Huckabee's Idea - A literal War on Women

[jillboston]

And they call us paranoid and hyperbolic about the GOP's war on women. Hmmm..


www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-huckabee-troops-abortion_55bbc20ee4b06363d5a22323


GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is open to the idea of using federal troops and the FBI to stop women from having abortions.



"I will not pretend there is nothing we can do to stop this," Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and an outspoken social conservative, said Thursday at a campaign stop in Jefferson, Iowa.



Huckabee addressed abortion again at his next stop in Rockwell City, Iowa, where a reporter asked him whether stopping abortion would mean using federal troops or the FBI.



"We'll see if I get to be president," Huckabee said, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.



"All American citizens should be protected," he added.



On Twitter, journalist Matt Taibbi said he had asked Huckabee the abortion question.







The Huckabee campaign did not immediately return a request for more comment on what deploying troops or using the FBI to stop women from having abortions would look like.



Huckabee has long spoken out against abortion, and last year, he suggested that the issue was worse than the Holocaust.



"If you felt something incredibly powerful at Auschwitz and Birkenau over the 11 million killed worldwide and the 1.5 million killed on those grounds, cannot we feel something extraordinary about 55 million murdered in our own country in the wombs of their mothers?" he asked.



This piece was updated with Taibbi's tweets.

[sporky]

This reads like an Onion article.   :?

[gretchenindisguise]

So what if they're not american citizens being aborted? Then it's ok?

[ECB]

I told my DH about this. He agrees w/ Huckabee - us ladies don't know about our own lady parts and need men to tell us...

[MrsAxilla]

Obviously I'm no Huckabee defendeder, but this reads to me like a reporter 'gotcha' question. Someone else proposed the idea, and he said "we'll see". How often do you mean 'yes' when you say "we'll see" to your kids? Like, never.

[secretlyevil]

I agree with MrsAxilla, it does seem to be a "gotcha" moment. ::chokes on bile from defending Huckabee.::

[underwaterrhymes]

My face right now. OMG. What a complete fucking whack job.

[pierogigirl]

"All American citizens should be protected," he added.

Unless they have a vagina.

[josieposy]

Where is the 55 million number coming from?

[UMaineTeach]

Aug 1, 2015 10:33:18 GMT -5 pierogigirl said:

"All American citizens should be protected," he added.

Unless they have a vagina.

or were born to illegal immigrants

or a million other things (non-white, poor, single parent, non-the right kind of Christians, gay)

really that quote can't be something he truly, literally, believes. 

[StrawberryBlondie]

Oh ffs.

[Deleted]

Fucking what

[onomatopoeia]

Aug 1, 2015 10:07:06 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

I agree with MrsAxilla, it does seem to be a "gotcha" moment. ::chokes on bile from defending Huckabee.::

I disagree.  I use "we'll see" with my kids when they're asking for something that's not out of the question, I just don't want to promise it, you know?  Can we go to the beach later, can we have ice cream for dessert, sort of thing.  

His use of "we'll see", combined with this quote "If you felt something incredibly powerful at Auschwitz and Birkenau over the 11 million killed worldwide and the 1.5 million killed on those grounds, cannot we feel something extraordinary about 55 million murdered in our own country in the wombs of their mothers?"...makes me think it's not complete out of the question for him.

Read more: pandce.proboards.com/post/9885454/quote/466607#ixzz3haqokIhK

[sushi]

Come on guys. He's just saying what everyone else is thinking

[decemberwedding07]

Aug 1, 2015 10:36:15 GMT -5 josieposy said:

Where is the 55 million number coming from?

www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

[cairo]

"All American citizens should be protected," he added.]

If we're splitting hairs, Mr. Huckabee, DS was not an American citizen until he was born.

[katietornado]

FETUSES AREN'T CITIZENS.

[josieposy]

Aug 1, 2015 14:39:22 GMT -5 decemberwedding07 said:

Aug 1, 2015 10:36:15 GMT -5 josieposy said:

Where is the 55 million number coming from?

www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

Thanks for the link.