States Rights or Not?

Huck is working both sides of the street regarding abortion. He is happy to argue against a Federalist approach to the issue in order to attack Fred, but at least once upon a recent time he has argued the other way. Max Brantly in the Arkansas Blog points to an interview with Right Wing News where Huck argues for the Federalist approach:

John Hawkins: Switching gears again, do you think we should overturn Roe v. Wade?

Mike Huckabee: It would please me because I think Roe v. Wade is based on a real stretch of Constitutional application -- that somehow there is a greater privacy issue in the abortion concern -- than there is a human life issue -- and that the federal government should be making that decision as opposed to states making that decision.

So, I've never felt that it was a legitimate manner in which to address this and, first of all, it should be left to the states, the 10th Amendment, but secondly, to somehow believe that the taking of an innocent, unborn human life is about privacy and not about that unborn life is ludicrous.

The more I learn about Huck, the less I like him--even as a second choice.