In case you had any remaining doubt that the religious right is going for broke on the abortion issue, here’s Mike Huckabee at a fundraiser for the “Personhood Mississippi” campaign — one branch of an extreme anti-abortion multi-state initiative that would criminalize abortion in all cases, make some types of birth control illegal, and ban in vitro fertilization and the treatment of ectopic pregnancies.

Huckabee told the far right audience that pro-choice activists and the “abortion industry” only want to “profit from the sale of death.”

The fundamentalist fanatic persona of Mike Huckabee. You don’t usually see this version of Huckabee on his Fox News show.

But here’s what I don’t assume. I do not assume that you comprehend the battle you’re gonna face over the next couple of months in this fight for Amendment 26. You have no idea how many millions of dollars are likely to be poured into your state and it’s not stimulus money and economic development and job creation, it is hardcore political money that is designed to preserve the abortion industry which is a multimillion dollar industry specifically designed in order to terminate life and make people rich. Let’s not kid ourselves; this is not about elevating women this is about elevating wealth on behalf of those who profit from the sale of death.

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The reason that America is more pro-life than it ever has been is because the younger generation of Americans are more pro-life than their mothers and their grandmothers. And do you know why? Because science has affirmed what God has been trying to scream to us all along: that is a human life! Thank God for the science that’s affirmed it.