{"id":202507,"date":"2019-05-20T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=202507"},"modified":"2019-05-20T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T22:20:07","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-feelings-life-begins-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/whoopi-goldberg-feelings-life-begins-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg says ‘feelings’ determine when life begins. Science says otherwise."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The women of talk show “The View” were discussing the Georgia heartbeat bill<\/a>, which bans abortion<\/a> after a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected. Predictably, most of the women on the panel were against it, with the exception of pro-lifer Meghan McCain. And in the conversation, Whoopi Goldberg — who moderates the show — argued that feelings are what matters when it comes to supporting legal abortion.<\/p>\n

McCain kicked off the debate by pointing out that pro-life women are frequently left out of the abortion conversation, with abortion activists often arguing that they fight on behalf of all women — even though women are equally as likely to be pro-life<\/a> as they are to be “pro-choice.” After McCain explained that she believes abortion to be murder, rejecting the notion of nuance, Goldberg responded, “Except that’s OK that you feel that. No one is saying you can’t feel or believe that.”<\/p>\n

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Ana Navarro then chimed in that she would like to see more opinions from doctors and medical experts, leading McCain to fight back that science is already on the pro-life side. “Science, by the way, overwhelmingly shows that life does start at conception,” she pointed out. “The science backs it!” Goldberg then argued that this was “your belief,” with McCain asking incredulously, “You don’t believe science?”<\/p>\n

“Here’s what I don’t want to do. Don’t say ‘you don’t believe’,” Goldberg responded. “That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m saying I don\u2019t believe that the minute you conceive, you are with child. I believe a lot of things have to happen. The baby has to become zygote. There have to be all kinds of things going on for me. But the problem for me is — I\u2019m happy that you feel that way. I want everybody who feels that way to feel that way. What I don\u2019t want is I don\u2019t want anyone telling me what I have to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n