{"id":178354,"date":"2018-01-26T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178354"},"modified":"2018-01-27T12:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:44:59","slug":"shapiro-men-abortion-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/shapiro-men-abortion-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro: Men have the right to say abortion is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On January 25, 2018, conservative commentator and Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro posted a Facebook video of a Q&A session at the University of Connecticut, in which he answered a questions from a female audience member (who says she is going into the healthcare field). She asks how he, as a “white, well off, religious man” feels he has a right to tell a woman that abortion<\/a> is wrong.<\/p>\n

The unidentified woman says, “I personally don’t think that I could have an abortion… but how do you defend your opinion as a white, well off, religious man… telling a woman what she can do with her body and forcing her to –”<\/p>\n

Before she can finish, Shapiro answers, “Because evil things are still evil, even if I’m a white, well off, religious man.”<\/p>\n

He then discusses how many of those fighting against slavery more than a century ago were white, well off men who took a stand that enslaving Black people was morally wrong. Those men did not have to be enslaved or share the same race as those who were enslaved in order to know that slavery was evil.<\/p>\n

“My identity has nothing to do with what is right or wrong,” Shapiro says. Watch:<\/p>\n