Huckabee compares abortion to Holocaust
He says Democrats' emphasis on issue at convention shocked him
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Iowa Republican Party state convention, July 12, 2008. / Register file photo
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Anti-abortion activist Mike Huckabee told Iowans on Saturday exactly why he’s not a Democrat — but he added that he’s willing to bail on the Republican Party if need be.
“I’ve never been so shocked in my life,” Huckabee said at a “Celebrate Life” forum at a Waukee church, “to see speaker after speaker go to the podium in Charlotte at the Democratic National Convention and all but give a rallying cry (that) the single most important thing to them in all of America was not a stable economy, was not a secure border, it was not that we had peace within our country and that we were protected from enemies around the world.
“It was not that we stop terrorism. It was not that we had an education system that gave our kids the opportunity to become independent and self-sufficient. It was not that we would have a food supply system that would allow us to feed ourselves and not be dependent on some foreign country.
“It was not that we would have our own energy resources where we could take care of ourselves and not be slaves to some Middle Eastern tyrant who takes our money by the wads and then turns around and spends it to use against us to murder us and kill us in the name of a perverted faith. No, that wasn’t the most important issue.
“The most important issue was: ‘I want to be able to take the life of my baby and I want someone else to pay for it.’”
“I’ve never been so shocked in my life,” Huckabee said at a “Celebrate Life” forum at a Waukee church, “to see speaker after speaker go to the podium in Charlotte at the Democratic National Convention and all but give a rallying cry (that) the single most important thing to them in all of America was not a stable economy, was not a secure border, it was not that we had peace within our country and that we were protected from enemies around the world.
“It was not that we stop terrorism. It was not that we had an education system that gave our kids the opportunity to become independent and self-sufficient. It was not that we would have a food supply system that would allow us to feed ourselves and not be dependent on some foreign country.
“It was not that we would have our own energy resources where we could take care of ourselves and not be slaves to some Middle Eastern tyrant who takes our money by the wads and then turns around and spends it to use against us to murder us and kill us in the name of a perverted faith. No, that wasn’t the most important issue.
“The most important issue was: ‘I want to be able to take the life of my baby and I want someone else to pay for it.’”
Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate who now hosts a conservative TV talk show, told those in the crowd of about 250 that “they’re the heart and hope not only of the Republican Party but I believe of the United States of America.”
The Republican Party of Iowa sponsored the event. Huckabee said it was the first program he knows of held by a state party “specifically to emphasize and to celebrate our commitment to the dignity, the worth and the intrinsic value of every single human being.”
“I salute this party and its leaders for having the courage, and let’s just be blunt, having the courage to take a stand that may or may not be popular at all levels of our party,” he said.
During a 30-minute speech, Huckabee said he just got back Tuesday from Israel, one of 20-some trips he has made there since he was 17. One of his favorite places to take people is to a little cemetery across from Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
It houses the grave of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi German businessman who saved about 1,200 Jews by employing them in his factories.
Huckabee compared the Holocaust to abortion — the killing of humans who represent an inconvenience.
Abortion has killed about 55 million since 1973 in “this incredible holocaust of our own in America,” he said.
The Republican Party of Iowa sponsored the event. Huckabee said it was the first program he knows of held by a state party “specifically to emphasize and to celebrate our commitment to the dignity, the worth and the intrinsic value of every single human being.”
“I salute this party and its leaders for having the courage, and let’s just be blunt, having the courage to take a stand that may or may not be popular at all levels of our party,” he said.
During a 30-minute speech, Huckabee said he just got back Tuesday from Israel, one of 20-some trips he has made there since he was 17. One of his favorite places to take people is to a little cemetery across from Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
It houses the grave of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi German businessman who saved about 1,200 Jews by employing them in his factories.
Huckabee compared the Holocaust to abortion — the killing of humans who represent an inconvenience.
Abortion has killed about 55 million since 1973 in “this incredible holocaust of our own in America,” he said.
Huckabee thanked Iowa Republican activist Marlys Popma, who earlier shared that she thought about getting an abortion when she became pregnant as a 22-year-old unmarried college student. Her son is now 35, with four children of his own, she said.
Several Iowans, including WHO radio personality Jan Mickelson; state Sen. Ken Rozenboom, R-Oskaloosa; and Iowa Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats, also spoke — at times tearfully — about women they know who had trouble conceiving, or who had abortions, had contemplated an abortion, or gave up a baby for adoption.
Vander Plaats related how his mother told his sister, who was dealing with an unplanned pregnancy when she already had three children that “we didn’t want Bob either.” That drew laughter from the crowd.
Vander Plaats said that if the GOP veers from its anti-abortion stance, “we will run from this party.”
Several Iowans, including WHO radio personality Jan Mickelson; state Sen. Ken Rozenboom, R-Oskaloosa; and Iowa Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats, also spoke — at times tearfully — about women they know who had trouble conceiving, or who had abortions, had contemplated an abortion, or gave up a baby for adoption.
Vander Plaats related how his mother told his sister, who was dealing with an unplanned pregnancy when she already had three children that “we didn’t want Bob either.” That drew laughter from the crowd.
Vander Plaats said that if the GOP veers from its anti-abortion stance, “we will run from this party.”
Huckabee, too, said: “This is why this issue cannot be moved off our platform and if it is, then I’ll meet you somewhere outside the tent and we’ll build a new one.”
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