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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Jeremiah

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.

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

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

This should NOT be a good ratio for anyone..

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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!!!

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

Sincerely,

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..."