Malpractice Verdict And Medical Morality

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Welcome to Good News Friday on the Wall Builder Show. Thanks for joining us today. This is the place where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. And today we've got a lot of good news for you that comes from a biblical, historical, constitutional perspective. See if you have that perspective, then you'll have a lot more optimistic look at uh viewpoint on things as they happen because you know God's in charge. So, guys, I'm looking forward to today. Let's jump into some good news. David and Tim Barton, what you got, David?

SPEAKER_00 0:32

I'm going to start with one that uh this one really makes me happy, but I have to set it up right. Uh, the Bible says you're not to rejoice when your enemy falls or stumbles. I mean, that and so this this the title in this article uh it just excites me, but not for the reason you might think when you hear the article. It deals with a New York jury that there was a doctor, a plastic surgeon, and and a psychologist that were sued by a girl who claimed to be transgender when she was 16 years old, and they did a breast removal. And after that breast removal, she realized how a terrible, horrible mistake that was, and she's suffered ever since. And so the jury found that, yep, that psychologist and that plastic surgeon should never have done that, and therefore they have to pay her$2 million. Now,$2 million is not a really a large amount in a malpractice suit like this, and I'm not rejoicing that the the that the surgeon and the psychologist got caught on this, and I don't like this surgery, and so I think they should be punished. That's not it at all. What I like on this is it has now sent a message that, hey, doctor, you're not supposed to do anything your patient asks you to do. You're supposed to have a moral standard and know what's right and wrong and do what's right and wrong. And if you don't, you could be held accountable for it. I love the fact that this injects a sense of morality back into this, that there are rights and wrongs that transcend your personal opinions, or what some psychologists may say, as a medical physician, there are biological facts you can't get around. And that is that there are male and female. And regardless of what any psychologist says, you should have known that, and you should not have done lasting damage to that young girl. And and, you know, she she said as soon as she woke up from the surgery, she said, I immediately had a thought that this is wrong. This can't be true. So as soon as she comes out of the anesthesia, she realizes this is a bad deal and left her with severe nerve pain and she hadn't been able to get over it. And and she says, I now realize I'm disfigured for life. That's what the doctor should have told her back at the beginning. Do you realize and they didn't talk about consequences or anything else? So as I was going over this article, I love the fact that it makes physicians responsible for facts and biology and science, not their personal opinions or the pseudoscience. It also establishes a moral base. If the patient at age 16 and her parents, of all people, don't know what's right and wrong, the doctor should know. And this makes a doctor do more than just the wishes that they're not slaves to the wishes of their patients. And it also probably means the surgeon went to a wacko medical school if they didn't teach basic biology and science. But I'm not rejoicing over the loss of two million by the physicians, or rather the fact that she gets some degree of justice. I'm I'm rejoicing over the fact that we're upholding physician responsibility. And I think that's a really, really, really healthy message for the culture. And boy, when we can start upholding uh elected official accountability, that'll be great too. But this is at least a step in the right direction.

Texas Law Targeting Mail-Order Abortion Pills

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Yeah, in fact, we were just talking yesterday about uh on our foundations program about accountability being needed and swift justice. Tim, what's your first piece of good news?

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Well, along the lines of accountability and some uh medical-related things in Texas this week there's a new pro-life law that went into effect. The headline of the article says Texas pro-life law takes effect to stop mail order abortion pills. And this is something that's remarkable. Texas now has uh the strongest laws on this, is at least what this article says. And what it allows people to do, uh by way of background, uh, largely speaking, uh surgical abortions have been prohibited in Texas. But the abortion pills that although are not accessible in Texas, they are being mailed in from other states. It's not unusual for very liberal uh leftist Democrat states to have some of these abortion pill mills and send them to whatever conservative states are banning these pills. What's cool about this law is it allows people who are suffering the effects of these abortion pills to actually sue the uh organizations, the industry, the businesses that have sold them these pills. And one of the things that uh I I didn't realize this until reading this article, uh, the percentage of people that have medical complications from these pills. Now I knew that was one of the noted possibilities is that if you are taking these abortion pills, uh ultimately it it causes the baby to die and the mother to uh deliver a deceased baby. And in that process, certainly there can be some medical issues that arise. Uh, I understood that. What this article says is that one in 10 mothers will actually end up at the emergency room because of these abortion pills in Texas. Uh, there's at least 19,000 orders of abortion drugs per year in Texas. And one of the things the article points out is also these are easily purchased by abusers and human traffickers who can secretly poison pregnant women, et cetera. And I don't mean to be graphic, and so I'm not reading all of the details on this. But the good news is the Woman and Child Protection Act, uh, even though there's no penalty for the woman who might be having this abortion, but it does offer accountability for families and injured individual, et cetera, to be able to sue these providers for what's going on. Uh, and and this is the the first of its kind uh in what's going on. Texas Rights of Life uh is the one that that put out this article. So this is really good news that that in the midst of trying to fight to defend life, to fight for the inalienable right to life, the the unborn, um, the most vulnerable among us, as there is creativity on the evil side at times to find ways around some of what's going on and with medical advances in technology, things change. But it's great to see lawmakers strategically advancing to say we're gonna hold people accountable that are murder murdering unborn children. We're gonna create an avenue for people to be able to hold them accountable, and we are gonna try to prohibit those things from coming into Texas. So, overall, really good news that this law just went into effect in Texas.

Satire Bans In Hawaii And California Overturned

SPEAKER_02 7:02

I feel like we have a theme going here, guys. Accountability, accountability. David, are you gonna break the streak?

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

I'm gonna keep adding to it, bro.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

Um this one, I don't know. Uh this goes in the category. All right, all right, take the cat. What's what's a worse category than something really silly and stupid? I don't know. Whatever that is, this this goes about three levels above that. Hawaii actually passed a state law that made it illegal to use what they call materially deceptive media that would change the voting behavior of a viewer. So if you have a commercial that makes a politician look bad and would change the way they would vote to that politician, that is an illegal ad in Hawaii. Can can you imagine that to any degree? And and it also says that they call that they call that materially deceptive. And they said if it injures the reputation or the electoral prospects of a candidate, then it's illegal. You you can't do something that would cause people to change their mind about a politician.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

Now, I I do have a question because it it what I heard you say was deceptive, because I feel like for many politicians, I wouldn't have to be deceptive. I would tell you exactly what they say. Now I'm sure somebody would challenge based on this law and say, wait a second, you can't make me look bad. No, no, no. Did the law say you can't be intentionally deceptive, or I can't make you look bad? Because those are two totally different things.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Well, to kind of go, to kind of go what you brought up before I tell you the answer to that, they the law carries jail time, large fines, and you're subject to lawsuits from the state if you violate this. Now, who's the big offender that that did this, what they called um changing the voting behavior or changing the electoral prospects of a candidate? It was the Babylon B. The Babylon B used satire against the elected officials, and it made fun of the stupid things that elected officials did, and they passed a law, and so the Babylon B is not allowed to make fun of political people in Hawaii. Now, the other thing is California had a very similar law that you can't use satire, you can't use humor to make fun of elected. They take themselves so stinking serious that they don't want anyone making fun or using sarcasm or anything else. Not that they would ever do that to Trump and anything that they do, but they they just can't tolerate it themselves. So it's just I start with that. First, you start with the crazy law, but there's still good news. And the good news is that a federal court has thrown out the law in both California and Hawaii that you you can't stop people from making fun of an elected official. I mean, now if it gets into liable kind of stuff, yes, but when you're using humor and sarcasm, come on. You know, grow up, get your big boy pants on. You can handle this unless you happen to be, I guess, a liberal or a progressive, and then you're so serious about everything with you, but not with anybody. I don't know how that works. It's it's it's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Well, Dad, as you were saying this, I didn't know where the good news was going uh because I I hadn't paid attention to that one specifically. And I just thought there's no way that the First Amendment, they're gonna get away with that, uh, which is the the good news you reported. But then I I thought, why would anybody think they would get away with this? Why did that do you not know the First Amendment? And then the guys reminded me of it was this week when there was a sheriff who was before Congress, and uh the sheriff was asked, Hey, what what branch of the government are are you part of? And and he's naming the county where he's a sheriff, and they're like, No, no, no, like what branch? And he names his state. And the congressman's like, no, okay, hang on. So in the constitution, there's three branches. Do you know them? And he doesn't. And the congressman's like, well, here's three branches. And he says, Which one of those do you fall under? And this is a sheriff. And the sheriff says, Well, I fall under the judicial branch, and it's like, bro, no, you don't. So it just it's one of the things that I I'm I shouldn't be surprised. I really shouldn't be surprised. But I'm I I feel shocked almost every time by seeing how uneducated some of these people are. And and when you have people, like in this case, a sheriff, law enforcement, who doesn't understand that there's three branches of government, doesn't understand that he's not part of the judicial branch, uh, what law enforcement is. And when you have state lawmakers who think that they can write laws that are directly contradictory of the US Constitution, that is mind-boggling to me that you are going to be able to think you can micromanage a newspaper or a comedic satire uh social media platform posting whatever, Babylon B, that doesn't make any sense. And yet, these are the people that often get elected. Uh, and you know, guys, we talk about elections a lot. We have primaries coming up this year, we have a midterm election coming up this year. And the only way that we can overcome the frustration of how dumb some of these people are is to get involved early so we have better people in the primaries, so that we can have better people elected in the general or the midterm elections and remove some of these people that are so civically ignorant, which seems to be on full display these days.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Yeah, and going to that point, Tim, this is a this was actually a law, which means not only did the governor sign it, you had a majority of the House and a majority of the Senate that voted for this. And if you have an elected official that voted for this, that you can't make fun of a politician. Oh, are you kidding me? That's the first person you need to get out of office right now. You need no other votes in their entire career if they can't stand being laughed at in public office. They need not to be there. They take themselves way too serious. And that's just that's unbelievable that that they would be there and vote for something like that.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

Well, and and I would then offer that they should take some notes from JD Vance, maybe Marco Rubio. Uh JD Vance, who is so good at making ridiculous meme posts of himself, um, when you know people make funny faces of him or whatever, and he just posts them and he embraces it. Uh, yes, fortunately, there are some high-level elected Republicans right now who are not so thin-skinned that they can't take a joke like AJ Devant and Amarco Rubio. Um, but yeah, Dad, to your thought, when you have politicians that get so defensive that you can't make fun of me or I will try to pass laws to crush you, you know you have the wrong people in office.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Well, we we have in the collection we've got historically, we have some great political cartoons of the founding fathers with newspapers making fun of the founding fathers in in office, whether it be Andrew Jackson or whether it be the earlier presidents, or even the they when the two congressmen got into a a fight inside uh Congress with fireplace pokers and went after each other. I mean, the newspapers have always made fun of that kind of stuff. And the founding fathers didn't follow suit on anybody because they made fun of stupid behavior. I mean, it's just been part of who it is. So yeah, yeah, and you're right, Tim. Embrace it. JD Vance and those guys, they capitalize on it and it does nothing but drive their support and their favorability up. People love them for it.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Well, and our our our mutual friend Brad Stein would say, you know, that was the whole point of the of the jester. You're you're supposed to be able to punch up and make fun of those who are in those higher offices. As soon as you can't do that anymore, um, then you you you really have lost your your freedom of speech. And I think you guys are right, man. These guys, the these politicians are too soft, but I have so enjoyed what you know watching JD Vance respond to some of this stuff. And and uh, if you take advantage of it well and you let it roll off your back and you don't take it personally, you can actually play it to your advantage. Hey, quick break, guys. I know you got more good news, but we've got to take a break. We'll be right back. Stay with us, folks. You're listening to the Wellpower Show.

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Tim Allen’s Bible Journey And Public Faith

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Welcome back to the Wild Booter Show. Thanks for staying with us on this Good News Friday. Tim Barton's up next. Tim, where are we headed?

SPEAKER_03 16:17

Well, I am glad that I finally get to talk about part of this story because Dad, you've mentioned uh a piece of this more than once. Uh, but this is a X post from Tim the Toolman Taylor, Tim Allen, the Santa Claus. Uh oh gosh, I was trying to think who he was in Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear. I couldn't remember his name for a second, but Tim Allen posted on X that he actually had finished going through the Bible. Uh it the the post he put on uh had 3.2 million views. I think this was last Friday uh when they did this. And this is his post. He said, finish the entire Bible. It's been a 13-month word by word, page by page, no skimming journey. Humbled, enlightened, and amazed at what I read and what I learned. I will rest and meditate on so much. I will begin it again. And not just the fact that he points out he read the whole thing. He didn't skim it, he read it. He he was humbled, challenged, encouraged, motivated, right? All the things he said. And then he said he's gonna rest and meditate on it, but then I'm doing it again, and and people are praising him for it. We have a lot of friends that have posted on there, encouraging him, etc. But guys, this is so cool to see some of what has happened with this. And Dad, you mentioned one of the posts he had after the the Charlie Kirk uh memorial where Erica Kirk said, I forgive that man, and he was challenged. He needs to forgive the the guy that the drunk driver that had killed his dad. And there's I mean, so many things we've seen from him over the last many months in his faith journey that not not that we are like bolstering him and saying, Hey, you know, let Tim Allen be your moral apologetic leader guide, Bible study leader, right? That's all we're seeing. It's just so cool to see God moving in this. And and I mean, guys, we haven't even gotten into some of the the very strong faith surrounding some of the athletes of the Super Bowl. I'm sure we're gonna have some articles coming up on some of those guys, but we are seeing we are seeing faith take prominence in the nation, be respected. And we have talked about it often on this program that God is on the move, that that there's a a a revival that very well could turn into an awakening with reformation, cultural change as people are being discipled in truth and what's going on. But this is just one more indication to me when when you are seeing guys like Tim Allen who are boldly posting about some of their faith journey and it's being so well received. This is really encouraging to me. And and the article was much longer uh than what I referenced. Christian Post put it out. It's a very long article. I just read the little uh excerpt from his post and drawing some conclusions from it, but it is it is really great to see this kind of thing taking more prevalent uh mainstream that that being a Christian is becoming cool again, but not just being a Christian, actually going back to the Bible and biblical principles being upheld. Now, not that there's obviously there's a difference in culture with you know some of the gender and the sexuality. Obviously, those battles are there, but again, just so cool to see a guy with as much notoriety as Tim Allen being so bold about this and it being so well received. That's really good news to me.

Immigration, Poll Shifts, And Midterm Stakes

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All right, David, back over to you, man. What's our next piece of good news? Well, this is dealing with still the nonsense that's going on up in Minnesota, um, as uh they're still trying to enforce federal law up there, and Minnesota keeps standing in the way of trying to enforce federal law. And I I was looking at uh not the bee, which you know, there's Babylon B and Not the Be is is also kind of a satire news thing. It it takes the same kind of stories, but it doesn't make them into necessarily funny stories. It just does funny stuff about the true story. So all that to be said is that they point out that that the group, one of the groups that the most upset about what's going on in Minnesota are white ladies. So white females are upset about what ICE is doing up there, and they they're they're yelling about quote rounding up brown people. So get this. White ladies upset about rounding up brown people. Guess who's not upset about rounding up brown people? Hispanics. Trump's Hispanic numbers have increased almost 30% nationally, almost that's unbelievable, almost 30% nationally since he started the I stuff in Minnesota. And they pointed out this stat that I thought was pretty unbelievable. Hispanics make up 19% of the American population. They make up 50% of Border Patrol agents. So that doesn't sound to me like Hispanics think that stopping illegal immigration is racist. If 50% of your border agents are Hispanics and they're only 19% of the population, and if Trump's numbers have gone up 30 points with Hispanics since this Indianapolis stuff, that's a pretty unbelievable number. And we were doing some talking uh, I think last week and the week before over what midterm elections might look like, and there's some indications, uh, it's been interesting to me. I think Democrats kind of think they're in trouble in midterm because the way they have been going silent in certain areas, not talking about them. And if if this is a 30 point switch, and and and Hispanics usually vote about two to one Democrat, if there's a 30 point job, and already, by the way, before before Minneapolis, Hispanics were coming very rapidly to Trump at a high. rate because of his immigration position, but since any since Minneapolis it's up 30 points, oh my goodness, Democrats are in serious, serious trouble in the midterms, if that is indeed accurate. So that's just an interesting set of numbers that I I had just seen this past week. And I I mean as much as the media doesn't want to cover this kind of stuff and they keep phone mending stuff in Minneapolis and keep trying to stir it up, it's just not going over with most average Americans, including in the Hispanic community.

Boy Scouts’ DEI Clash And Military Pressure

SPEAKER_03 22:31

Well Dad, I I think that's really good news and I think it's worth reiterating that even though there's a lot of momentum and trends in certain directions, like the majority of Americans, overwhelming majority, they support voter ID uh laws. They want only Americans to vote in American elections, a lot of these things are very strong, but there's there's not been quite the political will on some of this. And then the other thing is even though some of these are strong um where Trump is getting support on these issues, the Democrats have a reason to be concerned in the midterms, but also Republicans do too, because if there's not a good turnout, even though the majority of people might have a favorable position, it doesn't matter what percentage of Americans support what positions, it matters who shows up on election day. That's right. And one of the things that we have seen from some of these early elections, which we already talked about, we don't think maybe are the best indicators of what's going to happen in the midterm election, but it's worth reiterating to people that you need to get in your mind right now that you are going to vote in primaries. You are going to vote in the midterm election. That needs to be something that we just embrace that we're going to be people that steward the vote God gave us well. And when it's time to vote, we're going to go vote and know that you're always going to vote for the lesser of two evils because every candidate is not going to be Jesus. They're going to be sinners in need of a savior, but you are voting based on policy and who's going to promote the best policy that will be the most God honoring and the most beneficial for America. And that's what we prioritize are what those policies are.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

All right we got time for one more Tim final piece of good news for the day.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

Take us into the weekend bro yes this one uh deals with the U.S. Department of war and their relationship with Scouting America. Now some people might be saying well who is scouting America well that's the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. They changed their name why you might ask because they decided back in 2018 that girls should be involved in the Cub Scouts. And then 2019 that well girls really should be able to be a part of all of it. Get Eagle Scouts. You can go back to 2013 when they decided that it didn't just need to be for heterosexual boys. Let's let gay boys join and then actually in 2015 let's have gay leaders and they've just gone off the deep end in a lot of ways. They changed Scouting America well they apparently have had a relationship with the Department of War in the sense that if you got an Eagle Scout that that meant something if you join the military, et cetera, well Trump has said very clearly they're not doing DEI and Scouting America has been promoting DEI and much of what they've done. And so the Department of War put out a post on social media uh that if Scouting America doesn't change their ways that with this DEI policies that they are risking uh severing that relationship. And actually what's cool about the post, um the guy who was doing uh most of the post, at least from what I have read, Sean Carnell is uh one of the leaders with Department of War. And one of the things he said is Scouting America for them to get back, he says they have to get back to God and country immediately. And when you have Department of War posting for scouting boy used to be Boy Scouts of America, but posting that you guys need to get back to God and country prioritize what's right God and country coming from Department of War that's so encouraging to say we don't gotta partner with people doing DEI. We want to partner with people that that put God and country as a priority. And that is just really good news.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Yeah Tim when you started that your good news story with Scouting of America I was skeptical. I was like wait what is he talking about? Because I thought those guys were had gone way far left and if it was trail life then yes good news but now I get where you're going with it and I am surprised I mean that is uh that that is very good because this is iron sharpening right if you put enough pressure on them maybe they'll come back to being a sane organization. But I do want to give a plug to trail life out there since we mentioned scouting they have basically picked up the torch and are doing it the right way.

Closing Thoughts And Weekend Sendoff

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Yeah and Rick to clarify I'm celebrating the Department of War putting pressure on them. I'm not celebrating Scouting America yes that is the clarification.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

Good stuff guys thank y'all for uh gathering all those good news stories we'll have more next week everybody have a fantastic weekend and we'll see you next week you've been listening to the Wild Bobo Show.