Mike Huckabee: I don’t think there’s anybody that wakes up and says, “I really think abortion is a wonderful, wonderful thing.” I don’t truly think that people believe — even people that would consider themselves pro-choice — like abortion. I don’t think they have thought through the implications and the logical conclusions.
For example: if we train a generation coming up after us that it is ok to take a human life because that life represents to us an interference to us, to our lives — either economically, or socially, or whatever reason […segment cut for topic straying…] The point I was making is if you follow the argument to its logical conclusion, that it is ok to take a person’s life because it represents an economic interruption or inconveince, then what happens when our children one day look at us and we’re old and we will get there, Jon, we will…
Jon Stewart: Not if we keep talking about this…
Mike Huckabee: I do not want to give — you know, I do not want to give my kids the opportunity to say, ‘Dad, you are an interference. Coming to see you in the nursing home is really messing up my social life. You are very expensive dad. Your long-term care bill is breaking us…”
Jon Stewart: But you’re not at that point living inside your kids.
The Daily Show, June 18, 2009
