The topics of abortion and “when does life begin?” often lead to heated discussions on ABC’s The View. Tuesday was no exception as they tackled the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that someone could be sued and held liable for destroying fertilized embryos under the state’s “wrongful death of a minor” law. Amid their conversation, staunchly pro-choice co-host Sara Haines ghoulishly argued that pregnancies and babies born via in vitro fertilization should not be considered part of the “miracle of life.”
Surprisingly, she got pushback from co-host Sunny Hostin, who declared that a frozen embryo was indeed “an unborn child.”
Haines fought tooth and nail to deny that embryos should be considered people. “I believe this is a stretch to call this a minor… The embryo. They're calling it a minor. We're calling it a full-blown minor, not an embryo, not a fetus,” she whined. She went on to chide: “But if you put that little embryo out into the world, it's not viable on any level.”
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