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I read it just fine. It's you who is refusing to hear what he said.

Here's another example:

Brian: Ok, now, um, this is…my personal opinion is that it [Roe v. Wade] should be overturned and at the VERY least kicked back to the states…

Governor Huckabee: Mm-hmm.

Brian: …so do you think this should be a state issue if you couldn’t get it passed, or…?

Governor Huckabee: Well, if was overturned, frankly it would be passed back to the states, because that’s all Roe v. Wade really did was to take it away from the states and federalize it. So the states would have it. In my state, for example, it would have automatically have been settled, since we already have a constitutional provision to deal with, uh, the right to a human, uh, the right to sanctity of life.

But obviously I think the ultimate goal is that we would never be a society that would terminate the life of a completely innocent human being.

Yeah, it’s best left to the states. I mean, life is either life or it isn’t. I recognize that you often get what you get in increments, and if there was a law that said that there were exceptions for the physical life — not, you know, just this wide definition of “gee I don’t feel well” or “it’s going to make me upset” – but for the physical life of the mother, in that case you’re really not trying to take a life, you’re trying to save all the lives, you realize there may be one of those rare occasions where if you can’t save one you’re not going to criminalize the doctor for having saved all the lives he can.

(Mike Huckabee interview with IowaVoice.com, Sunday, August 5, 2007)