Compelling Observations about Human Procreation from Roseanne Barr, Tucker Carlson, and Calley and Casey Means

P. A. Ritzer

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Compelling Observations about Human Procreation from Roseanne Barr, Tucker Carlson, and Calley and Casey Means

Part Seven of "The Big Lie of Overpopulation and the Fear that Drives It."

P. A. Ritzer

Mar 17, 2025

Transcript

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P. A. Ritzer, Volume 30

Please see all twelve parts of “The Big Lie of Overpopulation and the Fear that Drives It:” Part One: “One Big Family;” Part Two: “Truth Pierces the Veil of Propaganda;” Part Three: “Elon Musk, Bill Maher, Mark Steyn, Ronald Reagan, and Paul VI on Demography, Life, and Murder;” Part Four: “Nature, Control, and Sin;” Part Five: “Psychology, Communication, Love, Communion, and Sacrament (Not Necessarily in that Order);” Part Six: “Sexual Morality, Hope, and Healing;” Part Seven: “Compelling Observations about Human Procreation from Roseanne Barr, Tucker Carlson, and Calley and Casey Means;” Part Eight: “The Deep, Broad Root of the Culture of Death;” Part Nine: “In Vitro Fertilization and Transhumanism as Illuminated by Nicole Shanahan and Mattias Desmet;” Part Ten: “‘A Truly Human Civilization’ vs. the F-Word Culture;” Part Eleven: “Fear, Control, and Death;” and Part Twelve: “Making Room and the Courage to Love;” and please see also “The War on Women and Population Control.”

I am reminded of a conversation I had recently with an Anglican bishop who had long-ago discovered Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. He expressed, in quite an animated fashion, how reading it opened up his mind and his ministry; how, as a Protestant, he had never heard terms like unitive and procreative before he had read the work and that how ever after it had guided his ministry. Consequently, as a young priest, when he would have couples meet with him prior to marriage, he would ask the young men if they were ready to be fathers, and when they would say that no, they were not planning to be fathers yet but just planning to get married, he would correct each of them to understand that if he was getting married he was choosing to be a father. He concurred with me when I said that I believed 95% of so much of what is wrong with our culture today is that we have separated human sexuality from reproduction.

But such truths are not only self-evident to those of such lofty station as the Magisterium of the Catholic Church or an Anglican Bishop, but even to one no less earthy than Roseanne Barr, who has recently said she wants to start the Make America Moral Again (MAMA) movement.¹ In an interview earlier last year with Tucker Carlson, Roseanne Barr said, “You know, people should not have sex. That’s one way that we can fix the world right now. . . . unless you’re married and you can take care of the kids that are going to be a result of it. Right? Isn’t that common sense?” Mr. Carlson replied, “I strongly agree.”2 God bless Ms. Barr for speaking common sense about human sexuality into our culture, a culture so toxic that Mike Cernovich, in another Tucker Carlson interview, claims that it grooms people for fornication, pornography, and worse and worse sexual sins.3 Paul Harvey famously exposed it as far back as 1965 in his broadcast “If I Were the Devil.”4

In reference to Mr. Carlson’s agreement with Roseanne Barr, I have noticed another evolution in Tucker Carlson’s thinking that may be leading him to the truths articulated in Humanae Vitae. He exposed a bit of this evolution in his interviews of Calley and Casey Means and Vince Coglianese.

“You know, people should not have sex. That’s one way that we can fix the world right now. . . . unless you’re married and you can take care of the kids that are going to be a result of it. Right? Isn’t that common sense?” —Roseanne Barr

In Mr. Carlson’s interview with Calley and Casey Means, Calley stated, “Chronic disease medications didn't exist before 1960. The first one was the birth-control pill, the first pill that you took for more than a couple of weeks, that didn't cure the issue right away, ever. So in 1960, 0% of the medical attention was on chronic conditions. . . . Today, 95% of spending is on chronic conditions.”5 Please, read what he said again. So, there were no medications for chronic disease before 1960. And when we did start on this questionable road of chronic-disease medication, and all that that entails, we did so by treating God’s gift of human fertility, and its ability to create more human beings for God and us to love, as a disease. Ponder that.

Mr. Carlson did not want to pass over the subject of the birth-control pill, so he said:

Can we just go to the pill really quick. I just want to say upfront that, you know, I’m Protestant, never had a problem with birth control. I never thought about it, but, um, at all. So that's my position or has been my position, which is actually radically changing as we speak. But, um, I've always felt that way, so I never really thought about it, but I always noticed that you were not allowed to criticize the pill, period. Like that was not allowed in the world I grew up in. You can have all kinds of kooky opinions. You cannot criticize the birth-control pill. And now I feel like maybe we were played a little bit.6

Casey Means responded:

Yeah, I mean, I . . . I . . . I can speak as a physician, but I can also just speak as a woman who has taken all these different medications because it's liberation. It's liberation. We can do whatever we want, you know, and I can . . . who needs to get a period when you can, you know, work in the hospital 100 hours a week and put off having, and then I freeze my eggs at 37 and have kids, you know. . . . So you've got these medications that are literally shutting down the hormones in the female body that create this cyclical, life-giving nature of women. We basically told women, these hormones don't matter. Your ability to create the most miracle of any miracles, which is create life, just shut it down. There's no impact. That's crazy to me. And as I've woken up from this, I'm realized, like your cycle and having these hormonal cycles is, is part and parcel with our health in every possible way, and also with the miracle of creating life. And so for years, you just lose the biofeedback of what's happening with your cycle. It is the, it is one of the key barometers of female health. How is your cycle doing? Is it regular or is it heavy? And we're just, we just shut it down and say there's no repercussions for that, which I think gets to a larger issue, which is a disrespect of life. Right? It's a disrespect of things that create life. . . . We have lost respect for life, which again gets to the spiritual crisis.7

Yes! “We have lost respect for life, which again gets to the spiritual crisis.”

Tucker responded, “Keep going. Keep going. I love this. You are speaking truth right now.”8

And when we did start on this questionable road of chronic-disease medication, and all that that entails, we did so by treating God’s gift of human fertility, and its ability to create more human beings for God and us to love, as a disease.

In his interview with Vince Coglianese, after they discussed how the Biden administration is trafficking illegal aliens into the United States, Mr. Carlson said, “And then convincing Americans that having children is like the worst thing that they could ever do.” They moved on to how at the Democratic National Convention there was a mobile clinic that offered abortions and vasectomies. Carlson said, “Who would get a vasectomy at the DNC?” He continued: “It’s just so interesting. I mean, I’m re, I’ve been pro-life, you know, since my 20s, anyway, um, when I had kids and really thought about it, . . . um, even before then. But I did, never really connected that to birth control. I mean I’m Protestant. I never had any problem with birth control, practiced birth control, but in that, I’m not really sure what I think of it now, but I know what I think of people who are obsessed with preventing conception and childbirth. . . . Like, what is that? Why the obsession?”9 Mr. Carlson touches on the subject again in his interview with medical ethicist Charles Camosy.10

It makes me think of a married couple who lived next door to me in an apartment complex in San Antonio decades ago. I had been sharing with them information about the Church including the Catechism of the Catholic Church. At a time when so many people were condemning the Catholic Church for its opposition to artificial birth control, the wife of the couple, who were not Catholic, told me that she really respected the Catholic Church’s condemnation of artificial birth control because the pill was so obviously detrimental to women. I told her that I thought it so strange that some women would go out of their way to eat healthy food, get their exercise, and then ingest a substance that completely devastates the intricate natural hormonal balance and interplay in their bodies.

It is interesting that, in light of his conversations above, Tucker Carlson makes clear in questions to his many and varied guests that he wonders how we in the United States, and the western world, got to our present state of depravity and degeneration. In his speech in Wichita, Kansas on 13 September 2024, he said:

How could Tony Blinken at the State Department, and Joe Biden at the White House . . . how could every one of their policies be anti-human? Is that an accident? I don’t think it is, actually. I think what we’re seeing here is a manifestation of the spiritual battle that’s been described by every civilization since the beginning of time. And again I just want to say that I’m not saying that as someone, you know, who is so pious and faithful as a Christian that you should follow my example. Please don’t. I’m saying that as someone who is searching for another explanation, and I can’t find one because there is no rational explanation for what we’re seeing now. There is none. You’re encouraging people not to reproduce? No human being would ever encourage other human beings not to reproduce. . . . So, what we’re looking at is evil.11

Just so! What Mr. Carlson exposes here, in his search for truth, is the culture of death of which Saint John Paul II wrote in Evangelium Vitae.12 The culture of death encompasses abortion, warfare, disregard of the danger of nuclear war, transgenderism, same-sex marriage, human trafficking, and various other manifestations. It is evil. And left unrepented, it festers and sickens the soul of a nation. The culture of death tries to pretend that abortion is little more than having a mole removed with commensurate effects. That lie leaves us with a society in denial, full of all the physical, psychological, and spiritual effects of the violent slaughter of the most defenseless human beings and the deep wounding of their parents and the rest of us who are all affected by it. It leaves us with deeply damaged mothers—physically, psychologically, and spiritually—who do not seek the healing in all those areas so necessary for their health and the health of society. And fathers of the aborted need the healing too. And the loss of the children needs mourning. Thus, the culture of death infects our nation, and everyone in it, in every way until we face the evil, repent of it, and seek the necessary healing.

And that is where we will wrap up Part Seven. Part Eight should follow shortly.

Thank you,

P. A. Ritzer

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