Former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is worried that the abortion mentality is giving young people permission to euthanize their elders once they become unwanted, financial burdens.
Huckabee was the keynote speaker at the Susan B. Anthony List Campaign for Life Gala & Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. The former Governor of Arkansas condemned America for devaluing human lives and drew that mindset out to its terrifying conclusion.
“Once people are valued to be more or less valuable than others, anything is possible,” he said.
He pointed out that the main reasons for abortion are that the child will be a financial hardship or a “social disruption.” But teaching young people that those are acceptable reasons for ending a life worries Huckabee.
“Let’s ask ourselves — if we teach the generation coming after us, the ones younger than us, that it is ok to terminate a human life because it represents a financial hardship or a social disruption, what have we taught that generation when they are our caretakers and we are approaching the end of life at the other end of the spectrum?” he asked. “When we become a financial hardship to them and when we are a social disruption because they have to come check on us on the weekend, rather than to go to the lake, we’ve already given them the full capability to take us out.”
“Now, I’m not going to make it that easy on my children to get rid of me,” he joked, as the audience clapped and laughed.
During his talk, Huckabee also stressed that America is a nation built on equality, as written in the Declaration of Independence. This is the core issue at the heart of the United States, he said. He added that a nation is remembered for how it treats human life.
“I can’t think of any more appropriate way for America to be remembered than that America would be remembered as a nation that treated everyone with dignity and believed that every single human being had intrinsic worth and value,” he said. “That there was no such thing as a person who is disposable, that no such person was expendable, that we never came to the place as a culture and a society where we thought that some people were better than others and some people were not as good as others.”
To the former Governor, the issue of life is truly the most important — even if it’s not a viewpoint that fares well in elections. But Huckabee said he wasn’t too concerned about winning elections, but about winning elections while fighting for a cause that matters.
“I did not become pro-life because I got into politics,” he said. “I got into because politics because, as a pro-life person, I believe if we get this issue wrong, we will get all the other issues wrong.”
