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Charlie Kirk Debates Pro-Choice Woman on Abortion, Bodily Autonomy, and the Value of Life

Categories: Abortion
November 7, 2024

Charlie Kirk engages in a heated debate with a pro-choice woman over abortion rights, bodily autonomy, and the moral worth of human life. The conversation moves from questions about choice and consequence to uncomfortable philosophical territory, including whether location determines value and if consciousness defines personhood. The student's answers lead to startling conclusions about dementia patients, murder, and whether her own life has meaning. Kirk methodically dismantles common pro-abortion arguments while revealing the darker implications of viewing life through a purely utilitarian lens focused on pleasure and convenience.

The Choice to Have Sex Versus the Choice to Be Pregnant

The debate begins with a fundamental question about choice and consequence. Charlie Kirk challenges the womens's assertion that pregnancy is not a choice by pointing out that sex itself is a choice. The women argues that while sex is a choice, pregnancy is not, since women are only fertile approximately five days per month and sex doesn't always result in pregnancy.

When asked why people need to have sex if pregnancy is unwanted, the women responds simply: it feels good. This opens the door to Kirk's central line of questioning about whether what feels good should be prioritized over what is actually good. The women admits that sometimes pleasure should be prioritized, depending on the circumstances.

The Problem With Prioritizing Pleasure Over Responsibility

Kirk presses the issue: if someone can have pleasure while others die, is that acceptable? The women initially says it depends on the circumstances, but when pressed about people actually dying, she acknowledges that would not be acceptable. This sets up Kirk's main argument—that in 99% of cases, pregnancy doesn't just happen magically. It results from a known action: sex.

The question becomes: why should someone get to have the orgasm without accepting the responsibility that comes with it? The women struggles with this question, especially when Kirk points out that if a woman chooses to keep a baby, the man is legally obligated to pay child support. Both parties made the choice to have sex, yet the women believes only one party should have total authority over the outcome.

Should Men Have a Say in Abortion Decisions?

When asked whether men should have a say before a woman has an abortion, the women says it should be a conversation but ultimately believes both parties don't have to agree. She firmly states that you cannot force a woman into an abortion or out of one—you cannot tell someone what to do with their body either way.

Kirk challenges this framing by asking whether it's truly the woman's body or whether there's another body within her body. The women responds that it's a clump of cells. Kirk then introduces a provocative analogy: if someone broke into your house, you could remove them by force, but in the case of pregnancy, you invited the baby in through consensual sex. The women counters that she didn't invite the baby—she just left the door unlocked by accident.

The Location Argument and Its Troubling Implications

The conversation takes a critical turn when discussing whether the fetus has its own DNA separate from the mother's. The women argues it doesn't matter if it's her DNA—it's in her body, so she has control. Kirk asks why location should give someone control over another person's DNA. The women doubles down: because they're in her body, affecting her life, she can do what she wants with them.

Kirk identifies this as a location-based argument for moral worth. The women initially denies it's about location but then confirms that it's about how the pregnancy affects her for nine months and beyond, including postpartum depression. Kirk summarizes her position: you should do what is expedient even if there is a victim and a casualty. The women responds with a chilling statement: they wouldn't even know they're a victim.

The Dementia Patient Hypothetical

Kirk seizes on this logic: is it okay to murder someone if they don't know they were murdered? The women says yes, sure, why not—they won't even know. Kirk then applies this logic to a real-world scenario: would it be acceptable to go to a nursing home and kill dementia and Alzheimer's patients who don't know who they are, don't recognize their relatives, and are a drain on society?

The women initially agrees, maintaining consistency with her previous statement. Kirk points out that millions of people suffer from dementia and Alzheimer's, and by her logic, it would be acceptable to kill them all. The women realizes she may have gone too far but attempts to maintain consistency, saying if they're never going to know, they're never going to know.

Kirk acknowledges she is being consistent but points out how deeply disturbing that consistency is. The women tries to walk it back slightly, mentioning that in many religions, after you're dead, you're dead anyway.

The Question of Consciousness and Value

Kirk refocuses the debate on the core question: just because something is not born yet, does it lack life and value? The women says she doesn't think so. Kirk runs through the common pro-abortion arguments using the acronym SLED: Size, Level of development, Environment, and Degree of dependency.

The women settles on degree of dependency as her primary argument—the baby is going to take from her. Kirk asks a pointed question: are you glad your mom nurtured you for nine months in the womb? The women's answer is stark: not really, to be honest. Kirk presses further: do you wish you wouldn't have been born? The women says she's fine with that.

Kirk continues: so if you were killed tomorrow, it wouldn't be a big deal? The women responds that she'd never even know, so she wouldn't even be having this conversation. Kirk notes the importance of this exchange, pointing out that 40 years ago, the average woman would not have answered this way. Women used to say their lives were beautiful, meaningful, and purposeful, and they were grateful their mothers sacrificed for them.

Depression, Meaning, and Cultural Shift

Kirk observes that vast numbers of women 40 years ago were not as depressed and anxious as young women today. Someone in the audience agrees that the vast majority of women are still glad they were born, and this women represents a fringe opinion. The women accepts this characterization, saying she's fine with being in the fringe and it doesn't bother her at all.

Kirk concludes by asking whether the women believes she represents mainstream or fringe opinion on these issues. The audience member confirms she's fringe. The women agrees: it's pretty fringe, and she's completely fine with that.

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Video Transcript

[00:00] having sex is a choice you don't have to

[00:01] have that choice don't choose be

[00:03] pregnant when you have sex you don't

[00:05] choose to be pregnant hold on but you

[00:07] have a choice to have sex in the first

[00:08] place yes but you don't choose to be

[00:10] pregnant pregnancy sex doesn't always

[00:12] lead to pregnancy women are only fertile

[00:14] for 5 days of the month right so why do

[00:16] you need to have sex feels good what are

[00:19] you talking about so so we should just

[00:21] do what feels good regardless of the

[00:22] choices or Consequences that all the

[00:24] time just because people do things all

[00:26] the time is that right no it's not about

[00:28] people do it's people people like

[00:30] feeling good people like do things them

[00:32] dopamine we're getting somewhere right

[00:34] so should what feels good be prioritized

[00:36] over what is

[00:38] good sometimes it depends exactly on

[00:41] what it is okay so if I can have

[00:43] pleasure and a bunch of people die

[00:45] that's perfectly fine I said it depends

[00:47] on what it is if people are dying okay

[00:50] so again back to the point is that you

[00:51] don't outside of or those very very

[00:55] Fringe text cases 99% of the time you

[00:57] don't just wake up and you're magically

[00:58] pregnant no no you you know that you had

[01:01] sex and you're like oh sh hold on a

[01:03] second so why do you then get to have

[01:05] the orgasm without the responsibility

[01:07] hold on because you don't get to have

[01:09] the orgasm you just wake up pregnant

[01:11] hold on a second but but but hold on no

[01:13] but the but if the woman chooses to keep

[01:16] the baby the man has to pay child

[01:17] support I don't IE that well it's it's

[01:19] the

[01:21] law stupid sometimes well that's right

[01:23] both parties made the choice which is

[01:24] interesting do you think that men should

[01:26] be able to have a say before woman has

[01:27] an abortion I think it should be a

[01:29] conversation but here's the thing I

[01:30] don't think you parties have to agree I

[01:32] think

[01:34] so I don't think you should be able to

[01:36] force women into abortion just like you

[01:37] shouldn't be able to force woman out of

[01:39] an abortion you shouldn't know way each

[01:41] way or the other no way you can't tell

[01:43] someone to do with their body hold on

[01:45] but is it their body or is it that

[01:46] another body is within their body it's a

[01:49] okay but if someone broke into my house

[01:50] I would put a gun to their head and say

[01:52] get the out or die but wait hold on you

[01:54] invited the baby into the house with

[01:57] somebody night of passion I didn't

[01:59] invite the I didn't invite the baby open

[02:01] I I left the door unlocked by accident

[02:03] somebody push push it back but wait that

[02:05] that baby is then within you okay and

[02:09] and it's still my body Within Me me my

[02:11] body right but it's so is it your DNA it

[02:14] doesn't matter if it's my DNA why do you

[02:16] hold on why do you have control over

[02:17] somebody else's DNA I thought you said

[02:19] because they're in me if they were

[02:20] control they have come it's a location

[02:22] issue super interesting so location

[02:24] matters more than being just because

[02:27] somebody happens to be within a womb if

[02:29] it was my baby in

[02:31] Hawaii take them out however so if

[02:34] somebody has uh that's that's not if if

[02:37] it it's your DNA you have Total Choice

[02:39] over your DNA to be able to take eat

[02:40] Coke drink Coke or drink Sprite if

[02:42] they're in my body and they're affecting

[02:43] my life I'll do what I want with them

[02:46] okay so that so just because somebody's

[02:49] location determines their moral worth no

[02:51] it's not about necessarily location it's

[02:52] about how they affect me for for 9

[02:55] months after you chose to be able to get

[02:57] that c it's not even just N9 months it's

[02:59] after the fact too you have postpartum

[03:01] depression no yeah so that's interesting

[03:03] so I we're getting somewhere so your

[03:05] argument is you should do what is

[03:07] expedient even if there is a victim and

[03:10] there might be a casualty you would't

[03:11] even know they're a victim okay that's

[03:13] interesting if is it okay to murder if

[03:16] the person does not know they were

[03:17] murdered sure why not they won't even

[03:20] know they have so it's okay to go to an

[03:21] old person's home a bunch of people with

[03:23] dementia and just start popping popping

[03:24] rounds sure bye popping

[03:27] rounds you just killed your ARG no I

[03:30] don't I'm not even k no you did just

[03:31] kill your argument so we can go to old

[03:32] people's homes dementia Alzheimer's

[03:33] they're drain on society they don't know

[03:35] who they are they don't know their name

[03:36] they don't know their relatives by the

[03:38] way millions of people dementi and

[03:39] Alzheimer's and we just kill them think

[03:40] because should hold on oh no you said

[03:42] you should be able to oh my God but it's

[03:44] not necessarily like if if they're never

[03:47] going to know they're never going to

[03:48] know okay so murdering dementia patience

[03:51] is consistent you're right you are being

[03:52] consistent I I I think there is a little

[03:54] bit of inconsistency cuz like after

[03:56] you're dead you're dead in a lot of

[03:58] cases in a lot of religions right so

[04:00] like Aus isn't even born though they're

[04:01] not even you're just a person on the

[04:04] street someone goes and shoots you you w

[04:06] know so but hold on if if you go same

[04:09] argument the the idea is the question is

[04:11] this is just because something is not

[04:13] boring are they alive and do they have

[04:15] value I don't think so okay so let's go

[04:18] through it so just Bec is it because the

[04:20] baby is the fetus or baby is small they

[04:22] don't have Consciousness hold on we we

[04:23] we've gone we've gone through that I

[04:24] want to try

[04:25] to is it because they're small that's

[04:28] not your argument location that's your

[04:29] argument no no environment or but you

[04:32] said degree of dependency that's the one

[04:34] that you said you said wait you said

[04:36] environment I don't but I don't agree

[04:37] with the environment well meaning like

[04:39] where the I'm going through the acronym

[04:41] of what most pro-abortion arguments are

[04:42] size level development environment

[04:44] degree of dependency so I'm trying to I

[04:46] always try to find which one your prior

[04:47] because every pro-abortion argument

[04:48] falls into one of four yeah so degree of

[04:51] dependency this baby is going to take

[04:53] from me mhm are you glad your mom

[04:56] nurtured you for 9 months in the womb I

[04:58] mean she not really to be honest so you

[05:01] wish you wouldn't have been born I'm

[05:03] chill with that for sure huh H okay

[05:07] you're consistent I am yeah so so you so

[05:10] if you were just to be killed tomorrow

[05:12] not a big deal I'd never be I wouldn't

[05:14] even be having this conversation w i I

[05:17] think that I think I think that this is

[05:19] important because 40 years ago an

[05:22] average woman would not have answered it

[05:23] that way they would have they would have

[05:25] said my life is beautiful my life has

[05:27] meaning my life has purpose and I'm glad

[05:29] my mom sacrific for I think that's the

[05:31] case for every single woman 40 years ago

[05:33] well the vast majority of women 40 years

[05:35] ago were not as depressed not as not

[05:37] argu now vast majority is still the same

[05:40] way she's yeah

[05:41] inconsistent with the the most do you

[05:45] think that she is the mainstream opinion

[05:46] or do you think she's a fringe opinion

[05:47] no she's a fringe opinion for sure I

[05:49] like she a fringe it feels good okay so

[05:53] completely do you think she's a

[05:55] mainstream opinion or Fringe opinion

[05:56] it's pretty fringe okay yeah I'm fine

[05:59] with that that's that doesn't bother me

[06:00] at all

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