Cultural provocateur and podcaster Tucker Carlson sparred with students at Indiana University earlier this week as part of Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour.”
The late Charlie Kirk was originally scheduled to appear on the Bloomington campus.
The former Fox News host shared his perspectives on a wide array of topics raised by audience members, including abortion. After a student expressed support for it, Carlson wasn’t shy or subtle in his disagreement.
“Abortion is murder, obviously, and everyone knows that, and people are so into it because it’s the same ritual that every civilization, every civilization ever been studied has engaged in, which is human sacrifice,” he stated.
Carlson then went on to mention that both the Inca and Viking civilizations practiced forms of human sacrifice as a means to “appease the gods.” The Incas, who lived in South America between the 1400s and mid-1500s, called it “Qhapag Hucha” and considered the deaths to be honorable.
“[Abortion is] the most crazed level of fanaticism I’ve ever seen … That’s dark … It’s the saddest thing that could ever happen,” observed Carlson.
Given his college audience, the podcaster then pivoted to contrast the tragedy of abortion with the beauty and benefit of children.
I’m telling you this as a young person with the greatest sincerity, I mean this as a father of four, the only thing that matters is not your stupid job at Citibank. Trust me, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is having children, and your children are all that will matter to you. I don’t care what you say. I’ve lived it. I know that’s true.
Carlson went on to say he’s known plenty of women who have had abortions. “I don’t know one who’s happy about it, you know, and they’re really sad about it, and it’s awful,” he stated. “Because it’s not something that people take joy in.”
Seriously flawed attempts to prove otherwise have garnered lots of media attention.
A study published in 2020 by the University of California San Francisco claimed 84% of women who had abortions had positive or no feelings at all about killing their child after five years.
Reports failed to mention the study was funded by a pro-abortion entity and the women who agreed to be questioned (less than 38% of patients contacted) were likely less morally burdened. A high percentage of the women never responded at all after several years – likely because of the emotional trauma associated with abortion.
It was the late scientist and writer Isaac Asimov who observed, “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”
The student at Indiana University this week debating Carlson claimed abortion was a human right.
“It’s not a human right to kill people, dude,” quipped Tucker. “Sorry. In fact, killing people is the enemy of human rights. The human right is to live.”
“It’s not a person,” countered the student.
“Why don’t we show a video of an abortion, and let’s see if you can sit through it, and you would feel sick to your stomach,” Carlson shot back.
He then added,
No one wants to talk about the details, ever, and the most horrific things in life, including a lot that happens in war, including transgender surgeries, definitely including abortion. It’s all couched in abstract ideological terms, which are designed to prevent you from facing what’s actually happening.
A human being is being beheaded with a knife inside a woman, and if that beheading didn’t take place, that would be a person … We don’t get to kill people simply because they’re in the way, period, and if you can kill children who are in the way, you can kill the elderly who are in the way, and in the end, they’ll be killing us who are in the way. You can’t do that.
Despite Charlie Kirk’s assassination, robust debate on college campuses continues thanks to Turning Point USA and it’s bold, blunt, and some might even say brazen, guest hosts, especially Tucker Carlson.
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