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.
More that ONE THOUSAND black babies were murdered in abortuaries YESTERDAY, I wonder if that bothers her.
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I think she dislikes the comment even more, because deep down inside, she knows that there’s some element of truth to what Huckebee said. And that hurts. Badly.
Not just some element of truth.
It’s a DIRECT ANALOG.
One group of people treating another group of people as less than human and therefore disposable. Direct analogy.
The NAALCP is just upset because they want perpetual victim status and this is infringing on it.
Mary Ratliff, were you a slave?
No? Then sit down and shut up.
You didn’t inherit ownership of the issue.
Finally, someone is saying this. All liberal policies towards minorities are meant to enslave them. Look at the majority of African Americans. The ones that live in the “hood”. They have become dependent, they are left ignorant and they are culled through abortion. The same is happening with Hispanics. And what do moderates and rinos want, to continue this type of slavery.
Excellent link.
Also see this one..... http://www.klannedparenthood.com/History_of_Abortion_Statistics/
Who cares what the NAACP says? I for one listen to such racist organizations so I’ll know what they are up to but they are not really relevant in my life.
Hmmm...Black President, AG, Secretary of State, NSA advisor— at what point do they STFU?
Exactly!
In the past 36 years more that 15 MILLION BLACK BABIES have been murdered, to not compare this to slavery would be absurd.
And of course the NAACP seldom wants to attach anything to race, racism or the “badges of slavery.”
What hypocrites
So the NAACP is upset???
Who cares.
They need to listen to this lady:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King
What a douchebag.
Jesse jackson used to claim abortion and Slavery were the same.... as Did the Kennedy clan and Al Gore!! Then GOV Cuomo made his famous speech at Notre dame and the cafeteria catholic was formally born!
Say what? Isn't that pretty much what race baiting poverty pimps like Ms. Ratliff do for a living?
Also listen to Day Gardner....
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=8265
African-American women make up only 13 percent of the United States population of women who are of child-bearing age, yet 37 percent of all abortions are performed on black women. The abortion rate among black women is more than three times higher than that of white women.
And.....
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/CWN/042106Abortion.aspx
–Here in the U.S. the number of black abortions is twice the rate of the rest of society. Some black leaders say those aborted babies are part of a destructive abortion industry that targets blacks more than any other group.The message at this First Annual Pastors For Life Conference was loud and clear.
Dr. Clenard Childress is the founder of BlackGenocide.org
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If the NAACP ever wants to be taken seriously, they will address the RACISM that is thrust upon their own through abortion.
can also attach womens sufferage, faceit
un-born humans have less than equal rights
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