Huckabee denies abortion is a state's rights issue - Republicans what do you think?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071118/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee;_ylt=Ak3Vhw78SXM.oVf1CDsGpA6WwvIE

Answer 1

well... (not a Republican, and pro-choice.. but trying to take an objective view)... IF you consider it a human rights issue.. it has to be federal doesn't it?

Answer 2

It should be a State issue according to the true Text of the Constitution (I'm not sure which version tx_trotter95 is reading but it obviously doesn't have the same verbiage as the one behind the glass at the National Archives) , however it wouldn't work as a State controlled law because people would simply go to the abortion "friendly" state to have the procedure. This would make it biased on socio-economic levels and would not be fair to all people. There are some issues that the Constitution relegated that the framers didn't take into account at the time, this would be one of them.

That's an interesting point of view Archduke. Want to show me the law were it says gays can marry right now? Republicans aren't trying to pass any law that says gays can't marry, they are opposing creating one that says they can. So they in fact are opposing laws that dictate how we run our lives. And if you consider abortion and gay marriage anything like the same act you have serious problems.

Answer 3

Roe v. Wade abrogated states' rights, so in that sense abortion at a legal level is a states rights issue. If Roe v. Wade were overturned, as it should be, then abortion would not be immediately illegal. Instead, each state would have to legislate the regulation of abortion. However, whether or not abortion ought to be legal is, I believe, a fundamental individual rights issue and therefore belongs appropriately to the U.S. Constitution. It is a question the framers had no cause to even consider. The right of the fetus to life vs. the "privacy rights" of the mother. (Why should I not be able to, for example, hold a "sex slave," if I do so in the privacy of my own home? It is because the slave is an individual protected by the Constitution.) We need an amendment declaring that a human being is a legal "person" from the moment of conception, with a right to life protected by the Costitution.

Answer 4

It's an election season.
In my opinion I agree with above. Since Rowe v Wade has been messed with they elevated the bar. Being pro choice, mostly leaning pro life... I still think that as a woman and the "host" of this entity in my body, I have rights. No state should make my choice, nor Fed. Mandated education prior to works for me. But also consider places like China where over population forced them into murder. Some where we must find a balance.
If you could take a national vote on key issues, now then we could talk !! TY

edit: There is more research to be done as the founding Father's devised the Constitution that separated issues from State to Federal issues. But seems we in 2007 wish to alter more definitions, again.

Answer 5

Being an opponent of legalized abortion, I recognize that the only way the problem will even be slowed down is to ban it in the states that see it as murder.

I dont like it but I dont see Roe V Wade turned at a Federal level. The Supreme Court has decided it is a Federal Issue so until its revisited we are stuck with it.

Answer 6

It's a State issue. If you want an abortion bad enough and your state doesn't allow for them then hop your *** in your car and drive to a sate that does.

Answer 7

I think it should be a states rights issue.

Answer 8

It certainly isn't at federal issue. That's two things that don't thrill me too much about Huckabee.

Answer 9

dont republicans favor blocking gay marriage by federal mandate? dont republicans also favor blocking legalized medical marijuana by federal mandate?

reps only oppose big gov'ment when it comes to regulation and taxation. when it comes to telling us what we can do with our bodies, who we can marry and what we do in our own homes, apparently big gov'ment is consistent with republican values.

so if reps oppose liberal values, and they dont support conservative values...do they have any real beliefs or values at all?

ahhh...must be nihilism on the rise!

Answer 10

He's right. It is a human rights issue.The same nincompoops who snivel about TERRORISTS being waterboarded will vacuum a baby out of a womb with the quickness.

Holy Cow! A heart attack is a medical issue.Elective abortion is a barbaric practice that should have went out of style with burning witches at the stake.