Dr. Ben Carson appeared yesterday on The View and argued strongly against abortion, shocking hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg.

“You sort of feel that there’s not actually a war on women, but that may be a war on what’s inside women?” asked Goldberg.

“Yeah, the babies. I mean, we’re killing babies all over the place,” Dr. Carson replied. “I spent my entire career trying to preserve life . . . even operating on babies in the womb, sometimes operating all night long on premature babies.”

“There is no way you’re going to convince me that they’re not important, that they’re just a mass of cells,” Dr. Carson continued.

Goldberg then asked if he has ever met a woman wrestling with aborting a baby and whether he had empathy for the difficult decision. After Dr. Carson replied that he did have empathy for these women and that the private sector can help provide things like day care, Joy Behar said Republicans should then “applaud” Planned Parenthood.

— Tom S. Elliott is the founder and editor of Grabien.