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"Abortion is nothing like the Holocaust. The Holocaust had millions of people exterminated because of their ethnicity and were forced to see horrible things. Abortion is simply an intentional miscarriage."

Abortion has killed about 7 times more babies than the Holocaust. These babies were exterminated because they were unwanted and because it's legal to do so in this stage of human development, which is just as arbitrary as discriminating against Jews for their ethinicity. Finally, if abortion is "simply an intentional miscarriage," then the gas chambers were simply intentional asphyxiation.

Here we go again! Didn't GW run on Christian, Christain, and Christain?? And how much have you heard him talk about God in the past 5 years? Huckabee is using the same BS to get the bushey's back.
Seperation of church and state. That would make changing the constitiution for religion, unconstituional?
Why..oh why...do we have to do this again? America is about diversity. Well it was. Since Bushey and Cheney came to power, we are about suppressing the voice of the people. We are about DIVISION now, as is noted in the fighting words on here. Can we agree, that we disagree, but come up with a solution instead of digging in and drawing lines in the sand? Another tactic of GW...aren't we all sick of yet??? Our country used to be so much better than this.
Government is supposed run for the people, not run the people's personal lives! Government has gotten to big, too powerful, and against everything that used to be American. If we put more "God" in the constitution...which God will it be? The baptist God? The methodist God? The Catholic God? The native American Gods? This is truly scary!! Do you realize we could get to a point where some religions are illegal in our country if we go down this road?? Kinda like being a Jew and Hitler is the President? American's need to look past the media hype and PAY ATTENTION. What will be the ramification of this kind of person being in power? What will happen to America...home of the free? We see where our rights have gone in the past 7 years...do we really want more of the same?
I believe in God. But I am sooo sick and tired of hypocrites who throw around the words "God", Christain, and faith to scare people into submission. How many spina bifida children have the huckabee family adopted? How many AIDS babies have they adopted, since their parents decided to have them, and then died themselves? Can you give me a number??? I find it ironic that the biggest "pro-lifers" are MEN. If my daughter is raped, they want her to carry a baby for nine agonizing months and then give it away? If my daughter gets pregnant, and the baby is severely deformed, they want to take away her and her husbands rights that they terminate the pregnancy? Again going through agonizing months of carrying a baby that has no chance at a "life" at all? When Roe goes away, and these "God" loving people win with their compassion for the fetus, will they be there to pay the enormous medical bills? Will they be there with feeding tubes, oxegyn and suction hoses24 hours a day? No one in their right mind says yeah I'm for abortion! But there are times when it makes more sense to use the procedure.
People like Huckabee want our rights, as American's, taken away in the name of GOD! THAT scares the hell out of me!

Abortion is killing a human where or not it has baked long enough in the oven. It is important to keep babies and not to have accidents in the first place. Huckabee is right on this one!

Oh wow, I didn't scroll down this far. Hello fellow pro lifers!

Wow, I guess this really is the liberal's new network. (Not serious)

You know, during the holocaust people thought it was ok to kill Jews because they saw them as less than human. This wasn't just the view of Adolf Hitler, it was shared by many of the German people as well. Also during that time period, "respectable" doctors saw the availability of so many new subjects as a good thing for science and medicine. Stem cell research, anybody?

Someone else mentioned church and state. You don't seem to understand what Jefferson ment by that at all. The consitution doesn't guarantee the right to freedom FROM religion, it's freedom OF religion. More directly, that means no national church is allowed, but doesn't mean that religion can't influence America. It should be noted that the consitution provides for life liberty and pursuit of happiness, but these rights were denied to slaves just because of color. Why not size right? In other words, this wouldn't be the first time that we blindly overlooked a major violation of human rights.

I believe that another comment mentioned the fact that Huckabee is male. Well, that's kind of like saying that a white person can't have an opinion on a black civil rights issue. Plus, half of aborted fetus are male, which I think earns men the right to have a say on the subject.

Now that I know for sure that Mike Huckabee is against abortion he has my vote!! That was the last remaining issue I needed to know about him. For those of you against him on this matter, aren't you glad that your mom didn't abort you! I want to make it clear that if you had an abortion, God will forgive you. The only unforgiveable sin is rejecting Jesus Christ! I know that Mike Huckabee will agree with me on this one! Can't wait til you are in office, President Huckabee!!

It is true that I may not know all about politics and what the "mature people" of this country may know, but I live in the nightmare that they have created for my generation.

I do not want to you to think that I am attacting anyone, I want my voice to be heard as well.

I stand with Mr Huckabee in what he says. Abortion is a holocust. On my generation.

6 Million Jews died under Hitler

50 Million babies have died...

What else could you call it?

This isn't a matter of political correctness or not, it is a matter of morals. If it wasn't people wouldn't be so affected by it.

My generation has suffered more than anybody else. Because of abortion, there is less then half of us left. I have to ask, why don't you want us? What did we ever do that we should be the ones to pay for your mistakes? I want to know why you think that it is your choice to decide if we should live or die? Why can't we have a chance? I am not accusing here, I want to know why. We, the American Youth, your country's future, what to know why you don't want us. Stop using abortion as an escape goat so you can live how you want, free of the responsiblity of your decisions. We have suffered, and we are still suffering.
Why are so many of us killing eachother? Why are our schools no longer safe? Because we have not been taught that human life is precious, from conception.

I ask you to remove your blinders, to unplug your ears, because we, your children, are crying out to you, and we don't to be left behind anymore.

The unborn baby’s heart begins to form 18 days after conception.

There is a measurable heartbeat 21-24 days after conception.

The baby’s brain begins to form on day 23 –

brain waves are produced by 6 weeks.

At 8 weeks after conception, the stomach, liver, and kidneys of the baby are

functioning, and fingerprints have formed.

At 9 weeks, the unborn child can feel pain.

At 9 weeks the unborn child squints, swallows, moves tongue, and makes fist.

At 18 weeks the unborn child’s vocal cords work and the baby can cry.

At 20 weeks the unborn child has hair on head, weighs one pound, 12 inches long.

At 24 weeks, 56% of babies survive premature birth.

I don't believe abortion is right and with so many people unable to have children, it's not necessary. I don't advocate sex outside of marriage but there are many methods of birth control available and people should behave responsibly and use birth control to keep from getting pregnant. If they don't, then they should do the "humane" thing and at least carry the baby to term and then give it up for adoption. The child should not become the victim. One of the other posts stated that society wouldn't allow an animal to be treated this way and I agree. I have 3 girls and no boys but I'd adopt 10 more to keep them from being aborted. Many of my friends and relatives would also. So, if you're thinking of aborting, email me. I'd love to have a boy and I'd give any child a good Christian home with tons of love.

Ken from Tucson: the majority of Pro-choicers are pro-life while _they_ are still in the womb. They only turn pro-choice once they are safe!

Why is abortion not comparable to the holocaust? Individual human lifes were destroyed in both cases. And please don't hide behind the law – like the Dred-Scott decision, Roe v/s Wade misclassified human life as not worthy of rights.

Protecting the unborn is the biggest civil rights issue of our time and much like the holocaust. God forbid a candidate mention his pro-life position. Okay...now the pro-abortion side can get upset that a male candidate made a relevant comparison other epic tragedies to demonstrate the proportion of the ugliness that is abortion. Understanding that women face horrific choices and believing that abortion is murder are not mutually exclusive positions. Where is the compassion for the unborn? Can you at least follow the logic of one who believes life starts at conception while disagreeing?

Oh, the hypocrisy.

If indeed abortion is murder, then everyone against it should be for laws that will prosecute any woman who has an abortion as a murderer, thereby subject to life in prison (or in a true case of irony in some states – the Death Penalty). Do not cop out by saying that the doctor is the one responsible. He is merely the "hitman" going on orders from the real murderer.

Starts to seem a little less appealing when your sister could spend the rest of her life in jail after being raped and impregnated. What, don't want to prosecute women who are raped? A life is a life. Those are your words. Just because a fetus is the result of a heinous felony doesn't mean that the mother isn't a murderer, right? Follow the slippery slope all the way down.

I wrote the above provoctatively to make a point that there are no total absolutes on this issue. Most people who believe abortion ahould be legal do not exactly celebrate when women choose to abort. And most of those on the anti-abortion side do not want their sisters prosecuted for murder. The water is much more murky than most people are willing to acknowledge.

Yes, Mike Huckabee is right on the money!!
At present, there have been 48,000,000 unborn children Murdered in the name of self-covenience!
How sad!
In the Holocaust there were some 11 million innocent people Murdered!
Contrast the numbers and you have the worst holocaust in World History, right here in, Where-else? Yes, that's right - A-M-E-R-I-K-A!!!

But oh well, you Left-wing moonbats sure don't care!!

Jeremiah

Okay–I could address so many things on different levels but don't have time. Some stand out, such as the comment "But the kicker is when he conflates not amending the Constitution as he sees fit, with being "willing to change the holy word of God." Ever read the First Amendment concerning the separation of church and state, Mike? Or do you want to get rid of that too?" Huckabee has never read the First Amendment "about the separation of church and state" and come to think of it neither has anyone else because it's not in there. That particular phrase is a quote taken from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a religious association (Baptist I think). So if we want to argue that's fine, but the MYTH of that phrase being in the constitution I simply could not let pass.

Also, republicans didn't do anything about the Holocaust in WWII??? Are you aware that the president for most of that conflict was Franklin Roosevelt, a DEMOCRAT, who we have to thank for many of the big governnment policies we now have, such as a graduated income tax? Yes-HE was the one who thought doing something about the Holocause was too risky. Of the "big three" (Rosie, Stalin and Churchill) only Churchill advocated trying to save Holocause victims at all cost, and he was over-ruled, so our dear FDR was in good company with Joseph Stalin on that one.

By reading the comments prior to this one, it gives great understanding why situational ethics and morals have changed our country. Not every decision "fits" into a nice answer, but some decision are and should be absolute. Preservation and proliferation of life is one. No one can describe how one's life could change the world. What if Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Reagan or Clinton had been abortions? Problems will always exist, but termination of life is not a solution-ever. C'mon people......

Why the hell are Republicans so obsessed with comparing everything to the Holocaust? Is it because during World War Two, they did their very best not to do anything about it?

Sweet Jesus, does Mike Huckabee even know what the hell he's talking about?
Abortion is nothing like the Holocaust. The Holocaust had millions of people exterminated because of their ethnicity and were forced to see horrible things. Abortion is simply an intentional miscarriage.

I pray to God that the American people are smart enough to elect Ron Paul, so we can fix our problems in this country. Huckabee is just another Neo-con. He has no clue about what is going on in this country. He thinks we should be in Iraq because need to keep out Honor! Ridiculous! He calls himself a Christian but he is anything but.

New ultrasound techniques used today prove that a fetus under 20 weeks a living vibrant human being, already able to laugh, cry and feel pain. Right there on the ultrasound screen for everyone to see.

No, there is no longer any doubt that a life is being extinguished during an abortion.

"Every screaming anti-choice bible thumper should be forced to adopt at least one child. Period.

Posted By Jeff, Houston, Texas : October 21, 2007 11:15 am"

Hear, hear! I guarantee this would put an end to the abortion debate. P.S. Jeff, you could also add "and every man opposed to abortion…"

Absolutly! When these loons are made to put their money where their mouth is, how fast do you think they'll head for the hills?

Huckabee is right about abortion but not because of any religious or moral implications. Take the religious element completely out of the discussion and even still abortion is so anti-established law it is nearly laughable.

When Scott Peterson was found guilty for the murder of Laci the case spurred a law called Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004. The law recognizes that an unborn child can be a victim of a crime and a person can be held accountable on a seperate charge for harm caused to the unborn child.

In light of full disclosure I will add that the law does have a caveat which permits a legal abortion and exempts a person from performing a legal medical treatment which may harm the unborn child as well as the mother of the child.

This is the prime example of the duplicity of our modern "enlightened" society. People across the board were outraged that Scott Peterson could kill a woman and his unborn child and yet in the same breath describe an unborn child as nothing more than "clumps of cells that have no sense of self or thought" (John, Chicago). How can one act be murder and the other act be nothing more than a medical procedure when the end product, the elimination of a child, is the same?

Even when a criminal is put to death by legal decree the death certificate reads homocide. Should not a mother have to go to court and obtain a legal decree to eliminate the child she carries?

I accept that in the case of rape or incest an exemption MAY be necessary as long as the unborn child has legal representation.

I also find it commical that some people would demand "equal" rights for gay people (even though they are actually asking for a new right. They already enjoy equal rights) and yet would almost off-handedly deny equal rights to an unborn child.

The Huckster is wrong about the gay marriage ban anyway. The "holy word of God as it relates to the definition of marriage" was changed long ago when a legal divorce was allowed. When asked about divorce, Jesus said, "let no man seperate what God has joined together." For those who would interpret "marriage" by religious definition must also demand a Constitutional ban against divorce. Otherwise the argument is hypocritical.

We do not get to hunt and peck the Bible, selecting only those items that agree with our narrow views. The Bible must be taken as a whole or not at all.

Get Real!

And if these children had been born were you and your Government ready to support their mothers with Government Financial Aid?

Not Likely....Easy to talk the talk when you don't have to walk the walk...

Sometimes I have to wonder if all these Anti Abortion people had to feed, cloth and put a roof over these children's heads would they be so against abortion? Sounds so easy, so humane, so civilized...but how many of you have walked alone in these mother's shoes?

It is simply ignorant of Huckabee to say that more than a million people have been lost from the workforce because of abortion. He is so out of touch from reality that i can't believe he is a serious candidate. When women are having abortions, more often that not it is because they aren't prepared to have a baby, be it that they are in high school and want to go to college or that they work multiple jobs and don't have the money to raise a child. Consider this Huckabee; wouldn't these women be taken out of the workforce to care for their baby's. How many would be dumped on the streets. It's humanitarian to allow abortion, and it's more of a holocaust to illegalize it.

Mark of Santa Fe, thanks for your post.

Huckabee is a creep who panders to the Christian right. I too am sick of the whole lot of these hypocrites.

It has come to the point where any candidate who thumps the Bible will not receive my support.

Demonweed, your post was very thoughtful and well-conceived. Thank you.

Abortion and Holocaust comments aside... Is he seriously saying that the reason we outsource labor is because we don't have enough people in America?

The millions of jobless people in this country will be pleased to find out there's plenty of work for them after all!

Each year since 73:
4 million babies born
1 million babies aborted

This should NOT be a good ratio for anyone..

What is a shame is that Ignorant Bigots like Huckabee will actually get votes!!

Now what about the pork issue? The Bible speaks much more sternly about eating pork than it does of either abortion or homosexuality. Will no one condemn the pork eating sinners that are everywhere in America? Did not God send His hurricane to punish the pork-eating south? Wake up America. The path to hell is paved with pork chops.

I know my Bible and I can read what it says. None of you sinners can deny the truth of my statements.

This is the guy that doesn't believe in evolution, well tell that to the grand canyon.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. – Mahatma Gandhi

what about the rights of the most innocent of all -the unborn child? you would claim a dog has rights because it cannot speak, but what of the fetus?

It's murder, it's choice...it's a baby, it's a fetus...life begins at conception, life begins at birth.

Looks like a genuine disagreement about a very great mystery. Of course each person posting here believes he or she is right. People don't express opinions because they think they're wrong.

I believe that pro-ban (as in, "abortion ban") people feel that abortion must be stopped to protect babies. That's why they call themselves "pro-life." I also believe that anti-ban people feel that abortion must remain legal to protect freedom. That's why they call themselves "pro-choice."

Unlike many who have posted, I honestly do not know when human life truly begins. I admit I am skeptical of anyone who claims knowledge rather than belief in this area. I have heard so many arguments favoring or opposing an abortion ban, and each argument only reinforces my conviction that this is a legitimate moral and philosophical divide among Americans.

I believe that, in the face of such a visceral disagreement–one that invokes faith, philosophy, ethics, and comparative morality–and such an utter absence of consensus within a free society, the law must remain utterly silent. Our laws shouldn't touch this great mystery of life and death and good and evil. Perhaps one day it will no longer be as much of a mystery, and we will understand enough that a consensus on the proper role of our laws will be possible.

In a perfect world there would be no need for abortion... but... this is not a perfect world.

No scripture speaks to this issue. It is all well and good if some priests and their followers choose to believe that an invisible unmeasurable spark of divine magic is placed in human blastocysts during the process of fertilization. However, the only thing that passes for evidence on this is theological assertion.

For the most part it is pure willful blindness from people without enough love of Christ to let his words speak to them louder than the voices of angry intolerant fundamentalists. However, even for the good folks who are driven by love and not hate on this issue, it remains an article of theology rather than anything remotely resembling verifiable fact.

The very notion of a soul is itself a question of faith rather than fact, albeit that the idea ex utero humans have souls is actually supported in scripture. At what point does it become unacceptable to legislate esoteric theological doctrines - when they sanction polygamy . . . when they sanction slavery . . . when they demand ritual sacrifice of adult humans?

The law needs to be based on something more, or else we are all at the mercy of dueling priests with teachings that can only be verified by blind trust in their connection to God. Making the personal choice to respect the taboos of your faith is respectable. Making the demand that all others do likewise is folly no matter how certain you are that your priest really is the One True Voice of God. In fact, the more sure you are of that, the more likely you are to have lost your way.

The definition of a holocaust is the complete destruction of somthing or someone, usually by fire. Hence, tearing apart a helpless baby, yes the baby is literally torn apart during an abortion, and the mortal remains are usually incinerated, is by definition a holocaust and an abomination before God. Pro-abortion-people say what you may now but God will hold you accountable for the complete destruction of millions of innocent souls on judgement day. Thus, seek God's mercy now before it is to late.

The majority of CNN listeners and readers undoubtedly refuse to face the fact that life begins at conception. The word abortion does not absolve the mothers role in killing the unborn child. Also, it is amazing that abortion supporters react so angrily by personally attacking those that beleive as Huckabee does. Bottom line, abortion is in fact ending life regardless of any extenuating circumstances, views or rationalizations.

The Loony Toon speaks!

It is only ignorance of what Christ taught that encourages people to impose their personal notions of sinfulness on others through legal means. Religions in general, and the words of Christ specifically, speak to personal behavior. A good Christian should not need anti-theft laws to avoid stealing. Those laws make sense because all of society is more secure and more prosperous to the degree that thieves are subject to criminal sanction.

Would make abortion providers and recipients subject to criminal sanction do any good? Proponents of prohibitions are typically so busy muddling their approach to religion that they never even think about the social and economic consequences. A ban would not eliminate or even do much to reduce the rate of pregnancy termination, though it would create an entirely new class of American criminals. This is good how?

When there are calls to avoid legislating morality, the problem is in recognizing distinctions between personal and universal morality. If your faith tells you to avoid eating pork, then by all means don't eat pork. Pushing for a law to ban the production and sale of pork is of no help at all to that faith even as it is an unjustifiable imposition on people who believe differently.

Given what actually happens when abortion policy changes, with good examples to be seen in recent history from Eastern Europe, there is no reason to see a ban like this as anything other than the imposition of religious belief on a nation that was predicated on preventing just that sort of imposition. People who seriously want to reduce the number of abortions may push for stronger maternity laws, more economic support for new mothers, etc. People who push for an outright ban instead may think they are "saving babies," but in reality they are simply being cruel for the sake of being cruel . . . all because their hatred is shutting out the application of reason to the cause of reducing the rate of American abortions.

A typical right winger. He only wants to ban abortion, eliminate rights for all people and encourage gun ownership.

Mark Ferbet, What about the religious freedom of unborn children? What is appalling is that our government allows for the murdering of unborn children. As for those who say a woman should have the right to choose, I agree, but she should not have the legal right to murder her unborn child. You could then argue she has the right to murder her born child. A child is a child-in the womb or out of it. This is what likens it to a type of "the holocaust". Quite simple for those who ubderstand.

This guy ios disgusting. I had family who died in the holocaust, he hasn't got any right to compare ending unwanted pregnancies, removing tiny bits of cell material that can't survive on its own any more than a tumor, clumps of cells that have no sense of self or thought, to the wholesale slaughter of a people. Real human beings watching their mothers shot in front of them, real people turned to slaves, gassed alive, torn from their homes and lives to be sent on trains to be burned alive in crematoriums. His remarks are an example of how far outsdide of reality the conservative religious freaks that make up the GOP base are willing to descend. If he had a sliver of a chance of doing anything but wasting people's campaign donations on a losing bid for office, these remarks would be worth a campaign to denounce him from public office alltogether. As it is he is just another dimwitted religious extremist like Brownback or the Iatollah

I think he is very wrong on gay marriage and very right on abortion.

If you're about treating people fairly it helps to recognize that abortion denys babies a life. Gay marriage bans deny gay people the same respect for love and joining with another person that most people recieve and sometimes take for granted.

Each of these denials remove something basic most of us can enjoy without the victims doing any harm to anyone else.

The poor pro-death crowd on this blog are so sad. Almost none of their arguments hold water. There are so many of them, I can't even begin to address them.

The thing I am getting the most tired of hearing is that "its not a live until it can take care of it's self". Yeah, I know, it is no longer dependent on you. So I guess you think that a 1 year old is totally independent? Take a toddler, put him outside on your doorstep and in 1 week he'll be dead. But hey, you have a right to right? I mean after all, it's your house.

As I said earlier, Sad.

You Go HUCKSTER!

I pray for all of you who find sex to be something taken lightly and view life so lowly.

Even in incest or rape abortion is wrong. KILLING is wrong people.

I LIKE MIKE!!!

The major defenses that abortion rights' supporters employ for their arguments are so decidedly faulty that they defy a full critique within a blog. Defending human life transcends religious affiliation. The claim that the pro life cause is a " religious fanatic " endeavor is cheap, lazy, and faulty. There are numerous atheists who recognize, through merely citing natural law and objective truth, that killing an unborn human being is murder. Another patently asinine defense is that unless pro life supporters are either volunteers that serve children in Ethiopa or solve homelessness and world hunger, then they have no valid voice opposing abortion. I am a proud Roman Catholic, and what I find both ironic and sad is that individuals who are committed towards their faith are frequently accused of being strident and unsympathetic, yet the most insulting, ignorant, and tasteless posts in this forum have been from abortion rights' supporters.

48,589,993 total abortions since 1973.I don't care whether you are pro-choice or pro-life or whatever. That number is sickening. Our society is deeply disturbed. There is a connection between our inability to collectively preserve our progeny and our environment, both traditionally holy in any society for a good reason: survival of the species.

As Senator Brownback has opted out of the Presidental race, I am strongly considering Gov. Huckabee, or Senator Duncan Hunter. I will not vote for any candidate who believes in and/or promotes the killing of unborn children. I have read some of the comments below and they are the same rhetoric and horrible bashing of good people who are standing up for what is good for America. We must protect the traditional family. God's speed to those candidates who are fighting evil with the truth. True love does not destroy mother and child. True love will protect humanity. Thank you.

You're kidding right Huckabee??

We all started as an embryo.

Leaders say what is correct even if people don't want to hear this.

Sincerely,

"Every screaming anti-choice bible thumper should be forced to adopt at least one child. Period.

Posted By Jeff, Houston, Texas : October 21, 2007 11:15 am"

Hear, hear! I guarantee this would put an end to the abortion debate. P.S. Jeff, you could also add "and every man opposed to abortion..."

This is quite possibly the most ignorant comment made to date by a presidential candidate.

First of all, we are "importing so many people in our workforce" because immigrants are willing to work for lower wages than Americans. As long as Americans demand artificially inflated wages, we will continue to see foreign workers dominating sectors of our economy that rely on unskilled manual labor.

Second, having a larger population does not create jobs. A large proportion of the extra million people would be unemployed. Although this is certainly not a defense of abortion, it shows that Huckabee does not have the economic knowledge, or even the rational thought processrequired to be president.

Finally, the fact that Huckabee would compare the Holocaust, an event of organized and systematic genocide, to abortion, a case of millions of free women making individual choices based on the quality of their life and their ability to provide basic care for an infant, is reprehensible.

Huckabee is more than welcome to attack abortion based on his religious beliefs and moral values, but he should know better than to make such irresponsible, inflamatory remarks. Let's hope that our next president is open minded enough to have a debate about important wedge issues such as abortion, rather than making absolute declarations that will only serve to create more division and hate in our country.

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

Every screaming anti-choice bible thumper should be forced to adopt at least one child. Period.

According to the CDC and Planned Parenthood, there have been over 46,000,000 legal abortions in the United States since 1973.

That is over 46 million innocent lives that were ended by choice.

It is only currently the minds eye which can perceived this Astral existence, this often resulting in mental confusion, paranoia, disorders, and increased mental functions in sixth sense logic (beyond humor and humility).

But what birth marks do you have that prove a once twin in the womb which was too weak to pass the first trimester? You knew them as they are now your flesh.

The nature of fertility of an individual with scientific interruption or enhancement is abhorrent due to how it affects natural evolution and the concurrent patterns.

"It doesn't matter whether a person has a uterus and/or the possibility of producing a human being–when you kill the child–you have committed murder–you have taken an innocent life–perhaps what should happen is the two who produced the child should share in being eliminated, except in cases of rape and incest, then just the one–however, in most cases eliminate the two monsters that created the situation.
Posted By Jerry Boise, ID : October 20, 2007 2:42 pm"

...and I think this about sums up the "pro-life" approach to being, well, pro-life.

Wow.

.....so nice to wake up to a united America........

You just lost my respect Huckabee.

Politions are crazy. Our country needs progress. We the people need to step up. We should evaluate them just like we are their bosses. After all we vote for them. We should give them a time table for each issue. For an example if they say we can fix education by 2009, but yet our country has no progress, each day they should be fined $10,000 and impeached rather then lying to the public we the people need to hold them accountale

"It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."

How can these Republicans be so concerned with these unwanted fetuses and yet don’t give a crap about the daddy’s and mommies dying in Iraq? If the pro-life faction of the party is so worried about the children, the orphanages of America would be empty.

And by the way that million would be unemployed because illegal immigrants stole their jobs!

If a gay guy helps out people like the poor and hungrey and a straight guy steals what would god say. I guess we find out when we die

Juts take a look at the anti-abortion crowd that the Huckster sucks up to.
These are the same people who will do everything in their power to make sure that the new mother and child have the most miserable life possible.

This is not pro or anti-christian question, seperation of church and state question, democratic or what ever party you are, what ever race you are, would YOU be here if your mother aborted you? With respects to your parents what if they told you "I wish i could have aborted you!" what would you say?

Why does "Republican morality" stop at the birth of a child. They will force women to have children but will not provide any assistance in raising them (e.g. SHIP)

With out a doubt Bin Laden is crazy. I should kick my self for making that comment. To him the world is a crazy sick game. Make a threat to a specific country and see what they do and oh today blow up this to ruin something or try to scare and kill people. Everyone doesn't like that. The question is why he does it. Is it something our country did before that horrible day of 9/11? To clear us with our possible guilt we need to release all intel information and communication that we had with bin laden and his assoiciates to clear us of our guilt. If it's not our problem we need to look at his childhood. Was he deppressed? Was he lacking attention? But either way he deserves to get punished. That is not right what Bin Laden did to us and to many other nations

Rape is without a doubt a serious issue. No one deserves to be raped. But killing an unborn child is horrible as well. You don't know what that child is going to be. He or she could one day be a lawyer, doctor, painter, a loving parent, loving spouse, carpenter, a loving son or daughter that will take care of you when you are in need, president of the united states of a america, or what ever he or she wants to be. Where there is an unborn child there is hope. Everyone deserves a chance. If your parents decided to kill you when you were in the womb would you be here today? Look at yourself! Would you and answear that question. If a mother feels like she is not ready she should give the baby up for adoption and try to keep in some form of contact with the child or with the foster parents. Because remeber where there is an unborn child there is hope and remember to answear the question. Would have I been here today if my parents decided to kill me?

If abortion becomes illegal then we slip down the slippery slope towards being in a country that is not free. We cannot, as Americans, accept that all our rights will be diminished, one by one. It is our freedom to choose and I am sorry but this country was founded on that principle. People seem to care so much more for unborn children-what happens when they are older and abused or put in foster care? The comments about the holocaust are just wrong-don't go there. Here is what I propose. 1-Keep abortion legal but PROMOTE birth control. If somebody wants to engage in sex they are going to do it. If more people used birth control abortion would less likely occur. 2-Have a civil union pact where couples can inherit or share health care. Include even friends or family members. This already exists overseas in Europe.
And again about abortion-let's be logical
-between pharmacists who don't want to give the pill and schools who do not want to give out condoms and not promote safe sex-there will be A LOT more abortions. Birth control is something that separates women in the US from women in poorer countries, providing them with a more more difficult life and us with more control over ours.

I'm a Christian and a democrat. These 2 beliefs fit together much better than these anti liberty, prowar rightwing facists beliefs.

The only " Holocaust" is that which has been done to African American ancestors, and to their descendants; to the Original Americans and their descendants; to the Palestinians and to the American people since 1980 when dumbAss Ronnie was elected President by a dumb Ass nation. Except for a minor reduction on the Clinton years, the Holocaust rages on against the American People.

Keep harping on the alleged mass homicide committed by the nazi Party, but never broach the subject of the factual murders of millions of Africans during the slave trade, their Descendants up to this very day; th ethnic clensing performed by the European invaders of Palestine from 1928 onwards; the continued butchery of Original Americans by the European invaders of the 15th. and 16th. centuries and their ruthless descendants; the current racist fascist government of the United States.
No, do not talk about any of these things. Instead talk about abortion and the " War" on a word.
The Roman Empire was too ll powerful and omnipotent.
It fell.
We watch as your walls crumble while you delude yourselves that the sounds of the bricks falling is Strauss, Beethoven,Mozart and Chopin.
No, it is the sound of the silence which will encapsulate you when you face reality.
talk about that.

Many people on this blog have written comments to the effect that no one should legislate based on their religious beliefs. But if what they are really saying is that no one should legislate based on their values, then that is laughable. Everyone does that (legislate values). "Separation of church and state" can come off sounding like separation of values and state, and that's just plain silly. If you value freedom and therefore legislate a woman's right to choose, then congratulations, you have legislated based on your values.

Practically speaking, there's not as much difference between religion and values as many pretend, since so many are as fiercely anti-religious as religious. In such cases, you have merely one set of strongly held values pitted against another. If religion = blind zeal, then both sides may be called "religion" or "values", take your pick.

The World Health Organization recently came to a conclusion many people would have guessed on their own - nations where termination of a pregnancy is a crime do not actually decrease the rate of abortion. It is true that many people do not see aborting a pregnancy as a victimless act. Those people will not change their behavior because of any law. As it turns out, people who do see abortion as a victimless act also will not be inclined to endure pregnancy simply out of respect for public policy.

Depending on your perspective, you may be more comfortable making comparisons to a crystal meth binge or to driving 75mph in a 65mph zone. The point is that when an action is regarded as victimless, people will tend to make relevant decisions without regard for the law. Vice prohibitions, even China's draconian drug laws, do not seem to actually eliminate or even much reduce existent vice activity.

If people like Gov. Huckabee were serious about seeing more pregnancies carried to term, then they would be serious about reducing the demand for abortion. This means changing the social context. Be it tougher laws to prevent workplace discrimination against pregnant women, universal subsidies for day care services and neonatal health care, or just abandoning the tragic failure that is "abstinence only" sex education, there are real political actions that can really reduce the number of abortions taking place in the United States.

Unfortunately, taking those actions involves being a better leader than to pander to hate and push to create a whole new class of American criminals. Some people might complain that subsidized day care or generous maternity leave laws are at odds with libertarian economic principles. To those I would say, "just how serious are you about ending abortion?" To everyone else, I wonder why extremists are allowed to hijack the abortion debate when there is a middle ground where real gains can be achieved.

My wife and I just watched a program segment on CNN entitled, "Religious Warriors". It wasn't about fundamentalism in the middle east, but what is and has been going on in the US.

It was an excellent program that all American people need to see and ponder. Our society has become so fractured by politics and religion that breeds intolerance and even hate.

We need to understand and correct the messages that are being sent out from America to other people around the globe.

Our children need to be taught to understand and respect diversity. There is too much training going on that teaches them to be ready to go to war... If that is we train for, we just might get what we want.

"I'm glad my mom was against abortion."

I wasn't, Josh. I was jailed until you were born.

We can all argue over whether abortion should be legal, whether it is moral or not, or when cells turn into human life, but one thing that cannot be disputed is that abortion is not like the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the murder of several million Europeans, the overwhelming majority of whom were Jewish, during the second world war (some take the Holocaust to refer specifically to the murder of European Jewry, so that definition is fine, too). The killing was done primarily at sites in eastern Europe, especially between 1941 and 1945. Jewish people were targeted solely because of who they were and how they fit into Hitler's warped racial worldview, and along these lines other "racial" groups such as the Slavic people were also killed by the thousands, although not as systematically as the Jews. Moreover, the Holocaust, the industrialized attempt to eradicate an entire ethnic group, was only possible in the unique circumstances of the Eastern Front and the so-called "War of Annihilation" Hitler launched on the Soviet Union, a phase of the war that was considerably more radical and savage than anything experienced on the Western Front.
All this is to say that the Holocaust is not a meta-historical event divorced from all context that can be applied as a label to any mass killing or to something like abortion. It is a specific event that could only have happened in a specific context and calling abortion a Holocaust is not only morally offensive but it historically irresponsible. It is an example of the easy slippage to rhetorical extremes (the same way everything that one considers bad in the United States is labeled either "fascist" or "communist", depending on one's mood) when in reality one has no real knowledge as to what the term really means – they just know it will be taken as code for "absolutely evil" and don't think twice about its usage. So please, Mr. Huckabee, think twice before you use the Holocaust to promote your own agenda.

Have you ever noticed how often the so called "Christian Right" justifies casting the first stone?

Personally, I believe it is blasphemous how many people use the title "Christian" as a justification to EXCLUDE any human being from any blessing - God given, or provided my Man.

In order to EXCLUDE, you must JUDGE. To JUDGE is to cast the first stone. I guess Mr. Huckabee is without "sin."

Sorry I meant "human life" doesn't begin until there is high sentient thought ie arts & mathematics. I should have been more specific.

I agree w/ Jamie from PA, a fetus has all the rights it needs according to GOP's, but when the kid is born its like "Ok, Male...female...we'll care about Bob Jr at 18 and Jane Jr can marry Bob Jr and have more kids to pay taxes so we can pad out fat checks even more."

In principal I don't agree w/ abortion, I don't believe life begins until you have sentient thought aka a cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex and it's complexities separate us from fish that only have a basic limbic system "Ok, eat, sleep, run away from big shark"...but I think overturing Roe is a BAD idea. I don't want to hear on the news that someone I know was beaten to death or caught an infection because she tried to induce an abortion or tried the back alleys.

As for gay marriage...there should be a happy median w/ civil unions. Sure I'd like some day for religion itself to accept two consenting adults who love each other and the children they wish to raise, until then helping the economy with the ability to file joint taxes, etc, should appeal to the greedy right.

I am a male. I am not religious. I have no problem with abortion. If this guy becomes president, he is basically saying he will put into law his religious beliefs. As someone who is not religious this is very scary. What's next, re-education camps for all the non-believers? Keep your religion out of politics. Your religion is yours. Not ours as a whole, ours as a nation.

Huckabee has lost his mind, with that comment, maybe he ought to be locked up with that comment.

Dear self-righteous, civil rights hating, ignorant, war-loving, hate-criming conservatives:

Your God is your God. Nobody wants to take that away from you. Stop trying to take away our human rights.
And furthermore, aren't there more important reasons to vote for a president than just abortion?? You guys get duped by all of these candidates promising you these overturns of civil rights.... What about the REAL issues? Why don't you care about the children and their education AFTER birth? The War? The poverty level and unemployment level and lack of healthcare in this country? Get a clue... They are using you for votes. Be sheep...
I am an EX catholic. I live a good life and am a good person. What do you do? Condemn people? Wake up people... wake up. I don't know about your religious schooling, but where I learned about God, I was taught the God loves everyone. So why can't you?

Anna, Woodbridge, VA:

Well said, lady...well said!

The US Constitution did not create or envision a theocracy here, nor should it do so now. America is a diverse, multifaith country. Those that want or think otherwise are both out of touch with reality and/or want to force others to be what they are. Sorry state of affairs for such a great nation in 2007. Intolerance and lack of true religious compassion and understanding is on the rise. Beware.

Surprise, surprise, a former pastor and republican presidential candidate does not understand science.

Huckabee, like more than a few pro-lifers, seems totally unaware of the fact that most embryos are aborted naturally and that every women who gives birth has had at least one spontaneous abortion. It's a little known fact that between 60 and 80% of all embryos which could potentially become human beings are aborted naturally before they every have the chance to come to term. An embryo developing to term is the exception rather than the norm and, if one follows the logic that an embryo equals a human being, then Mother Nature kills off 60 to 80% of all human life every year, which is certainly a laughable claim. It's simply nature's way of controlling overpopulation and proof that evolution is a REAL.

So, Huckabee, either take a science class or keep your regressive, illiterate misogyny to yourself.

It's a pity- he seems like a nice guy, but clearly he has littel idea of what he's talking about.

Jindal is the new Louisiana Governor.

Anna is right on the money. The GOP uses abortion and, if truth be told, probably has no more interest in ending it than the Democrats–the exception being that the Democrats are honest about it. Think about it: From 2000-2006, there was been a conservative President, Supreme Court and Congress. What an opportunity to pass or move on all those constitutional amendments they ran campaigns on since 1980: gay Marriage; abortion; flag nurning; prayer in schools; balanced budget, or to pass term limits or the line item veto. THEY DID NOTHING. I suspect, on abortion, that the truth is that the GOP leadership has accepted Roe v. Wade. I mean, think about it. If you ban abortion, you then have the duty to enforce that law. Unless you outlaw all abortion - no exceptions–which is a very minority view, you will have to allow it for the mother's health or safety. Who makes that call? The President? Congress? A special Federal abortion appeals court? A panel of religious leaders? Or, as the Democrats would argue–the woman and her doctor? Besides, if abortion is a crime, you not only have to charge the doctor, but the pregnant woman–don't you? Is this not murder for hire? No politician of either party wants to get into a situation where a pregnant woman is filmed being marched in for arraignment with a coat over her head.

>>>With all due respect to Jewish people, the killing of millions of not-yet-born babies IS murder on the same level of the holocaust.

WHAT??? Yeah, ok. It's exactly the same as rounding up 6 million men, women and children living their normal workaday lives in countries all around Europe, herding them into trains, carting them off, separating children from parents never to see them again, stripping them naked, forcing 10 year old boys to dig mass graves, starving millions of people down to skeletons and then gassing them with toxic vapors by the MILLION.

Exactly the same as terminating an unwanted pregnancy of a fetus that has frickin GILL SLITS and a tail.

EXACTLY the same. GREAT observation.

Your comments, sir, are an insult to human dignity.

>>>HOWEVER, A BABY is not a part of a woman's body!

Ok, STEVE. It just is an EGG produced by a woman, fertilized inside her body, it grows inside her body attached to the walls of her uterus and then becomes a fetus of her own flesh and blood ATTACHED to her body by umbilical cord, fed by her sustenance and deriving oxygen from her blood.

If that is not "part of her body" then WTF is?

Jeezus the Christian Right is COMPLETELY out to lunch. It would actually be hilarious if your statements and theories weren't so insulting. So horrible the things you people say. So horrible.

I couldn't agree more with what Huckabee said here. As the only one willing to take a firm stand on these issues, he is clearly the best choice for the Republican nomination.

I'm so glad I live in Canada. I don't have to worry about the zealots like this idiot.

The Republicans have had the opportunity, time after time, to make abortion illegal and have not done so. Why? Because they would lose one of their hot ticket items when election season rolls around. Maybe a few of the smarter ones also realize what a can of worms would be opened if life was legally defined as beginning at conception. Smoking, eating junk food, taking drugs, driving too fast or not wearing a seatbelt, failing to get regular checkups, and not taking pre-natal vitamins could be considered felony child endangerment. Are we really willing to fill our prisons with pregnant women with bad habits?
Abortion is not an answer, but for many it is the only option. As so many in this blog have said – if you are so opposed to abortion, then put your money and time where your mouth is and eliminate the reasons.
A word of advice to those who are so rabidly anti-abortion – give yourself some credibility and list all the things you've been doing to help the children already in this world. How many children have you adopted? Do you tutor disadvantaged children? Are you a Big Brother or Sister? Do you volunteer to be a coach for organized Little League sports? How about CASA? Are you a Girl Scout or Boy Scout leader? Do you volunteer to read to students in the schools during Read Across America week? Do you serve meals at the local homeless shelter? Where do your charity dollars go? To organizations that make things better for children. Show me your talk is not just empty words, and maybe I'll listen.

Well Mike, I am sick of politicians who can not seem to understand the concept of seperation of church and state. Or that THEIR God is not everyone elses. Or who dictate what a woman should do with their body when they don't have a uterus AND their party president veto's health care for those millions of kids NOT aborted.

Mike Huckabee associates the legalization of abortion with a shortage of people in the workforce. Interestingly, the legalization of abortion is also associated with declining crime rates. That connection between higher abortion and lower crime is just as strong or as weak as the connection between higher abortion and smaller workforce.

Mike Huckabee could have also said "...we have aborted more than a million people who would have otherwise been become criminals..."

Think about it before you get disgusted by that notion. Pregnancies are often unwanted because parents do not have the support or the resources to raise the child. When children are brought up under those trying, difficult, perhaps dysfunctional circumstances, their odds of becoming criminals increase.

And please, before anyone starts, I am not even remotely suggesting that abortion should be used like a crime prevention policy like your neighborhood watch.

Bottomline is, Mike Huckabee has no idea how all those pregnancies would have turned out if they were not aborted. Sure, they could have become part of the workforce, or Nobel Prize winners, but they also could have become criminals. There are factors that favor each... how much you weigh each factor is up to you.

His holocaust statement is right on the money. With all due respect to Jewish people, the killing of millions of not-yet-born babies IS murder on the same level of the holocaust. The arguement that making abortion illegal won't stop abortions misses the bigger point. Just because people will still continue to seek out abortions doesn't make it moral to have them. Our laws aren't shaped on what people are likely to do, but on what they ought to do.

Keep to your convictions, Mike. I'll vote for you.

Dear Wolfe:

I think more casualties have been the victims of the American holocaust of global warming, and the slaughter in Iraq caused by no control of government under republican administrations, destroying planet earth, than the legal rights of free women in the United States, with the right to make their own medical decisions in this country.

Millions of lives. Dying with out a chance. It sort of is like the holocust.

I wonder how many Albert Einsteins have been murdered during the past 35 years. We may have even been able to find a cure for AIDS.

I'm glad my mom was against abortion.

This summit was about family values and moral principles.A message we all need to re-evaluate in our lives.I believe Mike Huckabee's comment
"holocaust of liberalized abortion" was not intended to offend anyone in the Jewish community.The word holocaust,if you look it up in the dictionary(;destruction or slaughter on a mass scale.)was meant to show the scale of potential lives discarded.Alot of you that leave comments claim that your superior then those that have faith and believe in GOD,maybe your FEAR is Mike's message is starting to resinate with alot of people.I LIKE MIKE!

Once again, I could not disagree more with this man's views. But, he still strikes me as more 'real' than any other Republican in this race. And that is why I support him over any other GOP candidate.

Go Huckabee!

It is said a woman can do what ever she wants with her body and I agree HOWEVER, A BABY is not a part of a woman's body! How many woman have 2 heads, four lungs, 2 hearts, 4 fours and four ears? Is it because the woman is nurturing the BABY which is a developing and seperate indivual? I think so! I am sure you all know the Christian argument by now! If we can save whales, surely we can save BABIES!

I agree with all of Jennifer in Michigan's points except one......Guliani is "normal"? Three wives, adult children that don't speak to him and instead support his opponents, cross-dresser, has his newest wife call him on his cell phone as he gives speeches so he can "prove" he is a family man, ignored pleadings of the NY fire and police departments after the 1993 WTC attacks for improved communications systems, ignored them only to have hundreds die needlessly on 9-11, obsessively portray himself AS a 9-11 hero? If that is "normal", then George Bush is an intelligent, well-spoken, empathetic, and keenly insightful human being that has done wonders to improve and empower and protect America.

All of these great remarks brought to you by the folks that irrationally believe "abstinance only" education is ACTUALLY education.

It is irrational to want a utopia in which people ONLY have sex for procreation. The true way to end abortion is through education. Even pro-choice advocates would tell you that they would like to see abortion ended, ended because it is no longer requested due to the fact that people are informed and have access to contraception. It is simply amazing that the religious-right not only believe in making abortion illigal, but ALSO typicaly disagree with making contraception readily available. This thinking is simply irrational and rediculous.

Believing that preaching abstinance only in Africa will macically stop the spread AIDS is also rediculous. Please join the real world where rational thought reigns. The utopian, theocratic world you want will never exist, it cannot because no matter what you try to force people to believe, irrationality will always lose in the long run.

Here lies Mike Huckabees campaign, aborted on October 20'th 2007, the poor thing never even had a chance to lose to the Democrats:(

Abortions have nothing to do with importing a workforce. Abortions are need for people not ready to be responsible for another life. Could it be that we import a workforce in order to have someone to do the jobs that we as middle class Americans do not want to do? Everybody wants to be middle class, the truth is not everyone will be.

First of all, I have known a 12 year old girl become pregnant through rape. It is not pretty or fair. Should the law FORCE her to go through 9 months of torture also!
Second, it was the Cristian Right Conservatives that got up Bush for president. So they like to do the killing in other countries.
Third, we are going to send who, into the 100 degrees fields to bend over all day and pick our crops!
Huckabee is another version of BUSH!
It is quite clear that he is dangerous to all.

The US is exporting high-tech devices that are being used to determine gender of babies in China and India, where parents abort baby girls in favor of having boys. Instead of a 50-50 gender distribution, it is 1000 boys to 800 girls. The US high-tech industry is responsible for mass abortions in these countries. What would Mr Huckabee say about this business? Do you own any GE stock, Mr Huckabee?

This man needs to drop out of the race right now. For an educated former governor to equate abortion with the heinous killing of 6 million LIVING AND BREATHING jews is ludicrous. People should not have to read this stuff that these morons keep throwing out there. If he doesn't believe in abortion, fine, he should work to make it rare by funding better forms of birth control, cutting the insane waiting times (and costs) of adoption and other things that help empower women. He is doing NOTHING good by saying that abortion is equal to the holocaust. This man truly is flawed.

Let's say goodbye to him soon and tell him to not let the door hit him in the behind on the way out. These GOP presidential wanna be's are getting more loony by the day. Rudy is the ONLY one who has any hope. He's the only normal man running right now.

One can choose to be celibate, and so abstain from acts of copulation or a mistake in fornication. Beyond that Choice: to act against conscience...

And Christ did not throw a stone either. By his own words: would he have had the right to?

Exile is the only punishment, and abortion is allowed in voluntary exile when natures extremes in exposure, dehydration, and starvation cause a miss-carriage.

Finally people are talking about things like this. It's amazing what is being passed off by the corporate media. – Eric Monse

Until a child can live outside its mothers body on its own two feet, it is a parasite, PERIOD. Without armies to build, all this anti abortion propagana would never have emerged. Women are never more likely to be physically victimed by their male partners than when they are pregnant!

It would make me laugh to see the tooth-and-nail fight for the lives of unborn children in a society that has such obvious contempt for the lives of already-born children, if it weren't so horrible.

An in-utero child is sacred, but we feel no compunction about failing to stop the deprivation, preventable illnesses, violence, and despair suffered by countless ex-utero children in our country. We scream bloody murder at the idea that our precious tax dollars might be put towards mitigating this disgrace. We excoriate mothers and fathers for being so irresponsible as to have children that are "beyond their means," as if children were second homes or luxury vehicles, after reminding them 100000 times that abortion is murder.

Screw the contractions. If I were a kid, there's no way you'd be getting me out of that womb after 9 months. I'd dig my heels right into that placenta and Mom would be eating pickles and ice cream for the rest of her life.

BELIEF-BASED POLICIES should stay in the church and out of the US Government!
You folks that want to dictate belief-based policies are IN FACT dictating restraint of personal freedom. We do not want a dictator. We want a leader.

The fundamentalist interpretation of the Word of God has absolutely no place in politics. There should never, ever be any kind of amendment to the constitution that seeks to alienate part of a the population by restricting marriage.

As for abortion, it is obviously far too complex an issue to simply slap a label on. There should be national dialog about it, but not if one side or another of the debate is going to get emotional

Holocaust is a immolation by burning; while, a 'pogrom' as the mass slaugher of the helpless is the better definition of what occurred in NAZI held territory against those 'perceived' as non-Aryan.

A 'Slaughter of Innocence' is better for describing an infanticide or death in abortion.

Abortion is only the horrible event of a miss-carriage.

Sieg Heil Huckabee, NOT!

It is truly frightening what a clueless idiot this guy is.

What is especially frightening is that some people agree with him.

Again it is amazing how the party of deregulation has their nose into things that are not their responsibilty. The woman is the one making the choice, it is the woman who needs to make the decision for herself and not have the government controlling every aspect of our lives. I thought Huchabee might have something to offer but I guess I was wrong again. Someday we can only hope the Reps get it back together!

>>>The liberals on this site are a bunch of deceived, deviant, and morally deprived idiots

Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.

You are a sinner and thus a hypocrite. Study the teachings of Jesus Christ. You may learn something about how to treat your fellow man.

I would suggest that individuals who are defending abortion rights under a specious argument concerning freedom should instead purchase a good dictionary and learn the difference between " freedom " and " license. " Please don't support your contemptuous claims concerning abortion rights by citing and, ultimately, distorting freedom's true definition and intent. Typically, abortion rights' supporters, through rhetorical distortion and deception, claim that they are championing freedom when what they really desire is license.

Did God mean that man should reproduce until we are all starving, or a pan-demic wipes out three quarters of the world population?

Abortion kills unborn people and the favorite sport of these morons kill actual live people.Have you ever seen people die in war crying out for their mothers.As long as you support capital punishment and pre emptive useless wars your postions are inconsistent and irrelevant.I disagree with just about everything the Pope says but on the issue of life I admire the Catholic position on life for being incredibly consistent.

The President takes an oath to uphold the CONSTITUTION, Mike, not the Bible. Next time, pay attention in Civics class.

The best way to prevent unexpected pregnancy is to avoid committing acts that may lead to one.

Once pregnancy occurs, though, no one has the right to kill that fetus. Period. Conception is the beginning of life. No scientific consensus on that, you say? We should then give the benefit of the doubt to life.

Women's right to choose? Choose what? Do I have the right to choose to rape a little girl?

I am pro-choice: I believe the unborn has the right to choose to be alive. I assume that you'd also like everyone to respect your choice to stay alive, too.

The "christian" Ayotalah Huckabee has spoken. READ THE constitution Mike. If you want to live in a theocracry move to Iran!!!
If a woman choses to have an abortion, or if two people of the same sex want to marry, or someone wants to not go to church is none of your business and has absolutly no effect on you, or anyone else!! So how about keeping your "beliefs" to yourself.

If these people REALLY believed that each and every abortion = one murder, they would embrace the opportunity to save lives by funding social programs that address the reasons WHY women terminate pregnancies. Instead, these are the kinds of programs they most like to gut. More would choose adoption if they knew that state child services were well-funded, well-staffed and well-run. And more would keep babies if, instead of an economic dead end, they had options like job training or educational assistance, child care and medical care.

"If you don't want kids, think twice before spreading your legs."
How about the MAN think twice before unzipping his pants?

Kevin in Seattle:

Explain then why abortions are highest in red states.

Huckabee's attempt to pander to these "values voters" is absurd.

I assume anyone who is claims to be "pro-life" is willing to check a box on their tax forms each year designating that they're pro-life and would therefore like to have an additional % of taxes due to the government in order to support children born into the aforementioned difficult situations?

This Pro-Life tax would go toward prenatal care, early diapers and food, health care and an education fund.

PS-Huckabee would be much more credible if he talked about improving adoption rates (for minority children), foster care and reducing unintended pregnancies. In fact, if you did those things not only would we be on the same page, but we'd also actually *reduce* the number of abortions.

The "holy word of God" is a myth, and not the law of the land, Mikey.

Read the Constitution before you run for president.

What a string of Hypocritical Postings by the Liberal Left - Morons!

It is amusing how the Liberals want to justify the extermination of 126,000 per day, world wide because of extreme cases of Rape and Incest – which represents less than 0.01% of the total.

Others complain of that those of faith are trying to enforce their own moral norms on others. That rationale is actually laughable. Remember the group of Senators Ranting in Tears over the abuse of fighting dogs on the senate floor – yet these same Senators see nothing wrong with ripping an unborn baby from the womb in the name of Choice. They will be judged in accordance to that same standard of judgment when they stand before God.

Check out the following: http://www.grassoforpresident.com/site/Viewer.aspx?iid=11122&mname=Article&rpid=3861

Regarding pushing ones views on Morality to the Masses? What about Massachusetts forcing Gay Agenda teachings within the public schools against the will of their parents? Or in the case of Maine giving out birth control to 11 year olds, which if it was done outside the public venue would be considered reckless endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The liberals on this site are a bunch of deceived, deviant, and morally deprived idiots who futilely attempt to assign some sort of Moral Equivalency to what God has defined as SIN.

Check out Sin is Sin Article…
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=28434

Huckabee makes me sick. He should read the writings of our Founding Fathers, specifically those of Jefferson. He might also benefit from reading "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine, or maybe he should start by just reading the Constitution. Maybe then he would realize that the United States was not founded as a Christian Nation and hence should not use Christian ideals to formulate legislation.

"If you don't want kids, think twice before spreading your legs."

Actually, you can spread your legs, than use the Morning After pill or get an abortion if you get pregnant and don't want a kid.

Sorry you're so ignorant about what's legal in this country.

I'll bet you get all sweaty thinking about forcing women to have babies.

>>>hard on fetuses, soft on terrorists

Kevin, you are thoroughly brainwashed. Your "its my choice" except for abortions is totally irrational.

Hard on fetus'? Do you think Liberals don't have kids? Actually, the fact of the matter is that Dems have done more to protect the health of fetus' in the womb via environmental legislation than any carping over abortion.

Think of all the stillborn, autistic or otherwise afflicted infants that were born healthy over the last 30 years due to environmental laws. Millions upon millions of babies. And there's STILL a long way to go.

In fact, your comment about 'smoking anywhere you want' exposes your ignorance on the issue since 2nd hand smoke affects fetus' as badly as if the mother herself was smoking.

And soft on terrorists? What about OSAMA BIN LADEN? Are we soft on him? Dems have been trying to get Bush to focus on the REAL Al Qaeda for 6 years.

Seriously, your talking points are pee-poor as they say.

THere's nothing more irrelevant in the upcoming election than a superstitious wingnut claiming he knows what's best for women.

Huckabee couldn't get elected if the other candidates all died at once. America is sick of sensationalist religious extremists.

I love the way the Holocaust is used by far right christians who aren't fond of Jews anyway.

If men like Huckabee could get pregnant, abortion would be protected by a constitutional amendment.

I don't know the context or the accuracy of this description of what Huckabee said at this event. But if this story proves to be accurate, I'll no longer say that Huckabee is my favorite Republican contender. (I am a liberal Democrat.) I do hope/suspect that he is pandering, rather than speaking authentically. But equating abortion with murder in this concrete fashion is unacceptable to me.

Jed Clampett for President...horray !!!!

I am SO glad to be pagan....maybe it will be the biggest favor they can do for me at this point...vote Huckleberry in...that way I'll finally get the little (extremely little) extra push I need to check out of this theocratic dictatorship....wonder what Jethro's up to these days?

Huckabee 2008! Due to the hateful pro-abortion comments on this blog, I just contributed another $1000 to Gov. Huckabee. Have a nice life!

Yah sure – than we would have a million more Americans working for minimum wage and a million more Americans without health care.

Democrats, hard on fetuses, soft on terrorists. Thank God the majority of this country is conservative and will vote someone like Huckabee or is counterparts into office in 2008.

I am against government entities telling me I have to wear a seatbelt/helmet, where I can and can't smoke. Should be OUR choices, yes. But abortion is murder, plain and simple. It goes way beyond the "woman's body" and right to choose. If you don't want kids, think twice before spreading your legs.

Regarding Huckabee's comparison of abortion to Holocast: Regretfully there is little to no help for one who is mentally constipated.

An objective Truth exists, and each human is able to know it. What humans think,feel and believe have no effect on that Truth, though blessed are they who let that Truth affect them.

Huckabee is possibly using his morality conveniently for political gain, but perhaps the Truth is using him.

If our constitution is amended to his interpretation of religious ideology, then how are we any different as a nation than the religious ideology that we are fighting now? Look at Iran which hanged two teenage boys recently because they were gay and remember the women of Afghanistan and how they were persecuted by their religious society? Is this what we are heading towards as a nation?

I must admit I liked Huckabee, because he seemed genuine. After this insulting remark, however, not a chance will he ever get my vote. Just another culture-war robot. NEEXTT!

I, as a Jew, am offended by Mike Huckabee's comments.

I have posted so 3 times on CNN and it has been deleted each time.

I am going to keep on posting it, so get your delete finger ready CNN! And then I'll post it again! This would be fun if it wasn't so horrific.

I had 75% of my family line exterminated and tortured in concentration camps by the Nazis. But oh, I'm SO sorry if I offended the pathetic Republican party's virgin ears.

Isn't it amazing that everyone writing here in support of Huckabee's stand on abortion are GUYS.

Come on men - admit it – you oppose abortion because that's your way of trying to control women. It has nothing to do with the unborn and everything to do with trying to keep women "in line."

Regarding Huckabee's "holy word of God"
statement.
Please direct me to the journal where God posted his message

Why do people thing liberals are pro-abortion? No one is pro-abortion; who would want a fetus destroyed? Liberals support the right of a woman to choose. I do not support the actual act of abortion, and I think it is wrong, but a woman surely has a right to decide what to do with her body.

Also, a study was just done that showed abortions are performed just as much in countries where it is illegal. You can't argue with those facts.

Regarding Huckabee's comment "holy word of God".
Please direct me to the journal where God posted his message.

This guy is out of his mind. The most important thing we need to establish in this country is a true separation of church and state, and we're definitely not going to get it with Huckabee. If your reasoning for making a new law or amending the constitution is based on religious grounds then it should be immediately dismissed.

Abortion is far too circumstantial to be regulated, and why even try? In this day and age, girls are going to get knocked up no matter what, and if you don't believe me, it's obvious that you haven't been inside a high school for a long time.

Also, why attack the gay people? Changing the constitution is not something you're supposed to do every time you don't agree with other people utilizing their rights to live their lives the way they want to. It was written by very intelligent men and they wrote it for a changing world, and these crazed Republicans should not be allowed to plant these seeds of hate right on one of those most important documents ever produced.

A fetus is not a baby, Mikey. That's why I gave them different names.

Somebody please do what no one has yet-explain the world where abortion is illegal-but ONLY from a pratical,operational angle. Will women be forced to have children against their will? Will they flee to Canada for the procedure? Every candidate grandstands on the issue but provides so solution. It's getting boring.

Abortion is a touchy subject but Huckabee has a point here.

Christians as well as most other people of faith believe that life begins at conception. The American people bought the lie that life begins not at conception, but rather at birth, back in 1973 and even if the Supreme Court one day reverses its ruling, it will take many years for most of us to realize this truth.

What I like about Huckabee is that he's a humble guy. You don't see him attacking the other candidates. He's a uniter not a divider and he's got the resumé to prove it.

I think this country has had enough of the Bush-Clinton dynasty. Twenty years is more than enough. We need to bring back hope to this country. Huckabee will get it done!

Nice try Mike. The real reason we import so many workers is the same reason the government has turned a blind eye to illegals for decades, it helps keep labor oversupplied and thus holds down real wages. Also, are the deaths of US soldiers and thousands of Iraqi civilians in an illegal and unjust war also not a Holocaust. You guys will do anything to get votes of the one issue voting religious right.

I wish "God" would hurry up and take Huckabee and his ilk to the Rapture, the sooner the better. They would be much happier there, not having to live among us sinners. To Heaven with Huckabee and his Christian pointy-heads!

Please all be aware of the FACT that abortions will always be performed. Always.

"Ron Paul is not the answer. Any of the Democratic candidates will do. We get our rights back under the constitution when the Democrats come back into power."

'A voter', if you are delusional enough to believe that ANY of the Dems except for Kucinich or Gravel (who have no chance of winning) are going to do anything but continue and expand the pro-war police state policies of the Bush Administration, you need to stay home on election day.

Have you even considered Ron Paul, or really looked into what he stands for? Or have you slavishly discounted him because he is a Republican, like a good little partisan Democrat drone?

way to go, Huck. But it's closer to 50 million. 4000 per day....

So much for "Mr. Nice Guy."

And by the way, Guv, it's not about "changing" the word of God. It's about the fact that the "word of God" is not the law of this land. Reason being that different religions have different notions about what the word of God actually is. And so, you might recall, Guv, the Founding Fathers said our government would not preference one religion over another. And that includes one religion's view of what the "word of God" is.

Scary, scary that these radical theocrats are still in power and looking for more. And Melanie Morgan is worried about how I'll look in a burka? Honey, a theocracy is closer to home than that. Open your eye. This is scary, scary stuff people.

Say goodbye to Huckabee's chances of winning anything.

Why is it that so-called "Right to life" folks SO cherish a multi-cell embryo, but once one is born into this world and you happen to be a US soldier sent to die in a war based on lies and greed, or if you happen to be one of the one MILLION Iraqi women, children or men killed by that illegal and immoral war, you are just plain "S.O.L"? It seems that "life is sacred" to these folks ONLY when it is still in the womb....after that, you are fair game. It would be interesting to hear Jesus's take on these modern Pharisees so busy trying to govern everyone else's lives while ignoring the logs in their own eyes.

Huckabee's latest Christian fundamentalist rantings are nothing new. He has been an unapologetic advocate for making the Constitution submissive to a fundamentalist interpretation of the bible during his entire public life. If we should have leaqrned anything from Taliban rule in Afghanistan and the action of fundamentalist on 9/11, religious fundamentalism of any sort is the enemy of independent thought, free will, and freedom itself.

Another pandering politician who clearly sits on his brains.

Thank God a candidate is willing to call it like it is. I would like nothing more to vote for a Democratic candidate in '08 – God knows the GOP deserves a good thumping – but the issue of legalized infanticide trumps all. Too bad Huckabee will never win.

I'm glad Republican candidates shoot their mouths off like this (i.e. Pat Buchanan back in the 90s). It all but assures Democratic victories.

Comparing abortion in America to the Holocust in Euorop, trivilzes the murder of over 6,000,000 people in less than 4 years.

The real holocaust happens in November, 2008, when America aborts the Republican party at the voting booth.

Abortion is murder.

Huckleberry is desperately pandering in the worst way, trying to appeal to the freaks and kooks who would take the United States back to the 1950's (and yes, there are plenty of people in the United States who miss the 1950's). This is Huckleberry's only hope in remaining in the Republican race, and it is sad. For most of us, the political lines are drawn, and they are clear, and they will not go away anytime soon. Republican hopefuls such as Huckleberry hunger for the conservative, hard-right, religious vote, and in doing so risk the perpetual loss of support of the following: women (and men) who support a woman's right to choose, non-homophobes, minorities (primarily hispanics, blacks), and any "independent" who doesn't wish to subordinate the Constitution to the Bible (frankly I have a Bible, and so I don't need one in my Constitution). Good luck Huckleberry, and all of those who think as you do. Frankly, I want the Republicans to keep pushing this platform as hard as they can, as it will help to consign them to the dust-bin of history, (where even their fake friends in the clouds won't be able to help them).

Once again, proof, any idiot can run for president!

Well neither the Constitution need be changed nor the Holy Bible. Anyone wanting to change it, it's their problem, and only they will answer to God. But NOBODY can change God's true Word anyway. The Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman but why should marriage, as is defined by God, be in the Constitution? It shouldn't be. People are going to do what they want anyhow. As long as God defines what marriage is and if one believes in what God says, then that's that. Why should a woman's right to choose be taken away by the courts? It shouldn't be. Though the Bible says no abortion, God also defends a woman's right to choose over her own body, knowing in that choice there are consequences. But the 'choice' should be defended, like all of our choices, our freedoms. Yes, many fetuses have been killed in time. But one thing that's always puzzled me was why do Republicans become outraged over pro-choice but not get outraged over our many soldiers dying needlessly from Bush's Iraq war or any illegal immoral war? I think abortion is between the woman and God. We are all born with the stamp of a conscience on our foreheads - we all can 'choose'. We choose good or we choose evil and in that choosing there are consequences for which we then reap the good or suffer the bad. But God Himself tells us this. So for the courts to make up laws dealing with very personal decisions pertaining to our own body such as abortion and marriage, I think is wrong. For a political party to play God I think is wrong. We ourselves must choose the right thing according to the Word of God, if we believe, and if we choose not to, it is us alone who must suffer whatever consequences. The Republicans, who 'preach' and run on 'party values', 'conservatism', and do another behind closed doors are hypocritical. They want to play God, when God Himself gives us 'choices'. I like Huckabee but him being a Baptist preacher knows that you teach the Word of God and not try to put His Word or his word into the Constitution.

Western women with access to contraception tend to have the number of babies they want to have – having an abortion does not seem to have any relationship to the total number of children a woman will have in her lifetime. The number of children that women have is tied, instead, to economic and social factors, and the low birthrate in western societies is much more likely to be due to things like both parents having to work, and the availablity of good, affordable childcare. Also, as chidren grow, with governments opting out of funding so many things that are seen as luxuries, like sports, music, drama and field trips, parents find that their children seem to be viewed as burdens to society and not resources for society. If we want the birthrate to increase, we have to make room in society for children and young adults.

Bravo, the Catholic Church has been saying this for years. A mother's womb should be the safest place for a soul, but it is a battlefield. Did anyone ever think of why we don't have any genius's anymore? When you abort a third of your population you are possibly aborting someone God sent us to save us or give us something special like Eienstein. There has never been a holocaust like this in all of history and we are all going to pay.

I agree with what timothy said,

"Mike Huckabee likening abortion to the Holocaust is a slap in the face to every human soul who perished under Hitler."

Huckabee has a better chance of becoming a TV Evangelist than a President.
He needs consider that seriously and drop the bid for President.

After reading the comments on this article, it is clear to me that few are addressing the logic here which is actually quite sound. Whether you support or do not support abortion, the logic of both the Holocaust AND abortion is the same...that is, to eliminate human life for the sake of convenience. In both cases, a human life is inconveniencing a person with the power to end it. Therefore, whether your support or do not support abortion rights, Huckabee's logic in the analogy (although I don't know if he meant it this way) is quite sound.

He's absolutely right on this one, and no amount of false characterization of him as a theocrat changes the facts.

If this guy is elected president, I will move out of this country. Clearly, his vision of America and mine are completely incompatible. So, if the majority of American people think like this and elect him, then they can just have this place.

Huckabee dosen't know what he is talking about: the Bible in several places defines marriage as between one man and SEVERAL women!
If gays get married, that's a good thing and dosen't effect my marriage one bit.

It it is truly a holocaust, then why has Huckabee remained in politics and done nothing about it? Why is he not fighting for paid maternity leave? Why is he not fighting to make all children healthy and safe, regardless of what income class they're in?

Holocaust? And you've done nothing? I think you don't even believe your own words.

Pandering at its worst.

nutjob

One million more people in the workforce, huh? What about those who would have ended up in jail, died by OD or other forms of suicide? Given all that loving care that this society has in store for unwanted children, there would not be too many left by now. And that, Mr. Huckabee, is what I call a Holocaust.

I agree with Huckabee, but I also disagree with him.

I belive that abortion is murder and murder is wrong, no matter how old or young the person in question happens to be. I can understand how, in some special sucumstances (i.e. rape, or risk to the mother's life), abortion may be a possible solution to the problem, but for women, especially young women like myself, to use murdering a living being as a form of birth control is wrong. Abortion is legal up untill the end of the second trimester, during wich time the baby can move, open its eyes, and has a noticeable heartbeat.

As for gay marrige, when our country was first established, wasn't it increadibly important to our forfathers that we would have the luxury of freedom of religion and, most importantly to this issue, seperation of church and state. Now, what I seem to be noticing is this: eveybody who opposes gay marrige opposes it for not political, but religious reasons. Outlawing gay marrige, weather it be a state or a constitutional ammentdment, violates the rights given to us in the constitution. I find it hard to belive that the Supreem Cort hasnt yet realized that.

Outlaw murder, but don't let politions tell us who to love.

I hope the US is sick and tired of the GOP and elects the Dems. The GOP will remove all the hard fought rights for women. This is my body and no lawmaker is going to tell me what I can or cannot do with it. It's between me and my God.

Huckabee, we like you. BUT, Giuliani will most likely win the Republican nomination by default. Most decent Republicans will just stay home for the primaries out of disgust. CAN you honestly picture this Giuliani with his finger on the United States Nuclear arsenal? He put NY’s Command Response center IN the World Trade Center Buildings AFTER they were already attack in the 90’s. With NO improved communications between Emergency Response personnel. Certain actions automatically disqualify you as President. That’s like moving The Pentagon to Baghdad, then being surprised it was attacked. And then you realize you have no place to Coordinate Command functions from. DAH!!
THAT is why the Republicans are lashing out at Hillary. They hope the Democrats are so dumb as to choose her to be their opponent. Why? Because they know they can beat her. Even with Giuliani and all his baggage. It will be the battle or the baggage and misstep in judgments. That is more reason for the Democrats to look for another candidate. Obama08

I don't know about the immigration idea but it has been a holocaust and on a much bigger scale than his statement makes is sound. It has been over 1 million pregnancies per year or over 35 million abortions since Roe v Wade. It's about 1 in 4 pregnancies are aborted so I don't want to hear about the miniscule rape/incest thing. It is being used for birth control and that is just dead wrong. I'm glad I was born before 1973.

I can understand it is sometimes very hard to speak for those who are both powerless and voiceless. But I also believe if you could ask an unborn child who is being aborted how they would describe the act the answer would be one word "murder". If that is true, those who speak in support of unborn abortions are merely offering the motives. Please have mercy.

I love his quote that all these aborted babies would be in our workforce now.

Can you imagine? We could have closed our borders. Our immigration problems would be SOLVED because we had no more unwanted babies. Awesome. Huckabee, you rock.

I wonder if he would have approved of non-aborted GAY babies that wanted to marry each other. Hmmm, someone ask that in the next debate.

But weren't we led to believe that voting Republican (at risk of Catholic excommunication otherwise) during the last two presidential elections would have solved the abortion crisis in America?

Well, here we go again. I suppose when a man is able to conceive a child, carry it for nine months, deliver it, nurture it, and experience the personal sacrifice of a woman and mother, then and ONLY THEN will his opinion have any credibility. Since it takes two to conceive, maybe we should look at the other side of the coin and insist that if a woman must experience an unwanted pregnancy, then perhaps the man who impregnated her should be castrated. If that were the solution, then maybe women would not ever have to face the decision of abortion as I feel quite sure a man would not take the chance if he had to bear the thought of castration!

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Huckabee is the logical leader of the Christian right, so why are they still thinking about the "front runners" who are NOT really acceptable? Do they fear Huckabee or others in the second tier who are actually Christian right will not be able to defend America? What do they fear?
If they want influence, they better get their heads straight.

Another ignorant comment from a true BubbAmerican. Incredibly ignorant statement.

What exactly does Huckabee mean by this? That should he become President, will he defy the Courts and shut down every clinic in America?

the problem with abortion as the left wing nuts demand it is you can get one anytime, any age, at tax payer expense. I am pro-choice to the limit of most of America. The first trimester only, incest and rape, life of the mother, and health for limited reason (permanent disability, treat life threatening disease, or won't be able to have children later). Also I am for Parental Rights/Notification if the girl is under 18 years of age. Also notify the law if it was under age sex with an adult more than 4 years older. As far as Gay Marriage, they can call thier relationship a Civil Union (to get all the same rights) but it should not ever be called a Marriage which is a word taken from religion and should not be associated with what religion calls a sin. But I know the liberal left or the social conservatives are not sensible so this fight will go on for a long time.

Gov Huckabee tells it like it is. That is a human being, a person, in the womb. What do you call the slaughter of millions of people? The right of a woman, or her doctor, to kill the baby in her womb should end where/when the life of the baby begins, at conception.

He is just pandering to the radical right. Most people in this country are pro-choice. I am deeply offended that he compares this issue to the holocaust. Despicable.

Ron Paul is not the answer. Any of the Democratic candidates will do. We get our rights back under the constitution when the Democrats come back into power.

I think we can start referring to him as 'ex-candidate Huckabee' now.

Why is this guy sooo comfortable with changing the Constitution to align itself with "holy word Of GOD" as he puts it.
Whose interpretation do we use?? His? The Mormons? The Jehovah's witnesses? The Catholics?? or The Jews, or maybe the Muslims?? There is also some obscure offshoots of Protestants too that have there own interpretation as well as countless others.
Furthermore, I bet all these Bible Punchers could not definitively say how the Bible was put together either.

HINT: Nicene Council – they actually took a vote on the nature of Jesus –

Was he a man or of the same substance as God –

People actually voted on the nature of God's son and then chose the writings extant at the time that supported their interpretations and rejected others that did not. HMMMM. Go figure.

How is it that in 2007 considering a fetus alive is a “belief” when we all know of beautiful, vibrant children that started out life prematurely at 24 or 25 weeks?

What a freak. The earth is over-populated by viral humans, and this idiot believes ,like the pope, that what society needs is more people. Christians (all religions) have always had facts wrong, why would the voice of the evangelicals be as less correct today. They were wrong yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Huckabee's pro-life. Good for him. However, I think the mother should have the final say, not politicians or pro-life debaters. I don't think a woman should be obligated to a child that came about as a result of rape/incest.

Besides, the human population is exploding out of control. Granted, there'll be a day when this earth and its resources will no longer be able to support the hordes.

Mr. Huckabee should be careful with his words, marriage between a man and a woman has nothing to do with the "holy word of God" .. but, is instead a man-made idea. Marriage in the Bible had lots to do with "owning property" more so than marriage as we know it in our current culture. His words sound good to Christian Conservatives because most of them cannot differentiate the "word of God" from the "word of religion".

Mike Huckabee is right! He isn't forcing his belief on anyone. Huckabee is stating his convictions and moral code without wavering to what the media wants to hear. Keep up the great work Mike!

AMEN!!!! Finally, someone to stand for the truth!

Like our unborn children would do the labored work our imported people do. They do the work because it is there and nobody else is reaching as high as them to get it. They are greatful for it and many American's would never in their life think of doing this sort of work. He has a poor argument and obviously haven't been put in the position to think this way. He is a puppet, like all the politicians are for the companies that pay them.

I wish that anyone voting to support abortion would first see the procedure itself. There is so much ignorance about what an abortion really is.

I saw an abortion on film as a premed student. I watched a living human being torn to pieces. I am ashamed that our country allows over 1 million defenseless human beings to be put to death in this manner every year.

Any local bookstore has guides to pregnancy available that put the lie to the whole "lump of cells" excuse for abortion. Most abortions are done between 7 and 12 weeks after conception, when a fetus is well developed and capable of feeling pain.

Most of us wouldn't allow a dog or a death row inmate to be killed the same manner in which an abortion is performed, but yet many voters will condone this kind of death for the unborn. The only difference - we don't have to see the baby being put to death, so we can convienently lie to ourselves.

Thank you, Mike Huckabee, for standing up for the unborn. You have my vote.

And to those who don't believe a man has a right to have an opinion on abortion - does that also mean that you have to be a soldier to have an opinion on the Iraq war, or that you have to be a death row inmate to have an opinion on the death penalty? Abortion *does* affect men, and all citizens have a right to an opinion on this matter.

Hucklebee should go right back to Arkansas and worry about his own family. Some of those million people could have turned out to be serial killers too. So that is really an assine thing to say. He apparantly doesn't live in the real world.

Didn't a recent published study just show that abortion rates had no correlation to whether it was illegal in a particular country (and possibly an inverse one if at all)? The biggest factors in how many abortions there will be are things like poverty and access to quality health and contraceptive care.

Making abortion illegal does not make it go away by any stretch of the imagination. Teaching children and young adults how to avoid unwanted pregnancy and getting people out of poverty will do far more to stop abortion than making it illegal and standing on a soapbox condemning everyone.

Every embryo has a specific and unique DNA that makes it undeniably a human being, despite the rhetorical distortion and disingenuousness that so many individuals use when arguing otherwise. Abortion is murder; to express or defend otherwise is a lie and an abomination.

First off all the reason we are importing workers is so that we can have cheap labor so that people like himself and his fat-cat buddies can fatten their profit margin. Second, the Republicans don't seem to have any conscience about sending thousands of our young men and women to their deaths for Bush's private war. So until then hypocrites like Huckabee dont have a leg to stand on.

And what right does a politician have to push their moral values on people that may not believe in their beliefs?

We are a country of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, etc... and I find it disgusting and mortifying that the trend is leaning towards politicians that want to push their own personal Religious beliefs and morals on the people of this country.

They can have their values and morals... but to make any part of their religious beliefs POLICY in Government is appalling. We can not be a country of Religious freedom if any one Religion takes precedent over another at the Government level.

The reason why we're importing our workforce is because big business is too cheap to pay Americans a livable wage. If those 1 million abortions didn't happen we'd still have an imported workforce, just more people struggling. Is there anyone out there that's actually fooled by Huckabee's argument?

And with the gay marriage amendment: Amendment's exist to tell the government what laws they CAN NOT impose upon the people, not what laws they can impose.

Mike Huckabee likening abortion to the Holocaust is a slap in the face to every human soul who perished under Hitler. Republicans, you all have had more than enough time and power to make abortion illegal. You will never do it, you will only promise it just to get votes.

The biggest surprise for me in the past few weeks is that the Religious Right is coalescing around Romney, and not against Huckabee.

It doesn't matter whether a person has a uterus and/or the possibility of producing a human being–when you kill the child–you have committed murder–you have taken an innocent life–perhaps what should happen is the two who produced the child should share in being eliminated, except in cases of rape and incest, then just the one–however, in most cases eliminate the two monsters that created the situation.

this guy must be desperate for that 40% of the population after seeing the poll numbers. it is easy because most christians are taught they don't need to use their brains as long as they follow "gods" plan for them. all anyone needs to do is exploit their stupidity and ignorance to get their support. it always amazed me that conservative republicans are always in the media w/ conflicts about their own sexuality to begin with. it's probably just the devil testing their faith w/ god. the reality of the world is in front of our eyes and it's sad there are so many uneducated, deceived people in this world. too bad when you die you don't get a second of clarity to realize you aren't going to heaven.

Maybe those who Huckabee says want to "change the holy word of God" merely don't believe in him or other magical beliefs; thus don't want their reality based on science fiction.

Also, last I checked the words in the Bible were written by men, not a supernatural being. I know that Christians and Atheists have differing beliefs and I'm sure glad that our constitution (which Huckabee wants to edit) provides the freedom for both sides to believe in what they want. I just hope that other rights, like abortion, aren't stepped on by religious views.

Seriously, thinking on this level is outright dangerous. I would personally never suggest my wife or someone I know have an abortion but for me to impose my will on other people is insane. These republicans and abortion oponents are all dangerously out of touch.

Did he forget that women won the right to vote? Because he just alienated a good portion of them with that statement. This guy doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.

If abortion is the holocaust, then what is sending our children off to an unjust war?

As one Baptist minister has said, the majority of Pro-lifers are pro-life only while the fetus is still in the womb. Once a child is born, they stop caring (SCHIP).

Well I can certainly see and study the constitution that our fore fathers wrote.It has stood the test of time so far because it is difficult to change it easily. I am having a bit of difficulty in locating the "word of god" document. Mike maybe you could tell me where that document is, so I could study it more closely.If we are refering to the Bible, well that has been changed by individuals like you over the centuries to shape this world into the mess it is now thanks to religious zealots like you.

As a Jew, this comment sickens me.

Alright Mr. Huckabee. I get your point. They had a holocaust. They killed Jews. Now everybody is coming along try to top it with their own holocaust. Like sliced bread or something. Get over it. Your holocaust isn't going to beat the real holocaust. Let's get some of these black people working. What is wrong we can't print a little more cash? Are you afraid that the Pope is going to come over and take away your golden money printing machine? Some more thoughts like this:

http://www.golden-lamp.com

All thses discussions of the sins of abortion are always directed at the woman.I am Pro-Choice but have a hard time with issue – its a gut-wrenching subjet to everyone I know on either side of the issue.
But, why don't we introduce another element here. If the guy can't use his -- responsibly, then he should be fined and held accountable for the miss-use of it. Bringing an unwanted child in this world is irresponsible for both – and both should be held accountable for this. And if he is not willing to support the child or pay for an abortion he should be fined and ticketed on the level of a third degree felony. Just an idea.

Ah yes, let's have 35 million more babies for which we have no provisions for healthcare, education, and shelter so that we can train them at an early age (say, 9) to serve as mercenaries in the war on terror. Now here's a candidate America could really get behind!

Where does he get off comparing this a heinous illegal act in history.

Do you agree with Mike Huckabee's statement comparing legalized abortion to the holocaust?

---> http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=756

This should set those democrats who saw Huck as a moderate straight. He's a strong candidate for VP, if Rudy gets the nod, and the only viable conservative alternative to Fred, if Rudy falls off.
He's getting more press, but not much more money, and that's the only primary of importance until Jan.

Van

I have more of a chance of being President, than this clown does.

Is it true that as governor of Arkansas, he had no problem accepting federal money to pay for abortions?

Having babies to produce free labor went out when the big companies took over farming several decades ago. And comparing abortion to the holocaust? Huckabee's thinking is flawed on this one.

I am so sick of listening to this totalitarian theocrat pander to the most ignorant and intolerant "Christians" in our country. Is he not aware most abortions were legal in this country before Roe?

I agree Roe should go, and the states should decide. However Huckabee wants an anti-Roe to BAN abortion for all of us, not to mention an equally unconstitutional "definition" of marriage, which government at all levels should stay out of. Marriage is a social/religious contract between two persons (of ANY gender), and should NEVER be a government-sacntioned one.

But the kicker is when he conflates not amending the Constitution as he sees fit, with being "willing to change the holy word of God." Ever read the First Amendment concerning the separation of church and state, Mike? Or do you want to get rid of that too?

In these dark times, where our freedoms are being attacked from all sides, we need Ron Paul more than ever.

Once again, someone without a uterus and/or the possible chance of becoming pregnant through rape or incest, takes their fundamentalist beliefs and wants to force feed the rest of the nation their views. These are the real monsters!

Granted, I think a woman should be responsible for her actions, ie; don't use abortion as birth control – try to think about the possibilities BEFORE you place yourself in a tricky situation. However, I also don't feel I have the right to tell another woman what to do.