Dr. Ben Carson gave a heart-stirring defense of the pro-life position when speaking with Tucker Carlson recently.
“Looking at innocent little babies being killed, just because they happen to be in the safest place where you can possibly be, which is in the mother’s womb – therefore (that) gives you a right to kill them?… I know Kamala Harris feels that way,” he said.
Carson, 72, told Carlson that he decided to be a doctor when he was just eight years old because he knew then that life is precious. “As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I operated on very premature babies. Sometimes 27, 28, 29 weeks’ gestation. And we had to give those babies anesthesia. They felt everything. And yet, you have people who are willing to stick a forceps into the uterus of a 27-week baby, grab whatever is there, twist and pull, and out comes an arm or shoulder, or another part of the anatomy, knowing that that baby can feel that. I mean, to me, it’s barbaric. And I don’t understand how people can do it. I truly do not understand how medical colleagues can do that.”
Carlson asked Carson to explain what his medical colleagues thought about him. “We’ve had some very heated discussions… they talk about women’s rights. But what gives you the right to kill another human being just because that human being is being protected by you?” he said.
Carson concluded the interview by stating that he decided “long ago” that “I’m going to speak up for what I believe in. And even if people try to persecute you, this comes back to my faith. What is that little persecution against the backdrop of eternity? So, I don’t really worry about that too much.”