Reply #136: My problem with this...

[CoffeeCat]

...is Santorum's insensitivity to his own very-young children.

The way I read the article--he forced his children to hold the baby, in order to demonstrate that this IS a baby and not a "fetus." He appeared to use his dead child to indoctrinate his children into the pro-life cause.

Santorum has very small children. I have a five-year-old and a 4-year old. I can't imagine exposing them to a 20-week old baby. A 20-week old baby weighs less than a pound and is translucent. I think it would be highly disturbing for a child to see this. Furthermore, I have no faith in Santorum to be sensitive and nurturing with this children--and to help them grieve. I think he'd be more focused on shocking them into the notion that, "Some people want to kill babies like this and daddy is trying to stop them!"

It's as if he offered up his own child as an anti-liberal teaching moment. That's what I don't like and it bothers me.

I don't care if he took the baby home, took pictures of him and slept with him. I would never question how someone grieves.

However, I don't like it that this guy ignores the sensitivities of his own children to play politics with his dead baby.