Huckabee Endorses 'Personhood' Amendment

If one needed any further proof that Mike Huckabee is a religious nutcase incapable of separating religion from the civil laws, his endorsement of an proposed anti-abortion Colorado constitutional amendment should seal the case (http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8360651). I am not pro-abortion by any means, but this proposal goes way too far and opens the door for all kinds of unintended consequences and bad applications. Not that I am at all surprised that Huckabee supports it. Time and time again Huckabee has made proposals affecting civil laws based on his extreme Christianist views and sadly the MSM keeps on giving him a pass. Instead of grilling the guy to expose just how out of the mainstream he is, the talking heads and anchors just let him play an “aw shucks good old boy” – MSNBC’s Morning Joe is a case in point. The man is a menace and needs to be exposed as such. Here are some story highlights:

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Monday endorsed a proposed Colorado Human Life Amendment that would define personhood as a fertilized egg. The former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister also supports a human-life amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"This proposed constitutional amendment will define a person as a human being from the moment life begins at conception," Huckabee said in a statement. "With this amendment, Colorado has an opportunity to send a clear message that every human life has value," Huckabee said. "Passing this amendment will mean the people of Colorado will protect the sanctity of life from conception until natural death occurs."

Burton's initiative, if approved by voters in November, would extend state constitutional protections to every fertilized egg, guaranteeing the right to life, liberty, equality of justice and due process of law. Approval would lay the foundation for making abortion illegal in the state. Opponents say the amendment would have sweeping consequences, not only for those seeking abortions, but for women using hormone-based contraception and couples using in-vitro fertilization to start families.