Huckabee equates abortion with slavery in Springs speech

Denver Post ^ | Feb. 23, 2008 | by Stephen Keating

[jdm]

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Mike Huckabee may be the only presidential candidate who could meet with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson on Friday, which he did, and then appear on "Saturday Night Live," which he's scheduled to do tonight.

In between, the former Arkansas governor addressed 350 people attending the annual Leadership Program of the Rockies dinner Friday night at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.

The conservative group is headed by Bob Schaffer, the former Republican congressman who is running for Colorado's open U.S. Senate seat. Others in attendance included state Attorney General John Suthers and Secretary of State Mike Coffman.

Huckabee threaded humor through his talk, saying there were "no Republicans in Hope, Ark., when I grew up there," but there were three heroes: "Jesus, Elvis and FDR."

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Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, said liberty requires "moral clarity" and that equality demands a human-life amendment to the Constitution. He said that even if the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973, it wouldn't go far enough.

"What that means is that every one of the 50 states can come up with its own definition of life," said Huckabee, equating abortion with slavery. "That's the logic of the Civil War. That's the idea that morality is geographical. It's the notion that something can be right in one state and wrong in another. Well, when it came to slavery, we finally got it right that you can't own another human being."

[EternalVigilance]

Well, it looks like we brought Huckabee around on states’ rights vs. unalienable rights.

Another ten years or so he might unlearn all his other liberal positions...

[BamaBelle]

According to Obama, a living, breathing baby who has survived a botched abortion attempt is not a person.

My rule of thumb for this is something I once heard on Medved that made sense. You never hear the term “fetus” unless it is in the same sentence with “abortion”. When a woman is expecting, she never says, “I’m about to have a fetus.”, it’s always we are expecting a “baby”. If it’s a baby to those who want it, why does it become a fetus to those who don’t?

Ask some snowflake babies if they are not persons...

[tacticalogic]

My rule of thumb for this is something I once heard on Medved that made sense. You never hear the term “fetus” unless it is in the same sentence with “abortion”.

We have laws on the books that define the crime of "causing the death of a fetus". If you don't hear it, you're not listening.