Ben Carson blasts ‘barbarous’ practice of aborting unborn babies: ‘I can guarantee you they can feel’

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?