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Huckabee invokes ‘libido’ in birth control debate

Posted at 4:29 PM, Jan 23, 2014
and last updated 2014-01-23 16:29:00-05

(CNN) — Mike Huckabee urged Republicans to aggressively fight back against Democratic attempts to make female “libido” a campaign issue – language that may inflame the ongoing war of words between Republicans and Democrats over women’s health issues.

Addressing a Republican National Committee luncheon in Washington, Huckabee said Thursday Democrats have invented a phony “war on women” in an effort to lure female voters into their fold.

“It is time Republicans no longer accept listening to the Democrats talk about a war on women because the fact is the Republicans don’t have a war on women,” Huckabee said. “They have a war for women — for them to be empowered to be something other than victims of their gender.”

Huckabee said women he knows are “outraged” that Democrats think they are “nothing more than helpless and hopeless creatures whose only goal in life is to have the government provide for them birth control medication. Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything anybody else can do.”

“Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women,” he continued. “That is not a war on them it is a war for them. And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.”

“Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be and women across America need to stand up and say enough of that nonsense and I think it is time we lead that discussion,” he continued.

Huckabee’s comments come as the RNC debates a new resolution calling on GOP candidates to frame the abortion debate on their terms in 2014.