Mike Huckabee: 10-year-old rape victim should be forced to carry rapist’s baby
Source: RawStory
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 thats 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.
-snip-
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/mike-huckabee-10-year-old-rape-victim-should-be-forced-to-carry-rapists-baby/
valerief
(53,235 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)last time I looked, she was the innocent child and the other was a zygote.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Subspecies "fanaticus error"
duhneece
(4,112 posts)Or does he and justifies it? He is the worst of our kind.
lark
(23,099 posts)You know damn well if his daughter had been raped at 10 she wouldn't be forced to carry the baby. Poor child has had her humiliation and injury made into a rw cause. BS on he thinks this is horrible for the girl, he doesn't give one fucking shit about her or any other rape vicitim.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so outraged! How can he not see that a poor child herself is the victim? Does he want to condemn her to a life of hell, or no life at all? I can't even say what I would like to do to him.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)The first thing any Republican president is going to do (they say) is overturn Obamacare.
Jeb! says he might reinstate torture (or rather, won't rule it out), which somehow seems remotely related to forcing a 10 year old to bear her rapist's offspring.
In some states the rapist might be able to claim parental rights (guys who are one night stands can) -- visitation, etc.
At what point did the Republicant Party go crazy?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Huckaby is sickening.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)the so-called "real issue" here is you don't give a flying fart about that 10-year-old girl, because you're so busy thinking of sanctimonious pie-in-the-sky "possibilities."
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Hepburn
(21,054 posts)...from what I know, they are more protective of the young than is Hemorrhoid Huckleberry.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)trusty elf
(7,393 posts)If it were his own daughter, would this piece of shit force her to endure giving birth to her rapist's baby?
Utterly despicable
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)demigoddess
(6,641 posts)is that the child being carried might be male and therefore more valuable than the mother carrying it. There fore even in a case of rape, abortion was denied.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)"The child might be male and therefore more valuable than the woman/girl carrying it."
And they hate Muslims? Their "religions" are based on the exact same sickness.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)Typical right-wing sick thinking.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so angry I could spit nails.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)Of course, completely ignoring that the girl he's saying should have the baby is an INNOCENT CHILD!
This is evil and stupid at the same time.
LeftOfWest
(482 posts)exactly right msanthrope.
trusty elf
(7,393 posts)I'm so sick of "conservative" "morality".
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ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)This literally makes me sick
Hugin
(33,144 posts)Or are you bearing false witness, you lying POS?
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)So Huckabee would deny abortions to the mothers of Osama bin Laden, Jeffrey Dahmer, Adam Lanza, ayatolah Khomeni, Pol Pot and other equally infamous people?
beac
(9,992 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)but the press is made up of morons and collaborators.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)How can anyone believe that a 10 year old should suffer this trauma. Be gone, Huckabee, you are so way off base it is impossible to comprehend your logic.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)This guy really should join ISIS or the Taliban. He seems to agree with their radical fundamentalism.
What is he polling now, less than 1 present?
erronis
(15,257 posts)As are many of the other religious zealots. It is all for the glory of their incarnation of an all-powerful male figure to dominate women and others.
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that most of the evangelicals are funded by the Kingdoms in the Middle East. How better to foment the "End Days" when the followers of (he shall remain unnamed) finally conquer the earth.
OK, that was fun. But sometimes I wonder...
niyad
(113,306 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)...while that vile "person" lives on?
He disgusts me.
asjr
(10,479 posts)who feel the same way. This has been scaring me to death! It is not only their stock-in-trade but it feels like a giant has taken over their souls. I no longer care which Democrat wins--just want to make sure it is a Democrat.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)this is not surprising of a stand for him to take.
PSPS
(13,598 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)FarPoint
(12,368 posts)He's clueless to the abusive situations endured by others so its all empty, propaganda fodder which fans his voting base. His base is also clueless to real suffering.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Please don't call us. We'll call you.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Does that include the possibility of the 10-year-old dying?????
What a POS.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Among rw christian kind of people, adoption is a cult. They get brownie points with god for adopting. And no, they don't give a tinkers damn about the mother of the child, regardless if that mother is a child herself or not/.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)They don't care at all about the health of the mother. And furthermore, I question their "concern" about the child once it's born.
If you're talking "possibilities" -- to me that means ALL the possibilities -- especially when it involves a preteen.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)He is sick but the girl did have the baby.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)might cause her great harm (more harm than already).
Wonder if he would consider pitching in for money to raise that baby and therapy for this young girl
He is a holier than thou type of "Christian" who ignores many of the qualities required to actually be considered qualified.
I used to think he was not totally awful, I am willing to admit I was very very wrong.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)The life of the mother and the life of the child after the delivery rooms are mere afterthoughts to people like Huck.
And I wonder what the potential consequences are of doing a C-section on a 10-year-old? But I guess it is safer than attempting a vaginal delivery.
She is 10, for Chrissakes.
(Sorry to take so long to display but time and computer issues interfered this week.)
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I thought some may have thought the girl died. I do know that happens. We are on the same page and support the same thing.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)about stories like the one about a man whose mother was denied an abortion and now he's Mother Teresa?
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)It's more his kind of place...
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)He's so full of shit.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 16, 2015, 06:10 PM - Edit history (2)
What a complete bastard Huckabee is.
A 10 or 11 year old girl on average weighs 70 to 80 pounds.
Physically this is atrocious. Emotionally it's an insane thing to do to a young CHILD.
On edit: correction on birthweight, not that it matters.
On edit... Birthweight was reported as 8 lbs in one paper and as 6.6 in another
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)3.5 kg 8 lbs
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/05/ten-year-olds-pregnancy-sparks-paraguay-abortion-debate/
Says in the Guardian that she was only 75lbs. 4' 6" and that SHE ISN'T THE YOUNGEST RAPE VICTIM TO GIVE BIRTH under care of this doctor.Weve had experience with this before. Last year a 10-year-old girl who conceived as a nine-year-old gave birth. Her step-grandfather raped her. She did well, said Castellanos.
brer cat
(24,565 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Bryce Butler
(338 posts)That's Mike Huckabee for ya.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)kairos12
(12,861 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Sick pig.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"Rapists for Huckabee"
Deadshot
(384 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)Apparently the 10 year old's life is expendable as long as the embryo can reach maturity. Little girls aren't ready for childbirth and it can kill them.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)water"?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)would not seek shelter in a Roman Catholic or Evangelical Church during an F-5 Tornado.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Through his asshole
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Make sure the surgeon who performs the operation is a Democrat who voted for Obama.
Insult to injury...
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)I would guess it's pretty stretched out by now.
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)number one next time, both for Republicans in one month and Democrats in two months. How would any other R have answered it?
Chuck Todd asked Trump about abortion on MTP this morning, but let him off easy by not following up about the outrage in Paraguay.
7962
(11,841 posts)nightscanner59
(802 posts)Aside from his black little heart, 2 sizes too small.
red dog 1
(27,804 posts)Huckabee is a poor excuse for a human being, which is probably why the Tea Party loves him.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Just utterly sick and wrong on every level, Suckabee.
demwing
(16,916 posts)but is anyone willing to bet that his position wouldn't change if the rape victim were his child?
And by his same logic, he ought to oppose the death penalty : "when I think about one horror, I also think about the possibilities."
Evil fucking hypocrites... I don't wish violence on anyone, but such a POS might make me rethink my values.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)As well as grown women, of course.
When is someone going to start asking them what kind of gurneys they are going to use to strap women down and force them to bear children?
When is someone going to ask them how many women should die, for their insane sense of entitlement to grab and poke and squeeze other people's bodies and force them to do their bidding?
Paul Ryan takes the same position, and he and these other murderous monstrosities are permitted to walk about and pretend to be reasonable human beings, while we fight over whether mild banking reform or a minimum wage are "radicalism."
Jesus.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)Old religious zealots reducing female humans to life support systems for rapists' zygotes. Completely dehumanizing and completely heartless. These men are nothing more than vicious control freaks.
Gothmog
(145,242 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Perhaps it will come out in a few years, like with Cosby. Same pattern.
niyad
(113,306 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)He claims to speak for god, but he's really just a delusional psycho.
3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)...Fuckabee a transplant of a female reproductive tract and experience what this poor little girl went thru. Schmuck.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Let's see. A Red Herring it's irrelevant that someone who was not aborted turned out to be good, This happens..um a lot.
Retrospective determinism: The argument that because some event has occurred, its occurrence must have been inevitable beforehand. (" That would never have happened"
Hasty Generalization: Using a lone example to prove a broader point.
Appeal to emotion
And of course: Willful Stupidity (I made that up as a logical fallacy but I think it applies to the special case of Mike Huckabee.)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)sphere so it'll get talked about.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)He is just so sick, why does he have to keep pushing his warped
viewpoints on everyone?
He really must get off on it.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Especially given his pardons of guys like DuMond and his defense of guys like Josh Duggar.
He really needs to drink a big ol glass of shut the fuck up. Along with crawl back under the rock from where he slithered out from under.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)but he seems unconcerned about that life.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)This young girl, who should have an abortion because neither her body nor mind are ready for pregnancy and child birth, let be able to fend off the opportunist salivating to remove her child from her to sell to adoption. No girl or woman is a "birth mother" while she is pregnant.
Huckabee is a sick fuck on so many different levels. And btw, huckabee, you don't have the say over a woman's body.
This article and its contents are triggerpalooza. So many issues just barfed out as one big mess.
I would remind readers that women have given birth and lovingly raised children that were conceived by rape for thousands of years. I would suggest that some of our members here fit that description, either on the mother or "child" side of the equation. This statement of fact is not a slight to the many women who choose to terminate a pregnancy that occurs because of rape. I fully support a woman's right to continue a pregnancy or end it, for ANY reason~no judgement.
Huckabee and his positions on women are disgusting.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)I just didn't have the strength last night to work up the energy to explain why it was wrong and why Huckabee would say something like that.
OK, here goes:
People like Mike Huckabee are not just anti-abortion--they are pro-adoption. As matter of moral principle, they want EVERY SINGLE CHILD born out of wedlock to be given up for adoption. It goes without saying to him that the baby should be adopted out. And the expectant mother, who has no right to her own child, is really just a surrogate. She is already the birth mother. This, of course, is the mentality that leads to "Dear birth mother" letters.
Rape victims are definitely at risk of being exploited by the adoption industry. And if they are children (under 18) the adults in their life often don't know how to support them.
Here is a good wikipedia article on a situation like that, along with an article on the rape victim. It really seems like the PAPs and/or Bethany Christian Services (always the lowest of the low) took great care to feed her the words she was expected to say in the adoption paperwork, and to the judge. The rhetoric is just way too familiar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Baptist_Church_sex_scandal
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/man-accused-in-rape-admitted-paternity
napi21
(45,806 posts)immature? Probably not, but I guess it wouldn't matter.
Is he also against ay medical treatment that would have prevented her from becoming pregnant after the rape was reported? There wouldn't be any need for an abortion because the egg would never implant.
Warpy
(111,261 posts)We're just walking flowerpots with annoying voices and we'd better get dinner on the table on time. Clean clothes just breed in the closet.
He completely loses sight of a child whose body will have to be ripped apart to get a baby she is too young to bear out of her.
He is a sick man. He needs a nice hospital with strong drugs and people in white coats to talk to.
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)save us from your follower. If indeed he is one.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)An incest fetus is more important to him than this girl. In a decent world, this would disqualify him from running for office.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Not.
Jean Genie
(273 posts)Why is it so often those who won't get pregnant, can't get pregnant (like Huckabee and the rest of the boys in the "Old Repugs Club" , or are beyond the age where one can get pregnant (in the case of Carly and other anti-woman women) who believe they have the right to set the standards for what is acceptable in the wonderful world of rape? Forcing a child to bear a child because it would be more traumatic somewhere down the road for her to have aborted the rapist's "deposit" (or gift from god if you think like The Huck)? Give me a fucking break! Forcing a child - or a grown-up woman for that matter - to carry within her the abomination that is the rapist's fetal "gift," is sick, perverted, twisted, and totally, utterly cruel. It is woman-hating in its highest form. It is not compassion for the unborn fetus, nor is it charity, love, or anything else that's caring and humane for the victim. It is, essentially, an every-sperm-is-sacred philosophy that fails to take into consideration anyone's feelings other than those of the rapist, and the (predominantly) white men who so want to save and protect the unborn. Why?
Hekate
(90,686 posts)A girl of any age, much less a woman, is just a uterus walking around waiting to be inseminated by any passing animal.
Preacher Huckabee, your god is a horrible god. Preacher Huckabee, kindly go do something anatomically impossible to yourself and leave the female half of the human race alone.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)My take on The Preacher and all his ilk is that they are so ideologically rigid and blind that they would force the female to go through with it regardless of her own feelings on the matter. He'd just pray on it and pat himself on the back for his ability to rise above her sins.
In a different time he would definitely have made a different decision in order to hush it up and avoid the shame to the family. Again, regardless of the female's feelings on the matter.
It's all about him and his feelings, and of course his horrible mysogynistic god.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)the one who has sinned and needs to repent.
Here is a link to a story where this happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Baptist_Church_sex_scandal
rickford66
(5,523 posts)Wow. I know someone who doesn't have health care. Will Huck support Obama Care now? Also someone without a job. Will he support extending unemployment? We can all play this game. Anecdotal stories are the norm for his and the GOPs policies. Welfare queen! Illegal gun toting rapist! Lobster eating food stamp recipient! No end to it.
lastlib
(23,233 posts)[font size=10]FUCK YOU, HUCKABEE!![/font size] you are disgusting!
TBF
(32,060 posts)and infant as they grow? Words are cheap, Huckabee, let's see how compassionate you really are.
HeartlandDem
(80 posts)how anyone could even consider this asshat for the presidency is beyond me.
Caretha
(2,737 posts)give us a link Huckabee or it's just political trash talk
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)Actually all of them.
ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)For those who believe that a full human life with its own rights begins at contraception, this is the obvious and only conclusion. Unless the mother is also at risk of dying, no abortion could ever be justified. Huckabee is not alone on thinking this way either.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Preteen girls in Paraguay. I heard that on BBC World News last Friday when they discussed this case. The girl was lucky to survive it. I hope the rapist is in jail or dead.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)What a vile piece of crap he is.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)maybe he has a sordid life that we don't know about?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'll give it that. While I find Huckabee's position horrible, it's somehow less horrible than people who say "I think abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape". Huckabee's position actually does seem to be about the life of the fetus, whereas when you add the rape exception you make it about the morality of the woman.
romanic
(2,841 posts)The gross little prick has no empathy or soul. Disgusting.
area51
(11,909 posts)If you really gave a shit about human life in the US, you'd be fighting for single-payer.
Truly, republicans are pro-rape.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)slip in the shower, break their neck, and die in their own shit?
MissMillie
(38,557 posts)The female body is nothing more than a human incubator
PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)In the immortal words of Val Kilmer in Tombstone:
"Aym yo Huckleberry!"
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Of course not!! But we are talking about a fetus, not a baby, MORON!
Lying bastard motherfucker!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)n/t
Marthe48
(16,959 posts)Oh, you say she is too young to make an informed decision?
I hope the monsters who are tormenting this child all burn in hell: the rapist step-father, Mike Huckabee and anyone else who are killing this little gilr's childhood.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Could care less how many innocent lives are taken by our military and drones.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)"No one can think like this. He had to be mis-interpreted."
And then you read his direct quotes, and you just get depressed that there are people like this among us who think like this, and some of them are high profile leaders.
It's just fucking depressing on some many damn levels.
niyad
(113,306 posts)closet, pallin' around with pedophiles, etc.
niyad
(113,306 posts)think of this sick, twisted, perverted waste of resources.
mikey boy, may you experience every single moment of the fear and terror and pain this poor child has endured.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)And that's a Baptist minister being allowed to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office. Does the word "ISIS" mean anything to you?
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Fuck's sake...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Hey, huckster, this woman got an abortion 30 yrs. ago and has no guilt whatsoever. I would have felt more guilty had I brought up a child I did not want. And BTW, I was not a "birth mother" of this 6 wk. old fetus, which likewise was not a "child" but a fetus that could not eat, breathe or function on its own.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Human Sewage.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)hes human garbage
LeftOfWest
(482 posts)his kid tortured/hung a dog to death at a camp where they were "counselors"?
Go the fuck away with your deviant misogynist Duggar pals.
LeftOfWest
(482 posts)On demand.