Watch The Tense Moment Whoopi Goldberg & Elisabeth Hasselbeck Spar Over Abortion Rights On 'The View'

Although the show began peacefully, with Goldberg welcoming Hasselbeck back as “the first conservative” who has “the best conversations” about sensitive and controversial topics, the two co-hosts quickly began a tense debate about women’s abortion and reproductive rights.

"I believe our creator assigned value to life, and that those lives have plan and purpose over them as designed by God that are not limited to the circumstances of conception, nor the situations they're born into," Hasselbeck stated.

She later added, “I might not change your minds, but I hope women out there know to look for the nonprofits, look for the agencies that help you create a birth plan and match you with an adoptive family."

Goldberg was the first, and seemingly only, of the other View co-hosts to fire back at Hasselbeck’s pro-life comments by expressing her belief that God provided women the “freedom of choice.”

"God doesn't make mistakes… [God] made us smart enough to know when it wasn't going to work for us,” Goldberg responded pointedly. “That's the beauty of giving us freedom of choice

“No,” Hasselbeck quickly responded, before Goldberg was finished sharing her opinion. "What about the life in the womb? Life has a plan and a purpose designed by God."

Hasselbeck then, to little response from her co-hosts and The View studio audience, held up an embroidered towel that read: "I'd agree with you, but then we would both be wrong.”

Goldberg and Hasselbeck’s contentious argument became awkward when Goldberg looked at the camera and said, "nobody at this table is not pro-life, nobody is happy about getting an abortion."

"That's not pro-life,” Hasselbeck quickly rebutted before the show went to commercial.