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Hmm interesting.
Looks like the conservative bag is lucky to have liberals looking out for his wife's rights. Yeah, I went there.
Rick Santorum is against abortion for any reason, with one exception
Karen [Santorum] was going to die if her pregnancy was not ended, if the fetus was not removed from her body. So, at 20 weeks, one month before what doctors consider ‘viability’, labor was artificially induced and the infected fetus was delivered. It died shortly thereafter.
Rick Santorum agreed to what he and his prolife cohorts define as a partial birth abortion, and for a very good reason, to save his wife's life. Karen Santorum was reportedly upset at first, but later noted had she died it would have deprived her other young children of a mother. And she's absolutley right. That's the whole freaking point of giving families privacy and the right to choose when they find themselves in the middle of a life and death tragedy they did not ask for and do not want. The same right the Santorums utilized, the same rights they would now like to take away from other American families, no phony excuses, no exceptions -- as long as they're not named Santorum.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Hmm interesting.
Looks like the conservative bag is lucky to have liberals looking out for his wife's rights. Yeah, I went there.
Is there a more reliable link to the story? I don't trust dailykos any more than I do Fox News' right wing circle jerks.
It's actually bull on its face. The Santorums did not induce labor, so it wasn't an abortion -- it was a very premature birth. Both husband and wife admit they would have killed the kid to save her life.
http://articles.philly.com/1997-05-0...and-extraction
So is boutons' article strawmanning Santorum's stance, or is Santorum talking out both sides of his mouth?
Would seem to be the former, though I don't know if Santorum's stance on the mother's life has changed.
From this link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Teaparty darling Rick Santorum restated his stern view on abortion last week: it's murder, no matter what the cir stances. Doesn't matter if it's incest, or rape, doesn't matter if the victim is eleven years-old. This purportedly small government conservative is eager to use the power of The State to force rape victims to bear rapists' children and jail doctors willing to intervene. Santorum calls any exceptions "phony excuses" and led the charge to outlaw partial birth procedures no matter what the reason. But Santorum is willing to make one exception. Guess which one?
And from this one:
http://articles.philly.com/1997-05-0...and-extraction
So what is it?An abortion under the cir stances described in this case would not have been a partial-birth abortion - known to physicians as ``intact dilation and extraction'' - nor would it have conflicted with the senator's position.
Santorum opposes abortion ``except in the cases of rape, incest or [to save] the life of the mother.'' He believes Roe v. Wade should be reversed so that states could regulate and restrict abortion, and opposes public funding of abortion.
Santorum wants to tell you what to do with your body...
Death Panels!
"opposes public funding of abortion"
It's already illegal for fed funds to pay for abortion.
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