While appearing on DoveTV recently, Ben Carson said that America has no right to assert that ancient civilizations were “heathen” for practicing human sacrifice since this nation is doing the same thing by allowing abortion to remain legal.

Carson, who has no problem endorsing candidates who support abortion rights in order to win votes, was responding to a comment by host Perry Atkinson who said that if America could just end abortion then “all of the other things that God would be interested in helping us with would fall into alignment.”

“It’s interesting,” Carson said, “that we sit around and call other ancient civilizations ‘heathen’ because of human sacrifice, but aren’t we actually guilty of the same thing?”