Hey everyone, it's Kristen Hawkins.

Welcome to this new episode of the explicitly pro-life podcast.

I want to thank everyone for tuning in.

There is so much to talk about and I hope everyone is staying safe right now and practicing

the social distancing guidelines and listening to what experts are saying and staying home and

staying away from vulnerable peoples right now. I was actually on a call this morning with

Vice President Pence with about 34 other national leaders.

And we got a chance to hear from the Vice President and ask him some questions about this coronavirus epidemic.

And the one thing he really asked us to, as leaders, to stress to all of you at home is to make sure you're following the CDC's guidelines.

We're almost about halfway through that 15 days to stop the spread campaign.

And that's super important.

As you all know, I have two children with cystic fibrosis.

So we are taking this very seriously at the Hawkins household.

We've actually been in quarantine,

self-quarantine since Friday, March 13th, and we're stocked up on food and have food

hopefully the last through the end of April. And we're missing our family. And I'm sorry that I

had to cancel a lot of my speaking engagement, but we've got to keep our children

who are especially vulnerable, susceptible to a disease that affects the respiratory system

safe during this time. So I hope you all are practicing the social distancing guidelines,

which, by the way, before I get into the topic that I really want to talk about today,

about how the abortion industry is using this coronavirus crisis to kind of advance their agenda, I do want to point out that when everyone's talking about social distancing and how states should be enforcing and telling their telling businesses that there can only be so many employees at a certain location. When we're talking about social distancing rules,

these social distancing rules are actually proving that your right to bodily autonomy can be

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