Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” much of the reaction to a leaked draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion indicating the high court would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision showed the left viewed abortion as “religion.”

According to Hawley, the behavior of Democrats, including his U.S. Senate colleague Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), showed how far the left was willing to defend their so-called “religion.”

Partial transcript as follows:

CARLSON: So you have a sitting Member of Congress threatening Supreme Court Justices with a mob if they don’t do what she wants. That seems very dangerous to me.

HAWLEY: You know, what it is, Tucker, is abortion is religion for the far left, and they are willing to do anything to defend that religion and to force it on everybody else and that is why they’re willing to burn down the court as an institution, you know, they’re only for the institution if it does exactly what they say it should do.

And let’s be clear what Roe really says. What Roe really says is that the people are too stupid to make these decisions for themselves.

CARLSON: Exactly.

HAWLEY: The people can’t be trusted to actually vote and deliberate and make tough moral choices and says, “Oh, no, no, nine Justices wearing robes, they should be the ones making all the decisions.” That’s not what the Constitution says, though, Tucker, and that’s why we need to get back to trusting the people and actually enforcing the Constitution.

CARLSON: Well, exactly. I mean, I have really strong feelings on this subject, I would be absolutely happy. In fact, I hope that we can put this up for a vote in the United States Congress, in the House and the Senate, and we can determine what the people want to do about abortion. Why is that a scary option?

HAWLEY: You know, it’s not scary. It’s democracy and this is about whether or not democracy is going to have its day.