Pete Hegseth: To accusations of bias on social media, our next guest posted this video on
Facebook but then she says Facebook labeled it "false news" watch.
Lila: Abortion is not medically necessary. If you talk to a doctor who is not indoctrinated
by leftist talking points you will discover that abortion, which is defined as the
direct and intentional killing of an embryo, a fetus, a baby in the womb, is not
a medical treatment.
Pete Hegseth: The content is now deemed as a "violation" and it's getting
quote "reduced distribution." The anti-abortion group, Live Action, is now
seeking legal options. Its founder and president, Lila Rose, joins us now.
Lila, thank you very much, so you gave a very public speech, then you posted it to
Facebook which you've done to your over 3 million followers between Live Action
and yourself. Facebook's fact checkers say you
shouldn't be able to do that.
Lila: That's right Pete, and it wasn't just my speech.
I mean I've been giving talks like that for years. We have doctors, OBGYN's,
board-certified, who are also featured in our videos, who are saying the exact same
thing. In fact thousands of doctors agree with Live Action, with me, that abortion
is not a medical treatment. Of course abortionist disagree, they say "We're
doing medicine." "We're practicing medicine." But abortion is not a medical treatment.
You can you can deliver a baby early if need be in a high-risk pregnancy, but you
don't target that baby's body for destruction to kill that child. Doctors
should care and love and serve both the mother and the child not just attack
that child in an abortion. So that's the position of Live Action and thousands—
and millions of pro-lifers across the country, and Facebook used a fact check
by two abortionists to attack Live Action, to attack me, and to try to limit
the pro-life message that's getting out to millions of people on the platform.
Pete: Yeah so you're you're amidst a debate, a debate which has been going on in our
country, we have a free country, for years about pro-life versus pro-choice and
ultimately what's happening here is Facebook's coming down against you using
fact checkers as an intermediary. Here's what the fact checkers—so if someone
goes to your post and they click on it's flag this pops up on the screen. It
says, "Certain life-threatening conditions during pregnancy can make
abortion medically necessary in order to save the mother's life. Preserving both
the life of the mother and child by inducing early delivery as the video
suggests is only possible if the fetus' gestational age is advanced enough that
it stands a chance to survive outside the womb. As this is not always the case
early delivery is not always a suitable alternative to abortion. You know, I'd be
okay with this, if when Planned Parenthood put up a video, everyone
clicked on a button that gave your view about it on the other side this is a
one-sided thing though only against pro lifers.
Lila: Right, well, and these are two
abortionist who wrote that, and look, they're wrong. An early term delivery,
a preterm delivery, is not an abortion. You don't have to go in there and kill
that baby, dismember that baby, poison that baby to death before delivering him
or her. You can give her a chance at life, and hopefully medical technologies will
continue to develop so that we can continue to push that age of viability
backwards, so that these little ones have more of a shot at life. But look, the
reality is thousands of medical professionals agree with us. We're not
just saying this stuff. This isn't just my opinion. This is thousands of
board-certified obgyn's saying, "Look, abortion is not a medical treatment.
Abortion is an act of violence against a child and we can and we should care for
both patients, so the fact that facebook is using abortionist as fact checkers is
incredibly disturbing and it should concern all Americans.
Pete: That's what Leftists do. Hide Leftism behind official
titles and then ram it down our throat. We reached out to Facebook for a
statement, they have not responded yet. You have a platform, you've got a message.
The only option is to fight back in the face of censorship because a lot of us
harbor the same fears of the reality you're facing right now, is that these
social media giants controlled by leftists want to control the
conversation and shut you down. Lila, thanks for fighting back. Keep us updated
on your story.
Lila: Will do, thanks, Pete.