Fox News contributor Dr. Ben Carson said on Friday that women should be "re-educated" to stop them from having abortions.

During a speech to a predominately traditional and religious group at the Values Voter Summit, the former neurosurgeon who was recently hired by Fox as a newscaster said that health was of the utmost importance, and that it "is the most valuable thing that you have."

"And that's the reason that your health should be controlled by you and not by the government," he said, according to The Raw Story. "But when we're talking about things that are important, life is important. And that includes the life of the unborn.

"You know, there are those of us in this society who have told women that there's a war on them because that cute little baby inside of them, they may want to get rid of it and there are people that are keeping you from doing that. And women say, 'No, no, they're not doing that to me! No!' And they get all riled up."

He also said that there was clearly not a "war on women" because men offer their seats to pregnant women.

"There is no war on them, the war is on their babies," Carson continued. "Babies that cannot defend themselves. Over the past few decades, we have destroyed 55 million of them. And we have the nerve to call other societies of the past heathen.

What we need to do is re-educate the women to understand that they are the defenders of these babies."

Watch the video below to hear Carson's sentiments on pregnancy and abortion.

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