“It’s the logic of the Civil War,” Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. “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.”
It didn’t work out with slavery legal in some states and ILLEGAL in others. The same is true of abortion. It’s WRONG in ANY state.
Finally some CONSISTENCY would be nice!
Killing babies is WRONG in ANY state.
“Killing babies is WRONG in ANY state.”
Amen.
It is a stain on our great nation the this is even legal
IMHO, the right way to address abortion at the federal level is to recognize unborn children as people. Then state laws against homicide are effective for those who kill these defenseless kids.
This is inherently how slavery was handled - the US quit pretending black folk were only 3/5ths human.
I am pro life, myself, but let me ask you a question. Is there a federal law that says murder is illegal? I don’t think there is, and if abortion is murder, as many believe, why must there be a federal law against just that kind of murder?
“Mike is right about this:”
So the 10th Amendment means NOTHING to you, nmh? That’s sad.
Murder is wrong in every state, theft in all its varieties—robbery, burglary, fraud. . .—is wrong in every state, so too assault, rape, vandalism, . . .
yet all of these are defined and prosecuted by state laws, save as they affect interstate commerce or the functioning of the Federal goverement (e.g. murder of Federal officials). Divorce is a moral matter, yet the grounds for divorce (or, alas, policies permitting groundless divorces) are a matter of state law.
It is precisely because it is a moral issue, like murder, theft, the definition of marriage, and the like, that abortion policy is properly decided by the level of government closest to the people affected, as has always been done in the United States from the days when Virginia’s laws had a decidedly Anglican character, and Massachusetts’ laws a Calvinist flavor.
Huckabee is wrong—his logic would create a unitary state, where all laws are Federal, and the states become mere provinces—all political decisions are fundamentally moral decisions, as the fundamental question of politics—how ought we order our society—is subordinate to the fundamental question of morality—how ought we live our lives.
Well Huck, if you can get the constitution amended, by all means do so, but in the meantime, how about respecting the Constitution we have right now.
Maybe Chuck could secure the border, but it would be pretty hard for him to do with Huck handing out green cards for Jesus.
Killing babies is wrong. They are being killed in all 50 states as I write. reversing roe would be a huge first step in changing that. There will be no amendment.
We need an amendment ASAP. However, in the mean time, at least allow some states to protect their unborn. The point is that the Super Senate Supremes should not decide.
On many many other issues, you absolutely can have up to 50 different versions of what is right and wrong. Otherwise, why have states? Come on Huckabee!!! Surely you are deeper than that.