WASHINGTON.  Speaking before a gathering of Christian conservative voters, GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said that, if elected, he would not allow fetuses to while away their time in the womb, but would put them to work to remedy the labor shortage caused by legalized abortion that has led to today's immigration crisis.

"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."

He went on to thunderous applause: "Those fetuses were going to do the jobs Americans don't want to do!  They were going to work in the fields and the slaughterhouses for less than minimum wage and no health care!  They were going to flip burgers and clean toilets under the table for cheap!  But we aborted them!  We aborted all our migrant laborers and warehouse workers and burger-flippers and maids and janitors and now we have to import them from outside the country!"

Huckabee then outlined a bold plan to "ensure not only that future American fetus-laborers would not be aborted, but that fetuses would be required to work, in utero, by the second trimester."

"They've got little hands and feet by then," he told the electrified audience. "It's time to say 'no' to abortion, and 'no' to fetus welfare."

Huckabee did not address the issue of illegal fetuses currently residing in the U.S. taking American fetuses' jobs, saying that was a separate issue to be addressed by current fetus labor laws.