The then 16-year-old Canadian pop star — hardly known for political commentary — told Rolling Stone in 2011, “I really don’t believe in abortion. It’s like killing a baby,” adding that, even in cases of a rape that produces a pregnancy, “everything happens for a reason,”

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Bieber’s comments were attacked on The View, with co-host Joy Behar saying Bieber’s “everything happens for a reason” comment was “really insulting to people who have been raped or victims of incest. There is no ‘reason’ for that.”

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