{"id":4453,"date":"2008-01-17T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/the-godometer-interviews-fred.html"},"modified":"2008-01-17T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:14:57","slug":"the-godometer-interviews-fred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/the-godometer-interviews-fred.html","title":{"rendered":"The God-o-Meter interviews Fred and Jeri Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/01\/fred-thompsons-godometer-qa.html?bt=polmashup\">And asks him about a comment made by Huckabee concerning Thompson&#8217;s abortion position<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GOM: In an interview with Beliefnet, Mike Huckabee said that your approach to leaving the question of abortion to the states would be as immoral as leaving the issue of slavery to the states during the Civil War\u2026<br \/>\nFT: You have to go back and check\u2014Governor Huckabee said that it ought to be left up to the states pretty consistently up until he started running for president. You ought to check on that. You ought to do a little research on that and when he says things like that ask him when he changed his mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s right about that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingnews.com\/interviews\/huckabee.php\">Huckabee stated in an interview with John Hawkins<\/a> that he believed it should be left to the states:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Hawkins: Switching gears again, do you think we should overturn Roe v. Wade?<br \/>\nMike Huckabee: It would please me because I think Roe v. Wade is based on a real stretch of Constitutional application &#8212; that somehow there is a greater privacy issue in the abortion concern &#8212; than there is a human life issue &#8212; and that the federal government should be making that decision as opposed to states making that decision.<br \/>\nSo, I&#8217;ve never felt that it was a legitimate manner in which to address this and, first of all, it should be left to the states, the 10th Amendment, but secondly, to somehow believe that the taking of an innocent, unborn human life is about privacy and not about that unborn life is ludicrous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW, this shouldn&#8217;t be news to my long term readers since <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/huckabee-on-abortion-it-should.html\">I blogged about it in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And asks him about a comment made by Huckabee concerning Thompson&#8217;s abortion position: GOM: In an interview with Beliefnet, Mike Huckabee said that your approach to leaving the question of abortion to the states would be as immoral as leaving the issue of slavery to the states during the Civil War\u2026 FT: You have to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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