Megyn Kelly And Bill O’Reilly Have A Second ‘Shoot-Out’ Over Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Some people may find this kind of heated discussion “Destructive To America,” but no one can deny that Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly make some great political theater together. Tonight they took on the topic of partial-birth abortions as understood by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which launched the usually convivial colleagues into a deep 5-minute argument that veered dangerously into the territory of defining whether a fetus is a child.

On Tuesday, Kelly and O’Reilly discussed Justice Ginsburg’s ruling on partial-birth abortion, where she took issue with the language of a fetus as an “unborn child,” as well as an Affirmative Action case where Ginsburg wrote that she believed the promotion of minorities should be a more important priority than elevating the most qualified candidates. Kelly challenged O’Reilly to a second round, where both sides came with new evidence and better prepared to debate.

O’Reilly repeatedly tried to get Kelly to argue whether a fetus is a child, which she admitted she believed her child was a human being when she was pregnant but refused to fall into that discussion further. She made a distinction between the legal and moral definitions of what it is to be human, and pointed out that Ginsburg’s complaint in the partial-birth abortion case was of language, not of opinion. O’Reilly retorted that her attitude disregarded the Constitution: “It’s impossible for any reasonable person to think that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and the rest would want partial-birth abortion.”

O’Reilly and Kelly’s exchange below: