

That will decide this race.

It's why I need you to go to Tedcruz.org right now and help us lay the records out, help us defend Texas and defend the country.

You know, Bernie Sanders and AOC say that Texas is the first step in changing the nation.

I think it's the last step.

If we lose Texas, we lose every time.

Yes.

Every time.

Well, and actually, I'll say something that I've never said before, Glenn.

AOC agrees with you.

I know.

That may be a first.

That may scare the heck out of you.

It is.

But both Bernie Sanders and AOC came to Texas two weeks ago.

They came here to campaign for Colin Allred.

Now, that will tell you who he is.

AOC and Bernie Sanders are here because they see him as the key to succeeding with their agenda.

And here's what AOC said.

If we win Texas,

we change the country for a generation.

It's true.

He understands.

That's it.

This is the whole ballgame.

And Colin Allred's record is hard, hard left.

His record is voting for open borders over and over and over again.

His record is voting for boys and girls sports over and over and over again.

His record is voting for releasing violent criminals from jail over and over and over again.

His record is voting against oil and gas and energy and jobs in Texas.

over and over and over again.

And if he gets elected, he would be a hard left senator, just like he's been a hard-left House member.

And yet, the corporate media, every newspaper article you read about him, every TV news story, they describe him as a moderate bipartisan centrist, a middle-of-the-road unifier who brings people together, just like Nancy Pelosi.

He has the identical voting record she does, and yet the media is spending millions trying to spin and trying to lie, and that's what makes this very, very dangerous.

So,

what's his name?

Turtleface is not giving any money to Ted Cruz, but he'll give it to Cornyn.

And we cannot have John Cornyn and a leftist representing the great state of Texas.

It just can't happen.

It can't happen.

We lose the Republic if we lose this election.

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This is a very, very close election.

This is probably, I would say, as close as

Kamala and Donald Trump.

I mean, it's a point or two.

It could go either way.

And the problem is, is in Texas, we are so arrogant that we think, oh, Texas will always vote the right way.

Texas is always.

No.

There are hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into this state to change it blue because they know if they win in Texas, it's all over.

You can't allow this to happen.

And with people like McConnell not helping,

you kind of know where you weren't, you know where Ted Cruz stands.

He's not for that game that the rhinos are playing.

He's not for it.

That's why he's not getting any of the money.

Please donate now to tedcruise.org.

Tedcruz.org.

Ted, thank you.

And please call us back.

Tell us what you need.

We're there.

Glenn, I appreciate you.

We need two things.

We need contributions at Tedcruise.org, and we need every Texan, make sure you vote.

Early voting starts on Monday.

Come out and vote.

Get your friends to vote.

Get your family to vote.

It's all about turnout.

And the other side is pushing really hard.

We need everyone who wants to keep Texas, Texas, to stand up and fight right now.

Yeah, thank you very much.

This one is a really scary one because people are really, honestly,

asleep at the switch.

They just think, I'm not going to vote.

My vote's not going to matter because, you know, Trump's going to win.

Cruz is going to win.

No, not this time.

Not this time.

Not with the amount of money that they have poured into this state.

It is going to be close.

Please, everyone in every state, don't count this as an easy win.

It's not gonna be.

You've got to get out in each and every state and vote.

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As of October 15th, 11 statewide ballot measures related to abortion were certified in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, South Dakota.

It's all for the general election ballot in 2024.

This is the most on record for a single year.

Abortion is on the ballot, and you have to be very, very careful.

I'm going to go to Bob Rommel, who is a Florida state representative, as they are having their debate about this abortion amendment.

Hello, Bob.

How are you?

Glenn, thank you so much for having me on it.

Thanks for all you're doing.

And I'm doing great today with my coffee and acetone.

Thank you for listening.

So talk to me about

amendment number four.

Glenn, a couple years ago in Florida, you know, in Florida, we've done so many things to protect children here.

First of all, we're the first state to ban boys from playing in girls' sports.

We stopped boys from going in girls' bathrooms.

We stopped gender affirmation care for minors.

And we also passed the six-week abortion ban a couple years ago.

And before we passed the bill, we paid attention to the other side that was going to oppose it.

They were talking about incidents of rape and incest, and we put those exceptions in.

And then I talked to some young women that were talking about how expensive it is to raise a child.

And so we put in over $700 million in programs to help those that would make that choice just because of financial reasons.

And, you know, we have a great state.

I think we have the best state in the nation.

Sorry, Texas.

I know, I know.

Texas is in your rear view mirror.

I don't like it, but it's true.

We still love you.

But the left has been paying attention to what's going on.

They can't believe so many good things are happening.

And Amendment 4, which would create the most liberal abortion laws in America, actually way more liberal than even France.

It wasn't started in Florida Clinton.

It was started by the Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, George Soros, dumping millions and millions of dollars into our state to destroy it.

Almost every single one of these abortion amendments include one very important word.

In Florida, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability

or

when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined by the patient health care provider.

So

that means abortion at any time, partial birth abortion.

That's everything, is it not?

It is at any time for any reason.

Right.

So first of all, I'm disappointed in our Supreme Court.

Maybe I shouldn't say that, because they have to approve the language.

It can't be vague.

I'm very smart.

Most of the people I know are pretty smart.

Some are very smart.

Nobody knows what a healthcare provider is because it doesn't describe it.

It could be your masseuse.

It could be your nail technician that says it's important for you.

It could be your whatever.

And viability, there's some vagueness there.

I mean, in France, it says 14 weeks, period.

Here is viability, and it's disturbing.

And when I talk to people, I know this is personal.

I know it's, you know, it's dividing our nation, but when I tell them what's in the bill, they just don't want to hear it.

They said, that's not true.

I go, it's true.

You have to read it.

You have to understand it.

Glenn, a 14-year-old child in school can't go to the nurse and get an aspirin if they have a headache.

I know.

But the 14-year-old child could go to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion, and the parent couldn't stop it.

I know.

I know.

This is really, really dangerous.

And everybody, I mean, if you are somebody who's against abortion, again, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,

New York, Nevada, South Carolina.

All of these, all of these states have a constitutional amendment being voted on.

What's the difference, Bob, between just a law and a constitutional amendment?

Well, I'm elected every two years, and I'm actually termed out in a couple weeks.

But if you don't like what I did, you could not elect me the next term.

Or if we realize we did something that's not working, we can change it.

It's nearly impossible to change a constitutional amendment.

So in the United States, most of your listeners, because they're smart, will know that there's 27 constitutional amendments in our country.

In Florida, there's over 150 of them, and they're usually sponsored by outside people.

They're pay-for-play, basically.

They're confusing.

We still have an amendment protecting pregnant pigs.

I don't really know what it actually does, but it's a constitutional amendment protecting pregnant pigs.

But I guess we're not going to protect pregnant moms anymore.

Sorry.

They're awful.

They can never, ever go away.

That's why you come up here.

I mean, we have open-door policy.

People come up, we visit them.

And again, when we did our six-week abortion ban, I listened to people and I said, hey, we have to do something for these moms that are thinking about keeping their baby.

You know, between hyperinflation, they can't afford it.

So let's take that off the table.

Let's give them another reason to keep that baby.

And we did it.

We did it here.

We do so many things to protect it.

Glenn, it's even more dangerous than just Amendment 4.

Across the nation, you know, if you look at the geographic geographic map of the United States, there's way more

either conservative or moderate people out there that just want to be left alone.

But the crazy radicals that are trying to destroy our country, they're using these citizen initiative ballots, spending hundreds of millions, probably billions all over to actually get rid of the legislative process.

And you know what?

It's awful.

So here's another problem with this.

In Florida, it's legally necessary for a physician to be present at an abortion.

But

Amendment 4

just says a health care provider.

But in Florida law, provider is a person that furnishes health care services and is licensed or otherwise authorized to practice in the state.

That's a physician's assistant, a registered nurse, a nurse midwife, a licensed practical nurse, or an advanced practice registered nurse that is licensed.

That's not a doctor.

That's a midwife saying, yeah, you want an abortion?

Okay, I can give that to you.

And that's why I'm disappointed in our Supreme Court.

How these things happen is, you know, you have to get 920,000 verified signatures, which it turns out there may have been some fraud there, and you can't pay for signatures.

And we believe it may have happened, but it's probably too late to change that.

But then you have to go before the court and say, okay, these things can't be vague because there's trickery in language and nobody really pays attention.

And the court, you know, and many of the people who are appointed by Governor DeSantis, it was four to three

approving the language.

And unfortunately, the people that approved the language, they were the men that were appointed by Governor DeSantis.

And I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying that, but oh well, I can't proud anyway.

Who cares?

There shouldn't be vagueness in this.

You know,

it should be clear.

And listen, the one good thing our founding fathers did, they made it almost impossible to change the U.S.

Constitution.

In Florida and other states, it's for sale.

That's crazy.

Bob, thank you so much.

Thanks for informing us on this.

We'll keep hammering this.

This is really, really important.

Let me just give you the language in other states.

Arizona establishes the fundamental right to abortion that the state of Arizona may not interfere with before the point of fetal viability.

Again,

what is that?

That's constantly changing.

Provide a constitutional right to abortion in the state constitution and allow the use of public funds for abortion is Colorado.

Provide a constitutional right to abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined by the patient's health care provider.

That's the Florida one.

In Maryland, amend the Maryland Constitution to establish a right to reproductive freedom defined to include decisions to prevent, continue, or end one's own pregnancy.

Wow, that's kind of open.

In Missouri, amend the Missouri Constitution to provide the right for reproductive freedom and provide that the state legislature may enact laws that regulate abortion after

fetal viability.

Montana, amend Montana's Constitution to provide a state constitutional right to make and carry out decisions about one's own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.

Again, Montana, no restrictions.

Nebraska, amend the Nebraska Constitution to provide that unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters.

Well, that's good.

But also you have in Nebraska the right to an abortion to amend the Nebraska Constitution to provide that all persons shall have a fundamental right right to abortion until fetal viability.

In New York, add language to the New York Bill of Rights to provide that people cannot be denied rights based on their ethnicity, national origin, age, and disability or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive health care and autonomy.

Wow.

Nevada established a constitutional right for an abortion or or to an abortion, providing for the state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, except where medically indicated to protect life, physical health, or mental health of the pregnant woman.

That is a wide-open door.

And South Dakota provide a trimester framework for regulating abortion in the South Dakota Constitution.

With an exception of two,

the answer is no on all of those.

Be aware, they are making abortion a very big deal.

The people who believe in abortion are going to be out in force, especially in those states.

That means you have to be out in a bigger force.

Voting is so important.

It is your civic responsibility as an American citizen.

I don't care if you don't like either of the candidates.

I don't.

Choose life.

The contrast here is so stark.

I don't know what would keep you at home at this point.

Vote and vote early if you can.

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