Huckabee: As President I Will Consider Deploying US Troops Against American Women Who Have Abortions

[Cali_Democrat]

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said at a campaign stop on Thursday that he would consider sending federal troops or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop abortions
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During a campaign stop in Iowa, reporters asked Huckabee about a recent controversy over an anti-choice organization‘s efforts to paint Planned Parenthood as a dubious entity that is selling “aborted baby parts” through the release of several heavily edited videos.

Huckabee said he would “invoke the 5th and 14th amendments for the protection of every human being.” The Fifth Amendment states, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger.” This suggests a Hucakbee presidency would unilaterally make all abortion illegally by deeming all fetuses are people.

He repeated a conservative line that there is now scientific proof that “unborn babies are human beings,” and the Supreme Court may not have known that when they ruled on Roe v. Wade in 1973. Many anti-choicers have pointed to a recent study that said a small percentage of 22-week fetuses can survive outside the womb and have used that as justification for earlier and earlier abortion bans.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/07/31/3686938/huckabee-suggests-using-federal-troops-to-stop-abortion/

[REP]

1. There's no War on Women ... we're just deploying troops against them

For Their Own Good™.

[Vinca]

2. Is Huckabee proposing gyn training for our troops so they can do exams?

This is one of his top ten stupidest remarks ever.

[Fred Sanders]

5. He needs a couple more % of the GOP loony base to get into the TV debate...the "base" is also insane.

When will someone in the mass media break the mold and call this whole GOP primary what it is - sad and creepy?

[procon]

3. The Handmaid's Tale was scary enough without making it into a reality show.

Welcome to Huckabee's theocracy, ladies, where the Republic of Gilead is your worse nightmare. Right this way for reprogramming at the Women's Center where you will all learn that women are always subservient to men and your only purpose is bearing children... lots and lots of 'em until they day you die.

[udbcrzy2]

4. He is so creepy

I remember when he was campaigning before with this guitar, people actually voted for him.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. He looks like some criminally insane version of Gomer Pyle

when he went off the deep end and enlisted sargeant Carter to get his M-16 and follow him to the local abortion clinic and light it up. If he needs the armed military, Huckabee must be having fantasies about extreme, ultimate gun play with rifles and bayonets.

[udbcrzy2]

9. LOL ^^^This^^^

[calimary]

16. That is a GOOD one!

He does look like some criminally insane version of Gomer Pyle. Totally!

[nomorenomore08]

20. ...

- but also -

[Runningdawg]

6. Nice try Huck

but not inflammatory enough on the Trump scale to give you a bump in the polls.
Maybe you could say you would round up all the women and have them impregnated by (loving Christian) force.
Dumbass.

[Eleanors38]

7. Huckabee reminds me of the ape cage at the San Antonio Zoo. Can't post.

[geek tragedy]

10. Trying to out-Trump Trump. nt

[kwolf68]

11. LOL

So the book on the Republicans losing in 2008 and 2012 was that their social conservatism was so out of the mainstream. Politicians who prattled on about rape can't create a pregnancy and others who said it's a "gift from God" got roundly defeated. So you'd think they'd moderate their views some.

Then comes this bit of idiocy. I get doubling-down on stupid, but what do they hope to accomplish? Are they just trying to out-clown the next guy in order to get the nomination?

[LiberalElite]

33. I think this is just to try to get to

the Big Event debate next week. Otherwise he's at the kiddy table. The only way to accomplish this is to out-crazy the rest of the crazies. I miss normal U.S. politics. Wonder if it'll ever be that way again.

[spanone]

12. the old huckster just pushin' the evelope...out crazying the crazies is crazy

[malaise]

18. Never forget that this crazy covered up the Duggar son's

abuse of their own children and another child. This despicable scumbag will never get near the White House - he should be tossed into an out house.

[smirkymonkey]

13. What are other (sane) countries saying/writing about us?

Seriously. We are so used to hearing this kind of bat-shit crazy coming from the right we are almost used to it. Other developed countries must be expressing a mix of horror and hilarity.

I think there is a movie or a really whacked British sit com in here somewhere.

[kwolf68]

15. Nothing

They are probably incapable of speaking having become so drunk with laughter

[DisgustipatedinCA]

14. How's that top 10 contender thing working out for you, dipshit?

Thought so.

[vankuria]

17. Wonder how he proposes to do this?

Will he have troops with machine guns and tanks aimed at women as they are walking into Planned Parenthood? May-be have the troops and the FBI in examination rooms to insure no one is terminating a pregnancy? And exam rooms aren't that big, so I guess the gov't will have to supply the money to enlarge them for the army detail that will be monitoring everything that goes on.

[Sam_Fields]

19. Huckabee is a diabetic

so I think he is making these crazy pronouncements when his blood sugar is low.

[freshwest]

21. Sooo... It's come to this, Hucky:

[freshwest]

22. BTW, Rand wants to re-write the 14th to re-define what a 'person' is. Ladies need not apply.

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Are we gonna stand by and let the GOP take the White House?

The person who stood against was Obama... repeatedly. For every budget, they tried to extort him into signing our rights away.

We need a Democratic POTUS or 'The Handmaiden's Tale' will be an reality by the end of the decade. Any person who doesn't see the writing on the wall is in denial.

[Old Union Guy]

23. To prohibit abortion *now* would not be a "return" to the bad old days.

It would be moving toward a different and greater evil.

[City Lights]

24. Listen up, Huckster...you will never be president! nt

[EL34x4]

25. Trump has allowed everyone to unleash their inner craziness.

[valerief]

26. What a royal fucktard! nt

[elias49]

27. This isn't The Onion?

Get out!

[Thinkingabout]

28. I am sure we are not at the end of stupid comments made by the members of the clown car but

They need to give it up for a while.

[Initech]

29. Is he trying to out crazy Donald Trump?

[leftofcool]

32. That ship has already sailed.

[Kath1]

30. Unbelievable he would say that.

He wants to take the War on Women to a whole new level.

I didn't think he was THAT much of an idiot.

[Takket]

31. headline for this:

Huckabee would deploy the military on American soil to attack American citizens

That's the headline.

isn't this the same party that said Obama was going to turn drones against us americans?????

[3catwoman3]

34. No big gubmint here.

No, siree, sir.

What does he propose to do about all the men who are impregnating the women?

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. ..

[Samantha]

36. Consider these two words, Huckabee: posse comitatus

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

It is always a wise idea to familiarize oneself with the laws of the land before pursuing the Chief Executive Office of our government. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, as you might have heard, but it is also a very inconvenient trait to display while claiming to be a man of God while threatening acts of a demon.

Sam

[TwilightGardener]

37. Huckafuck has no understanding of how the US government works.

Not shocked, just pointing it out.