Overturning Roe v Wade, which keeps the decision on pregnancy with the person who is, like, pregnant, is no long enough for some Republicans. Dear, sweet, populist, fun-to-have-a-beer-with Mike Huckabee hath spoken: (via AP:

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not subject to multiple interpretations.

“It’s the logic of the Civil War,” Huckabee said Sunday, comparing abortion rights to slavery. “If morality is the point here, and if it’s right or wrong, not just a political question, then you can’t have 50 different versions of what’s right and what’s wrong.”

“For those of us for whom this is a moral question, you can’t simply have 50 different versions of what’s right,” he said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

You sure can’t accuse him of dog-whistling, I’ll give him that.  Read more 

Well, yes, that headline is just a wee bit inflammatory. Some of the forced pregnancy looons are in it for the power. Others of them are in it because they want to control “their” women. And others are in it because they really are serious that a blastocyst is a baby, and is just as important as a living, breathing, woman.

Whatever. (Why I should take their beliefs seriously is a question that’s about as open as the question of whether the earth is 6000 years old.) LA Times:

Some of the biggest groups in the movement, including Focus on the Family and National Right to Life, are under attack from fellow activists who accuse them of turning a godly [yeah, right] cause into a money-grubbing industry.

Of course, the activists are who saying Mullah Dobson has no clothes are even more lunatic than The Master Of The Rod Himself, but heck: The God(dess)(s)(es) of Your Choice, If Any, move in mysterious ways, His/Her/Their/Its wonders to perform.

It’s always a pleasure to see the wingers eating their own:  Read more 

McCain takes another big draft of KoolAid, and comes out in favor of forced pregnancy, once again:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his standing with the party’s conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.

Nice to see the pandering to the base aspect right there in the lead, eh?

“I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.

Of course, Saint John [genuflects] has been all over the map on this, so I guess it really is news that he said the same thing twice. Will it help him?  Read more