{"id":70624,"date":"2015-08-13T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=70624"},"modified":"2015-08-13T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:34:30","slug":"ben-carson-discusses-planned-parenthood-racist-roots-abortion-exceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-carson-discusses-planned-parenthood-racist-roots-abortion-exceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson discusses Planned Parenthood&#8217;s racist roots, abortion exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson went\u00a0on the offensive against abortion and Planned Parenthood this week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Newsmax <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/ben-carson-planned-parenthood-black-community\/2015\/08\/12\/id\/669869\/\">reports<\/a>, Carson told Fox News Channel\u2019s Neil Cavuto that he believes Planned Parenthoods were originally set up in black neighborhoods to \u201ccontrol that population,\u201d describing the abortion giant\u2019s founder, Margaret Sanger, as someone who \u201cbelieved in eugenics\u201d and who was \u201cnot particularly enamored with black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CBS News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ben-carson-responds-to-hillary-clinton-on-abortion\/\">reports<\/a> that the day before, Carson reacted to Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton\u2019s remark that the candidates\u2019 pro-life stances were \u201coffensive\u201d by noting, \u201cI spent my entire career as a pediatric neurosurgeon, frequently staying up all night, fighting, struggling to save the life of little babies, even operating on babies inside the womb. So I don&#8217;t think it should be hard for anyone to understand that I am totally opposed to killing babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called the claim that abortion is sometimes necessary to save a mother\u2019s life \u201cspurious\u201d because \u201cwe have advanced so much in medicine these days that that situation rarely occurs,\u201d but as to whether he would allow such abortions, Carson said only, \u201cyou have to look at the individual situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On August 7, Live Action News\u2019s Amanda Read <a href=\"\/news\/scott-walker-informs-megyn-kelly-abortion-not-necessary-to-save-mothers-life\/\">wrote<\/a> that the 2012 Dublin Declaration of obstetric and gynecological experts contends that \u201cdirect abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman,\u201d as distinguished from \u201cmedical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child,\u201d which are sometimes necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson went\u00a0on the offensive against abortion and Planned Parenthood this week. Yesterday, Newsmax reports, Carson told Fox News Channel\u2019s Neil Cavuto that he believes Planned Parenthoods were originally set up in black neighborhoods to \u201ccontrol that population,\u201d describing the abortion giant\u2019s founder, Margaret Sanger, as someone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":70633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3581,19,4162,404,131,1445,671,14,31,116,615],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ben Carson discusses Planned Parenthood&#039;s racist roots, abortion exceptions - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson described PP&#039;s founder, Margaret Sanger, as someone who was \u201cnot particularly enamored with black people.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-carson-discusses-planned-parenthood-racist-roots-abortion-exceptions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Carson discusses Planned Parenthood&#039;s racist roots, abortion exceptions - 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