Mr Carson has made a habit of saying what he’s “not supposed to say” and then deriding the subsequent firestorm as attacks from “politically correct” critics.
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Like Trump, Carson’s candidacy has been marked by a string of controversial comments.
Carson also explained that in dealing with the issue of abortion, one should look at earlier perceptions on slavery: it was once considered acceptable, and it took years for this mindset to be reversed.
No. Think about this. “Anything that they chose to do”, Carson said, as quoted by CNN.
Asked by NBC host Chuck Todd if such statements would hamstring his aspirations to the presidency, Carson said: “As people get to know me, they know that I’m not a hateful, pathological person like a few people try to make me out to be”.
Viewing Ben Carson as violent seems near-impossible for many when you take into account his soft-spoken nature and the amount compassion he had in order to be a pediatric surgeon. “And of course, “Even Dr. Carson says you lied” became the inaccurate epithet thrown at us till the end of the campaign”. Where would we be?
He said he might be willing to allow abortions to preserve the life and health of the mother but continued “ultimately, I would love to see” Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling “overturned”. Carson stuck to his views and stated he would not be, ” in favor of killing a baby because the baby came about in that way”.
Mr. Carson, who has not been shy about using slavery and Nazi metaphors, held up what he said was a historic parallel with abortion.
TODD: “And that means all abortions illegal, or is there still an exception that you would have?” The worst ones even mashed together two separate responses Carson gave.
The Huffington Post: “Ben Carson Once Again Compares Something to Slavery, This Time Abortion”. This time, it’s a woman’s right to have an abortion.
Despite the controversy, Carson has launched to the top of the Republican presidential field in recent polling.
And after the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Carson linked gun control to the Holocaust, saying Hitler’s goals would have been diminished if people were armed.
Ben Carson, the apparent frontrunner in the Republican race for president, just couldn’t help himself.
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The remarks were met with an immediate backlash, with several GOP candidates and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, calling on Carson to withdraw from the presidential race. The rape victim was his property, as was the baby he fathered.
