Huckabee, Romney Want To Ban Abortion

2:30 pm EST September 10th, 2007 | News | 2 Comments

The truth.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Wednesday at a debate in Durham, N.H., said that he supports a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The debate at the University of New Hampshire was moderated by Fox News’ Brit Hume (Quaid, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/6). Huckabee said he would “love to see” the U.S. adopt an amendment similar to one in the Arkansas Constitution “that says that we believe life begins at conception and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion.”

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who also is running for the Republican nomination, was asked by Fox News’ Wendell Goler about his abortion-rights position (Fox News debate transcript, 9/5). Top advisers last month said Romney supports a two-tiered process in which states first would obtain authority to regulate abortion after Roe v. Wade — the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively barred state abortion bans — is overturned. The second step would be a constitutional amendment that bans most abortions nationwide (Kaiser Daily Women’s Health Policy Report, 8/23).

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2 Responses to “Huckabee, Romney Want To Ban Abortion”

  1. merlallen says:
    September 11, 2007 at 5:59 am

    Huckabee also wants to ban some birth control.

  2. SpiderJ says:
    September 11, 2007 at 10:21 am

    Just out of curiosity, I wonder what Huckabee or others who unequivocally support BABIES BABIES AND MORE BABIES think about the rapidly increasing overpopulation of the planet.