Huckabee sides with Paraguay in denying 10 yr old abortion

[ttt]

Not really shocked but still horrifying that some people actually want this man to be our President. 

www.rawstory.com/2015/08/mike-huckabee-10-year-old-rape-victim-should-be-forced-to-carry-rapists-baby/


Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee argued over the weekend that a 10-year-old girl should have been forced to carry her pregnancy to term after she was raped.

During an interview on Sunday, CNN host Dana Bash asked the GOP candidate if he would refuse an abortion to a 10-year-old girl in Paraguay, who was allegedly raped by her stepfather.

“Creating one problem that is horrible — let nobody be misled, a 10-year-old girl being raped is horrible — but does it solve a problem by taking the life of an innocent child?” Huckabee said. “And that’s really the issue.”

The former Arkansas governor recalled that he had known a man who was born as the result of a rape after doctors in Texas refused to give his mother an abortion.

“Today, his organization feeds, cares for and brings living capacity for water to hundreds of thousands of people across the world,” Huckabee noted. “That would never have happened… So when I think about one horror, I also think about the possibilities.”

He agreed that it wouldn’t be “easy” to force a 10-year-old girl to carry her rapist’s baby, “but let’s not compound the tragedy by taking yet another life.”

“When an abortion happens, there are two victims,” he insisted. “One is the child, the other is that birth mother, who often will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think through what happened, with the baby, with her.”

“There are no easy answers here,” Huckabee opined. “And I realize that there are some people that will be very different in their view of this than me. And I respect that. I don’t want to get into a shouting match with people who think I’m wrong. I respect that.”

“I just come down on the side that every life is precious. I don’t think we discount the intrinsic worth of any human being, and I don’t know where else to go with it.”

Watch the video below from CNN’s State of the Union, broadcast Aug. 16, 2015.

[ESF]

He defended a child molester.

[ttt]

Aug 16, 2015 14:15:31 GMT -5 ESF said:

He defended a child molester multiple child molesters.

gawker.com/accused-child-molesters-heart-huckabee-1710664832 

[bears]

Of course the woman is a victim when she gets an abortion ugh.

[NewOrleans]

This certainly is a nuanced view.

[ESF]

Aug 16, 2015 14:17:07 GMT -5 ttt said:

Aug 16, 2015 14:15:31 GMT -5 ESF said:

He defended a child molester multiple child molesters.

gawker.com/accused-child-molesters-heart-huckabee-1710664832 

He can DIAF. I don't use that acronym lightly, but I really do believe that he is a uniquely horrible human being. The rest of the GOP drives me wild, but Huckabee I have actual, real, deep dark hatred for. I put him in the same league as Fred Phelps.

[jdnotbyrider]

Mr. Huckabee, can you please follow the instructions that I've written for you on this hat?



Thank you.

[mrsukyankee]

10 years old. You are asking a child to give birth. A frickin' CHILD. You are disgusting.

[summer]

He is a sick individual.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Ah, yes. Every life is precious. Except the pregnant 10-year old.

[sushi]

I fucking hate this guy

[jln]

But the 10 year old is a baby! Yet nobody cares to protect her. Fuck him.

[katietornado]

Yeah, when you have to begin a statement by insisting that you think rape is horrible, lest the listener be misled by the rest of your statement...maybe it's time to reevaluate.

[josieposy]

But think of the children!

Except that one.

[jeaniebueller]

Because he knows what women who have had abortions go through? Asshole.

[gpw]

I don't really have adequate words to describe my feelings. Even with all the curse words I know, I'm coming up short.

I just....that poor child. On top of dealing with the horror of her situation (and I wonder how much she is being blamed for it), she is also having to hear politicians trying to garner points with voters at her expense. Maybe she doesn't know that part. I hope not. It just breaks my heart.

[Deleted]

He should have to give birth through his penis.

[cattledogkisses]

In addition to being a special breed of asshole, he is just plain wrong. The studies have shown that almost no women regret having an abortion.

[IIOY]

Aug 16, 2015 14:14:12 GMT -5 ttt said:

“When an abortion happens, there are two victims,” he insisted. “One is the child, the other is that birth mother, who often will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think through what happened, with the baby, with her.”

Women are just so dumb. That's really the problem.

[Deleted]

Oh, yes. The anti-choice crowd members I've encountered on social media proclaim how much more traumatic it would be for the child if she realized when she was older that her baby was MURDERED.

Also, Josh Duggar was just a CHILD and he repented and the victims have forgiven him so we should all just let go of the fact that he molested his own sisters, including a pre-school aged one.

Many of them are for Huckabee '16, with a few throwing their support to Carson or Cruz. Ugh.

[anastasia517]

Are you fucking kidding me? Molested children need to suffer more by being forced to deliver babies while still practically babies themselves? Only a truly despicable human being could even THINK something like that, never mind announcing it to the world.

Seriously, fuck him and everybody who supports him and everyone who agrees with him.

[taratru]

Why don't people like this fall off cliffs? He can just fuck right off.

[MrsAxilla]

[aurora]

“There are no easy answers here,” Huckabee opined. “And I realize that there are some people that will be very different in their view of this than me. And I respect that. I don’t want to get into a shouting match with people who think I’m wrong. I respect that.”

An this part right here? This respect for people who want to make a different decision? That's what pro choice means.

[erbear]

That makes me see red. What the fuck?

[kadams767]

Aug 16, 2015 17:08:15 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Aug 16, 2015 14:14:12 GMT -5 ttt said:

“When an abortion happens, there are two victims,” he insisted. “One is the child, the other is that birth mother, who often will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think through what happened, with the baby, with her.”

Women are just so dumb. That's really the problem.

Especially those 10 year old women...



Oh wait.

[IIOY]

Aug 17, 2015 6:18:44 GMT -5 kadams767 said:

Aug 16, 2015 17:08:15 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Women are just so dumb. That's really the problem.

Especially those 10 year old women...



Oh wait.

But she would have felt so much guilt! Just ask Huck. He knows.

[Michelle]

This answer he gave is straight out of Catholic ethics class, and is largely how I felt about abortion when considering whether I could have one. I was still pro choice because I knew my belief was grounded in faith about where life begins. I felt my faith couldn't be pushed on others in a country that claims religious freedom.

But then I went through carrying a child and childbirth and I believe forcing a rPe victim or worse, a child, to go through that prolonged trauma is beyond cruel and unusual punishment and torture.

Just goes to show men should not have a say in this issue. There is no way for them to comprehend the magnitude of the decision.

[cap]

Huckabee is a giant fuckhead.

[asdfjkl]

This is why it matters that the media is covering all the Trumpcapades without covering real news like: a "mainstream" GOP candidate for presidency would support laws that would force a 10 year old rape victim to carry a pregnancy to term and give birth.  This SHOULD effectively end Huckabee's candidacy, but it won't. In fact, I'm guessing that this board is one of only a handful of places discussing this, much less criticizing it.