Quote of the Day

[Content Note: War on agency.]

"I would have a Justice Department that would begin to criminally prosecute Planned Parenthood for violating federal law and selling body parts. ...I would also invoke the 15th and Fourteenth Amendments. This is the power that we have to stop this incredible, barbaric scourge of abortion. Not just stop funding Planned Parenthood, but we need to invoke the Fifth and 14th Amendment. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process for every person. The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law for every person. ...I would take [the position that unborn children are people, guaranteeing them Fifth and 14th Amendment rights]. I would act on behalf of those unborn children, and I would let those who want to slaughter babies, those who want to sell their body parts, let them sue me."—Professor of Bible Bigotry and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, explaining how he would shut down Planned Parenthood and criminalize abortion if he were elected president.

Again, this is less like chipping away at Roe and more like taking a bulldozer to it.

I have said many times (for instance) that fetuses are valued more highly than the people who carry them, that the potential life of every fetus is more important than the actual life of a pregnant person. Never has this been more clear.

If Mike Huckabee, or any of his fellow Republican candidates, had their way, fetuses would have not equivalent rights, but more rights than any pregnant person.

Protip, Huckabee: "Slaughtering babies" is already against the law.