This is Cristian Gomez with the new
American magazine and on the show today
we have Andy Griffith the president and
founder of pro-life man welcome back to
the show we're glad to have you on again
thanks so much for having me Christian
so last month Andy was the massive right
to life March that was held in
Washington DC President Trump spoke
first time a sitting US president has
spoken to the group and it was of course
a large convergence of various different
pro-life organizations and and so forth
impro personhood groups and your
organization was there correct yeah
that's right and this was our first year
we actually had a table at the March for
Life Expo as well so that was that was a
great time really exciting for us so
what sort of connections and outreach
was were you and your organization able
to achieve while you were there in DC
yeah we were able to connect with a lot
of great organizations we even were
invited to a conference that was just
all pro-life organization leaders and we
weren't we weren't supposed to be let in
but someone in there you know really
wanted us to be a part of it and we got
to get on stage at that conference and
introduce ourselves but you know we
connected with care net spent a lot of
time talking with them and they actually
have a new strive for men to like
minister to men as well and so they
brought on a brand new full-time
director called the fatherhood director
for care net so connected with him and
his colleague and we also connected with
a lot of people that are currently doing
counseling successfully especially in
the post abortive arena and you know
we're making those connections so that
way once we get our post abortive men
counseling up and running you know we're
really gonna learn from all these people
we're not trying to reinvent the wheel
or anything like that and so yeah we
made a lot of really great connections
it was it was a wonderful time for us
and and even just the public you know
connecting with the general public with
our table um I don't know if you can see
the sign behind me but we brought these
these black foam boards with no longer
silent on the top we just asked men to
sign the no longer silent pledge that
they they pledge to not be silent on
this topic of abortion and I've got four
of these boards just absolutely covered
in men's signatures the coolest part
about it on that bless us the most is
actually the women women would would be
walking down the aisle you know looking
at all
different pro-life booths and suddenly
they they catch their eye on our booth
and they go this is amazing this is so
great oh my gosh this is so needed you
know and they just come up and give us
so much encouragement words of
affirmation
they are definitely our biggest
supporters and they kept saying stuff
like yes finally an organization to
really just go after the men I mean
plenty of pro-life power organizations
have gone after the men and have pursued
man and this is nothing against any of
them but you know women were just so
excited to see us going after men it's
awesome now one of the criticisms that
is usually drawn to the pro-life side by
the probative side of course is that uh
they'll say you are Pro birth and you
care nothing with a child after that
child is out of the womb I believe you
have a new video to that affecting tell
us a little bit about it and then we
could play it here yeah absolutely so
just now release this video no one's
seen this before
but this is part of our our video series
that we're calling Operation clipper
where we're gonna do a whole series of
videos about four to five minutes in
length so not too long and each video
we're gonna tackle one topic one Pro
abortion our pro-abortion lobby myth or
lie that they tend to repeat over and
over again and we see that a lot of
people tend to believe these lies and
these myths and so this particular one
we tackle the pro berth lie that you're
not pro-life you're just Pro birth you
could care less about the baby after
it's born
so with these videos we take facts and
logic and and data and we go through
that that that claim and we debunk it
and then we show the actual facts and
data of why we are debunking that and
why it's not true that we only care
about the baby in the womb and we don't
care about after the womb but actually
tens of thousands hundreds of thousands
of pro lifers are serving every day in
different capacities to support pregnant
women and their children after they're
born hey let's take a look at that video
right now you're not pro-life you're
just Pro birth that's what many
so-called pro-choicers say as a moral
counter-argument to the pro-life stance
this talking point seems to have come
from a 2004 interview sister Joan
Chidester day
with bill moyers where she says I do not
believe that just because you're opposed
to abortion that that makes you pro-life
in fact I think in many cases your
morality is deeply lacking if all you
want is a child born but not a child fed
not a child educated and not a child
housed and why would I think that you
don't because you don't want any tax
money to go there that's not pro-life
that's probe birth to illustrate this
point in 2013 political cartoonists Nick
Anderson drew a comic that depicts
pro-lifers gazing in awe at a pregnant
woman's belly saying we'll do whatever
we can to protect your life the next
frame shows the same woman now with a
newborn and this time the pro-lifers are
screaming now you're on your own and get
a job moocher so is there any merit to
the claim that pro lifers don't care
about children before I get to that I
have a question why shouldn't unborn
child's value and rights of life depend
on how many social programs are
available after they're born think about
what's being implied here that needy
children are better off dead that the
kindest thing we can do is kill them and
if someone's unable to provide for every
single unplanned child that they have no
right to speak out against abortion it's
kind of like saying you can't oppose
killing homeless people unless you turn
your home into a shelter or pay for
their housing and it misses the single
most crucial point of this debate
abortion doesn't prevent a baby it kills
one which is why it's clear who is most
deeply involved in the lives of
unplanned children and their mothers
those who first and foremost think that
they deserve to live but is there any
merit to this pro-abortion argument our
pro-lifers doing anything to support
struggling mothers and their children
let's take a look to start there are
over 3,000 privately funded crisis
pregnancy centers in the u.s. that
provide free pregnancy tests ultrasounds
and adoption referrals
most of these pregnancy centers also
provide diapers formula baby food and
baby clothes all provided by pro-life
Americans at no cost and there are many
pregnancy centers doing even more like
in Ohio at the Pregnancy Center of
Greater
in addition to providing pregnancy tests
and ultrasounds at no charge the
pregnant mother can see a nurse that
will assess her for risk factors and
provide education around health during
pregnancy if the nurse determines that
the mother has high risk factors she
will sign her up with a healthy
connections caseworker to monitor her
during the pregnancy the center also
provides free childcare to help mother's
finish high school or attend college or
like in Arizona at Living Hope centers
not only do they have for Pregnancy
Resource Center's that provide free
ultrasounds and pregnancy tests but they
also have a maternity home where women
can live rent-free for up to three years
they provide the mothers with a job and
they facilitate classes where the moms
learn essential life skills like
budgeting meal prep parenting and job
skills they also have the earn while you
learn program where after taking a class
the women earn Bowtique bucks to spend
at the organization's thrift store
before a mother and child leave the
maternity home the organization helps
the mom secure employment housing and
even a funded savings account how many
Planned Parenthood's offer formula cribs
baby clothes diapers and maternity
clothing period let alone free of charge
how many Planned Parenthood's offer
housing or job in life skill classes
again all at no cost on may fifteenth
twenty nineteen times of Isreal
journalist Sarah Tuttle singer tweeted
pro-life friends what have you
personally done to support lower income
single mothers I'll wait she received
over thirteen thousand replies maybe
it's true that pro-life Americans don't
want to rely on inefficient and wasteful
government to help women and their
children that doesn't mean that they
don't care about them in fact quite the
opposite is true so yes we are pro-life
and it shows
I'm Andy Griffith founder and president
of pro-life man thanks for watching if
you'd like to support us please go to
pro-life man org
okay so where can we watch this video
once it's officially released and others
in the series that you mentioned yeah so
we'll have a YouTube channel up and
running for pro-life man and the best
way to get to that YouTube channel is to
go to our website pro-life man org and
you'll see the little YouTube logo and
you can click on that and that'll take
you to our YouTube channel we
unfortunately don't have the privilege
yet of naming our own URL for our
YouTube channel so go to our website and
find the YouTube logo and you can go
there okay absolutely well be sure to
check that out those you that are
watching and with regards to activities
that your organization is currently
involved with I believe you have an
event coming up sometime sometime soon
actually can tell us a little bit about
that event you have planned
yeah actually coming up in the middle of
May we're doing a fundraiser and it's a
wild game dinner and also a live auction
and we're gonna raffle some items off as
well and we're also very excited that
our keynote speaker is gonna be mr. Bob
Duke Oh for those of you they don't know
about Bob Duke oh he's a nationally
syndicated radio host he is based out of
Detroit Michigan but he works for
Crawford Broadcasting and I think that
his show is is aired on dozens of
stations across the entire nation for
Crawford Broadcasting and he focuses a
lot on politics and he focuses a lot of
Christian apologetics and one of his you
know more passionate topics is in fact
abortion and so really excited to have
him as our keynote speaker for this
event so when exactly is that and where
could Moore find out that the details so
they could sign up for it yes so it's
going to be Saturday May 16th the doors
are gonna open at 6:00 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time and we're gonna start
serving dinner at 7:00 and we hope to
get the auction going by about 8:00 or
8:30 so you can find out more
information on that on our website
pro-life man org also it's listed as a
Facebook event on our Facebook page
facebook.com slash pro-life man okay now
very briefly in the last two minutes
that we have here on the program on the
show could you ha this explain to us
explain to the audience to those men
that are watching out there who have a
passion about this issue but are afraid
because of whatever social pressures
there may be to come out and speak on
behalf of those that can't speak for
them
of the the preborn what would you say to
those men watching the show right now
yes I would just encourage all of you
men to go ahead and speak up and there
is going to be resistance and at times
it's it's intense resistance and it's
you know it's ugly resistance you know
but but don't be afraid to speak up but
also don't be ugly you know there's no
reason to get ugly yourself you know
treat people with with mercy and with
grace and you know we have to speak up
for these children they're dying by the
thousands every single day and a little
bit of resistance I'm sorry is not a
good reason to not speak up for them but
if you want tips tricks please follow us
because we are constantly debunking
these pro-abortion myths and lies that a
lot of people believe even email us and
and you know if you're asking for tips
or tricks and what will respond and will
connect with you but we need men to
speak up for these children okay well
thank you so much Andy Griffith with
pro-life man thank you for joining us
today on the show thanks for having me
so much Christian
