Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Abortion: I Know Where Huckabee Stands
The GOP Must Never Nominate a Candidate Who Is Soft On Abortion.I Know Where Mike Huckabee Stands.
Mike Huckabee Interview: Right Wing News
John Hawkins: Switching gears again, do you think we should overturn Roe v. Wade?
Mike Huckabee: It would please me because I think Roe v. Wade is based on a real stretch of Constitutional application -- that somehow there is a greater privacy issue in the abortion concern -- than there is a human life issue -- and that the federal government should be making that decision as opposed to states making that decision. So, I've never felt that it was a legitimate manner in which to address this and, first of all, it should be left to the states, the 10th Amendment, but secondly, to somehow believe that the taking of an innocent, unborn human life is about privacy and not about that unborn life is ludicrous.
Washington Post Interview, May 23, 2006
WaPo: Let's move on to one other social issue, which is abortion. I think earlier this year you said you would have signed the South Dakota bill. Is that right?
Huckabee: I would have signed it, because even though I think that it was a very strong bill, and probably wouldn't have passed in a lot of states without some exceptions of rape, incest, and physical life of the mother, I'm pro-life. You know, ... if I'm going to err, I'm going to err on the side of life. You know, that's just where I come from in my own heart and convictions.
As a governor I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.
I think we have allowed the pendulum to swing so far the other way in terms of an anti-life mind-set and culture. It's an issue that ultimately I think needs to be changed more in the hearts of people than in the laws of people. But certainly, I'm not going to be reticent about supporting laws that would help us to preserve human life.
WaPo: And do you think it would be good for the country if Roe v. Wade were overturned by the Supreme Court?
Huckabee: Personally, I would, because Roe v. Wade was really ... a ruling that I've never felt was rational in that it took something called privacy and it applied it to a human life. And, you know, what I find is that the average American has no idea what Roe v. Wade really did. They really think what it did, it just said that you can have an abortion in the first trimester, which it doesn't say that it all. I mean, ... it virtually takes any restrictions away completely.
And the average American doesn't agree ... that abortion should be completely without restriction and on demand at any time under any circumstances. Most Americans believe that there should be certain limitations and guidelines.
And when I hear a lot of people say, "Oh, we shouldn't touch Roe v. Wade," and I ask them the follow-up question, "What do you think it did?" and I get the answer, it's amazing how many people do not fully understand. ... I think it would be more appropriate to at least force us to realize that the idea of unrestricted abortion, whether it's for birth control or for a true sense of medical emergency, would at least have some sense of sanity behind it.
I KNOW where Mike Huckabee stands.
What about ROMNEY?
What about ALLEN?
What about McCAIN?
What about GIULIANI?
What about RICE?
