Ben Carson blasts ‘barbarous’ practice of aborting unborn babies: ‘I can guarantee you they can feel’
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Celebrated neurosurgeon Ben Carson talked about the evil of abortion at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday. Speaking from his experience operating on unborn babies, Carson condemned the “barbarous” practice of abortion and the left’s “totally ignorant” description of babies in the womb as “clump of cells,” Breitbart reported.
“I can guarantee you they can feel,” Carson told the crowd in National Harbor, Maryland. “They can react.”
Recent late-term abortion bills in New York and Virginia rolled back restrictions on abortion up until and even after the moment of birth, citing the mother’s health as a justification. Democrats also recently rejected a GOP-backed bill, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have required doctors to provide life-sustaining care to babies who survive botched abortions.
Carson blasts abortion
The Housing and Urban Development Secretary spoke on a panel titled “The Heartbeat of Humanity,” which touched on abortion and the recent late-term abortion push in state and federal legislatures. Penny Nance, president of the conservative group Concerned Women for America, interviewed Carson and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), mother of a child with Down syndrome, who both urged CPAC attendees to oppose lawmakers who vote for late-term abortion.
Carson expressed disgust at the barbarism of abortion and shock at the new trend of late-term abortion sweeping through the Democratic party. Drawing from his experience as a doctor, Carson described abortion procedures in detail and hit back at the usual left-wing rhetoric to downplay the reality of the lives destroyed.
“You have a baby who could live outside of the womb,” Carson said. “But some people feel that it’s okay to murder that baby.” He added, “And the level of barbarism that requires — I, quite frankly, don’t know how people can do it.”
“You have to give them anesthesia if you’re going to cut them, believe me,” Carson said. “But they can also respond to comfort and to warmth,” adding, “And for somebody to say that’s a meaningless bunch of cells, honestly, is just totally ignorant.”
Carson expressed his views that life is sacred and marveled at the “amazing” wonder of God’s creation. “That’s a very good question because, with all the technology that we have acquired as human beings, we still don’t have the ability to create life,” he said. “The heart has started to beat,” Carson said. “It’s absolutely amazing.”
He was also skeptical of the “women’s health” argument for late-term abortion, citing the emotional scarring that mothers who have abortions can suffer. “They talk about they’re doing this for the health of the mother,” Carson said. “What about the mother’s mental health that she has to endure for the rest of her life?”
Blasts Dems on infanticide
In a separate interview with Fox, Carson wondered aloud whether society is heading off a cliff with the Left’s recent embrace of late-term abortion. “I think it’s a critical issue because we are talking about the morality of our society,” Carson told Fox. “Are we going off the deep-end here or are we still loving and compassionate people?”
Asked about the Democrats’ rejection of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Carson said, “I would say please stop and spend a little time educating yourself about what life is all about, and about when babies can feel and when they can respond to external stimulation.”
Democrats should heed Carson’s message. Do they realize what they’re supporting?
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Dr. Carson is correct. From personal experience, I know that unborn babies can feel and respond. During one of my wife's pregnancies, she had an amniocentesis test. Our little fellow, at 16 weeks, was very "active", and our OB/GYN had trouble keeping the needle away from him. The reason for keeping the needle away from the baby was because the baby would feel PAIN if pricked.
Response to a stimuli is not the same as feeling pain. At 16 weeks, a fetus has not yet developed the necessary neural pathways to perceive pain. That does not occur until about 28 weeks gestation.
Who is planning on paying for all these unwanted babies? Certainly not those who are the most vocal about ending abortion. They’re more interested in tearing down what social safety nets we have. They are more likely to buy your foreclosed house and rent it back to you at twice your monthly mortgage.
Oh, please. A woman should be able to decide long before the 40th gestational week of her pregnancy or after the birth of her baby whether or not she wants to keep her baby.
You just said that babies can feel pain at 16 weeks. Where is your line?
When was the last time you experienced an unwanted pregnancy?
It's not your body so butt out.
Oh please. Ben Carson (and you) need to practice what he preaches: EDUCATE YOURSELF. These laws regarding late-term abortions place restrictions on such procedures, so it's not a question of whether a woman wants to keep her baby.
But then, you and the Ben Carsons of the world -- like the one who posted this article -- certainly don't let facts get in the way of your rants.
Live births are instantly protected by The Born Alive Abortion Survivor Act of 2002 and every state's laws covering the same circumstances.
Get educated.
The mother has no choice if there is a live birth.
End of the discussion.
She can either take the newborn home
or sign the newborn over to a perinatal social worker for adoption.
Let me ask you a question. Your baby is born without a brain stem or hydroencephaly or some abnormality. Are you going to spend tens of thousands of dollars for a child that will probably not live to see its second birthday? Or are you going to hold it in your arms, make it as comfortable as you can, and watch it breathe its last breath?
Y'all need some education and fast
The wait time to adopt a newborn is between 2 and 7 years. That's really not an issue.
Are you seriously claiming that every abortion could be converted to an adoption? What about those babies who end up being born with disabilities? Are you planning on forcing that baby on the non-maternal mother? Or will that burden fall on the mother who didn’t want a baby to begin with? This is not a black and white subject.
You are dreaming.
Did you knowingly adopt a disabled child? No? Then how does your comment have anything to do with the issue of adopting disabled babies?
You are clearly on another page in this conversation. We’re talking about the statistically guaranteed fact that some percentage of abortions would end up as a special needs child if the abortion had not occurred. Obviously, the vast majority of women seeking an abortion would not have any indication that their unborn was destined to be disabled. Try to keep up here.
And don’t pull the disabled family member card. I too have a family member who has had millions of dollars worth of surgeries, to correct a fatal heart defect in his case, and worthy of note - all paid for by the federal government, ie your taxes. The mother was given the option of abortion late in her term, when the defect was discovered. She chose not to terminate, and I have a fifth grandchild as a result.
The other day my daughter posted another heartbreaking story on her Facebook page about a heart baby with a condition identical to her son’s, who unexpectedly died due to their condition. This one died at three years old in daycare, the same age as my grandson. My daughter is forever haunted by this potential outcome. She dotes over that boy like a mother possessed with keeping him safe and healthy, but she knows how easily it can all end. It is a brutal decision to make when you know what the reality is, and it should be entirely the mother’s decision to make. If she chooses to not terminate even though she clearly doesn’t have the financial means to meet his needs without social support, then don’t you dare complain about those “takers” spending millions of your tax dollars on their free healthcare.
That's up to the woman who is pregnant to decide.
Does the mother of a baby have the right to remove life support?
There is no such thing as abortion AFTER being born. Sheesh...
I would like you to recognize that since there it no such thing as abortion AFTER birth, your question is ridiculous. In FACT, for that reason, all of the BS about 'they are aborting their babies after they are born' is ridiculous.
Abortions are not done after birth.
Then pose your question cogently MUVA.
Oh, who the hell is Ralph?
So you're misrepresenting what he said too.
It has nothing to do whit disagreements. You've admitted TWICE that you misstated your question and now you claim that I don't understand it.
Utter obfuscation.
That "procedure" is called "comfort measures." It allows natural death to occur when there is no hope of recovery or no quality of life, rather than forcing interventions which will ultimately be futile to prolong life. We do it for adults too.
Celebrated affirmative action neurosurgeon Ben Carson threw the bloody meat to the faithless at the CPAC klavern today. Wonder who or what showed him how to get there? And will the same who or what show him how to get home?
I can guarantee that you can't guarantee that.
This country is overpopulated, reducing both the birthrate and immigration is needed very much and fast
Ben Carson was sued for malpractice at least 8 times.
and his "amazing gifts" of neurological surgical skills separating conjoined twins ?
20% success rate, same as those who went before him.
He’s got an amazing gift for picking out expensive dining room furniture at taxpayer expense.
A "gift from God". That all-knowing, ever loving being that fails to see that "He" implanted a fertilized egg into a woman that is going to terminate her pregnancy. LOL LOL - so much for all knowing. Or that "he" implanted a fertilized egg into a woman that will abuse the child. LOL LOL LOL - so much for ever loving.