GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said that he supports the decision to deny an abortion to a ten-year-old rape victim in Paraguay.Rico says that the Paraguayans are, if anything, stupider than Huckabee, and that's hard to do...
“I wouldn’t pretend it’s anything other than a terrible tragedy, But let’s not compound the tragedy by taking yet another life,” he said in an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union.
The victim, an unidentified girl in Paraguay, was raped by her stepfather in a case that has attracted attention worldwide. Laws in the South American country prevented the girl from receiving an abortion.
Huckabee acknowledged that many people, including some in his own party, find this position to be outside the mainstream, and said he respects that position, but feels he needs to remain consistent. “If life matters, and if that’s a person, then every life matters,” he said.
17 August 2015
Idiot politician for the day
Rico knows that Mike Huckabee and 'idiot politician' is redundant, but Justin Worland has a Time article about his latest:
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