Huckabee in Trouble for Referring to Abortion as Holocaust
Written by Sam on October 31st, 2007
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is under fire from Jewish groups after a speech he gave at a pro-life event the weekend before last. In the address to the Family Research Council, the former Arkansas governor referred to the deaths of 45-50 million unborn children from abortion as a holocaust.
In the speech, he linked the issues of abortion and illegal immigration — saying the destruction of tens of millions of unborn children has left the U.S. with a worker shortage.
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our work force,” Huckabee said in the speech.
“It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our work force had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973,” he explained.
I don’t see the problem here. Is what he said not true? While the exact number will never be known, roughly 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Since 1973, when the Supreme Court wrongly decided Roe ( to which Darth Vader Ginsburg herself has admitted is bad law) over 46 million lives have been snuffed out and slaughtered. Many had sharp objects stabbed through their heads and their bodies dismembered and sucked out of a womb with a vacuum cleaner, thrown into a pan, and dumped into an incinerator. That sounds a lot like a Holocaust type tragedy to me.
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most people view people out of the womb as more valuable then people within the womb. prolife or not
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Jim, human worth is not determined by how “most people” feel about another human, or how productive, or developed another human is. Human rights are inalienable. Read the Declaration of Independence.
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As usual you guys are slightly skewing the actual argument… liberals aren’t saying that it’s ok to take a living person and have “sharp objects stabbed through their heads and their bodies dismembered and sucked out of a womb with a vacuum cleaner, thrown into a pan, and dumped into an incinerator”… this would be objectionable to everyone, even Jews (don’t worry, I’m Jewish, I can say that).
The argument is that an unborn fetus is not a living person. According to many Christian traditions, the unborn fetus IS a living thing. According to the Jewish tradition, the fetus is considered alive when it graduates from Medical or Law school.