Abort! Abort! Abort!
Posted on 03/24/2009 11:04:21 AM PDT by wagglebee
Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee compared abortion to slavery during a speaking engagement at a recent pro-life event. However, his comments are drawing criticism from a leader of the NAACP, the nation's largest civil rights group.
During a Monday speech for the Missouri-based Vitae Caring Foundation, which creates and sponsors pro-life television advertisements across the country, Huckabee made the remarks.
Huckabee said that, when the United States abolished slavery, it got rid of the concept that one person had the powerful life and death decision over another. he said such a decision was wrong when it came to slavery and equally wrong with regard to abortion.
"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," Huckabee added. "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."
Missouri NAACP President Mary Ratliff was upset by the speech and told the Associated Press the abortion-slavery comparison was "'apples to oranges."
She called it "offensive" to use slavery to make a point about another political issue.
"It seems to me now that when folks want to object to some kind of morality type of issue, they want to attach it to slavery," Ratliff told AP.
Huckabee has made the abortion-slavery comparison before.
Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas prior to launching a bid for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. He ran a surprisingly strong campaign and is seen as a potential top-tier candidate for the GOP nomination in 2012 against pro-abortion President Barack Obama.
During the campaign, he told Fox News that abortion shouldn't just be a state issue and discussed how slavery was abolished at the federal level.
"Well, it’s the logic of the Civil War," Huckabee said at the time. "If morality is the point here, and if it’s right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can't have 50 different versions of what’s right and what’s wrong."
"Can you have states saying slavery is OK, other states saying it’s not?" he continued. "If abortion is a moral issue--and for many of us it is, and I know for others it’s not. So if you decide that it’s just a political issue, then that’s a perfectly acceptable, logical conclusion. But for those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can't simply have 50 different versions of what’s right."
Black pro-life advocates have had issues with the NAACP over abortion before.
Rev. Clenard Childress, a New Jersey pastor, and a leader of the black pro-life group LEARN, protested the 2008 national convention of the NAACP.
Childress says that, historically, the NAACP "has failed to address the concerns of many of its delegates about abortion."
He pointed to a 2004 resolution voicing support for “equal access to abortion” and urging its members to participate in a pro-abortion rally in Washington. Then, in 2007, the NAACP, for the second time in four years, blocked a proposed resolution expressing opposition to abortion.
Slavery was a PRIVILEGE, compared to the lethality of Abortionism! And, think how much BETTER off the decendents of the slaves are, compared to those left behind in Africa!
I couldn't agree more!
More than 15 MILLION BLACK BABIES have been murdered since 1973, more blacks are killed in abortuaries EVERY TWO DAYS than have died in racial crimes (lynchings, etc.) in the past 150 years. As reprehensible as slavery was, systematic murder was not one of its components.
Abort! Abort! Abort!
“It seems to me now that when folks want to object to some kind of morality type of issue, they want to attach it to slavery,” Ratliff told AP.
Maybe she is right. Slavers didn’t neccessarily plan to kill the slaves - just exploit them. This contrasts with abortionists and babies.
Slavery ruined lives. Abortion destroys lives.
Forcing a woman to bear an unwanted fetus is slavery and the government is the slave master.
The NAACP sure wasn’t upset when the homosexual lobby compares themselves to the civil rights protesters.
The NAACP used to point out bad things that whites did and rightly so.
Now unfortunately
The NAACP protects bad things that blacks do which is not good.
What happened to “content of character”?
Was this sarcasm?
“It seems to me now that when folks want to object to some kind of morality type of issue, they want to attach it to slavery,” Ratliff told AP.
Morality? Where it not for the morality of white men, men who gave their lives for your freedom, you would still be picking cotton.
Apparently the NAACP have interpreted Martin Luther King’s dream, as not so important as to include the living unborn in his cry for freedom.
They are willing slaves, bound in shackles of their own mind by ignorance, hate and by their own hands..... frankly, they are stupid.
It’s become a racist political organization.
Maybe because it's the worst thing people can think of. Slaves got treated a lot better than aborted babies. They were fed, clothed and housed. They were not butchered, not used for immoral medical experiments and thrown in garbage bins like utter garbage.
Was this sarcasm?
Ten bucks says he was serious.
For once I agree with a statement made by the NAALCP.
It is an apples and oranges argument.
Any comparison between between abortion and slavery does a disservice to abortion. Abortion is incalculably worse.
The only valid comparison is to the holocaust.
What makes you think it is sarcasm?
“It seems to me now that when folks want to object to some kind of morality type of issue, they want to attach it to slavery,” Ratliff told AP.
Libs sure don’t mind using slavery when it fits into their agenda....it just peeves them that the other side can play those games too. Apples to oranges?? what an idiot. it’s humans (babies) to humans (slaves)....duh...idiot. moron. vessel of stupidity...
In those days, the DANGEROUS work was done by the "Paddys" - a slave was considered too valuable to put at risk.
I was wondering the same thing. The reason I thought it might be sarcasm is because it's the stupidest, most liberal, satanic thing I've seen on FR in a very long time.
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