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http://oursilverribbon.org/blog/?p=188Santorum: Our Abortion Was Different
By Ellen On April 15, 2011
Rick Santorum is one dangerously confused denialist. The former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential aspirant is best known for his inability to associate his professed compassion for life at the level of the zygote, with the physical realities of human sexuality. He has equated loving same-sex relationships to bestiality. He is opposed to abortion under any circumstance. Almost.
In October, 1996, his wife Karen had a second trimester abortion. They dont like to describe it that way. In his 2004 interview with Terry Gross, Santorum characterizes the fetus, who must be treated as an autonomous person, as a practically a gunslinging threat, whom the mother must murder in self-defense. Karen has had to justify her decision to save her own life by explaining that if she died her other children would have lost a mother.
Republican extremists in Congress and the statehouses propose to make abortion illegal even if it would save the mothers life. Even the Santorums admit they would make that choice, while claiming that they didnt.
Losing a pregnancy because of a fatal fetal anomaly is never cause for celebration. The pain of second-trimester abortions is compounded by the hateful hypocrites who vilify families facing sorrowful circumstances, and the resulting scarcity of abortion clinicians.
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Why should we express compassion & sympathy for a person who GOES OUT OF HIS WAY to be cold-hearted
baldguy
Jan 2012
#2
Nice. Abortions are bad for this GOPer except when his GOP family needs one. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Jan 2012
#4
We should give out awards to the most hypocritical GOPer of the year. They're kings in that nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Jan 2012
#51
Standard GOP mind-set: It's wrong and should be illegal unless it directly affects me!
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2012
#6
It's a shame he can't extend sympathy to others in difficult situations and allow them
TwilightGardener
Jan 2012
#8
what a double-talking, conflating, rationalizing dumbass. I am sorry that they went through this -
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2012
#11
When a woman goes into labor after 20 weeks gestation, it is called preterm birth,
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2012
#14
I agree with you on this completely. Although I didn't specifically state it in my post,
Arkansas Granny
Jan 2012
#18
I think the Santorum's "fashioning" of the story is what is questionable here.
CTyankee
Jan 2012
#46
The only answer is that the Santorums were able to make medical decisions about the pregnancy
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#19
What's hypocritical is him saying that "health of the mother" exceptions are "phony".
moriah
Jan 2012
#29
Oh personally, I agree with you. But the more effective point imo, is that the Santorums had choices
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#30
I think a doctor could make a good case for that before the medical board.
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2012
#53
The only answer is that the Santorums were able to make medical decisions about the pregnancy
AlbertCat
Jan 2012
#44
Unless the source of the infection, the fetus, was removed from Karen...she would likely die.
rocktivity
Feb 2012
#55