Ben Carson Says Abortion Should Be Banned in Cases of Rape or Incest

2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson said over the weekend that he believes abortion should be banned even in cases of rape or incest.

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, made his comments while speaking on ABC's "This Week" this past Sunday, following up on his continued pro-life stance.

 "I believe that once conception has been achieved, that it is a human life," Carson said in response to a question of whether he would support abortion in cases of rape or incest.

"What I have said is that, you know, I have spent my life trying to save life, not trying to destroy it," he added.

Carson recently defended himself against accusations that he had carried out research on aborted fetuses in 1992, as his name was listed as being an author of a research paper that involved research of two aborted fetuses.

The retired neurosurgeon has denounced the claims as "simply not true," added that he was "sickened" by the "pathetic" accusations.

"It simply is not true. The study they distributed by an anonymous source was done in 1992. The study was about tumors. I won't bore you with the science. There were four doctors' names on the study. One was mine. I spent my life studying brain tumors and removing them. My only involvement in this study was supplying tumors that I had removed from my patients," Carson said in a recent Facebook post. 

"Those tissue samples were compared to other tissue samples under a microscope. Pathologists do this work to gain clues about tumors. I, nor any of the doctors involved with this study, had anything to do with abortion or what Planned Parenthood has been doing. Research hospitals across the country have microscope slides of all kinds of tissue to compare and contrast. The fetal tissue that was viewed in this study by others was not collected for this study," Carson added.