{"id":76307,"date":"2015-10-06T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=76307"},"modified":"2015-10-06T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:49:32","slug":"ben-carson-defends-his-pro-life-stance-on-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-carson-defends-his-pro-life-stance-on-the-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson defends his pro-life stance on &#8216;The View&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson took on the all-female, mostly pro-abortion\u00a0panel (at least one of whom is\u00a0still <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-ceo-falsely-told-congress-they-never-claimed-to-provide-mammograms\/\">falsely claiming<\/a> that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms) on The View today, discussing his beliefs\u00a0on life, birth control, and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaze <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/10\/06\/ben-carson-draws-gasps-from-crowd-glares-from-hosts-as-he-takes-strong-anti-abortion-stand-on-the-view\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIn my case, I spent my entire career trying to preserve life and give people quality of life,\u201d [Carson]\u00a0said, explaining his past operations on premature babies and babies still in the womb. \u201cThere is no way you\u2019re going to convince me that they\u2019re not important, that they\u2019re just a mass of cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C66-XnT61IU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whoopi Goldberg then deflected the conversation from the life in the womb to whether or not Carson could empathize with the &#8220;horrendous decisions&#8221; that women must make when choosing abortion. But if there is no life in the womb, what makes the decision to abort so &#8220;horrendous&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Joy Behar didn&#8217;t really have a coherent argument, but that didn&#8217;t stop her audience from applauding wildly when she claimed Republicans should be supporting\u00a0Planned Parenthood (known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/liveaction.org\/projects\/\">repeated lawbreaking<\/a>) for providing birth control and mammograms for women. \u00a0Interestingly enough, some\u00a0Republicans have actually advocated for <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3305879\/republicans-cant-stop-talking-about-over-the-counter-birth-control\/\">making birth control available over the counter<\/a> &#8211; no Planned Parenthood necessary.\u00a0And as we&#8217;ve already discussed, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms, as <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-ceo-falsely-told-congress-they-never-claimed-to-provide-mammograms\/\">confirmed by their CEO<\/a> just one week ago, under oath before Congress &#8211; despite <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tu_0-iD-rPk\">previously claiming that they did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Dr. Carson for keeping his cool and articulating his position in the midst of fervent\u00a0opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson took on the all-female, mostly pro-abortion\u00a0panel (at least one of whom is\u00a0still falsely claiming that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms) on The View today, discussing his beliefs\u00a0on life, birth control, and the Republican Party. The Blaze reports: \u201cIn my case, I spent my entire career trying to preserve life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":76309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,4162,145,329,1023,14,34,330,5395],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ben Carson defends his pro-life stance on The View<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;There is no way you\u2019re going to convince me that they\u2019re not important, that they\u2019re just a mass of cells,&quot; said Dr. Ben Carson of the preborn on The View.\" \/>\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-defends-his-pro-life-stance-on-the-view\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Carson defends his pro-life stance on The View\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;There is no way you\u2019re going to convince me that they\u2019re not important, that they\u2019re just a mass of cells,&quot; 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