WASHINGTON -- Front-running Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Sunday that rape and incest are not valid reasons to terminate a pregnancy
Encouraged by surveys showing him running ahead of Donald Trump in Iowa, the retired neurosurgeon said exemptions should be studied only in occasional cases concerning the mother's health condition, if people can come up with a rational explanation as to why they would like to kill a baby.
Carson said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would love to see the Supreme Court's 1973 resolution in Roe v. Wade which authorized abortion be reversed.
As for cases of rape or incest -- exemptions that are usually made by other abortion opponents -- According to Carson, all we have to do is go and look up the various stories of people that have led very useful lives who were the outcome of rape or incest.
Carson said that Mothers should not have the right to end an unwanted pregnancy, just as slave masters did not have the right to do whatever they wanted to their slaves. Had advocates allowed that, he said, "Where would we be?"
According to an interview, Carson said that babies in the womb should not be looked at as the antagonist of the mother and that abortion would only promote a line of malicious thinking. When asked if life begins at conception, Carson bluntly replied that he believes it does.
