Mike Huckabee Pledges to Criminalize Abortion Even if It Leads to “Riots in the Streets”
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is watching his poll numbers drop as Donald Trump’s continue to rise, so now he’s going all-out to be the most extreme Republican on the subject of abortion, hoping to capture the evangelical audience that thinks this is a winning issue. In a recent video conference with a group of far right loons, Huckabee staked out his position by vowing to criminalize abortion by executive order even if it leads to “riots in the streets.”
He sounds almost gleeful at the prospect.
Huckabee vowed that he will criminalize abortion, no matter the consequences: “I think that the bolder and more important and more urgent position is to invoke the constitutional rights of the unborn, recognizing them as persons, expecting lawsuits, expecting extraordinary pushback, and goodness, perhaps riots in the streets.”
“I think that we have tinkered around the edges so long that we failed to go back to the original purpose of the Bill of Rights and we have simply not applied it,” Huckabee said. “Frankly, I don’t know of any of us who are pro-lifers who would argue, ‘well that is really not a person,’ so the question is: Do we believe that the unborn child is a person? If we do, then we ought to act like that is a person and give them the protections that they are due under the Constitution.”