According to the U.S. official birth data, there’s been a steady decline in our national birthrate for over a decade now — a 20 percent decline from 2007 to 2020. Things got worse in 2020 as Americans looked at the bleak future before them with COVID, protests, and growing political tension. And now, many are worried about bringing a child into this chaotic world. But, Glenn says, nothing could be further from the truth: 'There is no situation too bleak to forego parenting.'
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GLENN: This is the Glenn Beck Program. I want to talk to you just a bit, as I friend. And, you know, I kind of look at us, as family. Whenever we meet, it's already hard laughs, and hug fests and everything else. It's like meeting old friends and family. And actually better than family. I mean, I like this family, much more than -- I mean, really.
Have you met my family? Anyway, the -- I just want to talk to you as somebody who could be my neighbor, or, you know, maybe I'm your uncle. Or you're my dad. Or whatever.
As we go forward -- there's a few things we have to do. And one of those things is, we have to understand truth. And stand for the truth. Especially when it's hard.
Oh, my gosh, when it's hard. And my favorite American story of standing for when it's hard, is -- is John Adams, with the Redcoats.
I mean, everybody hated the Redcoats, up in Boston.
They hated them. They knew that the British had stationed soldiers in Boston, for the purpose, just of threatening their liberty. That's it. Silencing any opposition to tyranny.
He was quartering these people in their own homes. They hated them. Not as much as I hate Disney and Woodrow Wilson. But it would have been easy, easy to believe that the Redcoats had turned murderous.
But John Adams, John Adams, thought, that's too easy.
So no other lawyer in Boston, would take up their defense. None.
And it was a messy case. And I don't think he really wanted to do it. I think he felt obligated to do it. Because if he believed in freedom. If he believed in what this country was going to be all about. He knew. You had to have the best defense available.
So Paul Revere says, this was unprovoked. But no. Actually the facts, showed that it wasn't unprovoked. It wasn't. The British soldiers had been accused of murder. But Adams argued that the facts pointed to self-defense. He became the most hated man in worst. All because he refused to defer to the popular narrative. He was smeared. He was an enemy to the cause of freedom. But he demanded truth. Nothing more, nothing less.
That is where we need to be. On all fronts. We have to support those, who are speaking their mind. We have to be people, that speak their mind. And run to the defense of people, that even we don't want to run to the defense of.
Because the world is going to change. And I refuse to be a part of that change. There's some good changes that can -- can come.
But we have to work on those. Because the changes that I'm seeing, are not in the favor of freedom.
So how do we live our lives? Like people determined to be free. Let me give you some good news.
Last week, 17th Judicial Circuit Court ruled in favor of a nurse named Sandra Rojas.
She was told, she had to resign or face termination for her refusal to refer women for abortions, and recommend contraceptives.
Well, she was -- went to court with the help of an alliance defending freedom. She won the lawsuit.
This is really great. From the Washington Examiner. This might seem like a small case. But a violation of someone's conscience protections should never go unchecked. This is an important win for the people of faith, who wish to sustain employment while holding true to their religious beliefs.
Indeed, it is a win for freedom. I think we're entering a time where it is going to be harder and harder to stand up for your belief.
It's just going to get tough. Are you willing to stand aside? Or are you willing to stand up for what you claim you believe?
Do you really believe it?
Now is the time to find out.
Some more good news. From Florida. The state legislature cleared a bill on Thursday night, last Thursday, that will shorten the deadline from a legal abortion from 24 weeks, to 15 weeks. South Dakota, Kristi Noem required women seeking abortion, inducing medication to see a doctor in person, three different times. In order to undergo the procedure. The federal judge struck down the health department bill, with the same objective. This bill will be enacted if they prevail in federal court. In Oklahoma, they have several bills going on. The statehouse -- statehouse committee on public health advanced a total abortion ban on Wednesday, that will be implemented by the human services committee. They agreed on party lines. To advance five anti-abortion bills, to the full floor, for a vote. There was a ban on abortions once a heartbeat is detected. With the same enforcement tool with the Texas law. So if the Texas law makes it through the Supreme Court, these bills will be enacted. Another bill called for a ballot measure, to amend the Oklahoma Constitution, to stipulate that there is no guaranteed right to an abortion in the Constitution.
In Idaho, the Senate voted last Wednesday to advance a heartbeat bill. That makes exceptions for cases of rape or incest. It would also open the door for abortion providers to be sued by a patient. The unborn child's father, grandparent, siblings, aunts, or uncles, up to four years, after the abortion is performed. And Wyoming, the House passed a piece of abortion legislation, known as the trigger law. If passed, it would ban abortion outright in the state, in the event that the Supreme Court rules to uphold the Mississippi abortion law in June.
That is really good news. Really good news.
We are moving in the right direction. On some things.
Now, California New York, they will go the opposite direction. They will, if -- if this miscellaneous law is upheld, New York, and California. Will become death states. They will go all the way, probably after birth.
And, you know, let them go down into hell. I'll stand against them. But I'm not following with them.
I want to be in a state that is clear, standing for good versus evil.
Now, there's one other thing that I want to talk to you about.
According to the U.S. official birth data, there's been a steady decline in our national birthrate for over a decade now. There was a 20 percent decline from 2007 to 2020.
A 20 percent decline in births. In 2020, the future looked pretty bleak. Our already slowing birthrate continued to plummet. The Brookings Institute estimates we had 60,000 missing births, in the early months of the covid pandemic. So, you know, we had nothing to do.
Apparently, we weren't doing that, at least without some sort of a -- of protection. We're not wanting to have kids. And that is because, people are asking themselves, can I bring a child into the world, when it's such a mess?
Do you think this is the first time anybody has ever asked that question?
I mean, I have bad news for you. We make it to the other side of this. Most of it make it to the other side. Some of us will die for, you know, natural causes.
Because we're old and fat, and can't walk across mountains or whatever it is we have to do.
But we'll make it. We make it.
And we need children on the other side.
I feel bad for the people who actually believe that the world is on a catastrophic, nothing can be done, climate change move, where everyone is going to starve or burn to death, or drown, or be in a snowstorm. Or a desert. I mean, can you imagine growing up and hearing this? We have got to have children. Young men are encouraged to stay on the proverbial pleasure island, far past their youth. Free love movement. Why would you settle down? Why would you settle down, when you don't have to?
And women aren't interested in it. Females have been convinced, they need to be more like men. And pregnancy is a -- the ultimate betrayal of that idea.
It will stop you from being a success. Let me tell you something: Out of all the success that I've had. All the experiences I've been able to give my children, I would rather -- if I had a choice, I think I would have been much better off, being an average person living in a farming community, that no one has ever heard of. And struggled and worked hard, my whole life, on a farm. My kids would be better off.
Success, you will find, as you get older, success is really only about children.
It's -- it is what we are born to do. Parenting is not for everybody. But it's for a lot more people, than are taking advantage of it right now. We have got to get our population back on track.
We've got to stop the scourge of pornography. Our hyper sexualized culture has just poisoned all relationships. Kids grow up now. Nobody has taught them to be a woman. It's a difference between a girl and a woman. And nobody has taught men to be anything, but a boy. They encourage you to be a boy. Be a man. And don't be afraid to stand up and say, I am a man.
And there's a difference between Peter Pan and a man. And there are obligations, that men have to do.
I get on the microphone every day, and I warn you, things are getting worse. Please, do not ever think, that that is a reason not to have children. If you have it in your heart, to have children, there is no situation too bleak to forego parenting for. You will regret it for the rest of your life.
If you think your career will be more satisfying than a child, you are wrong. My daughter said to me, Hannah. She was in college. She said, dad, I think he's the one.
And I said, how sure are you?
She said, I know he's the one.
And I said, then what are you waiting for?
And she said, well, because a girl in college, getting married.
And all I said to her was, I can't believe my daughter is worried about the social norms. You will never, never find anything greater than love, except for children.
She got married. I don't care what anybody said about it. I'm glad. And I'm also -- I wish I would have had more children, younger. Because now as I'm getting, you know, to a later chapter in my story, I wish I could be around for their children and their children's children.
Do not wait. Children are glorious.
