Huckabee speaks at Florida fundraiser for anti-abortion group, compares abortion to slavery
Speaking at an Orlando fundraiser dinner for Texas-based Heroic Media, an anti-abortion group that relies heavily on controversial advertising campaigns, Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke mostly about the importance of promoting alternatives to abortion
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Image has not been found. URL: http://images.americanindependent.com/2010/08/MahurinElephant_Thumb.jpgSpeaking at an Orlando fundraiser dinner for Texas-based Heroic Media, an anti-abortion group that relies heavily on controversial advertising campaigns, Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabeespoke mostly about the importance of promoting alternatives to abortion.
During the event (ticketsstarted at $500), Huckabee praised Heroic’s efforts at using media as a means to relay its anti-abortion message, saying that the culture of the movement needed to change.
According to reports, Huckabee also took some jabs at President Obama. Saying that he was often more recognized from his work with Fox News than from his 2008 presidential campaign, Huckabee remarked, “We pay more attention to who we see on TV. … We pay little attention to who we elect for president, obviously.” According to CNN, the comment was “met with cheers from the mostly Christian Conservative audience.”
Though an interviewin which Heroic’s founder, Brian Follett, compared Planned Parenthood’s efforts to “genocide” led some conservatives to distancethemselves from the group, Huckabee has never shied away from Follett and Heroic’s endorsement.
In fact, Huckabee spoke at another controversial dinner on Monday night, in Knoxville, Tenn. Dozens protestedthe former governor’s appearance at a fundraiser for the Center for Bioethical Reform, a group that funds a so-called “Genocide Awareness Project,” a traveling photo-mural exhibitthat compares abortion to historically recognized forms of genocide, like the Holocaust.
“It was wrong to own a slave in Mississippi and Michigan,” said Huckabee, speaking about the possibility of leaving the legality of abortion up to individual states. “This is not a states issue.”
Rhyley Carney
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