Dr. Ben Carson made a bold statement during a DoveTV interview where he compared abortion today with human sacrifice throughout history.

Dr. Carson said that Americans routinely criticize religions and cultures that in the past sacrificed their children to various “gods” but say nothing when women actively protest for the right to kill their babies for the god of self.

“It’s interesting,” Carson said in his interview with Perry Atkinson, “that we sit around and call other ancient civilizations heathens because of human sacrifice, but aren’t we actually guilty of the same thing?”

Carson also took the opportunity to explain why he was supporting a candidate for the senate in Oregon that says in campaign literature she is pro-choice.  He said that GOP Senate candidate Monica Wehby said she’s personally pro-life but doesn’t feel that the government has any business interfering with the relationship between the mother, the doctor and God.

Carson said he feels differently because if abolitionists had taken a similar hands-off approach, a black man like himself likely still wouldn’t be able to write his thoughts on or maintain a website.

Carson said that if America could just end abortion “all of the other things that God would be interested in helping us with would fall into alignment.”