Andrew Melton

A nurse tries to trap Matt Walsh on abortion, demanding to know why he’d force a 13-year-old to give birth to her rapist’s child. Then Walsh asks him one medical question, and the nurse wants to run away. NURSE: “Why do you believe that a 13-year-old should be forced to give birth to their rapist’s child?” WALSH: “I don’t think that it is ever okay to kill a child.” Then he flips it. WALSH: “You’re the medical expert. The unborn child, is that a human being or not?” NURSE: “That is a religious question.” WALSH: “It’s not a religious question. It’s a medical question. What is it if it’s not a human being?” NURSE: “Medically speaking, we don’t consider it a full-fledged human being.” WALSH: “What do you mean full-fledged?” Instead of answering, the nurse pivots: why don’t we have “conception certificates”? Or “a heartbeat certificate”? Walsh even agrees to the heartbeat certificate. But he keeps coming back to the one question. “Is the unborn child a human being or not?” Eventually, the nurse tries to bail. NURSE: “I appreciate your time.” WALSH: “No, no, no. Come back. Come back here.” “You’re the medical expert, and you won’t even tell us what a human being is. I’m starting to get concerned.” [crowd laughs] Then Walsh sums it up: “You have one side that can answer directly. It’s never okay to directly and intentionally kill a human child. That was my answer. I think I gave it probably 15, 20 times. “And then you have the other side that has no answer at all to this question. What is a human child? Can’t even answer it.” The nurse knew the answer. That’s why he left.