“The View” panelist Sunny Hostin shocked her co-hosts with a racially charged hot take on the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling on frozen embryos.
Earlier this week, an Alabama court ruled 8-1 that frozen embryos are children, and therefor are protected under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
The ruling was made in response to a wrongful death lawsuit three couples filed against a reproductive center, when five of their collective embryos were accidentally destroyed.
On Friday morning’s episode of “The View,” Hostin, who serves as the show’s legal analyst, said that she believes the ruling was a way for Alabama’s all Republican Supreme Court bench to ensure more white children are born into the country.
Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin, who has used IVF, says the GOP only wants to protect IVF because it's the only way for white people to have kids and stave off being replaced by minorities.
"Multicultural Americans are going to become the majority population by 2050." pic.twitter.com/NFRPvEm9dC— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 23, 2024
“I actually think they do want you to have more children, and they’re just not saying the quiet part out loud,” she began.
“Which is?” Co-host Joy Behar prompted.
“Which is, multicultural Americans are going to become the majority population by 2050,” she rattled off statistics from a study.
Hostin said that in 2050, Hispanic Americans will have the highest population growth at 6%, while the population of white Americans will drop by 11%.
“At this time the birth rate for white Americans has been falling since the great recession, and it’s dropped almost 23% between 2007 and 2022,” she added.
“Wouldn’t white women be getting the IVF?” Behar pointed out.
“Well, that’s why they want IVF, but they can’t say, yes, they’re — they’re coming out sort of against it and not being able to explain why,” Hostin stuttered trying to make her point.
“They want to have more American white children born because the birth rate has gone down.”
Co-host Sarah Haines argued that she didn’t believe that the ruling was motivated by race, but by money.
“Until it affects them, they don’t care,” she objected.
She thinks that this decision goes back to the Supreme Courts Roe v. Wade ruling, which Haines said most negatively affects the “have-nots.”
“But when it hits the haves in the face, because all their wives want to have babies, that’s when it makes change,” she remarked.
“And guess what they’re doing today, they’re taking it back to make change. That’s not a race thing, that’s a money thing.”
Hostin wouldn’t let go of her thought process and asserted that “It’s race and about the queer community.
“Because who uses IVF? The LGBTQ community also uses IVF and surrogacy, and they don’t want that,” she insisted.
Haines argued that the ruling was not based on science, as embryos are 3-5 days old on average when they’re frozen.
“50% of Americans believe that a human embryo is a baby,” Hostin snapped. “I am one of those.”
“The embryo is an embryo until 10 weeks when it becomes a fetus. A fetus is not viable until it’s 24 weeks. If we’re going to use science, let’s use scientific terms,” Haines clapped back.
“An embryo is the beginning of human life,” Hostin concluded.
Fellow panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin questioned how Hostin could support abortion with that belief.
Hostin explained that she was not a supporter of abortion, but does believe that “the government shouldn’t be involved in women’s reproductive health.”
She pointed out that she has two children that were conceived via embryonic IVF treatments.
“If someone destroyed my embryos, I would feel like someone destroyed my children,” Hostin concluded.
On Friday, former President Donald Trump called on Alabama Legislature to immediately figure out how to preserve IVF in the state.
BREAKING: President Trump calls on the Alabama Legislature to preserve the availability of IVF in the state. pic.twitter.com/SJcs7G0Iga
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 23, 2024
“Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
He noted that this involves “supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America.”
“Like the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans, including the VAST MAJORITY of Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and Pro-Life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby,” he continued.
Trump called on the Alabama Legislature to “act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama.”
“The Republican Party should always be on the side of the Miracle of Life – and the side of Mothers, Fathers, and their Beautiful Babies,” he noted.
“IVF is an important part of that, and our Great Republican Party will always be with you, in your quest, for the ULTIMATE JOY IN LIFE!”