Point of View July 2, 2026 – Hour 2 : Save the Storks

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kirby Anderson.

[00:00:20] Second Hour today, we're going to spend some time talking about the pro-life issue and of course since its very beginning, Pro Ministries, Point of View, all sorts of other organizations, Right to Life have all focused on this idea of again encouraging individuals to be pro-life and recognize that often times you have abortion minded women. That need some kind of encouragement to know that they're not alone.

[00:00:49] And so we've focused on things like women's health clinics, pregnancy resource clinics, also talked about some of these mobile medical clinics and more recently recognizing that some of these individuals are going to be using chemical abortion. We need to reach them maybe through digital platforms. So there are a number of different ways over the years that we've really wanted to reach out.

[00:01:14] And that's why I'm excited to spend some time talking about Save the Storks. Save the Storks dot org is the website and we are privileged to talk for a while with Diane Ferraro, who is the chief executive officer of Save the Storks. An organization is really looking to ensure women and families that they would receive a comprehensive support during pregnancy and even during parenthood.

[00:01:43] It also allows for developing all sorts of collaborative partnerships with other pro-life groups, churches, community organizations and the rest. So Diane, thank you for joining us today here on Point of View. Kirby, thank you so much for having me. What a beautiful introduction. It was spot on. Well, again, my wife will tell you, I probably speak at more pregnancy resource senate banquets than almost anything else.

[00:02:08] When we go out and go to some of the places where you have radio stations, I try to go and visit some of the clinics. But also, of course, you are very much involved in the mobile clinics. And I think if nothing else, that's a good way to start. I can remember a time before we had ultrasound and then after. And when a woman who is abortion-minded sees her baby, that changes everything, doesn't it? It absolutely does. And that's what our mobile medical clinics are known for.

[00:02:37] We go out into communities across the United States. In fact, we have 109 mobile medical clinics, which I like to call vessels of divine deliverance. And when a woman steps on board one of our mobile medical clinics, she sees her baby on the ultrasound, hears the heartbeat, and three out of four times, she chooses life for her baby. It's such a miracle and it's such a blessing. And what an honor to do this in the name of the Lord.

[00:03:01] Well, and one of the things that we've talked about before, of course, with this advent of chemical abortion, is it used to be that if there was an abortion clinic, a Planned Parenthood clinic or something like that, we've had many guests on this program that have been able to be on the sidewalk and sidewalk council and maybe talk to those women. But, again, those venues are changing rather dramatically because they may not be going to an abortion clinic.

[00:03:27] They may be getting pills through the mail or they may be thinking about that. So instead of waiting for them to come to us, you have a program to go to them, don't you? We absolutely do. And what you said is right. In fact, the tragedy of the abortion pill now means that 64% of women are taking the abortion pill at home. They're not getting any kind of counseling. They're not having any medical intervention. They're not seeing their baby on the ultrasound.

[00:03:55] Many of these women are taking the abortion pill without even knowing how far along they are, which is so detrimental to the health of the mom. And, of course, it's taking that life of the baby. Where our ministry comes in is we have a 24-hour digital platform called foreverywoman.org. And what we're doing is we're using this digital platform to reach women who are doing Google searches and finding really false information about the abortion pill,

[00:04:19] that it's easy, that it's harmless, that it's like taking aspirin. And all of these false narratives out there that they will find with Google and with AI that's being served up to them, they're taking the abortion pill thinking it's nothing more than a Tylenol, unfortunately. And what we're able to do for every woman is we're able to intervene. We're able to make sure we can get truth to that woman who's doing an online search. Again, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

[00:04:48] We will then connect her with online nurses. We will connect her with the local pregnancy center. We get them appointments on our mobile medical clinics because we want that woman to absolutely be introduced to that baby that is growing inside of her. We want her to understand that it is absolutely a baby. It's not a clump of cells. She has a human being that she has conceived. And we want her to know the truth.

[00:05:10] But we do this with love and compassion, and we do it with medical professionals across the country who are there to really love on that mom, make sure she knows how supported she is, that there are resources for her, just like you said, Kirby, not only during the pregnancy, but if there's any concern she has about being a parent or if she's afraid she can't be a parent, we are going to introduce her to adoption resources because adoption is such a beautiful choice when that mother doesn't feel that she's ready to parent.

[00:05:38] We want her to make an informed choice, but that informed choice should absolutely be to parents or to find a couple to adopt her child, never to abort her baby. We don't want her to live with a lifetime of regret. Again, if you would like to know more, you can go to savethestorks.org. And, again, I would have to say, Diane, that some people might say, well, I'm just hearing about this for the first time.

[00:06:00] I was fortunate that many, many years ago the person that was helping us with fundraising at Point of View first told me about Save the Storks because he was involved. And, again, that was very helpful. And then even more recently, I mentioned Probe Ministries a minute ago because I had one of the guests from there. We used to be in Suite 2000 in the Hope Center, and then we moved from Suite 2000 to 2050. And who moved into Suite 2000? Well, Save the Storks.

[00:06:28] So whether it's Point of View or Probe, I've had a very long connection to Save the Storks, but I suspect some people are unfamiliar with that. So can you give us a little of the history? I absolutely will. And what a beautiful full circle moment this is. I've had a lot of those this week, Kirby. Yes, Save the Storks started back in 2012. We had a single, what we called a stork bus, and it was a gutted Mercedes-Benz, really like a van that you see with people who are going camping.

[00:06:57] They turned it into a, you know, really a beautiful camper van. But what we did is we turned the first one into really a women's health clinic on wheels. And that first one really just ignited America. We just inspired people to support this ultrasound on wheels that would go out to meet women where they were at. And we've had such a beautiful relationship with sidewalk advocates, with churches.

[00:07:20] We just recently launched a mobile medical clinic in partnership with Catholic Charities and Marisol Health here in the Denver metro area. We are still bringing the mobile medical clinic across the country because we know now more than ever with the abortion pill, we need to get services to that woman. And, in fact, if that woman has already taken the first abortion pill, I'm so proud of what our partners are doing because they're bringing abortion pill reversal out to the community.

[00:07:50] So no mother has to feel like she can't reverse that decision. And, again, this is something that you won't find on Google. They really dismiss what the abortion pill reversal can do. In fact, one of our partners is in a lawsuit right now against the state of California, the attorney general. They're basically saying the thousands of lives saved by abortion pill reversal aren't worth anything. And, of course, believe differently.

[00:08:15] And we're going to keep fighting for these preborn babies and making sure that mothers know the truth and that they are given that ultrasound no matter where they are in the country. Let's take a break. And when we come back, we'll talk about, in fact, you could go to Save the Storks right now. There is a map, and we'll talk about that since we broadcast all over the country. You can see whether or not you have one of these units in your particular community. Some states have quite a number. Others need some.

[00:08:44] So we'll talk about that right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. Chris Rees is the managing editor of the Worldview Bulletin newsletter.

[00:09:10] He was on my radio program recently to talk about his article, Resurrection and the Fear of Death. In discussing the importance of the resurrection to the Christian faith, he later turns to the futility that secular philosophers experience in attempting to find meaning in life. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul describes what the gospel consists of by listing two foundational elements. Christ died for our sins, and he was raised on the third day. Both events happen in accordance with the scriptures.

[00:09:37] This was an early creed used by believers that Paul included in the letter. Chris Rees goes on to quote from secular philosophers who don't believe in God and don't believe in the resurrection of Jesus. Naturalist philosopher Alex Rosenberg answers some of the basic philosophical questions in this way. What is the purpose of the universe? There is none. What is the meaning of life? Ditto. Why am I here? Just dumb luck. Is there a soul? Are you kidding? Another physician talks about trying to resolve his fear of death intellectually,

[00:10:07] but concludes that it can't be done. Atheist professor Anne Thru Stark argues that after all the reasoning and all the rationales, I still desperately prefer to be a conscious, healthy human being than a corpse. Who wouldn't? Of course, the resurrection of Jesus does provide hope. The apostle Peter declares that God has given us a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, that your faith and hope are in God. We should be grateful that our hope rests in the historical fact of the resurrection,

[00:10:35] and this should stimulate all of us to share the good news with others. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view. Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net. That's pointofview.net.

[00:10:58] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. We'll continue our conversation for a few more minutes with Diane Ferraro. Again, she is chief executive officer for Save the Storks. Go to savethestorks.org. One of the buttons there is, what is a stork bus? And I thought we might talk about that for just a minute, because you have over 100 buses in 35 different states. And, of course, we broadcast all over the country.

[00:11:26] So our listeners in California, there's more than five. They have it broken down to five or more. California, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Some others where you have anywhere between one and four. But also I see that there are some states where there aren't any. And there's an opportunity for people to, first of all, find what might already exist in their state.

[00:11:50] But there's also a place where people can click on a button that says, I'd like to launch a bus. And if we're going to be, Diane, effective in reaching the abortion-minded woman who's convinced that the abortion pill or an abortion clinic is the only answer to her unplanned pregnancy, we're not going to be effective. And these buses and these mobile units, I think, are very important.

[00:12:17] And I think they're kind of on the cutting edge of what we need to be doing right now in terms of what is happening in the abortion movement. You're absolutely right. In fact, these state-of-the-art mobile medical clinics, sadly, were copied by Planned Parenthood a few years ago at the Democratic Convention. They had completely copied one of our stork buses with the exception of they didn't have an ultrasound because, again, the abortion industry doesn't want the woman to meet her baby or hear the baby's heartbeat.

[00:12:45] So we definitely need more of these mobile medical clinics across the country. We do have states that are still lacking a stork bus or a mobile medical clinic. And like you said, if your audience wants to go to savethestorks.org, they can see that map and look at the states where we are in desperate need of a mobile medical clinic to provide life-affirming care to women. One of the things you do is collaborative partnerships with churches and leaders and things of that nature.

[00:13:12] We just, a while ago, before you came on, had Dr. Eric Willis and Byron Barlow talking about leaders and pastors. And there's a button there to talk about church partnerships. And I thought that was very good because you can click on, I'm a pastor or a church leader. I'm a church member. Maybe a sermon outline. Now, for many of our listeners there for the first time may be hearing about Save the Storks.

[00:13:38] So they might say, okay, I maybe need to be educated a little bit on this. Or I'm ready to take some action. What do I do next? And you really have kind of a walkthrough on anything and any level that maybe a local church or a local Christian organization, maybe even a local pregnancy center might want to know about. So walk us through that for just a minute because we do have lots of pro-life individuals that listen to this program.

[00:14:07] But they just want to know, okay, what do I do next if I want to get involved with you? Absolutely. We definitely have some amazing resources. So we have one that's called the Start Course. And this is a series of short videos that anyone at the church can go through. We encourage church groups like a women's group or a youth group, even a home Bible study, to go through the Start Course and then talk to their pastor about how they can bring this to the entire church congregation,

[00:14:34] which then helps them become a true pro-life church in the community. And this is a free resource on our Save the Storks website. We also have Dare to be a Dad, which we wrote in partnership with Matt Hammett. He was the lead singer of Thank This Real, wrote a beautiful song called Lead Me. And this Dare to be a Dad program, it's a seven-day devotional for men, and this is completely free on our website. And we're so excited about this because we know that 89% of the time when a father steps up and says,

[00:15:01] I'm willing to parent this child when a woman finds herself in an unplanned pregnancy, 89% of the time that woman will choose life for her baby. So we really feel it's so important to equip and empower men to be fathers. In fact, Mariner's Church out in Newport Beach, California, they have their entire congregation of 20,000 members go through Dare to be a Dad. And they're now helping the Orange County Rescue Mission with our mobile medical clinic, with medical volunteers,

[00:15:29] with people who are helping fathers become fathers. And then they have a mom program as well. So these resources are so important because we understand that for some pastors it might be a little scary, especially in states where abortion is prevalent. They might feel, well, we don't want to scare away the congregation. We don't want to upset the local, you know, political community. However, we know that pro-life is not just a political issue.

[00:15:55] It is absolutely a scriptural issue, and it's something that we need to stand up for. So women in our community understand the sanctity of life. And by stepping in and going through these resources for the churches, we want churches, again, to be compassionate and loving and make sure that the community knows that their local church is a safe place for that woman when she is facing an unplanned pregnancy so she can go to them and be encouraged and supported

[00:16:23] and just really loved on so she can meet Christ and that her child can grow up in a loving church and they will have an eventual relationship with Christ as well. It's just a beautiful full-circle way for churches to get involved and really serve women in their community. Let me again encourage you to go to Save the Storks and move around because here's one that I found that wouldn't necessarily be obvious. If you click on Media, there's a whole section that relates to just what Diane was talking about.

[00:16:51] There's a section of Why Fathers Matter with Banks Ramsey. Also, a father's support in an unplanned pregnancy. And this is an important part of that because oftentimes when I do speak at a Pregnancy Resource Center banquet, we'll be talking about what we can do and most of the people on staff are women. But I said, men, there's still a place for you. And that is to minister to and reach out to the other men. Also, of course, there's all sorts of things that they can do.

[00:17:20] And you have a whole section that I think was very helpful that people might not be aware of that talks about the importance of men. And you're right. If the parents support, if the father of an unplanned pregnancy supports, abortion is less likely. And so in some respects, we need to not just reach out to the abortion-minded woman. We need to reach out to the men as well. And that's a section that you might not necessarily know is there.

[00:17:48] But if you click on Media, you will find, again, some of the outreach that you do to the men. Perfect. I'm so glad you mentioned that. We do often cover stories from the fatherhood perspective. And, again, the more men we can get to, these beautiful articles that will inspire them and just let them know they're not alone. And if we can encourage the older and wiser men in the church to really pour into the young men in the youth group and before there is an unplanned pregnancy, because we know, sadly,

[00:18:18] that 40% of people sitting in the churches have had an abortion. I really believe if we can go to the Media tab, if we can really have the older and wiser members of the congregation pour into younger people and just speak about the truth of what abortion does and how harmful it is and how there are, you know, so many regretful stories when someone makes that decision for an abortion thinking it's the best thing at the time. But that long-term, people do regret their abortion.

[00:18:46] And, in fact, we've learned that it takes, on average, 27 years for someone to share their abortion story with someone else to really get it out in the open and find that feeling. It's a long time to suffer alone. And we know that our Savior really wants us to put it at the foot of the cross and seek help and seek the love and support of others in our community. And, again, we have to, you know, remove that bushel that's hiding the light and really let this light be exposed so the church can be a source of, again,

[00:19:16] love and just a safe place for anyone in the community who's had an abortion. And, again, by doing that it will show someone who's facing an unplanned pregnancy of which every day there's thousands of women who are aborting their baby. Imagine if that church can be a source of comfort and light. So even someone who maybe doesn't belong to that church will say, I know that church does support women who are single moms or they support fathers who might be a single parent.

[00:19:42] And that's how you start to, you know, just get the good news out about the work of the church and the love of Jesus by reaching out to these single parents and people who are facing an unplanned pregnancy. Again, just go to Save the Storks. You can find out more about the Save the Storks mobile medical clinics. Also, they have Save the Storks partner clinics. And then, of course, one of the things we've been talking about more and more here on Point of View, the digital ecosystem where they can actually find out about care and just really holistic care.

[00:20:11] There's a place where you can donate. And the first step is, of course, just to go to savethestorks.org. We have a link there. It's right next to, of course, the picture of Diane. And, Diane, thank you for joining us today here on Point of View. Thank you, Kirby. This has been a wonderful privilege. And I just thank you and wish you a very blessed Fourth of July weekend. Let me again encourage you to check out and see. Maybe you have a clinic or a mobile clinic right there in your state. And if you don't, why not?

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[00:23:01] You are listening to Point of View. The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. Back for a few more minutes. Let's just kind of focus on a couple of things that have been happening this week. We will not be having our Friday weekend edition tomorrow. We'll be running a best tape, and I think you will appreciate those interviews.

[00:23:28] But since it is the day before, Fourth of July, we thought we would take it off, and I think most people are. I don't even see a lot of people in the garage near where this studio is. So I suspect a lot of people took off yesterday, and that is the case. But one more comment about this election in Colorado.

[00:23:49] We are talking about this Democratic Socialist, Milat Kuros, who, interestingly enough, is all of 29 years of age and is a former barista. Now, she does have a law degree and was basically kicked out of a law firm. So basically, she went from being an individual serving you coffee to now probably a person, a pretty good likelihood, she'll serve in the United States House of Representatives.

[00:24:17] There's a joke that's been going around saying, well, you better be nice to the people serving you coffee at Starbucks because they might be your next member of Congress. Because there have been a few of those. And not to disparage people that are baristas, that's a way to support people. I'm not criticizing that. The point I'm making is that at the age of 29, I'm not sure how much I knew about the government and whether I was even equipped to actually serve in Congress. But here you go.

[00:24:45] And interestingly enough, she has, in her victory speech, said, we will not wait to reject corporate PACs like AIPAC, which, of course, is one that's associated with Jewish people. No, we will not wait to end the genocide in Palestine. Of course, there's no genocide in Palestine. But nevertheless, AIPAC is not a collection of monsters, according to Zoran Mamdani and others.

[00:25:09] But this, I think, just shows you the obsession right now with those individuals in one way or another that are part of the Democratic Socialists of America. But, again, you have to understand that she was able to unseat a representative that had served 15 terms in Congress. 30 years. In other words, when she first served in Congress, Mila Kuros had not been born yet.

[00:25:39] But nevertheless, other Democrats in the House also were ones that voted for a Lebanon War Powers Resolution on Tuesday because they wanted to be critical of Israel. So sometimes what you're having is an already very liberal member of Congress being replaced by an even more liberal member of Congress.

[00:26:03] And so, as she points out, there really is almost a crusade right now to handcuff Israel from being able to do anything to defend itself. And one of the people that was talking about how these individuals who are basically holding to communist ideas is they said, you know, when you look back at what was called the Red Scare. This happened in the 1950s.

[00:26:32] And people that invoke, if you will, the specter of McCarthyism and red baiting and all that. But if you look at this, that's pretty much what you've ended up with now. Those individuals who were being criticized for being members of the Communist Party, now you have these individuals that are members of the Communist Party or at least members of the so-called Democratic Socialists of America.

[00:26:59] And if you look at the survey that was conducted just the other day by, and again, this was just looking at the New Jersey chapter of the Democratic Socialists. So, it, I think, is representative of the National. But, again, recognizing that this quote comes from the New York Times columnist Thomas Edsel, in which he said,

[00:27:20] this movement is as white as it is red, he said nearly four out of ten, 39.3%, nearly four out of ten of these Democratic Socialists also identify as anarchists, followed by Marxists, 35.7%, and then 10.7% of Democratic Socialists. So, the point is, they may come under the banner. There's this umbrella called Democratic Socialists.

[00:27:48] But when you go and really look at them, a very significant number, four out of ten, actually identify really as anarchists. But that was a home in which they found themselves. Another three and a half out of ten identify themselves as Marxists. And so, you only come down to one out of ten that really identify themselves truly as Democratic Socialists.

[00:28:15] So, the point I'm making, and the point that certainly Noah Rothman is making is, we quote, he says, don't have to pretend that anarchism and Marxism are just another flavor of progressivism. They're not. Nor are we obliged to take seriously the mainstream Democrats who insist that the radical left is nothing to worry about. That said, this isn't just a New York thing.

[00:28:41] It isn't just something about Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel or just a populist thing. This is, as he says, an anti-American thing. And so, these are individuals that have a very strong anti-American bias. And even though they will come under the banner, under the umbrella of Democratic Socialists, the reality is most of them are anarchists.

[00:29:11] What do we mean by anarchy? I want to get rid of everything. They're real good at tearing things down. Dennis Prager has been on this program many times before, and you might pray for him because of his accident. But he points out that leftists are usually good at tearing things down, not real good at building things up. And so, they're all about tearing down this country. And they say so in some of the most remarkable surveys that have been posted,

[00:29:38] even, even, I say, even in the New York Times. Let's go on, though, because Matt Vesto points out that if you're looking at why are we seeing so many of these individuals turning to socialism in these primaries, he's got a couple of reasons. First, he says the Democratic base is overwhelmed with overeducated elites. Now, nothing wrong with having graduate degrees.

[00:30:08] I have two of them, so I understand that. But there is a bias, a very definite bias in that regard. And so, those who are educated in various social sciences, in law, government, they are going to be much more likely to be your radicals. Number two, he says, the socialists have been really skilled at hiding their bizarre agenda items. I'll run through that list again in just a minute.

[00:30:36] And then the third reason comes from Michael Schellenberger, who we've quoted before, who, by the way, is a left, but not as radical as these leftists. But he says nothing else. There is, if you will, kind of an irony in their rejecting the liberal agenda, and that's causing them to move further to the left, which is really kind of odd.

[00:31:00] So, the other day, they put together the program of the Democratic Socialists of America. And you can find this in this article, but you can also find it in a very good article written a while back by Dr. Merrill Matthews, when he was cataloging all the things that were said at the most recent convention of the Democratic Socialists. But here's the short list since I'm coming to a break. Total defunding and abolition of the police, of jails and prisons.

[00:31:30] Ending the independence of the Supreme Court and the entire executive branch, making them subordinate to Congress. Expropriating property from capitalists and delivering it to the working class. Socializing energy production. Allowing surgeons to sterilize children and adolescents in an effort to change their sex. A return to Joe Biden's open borders policy.

[00:31:59] And the decriminalization of illegal camping and open air drug use. Yes, that comes from the Democratic Socialists of America. And again, most of these policies are not very popular. Even during the time of Black Lives Matter, only 15% of Americans wanted to abolish the police force. 74% of Americans approve of the separation of powers.

[00:32:27] 90% favor co-equal branches. Only 9% want one branch to hold more power. 81% of Americans view free enterprise in a positive way. Only 39% view socialism positively. And even of that 39%, a lot of them are thinking about Scandinavia, which is not the case. And only 37% of the public think doctors should be able to give drugs to or operate on minors in an effort to change their gender.

[00:32:56] And of course, 70% support closing the border. And 69% support limiting those who can claim asylum. Every one of these policy platforms and actually comments by the Democratic Socialists of America is unpopular. But those are the individuals right now that oftentimes are winning some of these primaries. So there's a lot of work to do.

[00:33:23] And that's what we focus some of our time and attention on here at Point of View. As you go to the break, you can read this whole piece, Socialism and Anarchism. You can also scroll down and make your gift to Point of View. Again, I'd love to hear from you as well. 1-800-347-5151. We'll take a break. Come back with some final comments right after this.

[00:33:59] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back once again, I'm kind of sad that we won't have a Friday weekend edition because some of the things we were going to talk about will be postponed to the following Friday. And one of those that was, I thought, very interesting that came from our friend Dr. Merrill Matthews, who unfortunately won't be there for the roundtable. But he did send to me a very interesting piece about how Iran plans to seize the church, the Protestant church there in Iran.

[00:34:28] So we may get into what's going on in Iran internally. Of course, we've been talking about the war, but there's some other issues as well. So we will indeed talk about that. And I'd be remiss if I did not mention that my commentary today is actually entitled The Fear of Death. And really what it is, is hearkening back to a very good piece by Chris Reese. Chris has been on the program many times. He's the manager and managing editor of the Worldview Bulletin newsletter.

[00:34:56] I subscribe to probably too many newsletters and too many news magazines, but I would put this one maybe near the top of the list. If for no other reason, it has been very helpful for us to identify some really good guests that Steve, my producer, has found. But also, it just has some really great pieces there as well. And one of the things that Chris Reese was doing, of course, is talking about the fact that

[00:35:23] our hope is in, of course, the resurrection of Jesus. And as we talked about the other day with my guest yesterday, when you go to 1 Corinthians 15, you see, of course, two foundational elements. Christ died for our sins, and he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. And we know that that was an early creed that was used. So that even predates when Paul writes that to the church in Corinth.

[00:35:51] But one of the things I thought was very helpful is you might want to also go to this, not only because you know some of the basic theology, but Chris Reese then took the time to quote from some secular philosophers. One I'll just use is Alex Rosenberg, who said, well, here's how you answer the great philosophical questions of our day. What is the purpose of life? There is none. What is the meaning of life? Ditto.

[00:36:20] Why am I here? Just dumb luck. Is there a soul? Are you kidding? And these are the kinds of comments that you're getting, even from these secular philosophers. So it's just a reminder, if nothing else, of the sadness in the world if you don't believe in the Bible. The sadness if you don't believe that there is life after death.

[00:36:45] Really just the horror of actually what it means to be a secular-minded person in a secular society. And so, again, I just thought that this would be a very helpful commentary. And, of course, you will see the link to his original. And for those of you that might be interested, I would highly recommend getting a subscription to the Worldview Bulletin. But just before we wind down, just a quick comment or two by John Stossel.

[00:37:15] I saw the other day he was talking about these self-driving cars. And we will probably spend a lot of time here on Point of View talking about a lot of issues. I'll hold up, for example, our Outlook magazine called the AI Crisis. Because whether you're talking about artificial intelligence, whether you're talking about robots, whether you're talking about self-driving cars, there's a lot to consider. But he points out, interestingly enough,

[00:37:44] and I had no idea the numbers were this high, that car accidents kill 100 Americans every day. But he says now there's a solution, self-driving cars. Well, you would think that that would be the case because now you have Google owns what is called Waymo. And some of you live in communities where you've already seen some of these Waymo self-driving cars. Perhaps some of you even gotten in a self-driving car.

[00:38:13] I think it'd be virtually impossible to get my wife into a self-driving car. But nevertheless, people have said that they have actually been much safer. Waymo makes the claim, but this is backed by other research, that when they actually have these self-driving cars, there's an 88% reduction in property damage and a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims.

[00:38:42] You might say, well, that's what they claim. Well, there is also this author that John Stossel interviews, Permissionless Innovation, which comes to the conclusion that 94% of all accidents are attributable to human error. And one of the ways to address that is, again, with self-driving cars. So who could be against it? Well, anybody that feels like they're representing taxi drivers

[00:39:08] or people that have Lyft or a variety of others and Uber. And so he quotes from a state senator, interviews him, and they now have a law that says that motor vehicles shall not be operated by an automated driving system without a human driver, seated behind the steering wheel, and engaged in the task of driving. In other words, even if you're going to have a self-driving car, you have to sit in the seat and basically do some of the driving.

[00:39:37] And the argument by Louis Sepulva is, again, a state senator, I cannot support something that's going to almost overnight lead to the loss of jobs of 100,000 people. First of all, that's not going to happen. You know it's not going to happen because some people will still want to have Uber, Lyft, taxis, whatever, and other people are going to want maybe to try a driverless car. And the bottom line is, as the researcher points out,

[00:40:04] that one of the reasons we have car accidents is humans get drunk, humans get drowsy, humans get distracted. Matter of fact, a lot of humans with their cell phones are distracted. That's why we want robots, because they don't get drunk, drowsy, or distracted. And every once in a while, you'll hear a story about, in this case, a Waymo vehicle striking something. One was striking a child in California. But again, as he points out,

[00:40:34] that is John Stossel and others, these are, at most, really isolated incidents. The child wasn't injured and actually jumped behind a car. Anybody probably would have hit the child, a driver or a self-driving car. And again, if people are unaware, we have had some times in the past where technology has changed things. Typist, switchboard operators, elevator operators, they've lost jobs. But you know what?

[00:41:03] They found other jobs, sometimes even better jobs. So, I think we'll continue to look at this issue of AI, robotics, and much more. But these are the kinds of things that we talk about on Point of View. If your church covers those, I doubt that you hear that from the pulpit of your churches, but maybe a Sunday school class addresses some of these issues ranging from AI to socialism to capitalism to even America's godly heritage. Great. But we cover those kinds of things

[00:41:33] every single day. So, as I say goodbye for this week, well, let me once again mention that if you want to make a gift, this would be a great time to do so. Scroll down to the button that says, give now. Or, even though we're going off the air, you can give us a call at 800-347-5151. 800-347-5151. As we go into the 4th of July, recognize that

[00:42:02] it's going to be a great time to see fireworks. Going to be all sorts of great celebrations. The state fair on the mall didn't work out so well. And a few other things. But, nevertheless, some things have been a lot of fun. But I hope that even as we celebrate the 4th of July, I hope you, like us, you will celebrate the fact that we have been around for 250 years. And it was America's godly heritage

[00:42:31] that gave to this country Christian values were important in the founding of this republic. Wouldn't it make sense that Christian values are also necessary in the maintenance of this republic? I think you know the answer. For that, let me again thank Megan. I think she's going to go on a vacation and well-deserved. So, certainly want to thank her for her engineering the program. We're going to have Doug with us next week. Looking forward to that. And, of course, always thank Steve for producing the program.

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