{"id":197687,"date":"2019-03-03T14:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197687"},"modified":"2019-03-02T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T23:17:13","slug":"barbaric-ben-carson-abortion-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/barbaric-ben-carson-abortion-cpac\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s barbaric’: Dr. Ben Carson speaks on horrors of abortion at CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson talked candidly about the evils of abortion during the 2019\u00a0Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carson, a former pediatric neurosurgeon, spoke to a full house during a panel discussion<\/a> called “The Heartbeat of Humanity,” facilitated by Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America. Joining them was Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), who spoke of the joys of parenting a child with Down syndrome. Carson used his knowledge and experience as a physician to discuss the horrors of abortion. Among the many striking points of his testimonial was the fact that preborn children do<\/em> in fact feel pain in the womb.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had the privilege of being able to operate on little babies that were 25, 26, 27, 28 weeks\u2019 gestation, and I can guarantee you, they can feel, they can react. You have to give them anesthesia if you’re going to cut them, believe me,\u201d he told<\/a> the crowd. “For somebody to say that’s a meaningless bunch of cells, honestly, is just totally ignorant.”<\/p>\n

Carson went on to describe exactly what happens during an abortion, calling the procedure “barbaric” and describing late-term abortion as “murder.” He also didn’t fail to address the long-term implications abortion has on a mother, saying, “How many of those mothers end up psychologically damaged? They talk about they’re doing this for the health of the mother; what about the mother’s mental health that she has to endure for the rest of her life?”<\/p>\n