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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.
Charlie Kirk Confronts UC Riverside Biology Student Who Defends Infanticide at Campus Event
Charlie Kirk faces off with a UC Riverside biology student who claims babies aren't worthy of protection until they can speak, essentially defending infanticide up to age two. The heated exchange exposes the moral crisis in higher education as the student argues that metabolic activity and DNA don't qualify as markers for human life. Kirk dismantles the student's position by forcing him to grapple with the logical conclusion of his argument: that killing a six-month-old infant would be morally acceptable. The confrontation ends with Kirk calling for federal defunding of universities that produce such morally compromised graduates.
Biology Student Claims Babies Aren't Human Until They Can Speak
At a Turning Point USA event on the UC Riverside campus, Charlie Kirk encountered a biology student whose moral framework shocked even the seasoned debater. The exchange began with the student mocking the crowd composition, claiming Kirk had bussed in elderly supporters from retirement homes because he couldn't attract genuine student interest.
Kirk quickly dismantled this accusation, pointing to the diverse age range in the audience and challenging the student to find even one older person in the immediate vicinity. The confrontation revealed a deeper issue: the left's refusal to acknowledge conservative popularity on liberal college campuses in California.
The Abortion Debate Takes a Dark Turn
The conversation shifted to abortion when the student questioned Kirk's position that life begins at conception. Kirk asked a simple question: when does human DNA form? The student, despite being a biology major, struggled to reconcile scientific facts with his ideological position.
Kirk pressed the issue: "When did your development begin as a human?" The student acknowledged understanding zygote formation and DNA fusion but refused to accept these as moral qualifiers for human life. This led Kirk to articulate what makes humans unique: the ability to distinguish good from evil, right from wrong, and just from unjust. Human beings, Kirk argued, are made in the image of God, existing above animals and below angels.
A Shocking Admission About Infant Life
The exchange reached its most disturbing point when Kirk asked directly: "When did your life become worthy of protection?" The student's response was chilling: "When I became actually conscious and able to speak."
Kirk immediately recognized the implication. If speech is the qualifier for personhood, then babies don't become worthy of protection until around 18 months to two years old. Kirk pushed the logic to its conclusion: "So if I murdered you at 6 months, that's okay?" The student answered affirmatively: "Yes."
The audience erupted in response to this admission. Kirk then challenged the student on disabled babies who may never speak, forcing him to confront the eugenics implications of his position.
The Moral Framework Collapses
The student attempted to clarify his position, suggesting that "nervous activity" rather than literal speech might be the qualifier. But Kirk exposed the arbitrariness of this standard by comparing it to animal consciousness. Pigs demonstrate nervous activity, yet the student admitted to eating meat.
Kirk returned to first principles: humans are valued because they are human beings. A disabled person remains valuable not because of their capabilities but because of their humanity. They are not snakes, lizards, toads, or leopards—they are human beings, and therefore worthy of protection.
The Final Test Question
Kirk posed a hypothetical to test the student's moral framework: "Would you save a hundred dogs' lives or one human life?" Kirk answered immediately: one human life. The student hesitated, claiming "it depends on the human," then provocatively stated he would save one dog over Kirk's life specifically.
Kirk pressed for the reason why a human life should be prioritized. Before the student could fully respond, Kirk ended the exchange, pointing to the long line of other students waiting to engage. His closing statement was sobering: "The fact that he's a bio student at this university shows the horrifying moral rot happening in higher education and Trump should defund all these schools as evidence."
Implications for Higher Education
Kirk's final observation highlighted a crisis in American universities. A biology student—someone studying the science of life itself—had adopted a moral framework that justified infanticide. This wasn't just a fringe opinion from a random individual; it represented the logical conclusion of abortion rhetoric taken to its extreme.
The exchange demonstrated how ideology can override both scientific understanding and basic moral intuition. The student understood the biology of human development but had been taught to separate biological facts from moral value. This disconnect, Kirk argued, represents the rot at the core of higher education that justifies calls for institutional reform and defunding.
