Bill Nye: A Woman Has a Right To Abortion, ‘Especially If She Doesn’t Like the Guy Who Got Her Pregnant’

EXCERPT:

NYE: "I'm sorry, you guys, I know it was written, or your interpretation of a book written 5,000 years ago, 50 centuries ago makes you think that when a man and a woman have sexual intercourse they always have a baby. That's wrong. And so to pass laws based on that belief is inconsistent with nature. I mean, it's hard not to get frustrated with this, everybody. And I know — nobody likes abortion, okay, but you can't tell somebody what to do. I mean, she has rights over this, especially if she doesn't like the guy that got her pregnant. She doesn't want anything to do with your genes. Get over it. Especially if she were raped and all that. So it's very frustrating on the outside, on the other side. We have so many more important things to be dealing with. We have so many more problems. To squander resources on this argument based on bad science, on just lack of understanding, it's very frustrating. You wouldn't know how big a human egg was if it weren't for microscopes, if there weren't for scientists, for medical researchers looking diligently. You wouldn't know the process, you wouldn't have that shot, the famous shot or shots where the sperm are bumping up against the egg. You wouldn't have that without science. So then to claim that you know the next step when you obviously don't, it's trouble.”