Pope Leo XIV’s recent comments, about how being pro-life should influence capital punishment and immigration policy, gave the cackling coven of ABC’s The View the perfect opportunity to thumb their nose and lecture conservatives about what it supposedly meant to be pro-life. Even calling them hypocrites for wanting to defend their lives with firearms.
“I'm at least consistent as a lifelong Catholic,” shrieked self-proclaimed “devout Catholic” Sunny Hostin. “I am against abortion. I'm also against the death penalty. I'm also against guns. I'm also against the starvation of children. I'm a humanitarian above all, because I believe that all life is precious.”
Flaunting how prideful she was about her position supposedly being beyond reproach, Hostin chastised gun owning Christians as hypocrites for wanting to defend their lives, even using air quotes to describe their brand of pro-life (pictured above):
Yes, I'm against the death penalty in all cases. In all cases and that's why I find there is a hypocrisy with certain Christians who are 'pro-life' but they will pull that electric chair switch. They are 'pro-life' but they have their AR-15s in their cabinet. They are pro-life but they don't mind immigrant families being torn from each other. They are pro-life but they don't care about little children's subsidies being taken away from them. That is not pro-life!
Owning a firearm was very pro-life. It allowed the owner to defend their life as well as the lives of their loved ones and the innocent lives around them. A Georgetown University study from 2022 “estimates that guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 1.67 million incidents per year.”
Radio and TV host Jesse Kelly called out Hostin by equating her to the Devil in an X post. “Never let the communist use your values against you. It’s one of his favorite tactic [sic] because it has been so effective on America’s Right for so many years,” he wrote. “No more. Like the Devil himself quoting scripture to Jesus, this is what they do. Reject it.”
Pretend independent co-host Sara Haines, who once proclaimed that it was “God’s Will” that pro-lifers die of cancers, falsely suggested that mothers were not a facture in the pro-life argument:
Well, I was going to say I go from it less from politics, more from faith in the sense that people should check in with themselves. Because one of the things I think is always left behind in the conversation about choice is – are the mothers. The moms who are often battling the toughest decision they've ever had, struggling in their own lives, looking for help; which we don't offer a lot of those social services and I think that life is always kind of left out of the equation as a casualty.
While this conversation was spurred on by the leader of the Catholic Church, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (who played a Catholic nun in the Sister Act movie series) scoffed at the notion of parishioners going to a priest for confession: “Well, if you believe in the Bible, you believe in God, then you know that God says, ‘you don't have to go to anybody else to confess whatever you are going through. Come to me. No one can judge you but me.’”
“No one has an abortion for fun. It's not something people go and, like, go party with,” Goldberg lied. In reality, the left had embraced the so-called “Shout Your Abortion movement,” alone with people literally throwing parties after they get abortions.
So far this year, The View applauded rising abortion rates while decrying the Trump administration’s plan increase America’s birthrate. In 2023, they hosted far-left extremist Jane Fonda who advocated for murdering pro-lifers.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 2, 2025
11:19:04 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm at least consistent as a lifelong Catholic, I am against abortion. I'm also against the death penalty. I'm also against guns. I'm also against the starvation of children. I'm a humanitarian above all, because I believe that all life is precious.
JOY BEHAR: You're against the death penalty in all cases?
HOSTIN: Yes.
BEHAR: Because some people really deserve to get it.
[Laughter]
HOSTIN: Yes, I'm against the death penalty in all cases. In all cases and that's why I find there is a hypocrisy with certain Christians who are 'pro-life' but they will pull that electric chair switch. They are 'pro-life' but they have their AR-15s in their cabinet. They are pro-life but they don't mind immigrant families being torn from each other. They are pro-life but they don't care about little children's subsidies being taken away from them. That is not pro-life!
(…)
11:20:27 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: Well, I was going to say I go from it less from politics, more from faith in the sense that people should check in with themselves. Because one of the things I think is always left behind in the conversation about choice is – are the mothers. The moms who are often battling the toughest decision they've ever had, struggling in their own lives, looking for help; which we don't offer a lot of those social services and I think that life is always kind of left out of the equation as a casualty.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, if you believe in the Bible, you believe in God, then you know that God says, ‘you don't have to go to anybody else to confess whatever you are going through. Come to me. No one can judge you but me.’
So, if you're going through -- if you're going through it and you are a person of faith, go to God. If it's not your thing, then figure out what is right for your life. Because, in this country, we still respect the mother. I do. And if the mother feels like she can't, I don't live her life. I don't know and I'm going to believe her when she says she can't because no one -- No one has an abortion for fun. It's not something people go and, like, go party with.
So, you know, I believe we all have the things that we believe in and they're not black and white all the time. Sometimes they move.
HOSTIN: And that's the great thing about this country. You can have your own beliefs and not put them on other people.
GOLDBERG: Say that again.
HOSTIN: You can have your own beliefs and not push them onto other people.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: And that's why we're going to break right now. We'll be right back.