Huckabee likens abortion to slavery at Missouri fundraiser

[sabra]

Source: AP

JEFFERSON CITY | Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee likened abortion to slavery in a Monday speech during a fundraiser for an anti-abortion group.

Huckabee said that when it abolished slavery, the U.S. debated and decided it was immoral for one person to have complete, life-or-death power over another. He said that should not change whether the control involves racial bigotry or a pregnant woman making a decision for her unborn child.

"What are we saying to the generation coming after us when we tell them that it is perfectly OK for one person to own another human being?" Huckabee said. "I thought we dealt with that 150 years ago when the issue of slavery was finally settled in this country, and we decided that it no longer was a political issue, it wasn't an issue of geography, it was an issue of morality. That it was either right or it was immoral that one person could own another human being and have full control even to the point of life and death over that other human being."

He said civilization cannot survive if "one group of people have life and death control over another for no particular reason other than their own conveniences and, in that case, prejudices."

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1102450.html

[LynneSin]

1. OMG that's about as bad as comparing Stem Cell Research to the Holocaust....

...and doing it in front of a room of Jewish leaders.

BTW, that was Michael Steele with that comment

[No Elephants]

10. The same Michael Steele who said abortion was a personal choice? You cannot reconcile those views.

[Christa]

2. Oh, that's rich

coming from a war hungry party who cares more about a few cells than about living humans.

[scytherius]

3. That's ok. We lien Huckabee to an umbrella stand n/t

nt

[No Elephants]

11. More like a steaming pile. Umbrellas can be both attractive and useful.

[NC_Nurse]

4. I can't take a creationist seriously. Period. Why is this guy's opinion on

ANYTHING to do with biology/science/healthcare worth a listen?

It's not.

[libodem]

5. Somebody drop a baby in that man's lap

...then get with the birth control! And pass out some condoms while you're at it.

[msongs]

6. his religion was a prime justifyer of slavery so he oughta know nt

[undeterred]

7. Women should be banned from reproducing

because we aren't morally developed enough to handle the responsibilities that come with being pregnant. In other words, the Creator made a huge mistake.

:sarcasm:

[Sal Minella]

8. Certainly. Common sense dictates that an invisible speck of cells should take precedence

over the well-being of any children the woman may already be struggling to support.

I wish Huckabee could be a woman just long enough to find himself raped and pregnant. A lot of education could take place in a very short time, there. And a wiser man he would be for it.

[thereismore]

9. Huckster forgot that among repigs slavery is OK. He is now out of touch with the base. nt

[Aristus]

12. Huh? I thought those crackers loved slavery and couldn't wait to get it back.

:shrug:

[Deja Q]

13. Well, he just opened a can of words. He's not self-employed, is he?

(and even then)

[Jefferson23]

14. The moral majority were aborted this past election Huckabee, get

lost already.

[fascisthunter]

15. Controlling a Women's Body is More Like Slavery you right wing moron

your head is so far up your own righteous ass, you failed to notice the irony of your own words.

[Matariki]

17. Thank you. I was going to say the same thing

that's so ass backwards.

[JerseygirlCT]

20. I think he's not fully convinced yet that women count as full

human beings.

Fetuses, OTOH...

[KamaAina]

24. Maybe if someone told him half (or more) of the fetuses (feti?) were female

that'd chill his bizarre fetus jones.

[dflprincess]

16. "...one group of people have life and death control over another.."

Sounds like our current health insurance system.

[Vinca]

18. So Huckabee must be for universal, single-payer healthcare . . . right?

After all, there is a group of people who now have life and death control over us: big insurance.

[JerseygirlCT]

19. But to his way of thinking, it's ok for a fetus to "own" the woman's body

for the duration, right? Without her permission?

Typical crap. And I suspect we'll be watching a race for the extreme right from the GOP - the party that still thinks they lost so soundly because they weren't extreme enough...

[canadianbeaver]

21. Aren't the eggs I carry mine....I own them, don't I?

Please explain how the eggs I carry, if they are eventually fertilized, are not mine and whoever supplied the fertilization, up until the fetus takes its first breath of life?
Why does someone else want/get to decide what is done to the parts of my body,that may end up becoming a breathing being, if I decide to continue the fertilization process to full term? If you get my meaning.....
or am I just a bit f*cked up with this thought?
like apples(unfertilized eggs) and oranges(fertilized eggs)....

[lynnertic]

22. Doublespeak. n/t

[caseymoz]

23. This idiotic rhetoric might spawn a civil war. What if the court lets the States decide?

Then you'll have the pro-choice and anti-choice states; the anti-choice states won't tolerate the pro-choice states accommodating "murder," especially when women cross into them to get abortions.

Fool politicians and religious leaders like Huckabee have spent 35 years whipping up emotions about abortion, which wasn't considered wrong in 1973. The rhetoric and political manipulation has created the possibility of disaster.