{"id":71057,"date":"2015-08-18T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=71057"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T18:00:17","slug":"no-easy-answers-unserious-response-huckabee-abortion-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/no-easy-answers-unserious-response-huckabee-abortion-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"No easy answers: The unserious response to Huckabee on abortion after rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_69989\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69989\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/debate_huckabee_080615-e1438976257109-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Huckabee (via foxnews.com)\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/debate_huckabee_080615-e1438976257109-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/debate_huckabee_080615-e1438976257109.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Huckabee (via foxnews.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Right on cue, Mike Huckabee\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/huckabee-paraguay-child-rape-pregnancy-dont-compound-tragedy-death\/\">insistence<\/a> that rape doesn\u2019t justify killing a child even when the victim is a child too has inspired a chorus of condemnation from abortion supporters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/politics\/news\/a44945\/mike-huckabee-abortion-child-rape\/\">Cosmopolitan<\/a>: \u201cParaguay&#8217;s draconian policy is now also a chilling preview of Huckabee&#8217;s America.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/mike-huckabee-denying-abortion-to-ten-year-old-rape-vi-1724398646\">Jezebel<\/a>: \u201cit still strikes as immensely cruel to defend \u2018no exception\u2019 policies when faced with the real suffering of actual women (or child, in this case).\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/08\/16\/1412616\/-Huckabee-sides-with-Paraguay-and-against-the-10-yr-old-forced-to-give-birth\">Daily Kos<\/a>: \u201cAnyone who has a daughter, was a daughter, wants a daughter, or knows a daughter should grab a pitchfork and head right over to the Huckabee campaign. Time to demand that these creepy Republicans get the hell away from our children.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/tv\/2015\/08\/mike-huckabee-abortion-10-year-old\/\">Uproxx<\/a>: \u201cHuckabee does not appear to register the very real danger to the 10-year-old girl in carrying this pregnancy to term.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/592983\/mike-huckabee-says-awful-dumb-thing-because-hes-mike-huckabee\">Wonkette<\/a>: \u201cHuck went retro, reaching back to one of his all-time classics: \u2018Screw you, rape victims.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reverbpress.com\/news\/huckabee-force-10-year-old-rape-victims-give-birth-video\/\">ReverbPress<\/a>: \u201cMike Huckabee just proved that conservatives care more about fetuses than they do about children.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is perfectly natural that an 11-year-old rape victim would further add to the\u00a0already-intense emotional discomfort with forcing a rape victim to give birth. And it was inevitable that partisans for abortion would see this Paraguay case as a golden opportunity to discredit pro-lifers as heartless fanatics.<\/p>\n<p>We have, of course, <a href=\"\/news\/life-baby-conceived-rape-worth-protecting\/\">made<\/a> the <a href=\"\/news\/i-was-conceived-in-rape-should-i-have-been-aborted\/\">case<\/a> against the rape exception <a href=\"\/news\/think-child-pay-father-crimes-opponents-wisconsins-late-term-abortion-ban-seem\/\">many<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/rape-and-abortion-america-turns-its-back-on-two-victims\/\">times<\/a>. We have even <a href=\"\/news\/pregnant-after-a-brutal-rape-at-just-12-years-old-she-rejected-abortion-now-she-has-no-regrets\/\">shared<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/raped-at-13-she-chose-life-for-baby-aiden-now-hes-celebrating-his-second-birthday\/\">stories<\/a> of rape survivors near Mainumby\u2019s age, whose decision to choose\u00a0life led to joy instead of misery.<\/p>\n<p>On the merits, Huckabee has the more moral and compassionate argument:\u00a0we must show as much sympathy and support to rape victims as possible, but murdering someone blameless in the ordeal is an injustice that simply cannot be a part of that support. Indeed, for proof that the criticism is more emotional than intellectual, look no further than how much of it blasts Huckabee for putting fetuses above \u201cactual\u201d children\u2014as if the baby isn\u2019t also an actual child.<\/p>\n<p>But while it will fall on deaf ears for those who simply oppose Huckabee\u2019s stance because they\u2019re pro-abortion ideologues, there is another element at work here that the more open-minded in their audiences should rethink.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his answer, he said that \u201cthere are no easy answers here,\u201d which is a noteworthy reminder, because implicit in so many abortion defenses is the assumption that there <em>is<\/em> an easy answer for everything\u2014that there are no trade-offs to worry about, never a cost to the right outcome, and\u00a0getting what you want always leaves everyone else happy (at least, everyone worth noticing).<\/p>\n<p>Life doesn\u2019t work that way, and to delude oneself into believing otherwise\u2014to elevate that delusion to a guiding principle\u2014is not just misguided, it is a rejection of maturity,\u00a0adulthood, and any serious conception of responsibility. Whether one party\u2019s interests outweigh the other\u2019s may be debatable, depending on the situation, but whether there are two parties is not. In what other context is it respectable to pretend whomever your benefit is harming simply doesn\u2019t exist? That\u2019s not compassion&#8211;it\u2019s narcissism in its purest form.<\/p>\n<p>There are emotional reasons why <a href=\"\/news\/memo-congress-dont-let-pro-aborts-use-pain-capable-bills-abortion-exception-backlash-redefine-reasonable\/\">many Americans<\/a> who are not abortion zealots are uncomfortable with banning abortion in rape cases. We can have a serious, respectful discussion with them. We cannot, however, have a productive discussion with those who aren\u2019t honest enough to extend the same basic decency to one person involved in the situation that they demand for the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on cue, Mike Huckabee\u2019s insistence that rape doesn\u2019t justify killing a child even when the victim is a child too has inspired a chorus of condemnation from abortion supporters: Cosmopolitan: \u201cParaguay&#8217;s draconian policy is now also a chilling preview of Huckabee&#8217;s America.\u201d Jezebel: \u201cit still strikes as immensely cruel to defend \u2018no exception\u2019 policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":66690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,1628,1902,4749,131,3018,112,4741,4747,239,4740,238,1206,3851,615,4751,4750,4748],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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