27th
April
2007
Huckabee on abortion
posted in Abortion, Candidates, Issues, Mike Huckabee (R) |Original source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aUJWyGkt_ZAg
Abortion
Huckabee, a Baptist minister, spoke with more certainty on an issue that has defined him as a social conservative, his opposition to abortion.
He said he would be willing to sign a bill like the one passed by the South Dakota legislature that outlawed abortion except when a mother’s life is at stake to create a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Huckabee said the abortion argument gets too heated at times.
“I’ve been guilty of overcharging the rhetoric when it comes to that issue,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean my convictions have changed.”
