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So the issue of abortion has been in the news recently, and you're going to hear about

it a lot more as states like Texas and other states pass laws to defend the unborn and

those laws make their way to the Supreme Court.

What prompted me to make this video actually was that high school students graduation speech

here in Texas.

Here you heard about it.

She submitted a speech and then she completely went off script to go after Texas's new law

that would protect unborn children who are at least six weeks old.

And now I gave a speech at my high school graduation.

And I remember having to submit it, get everything approved.

One of the students on the advisory board for the speeches knew that I was a new Catholic

that I had converted just a year earlier.

And he said, Trent, if you try to get any religious stuff in your speech, I'll make sure

that it's thrown out.

So I included a bunch of illusions and references to scripture without citing them.

But there's certain rules about what you can and can't say in these high school graduation

speeches.

And it's such a double standard.

It's such a double standard that the media fons over this girl for breaking the rules

to talk about how pro-choice she is.

But if a student were to break the rules and talk about how pro-life they were, the media

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