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Source: The Guardian
Amanda Holpuch in New York
Saturday 1 August 2015 16.21 BST
If Mike Huckabee becomes president, he will consider using all available resources to stop abortions in the US including a domestic military intervention.
At a succession of campaign stops this week, the former Arkansas governor said he would violate a landmark supreme court ruling to accomplish his goal of ending abortion.
I will not pretend there is nothing we can do to stop this, Huckabee said at one stop in Iowa.
The Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi pressed Huckabee at the next campaign stop, asking if he would use the national guard or the FBI to stop abortions. Huckabee responded: Well see, if I get to be president.
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But during press questions at the campaign stop, Huckabee said he would invoke the fifth and 14th amendments to protect what he believes to be humans. The fifth amendment protects against trial without jury and ensures the due process of law; the 14th addresses citizenship and the rights of citizens.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/01/mike-huckabee-end-abortion-military-intervention
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)Response to Gothmog (Reply #1)
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cyberswede
(26,117 posts)and the O'Keefe she rode in on.
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cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Bye now.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Didn't work last time.
angryvet
(181 posts)this "small government" mad man will never be president. This is so cockamamie I don't even have a way to think about it.
malaise
(269,254 posts)He is nasty scumbag
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)the fetus is gonna be aborted anyway? Great logic.
Who the hell does he think he is, telling ALL women of childbearing age what they have to do, and threatening violence against them.
I wonder if female soldiers would carry out those orders or protect the pregnant woman against harassment?
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Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)'cause that's the ONLY way you're going to stop women from exercising their reproductive rights.
Assholes!
olddots
(10,237 posts)did you hear he will be at the kid's table at the Republican debates ( its a big table )
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,270 posts)and form militias.
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)When women have access to birth control and sex education, abortion rates go down.
But, I figure the anti-abortion stuff is just looking to the future when they're going to need all the poor people they can get to fight in their stupid wars.
Initech
(100,129 posts)At the very least, he's lost his damn mind.