Fox News political analyst Brit Hume delivered an impassioned speech in favor of the pro-life movement Wednesday on Special Report, castigating the Left for its "absurd euphemisms" favoring abortion and praising "March for Life" protestors for their commitment.
"This is the 41st anniversary of the day the Supreme Court found that a generalized right to privacy it had basically invented meant that a woman has a constitutional right to snuff out an unborn life, a human being with a beating heart," Hume said. "That's what a fetus as young as six weeks is. Small wonder these protesters still come every year to register their continuing objections."
Hume also slammed Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers for disguising their views with rhetoric.
"Its advocates resort to evermore absurd euphemisms to describe what they support," Hume said. "They're not really pro-abortion, they've long said, they're 'pro-choice.' This isn't about killing unborn babies, it's about reproductive health. And the biggest chain of abortion clinics in the country refers to itself as Planned Parenthood. In 2012, this organization says it carried out 'abortion procedures' 329,445 times. Whatever that number represents, it's not parenthood. These protestors here today understand that there's something deeply false and wrong about all of this."
Full exchange:
BRIT HUME: This is the 41st anniversary of the day the Supreme Court found that a generalized right to privacy it had basically invented meant that a woman has a constitutional right to snuff out an unborn life, a human being with a beating heart. That's what a fetus as young as six weeks is. Small wonder these protesters still come every year to register their continuing objections. Some estimates are that as many as 55 million abortions -- 55 million -- have occurred since the Court acted. In that time, science has given us an ever-clearer picture of just how much of a baby a fetus is. At 20 weeks, we now know these tiny creatures can hear, even recognize a mother's voice. Their toe nails are growing and their hearts beat loud enough to be heard by a stethoscope. The moral case for allowing such beings to be killed grows ever weaker and its advocates resort to evermore absurd euphemisms to describe what they support. They're not really pro-abortion, they've long said, they're 'pro-choice.' This isn't about killing unborn babies, it's about reproductive health. And the biggest chain of abortion clinics in the country refers to itself as Planned Parenthood. In 2012, this organization says it carried out 'abortion procedures' 329,445 times. Whatever that number represents, it's not parenthood. These protestors here today understand that there's something deeply false and wrong about all of this. They come each year to remind the rest of us. Bret?
BRET BAIER: Where do you think this goes from here, politically or otherwise?
HUME: Well, you saw what the Gosnell case did to the support for abortion rights versus life. Abortion rate is down generally in this country. If science is able to determine that a fetus at a certain age, a certain stage feels pain or feels pain from nearly the beginning, that would change everything. I think the support for abortion and abortion rights and for its legality would crumble, and I think that the political atmosphere around this issue would change almost overnight. So that's the place to look, to see what science tells us next.