Santorum Calls Abortion Exceptions To Protect Health Of The Mother ‘Phony’

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress

Longshot GOP presidential hopeful and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum stomped for votes in Iowa on Tuesday, trumpeting his “culture wars” message. A longtime anti-abortion activist, Santorum is selling himself as the leading social conservative in a crowded field. Yesterday in West Des Moines, he made an appearance at a “crisis pregnancy center” called Informed Choices that tries to talk women out of having abortions. Santorum said that he “separates from the rest of the pack” and criticized the other candidates for simply “checking the box” on anti-abortion issues.

When discussing his track record as a champion of the partial birth abortion ban, Santorum dismissed exceptions other senators wanted to carve out to protect the life and health of mothers, calling such exceptions “phony”:

SANTORUM: When I was leading the charge on partial birth abortion, several members came forward and said, “Why don’t we just ban all abortions?” Tom Daschle was one of them, if you remember. And Susan Collins, and others. They wanted a health exception, which of course is a phony exception which would make the ban ineffective.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/06/08/239111/santorum-calls-abortion-exceptions-to-protect-health-of-the-mother-phony/

[FSogol]

1. Santorum is scum. Every time he opens his mouth, I feel sick.

:puke:

[spanone]

2. keep talking dumbfuck

[JoePhilly]

3. Santorum wants to be in the room to make the decision ....

clearly a woman and their doctor's can't be allowed to make such decisions without him.

That would be a powerful ad.

Pregnant woman at the obgyn, with Santorium standing in the corner.

[demmiblue]

13. I would like to see this ad. However, I think portraying him as a peeper...

peeping into the OBGYN's window would add a certain frothiness factor that would perfectly illustrate how gross and backward this man truly is!

[gratuitous]

4. Tell us about your pregnancies, Mr. Santorum

All of your personal pregnancies problem free? No health problems? How was your delivery? Was your wife supportive, in the delivery room with you? Or was she off boozing it up with her friends? Clearly you have extensive personal experience to make such a blanket statement on every pregnancy everywhere, so please: Tell us all about it, Mr. Santorum.

[peace frog]

5. I guess anyone who would bring their dead fetus home

and order his living children to play with it is a voice of moral authority on the subject of abortion rights. :eyes:

[demmiblue]

6. I meant to include this paragraph (related to his position on abortion in the 90's):

"Although there are any number of serious medical emergencies that might require a woman to terminate a pregnancy in her third trimester to protect her own health, Santorum and his allies “said that ‘health’ is nothing but a loophole for women who would abort a pregnancy to fit into a prom dress.” Back then, Santorum decried “the selfishness, the individual self-centeredness” of legislators who were concerned about the health of pregnant women. Judging by his latest remarks, he’s still holding a grudge."

:puke:

[Demeter]

7. And Where Did YOU Study Medicine, Ricky?

[Lars39]

8. Get that, women? You're supposed to be martyrs. K& R

Piece of shit thinks women are expendable, with no rights whatsoever. :grr:

[dembotoz]

9. as someone who was married to a woman who developed aggressive luekemia in the 3rd trimester

all i can say is what an ignorant bastard

[backscatter712]

10. Still that frothy mixture.

That makes me even more motivated to keep Rick Santorum's Google problem alive!

[blogslut]

11. EVERY PREGNANCY is a risk to the life of the mother

That is why the decision should be left to the woman.

[hifiguy]

12. What a tool

Man-on-Dog passing himself off as a human being - now that's phony.

[The Doctor.]

14. I sure hope he wins the nomination.

It'd be better than anyone else.

Maybe recounting what he subjected his children to after his wife's miscarriage will help him out.

[Canuckistanian]

15. Climate change expert, medical expert

Little Ricky seems to know better than ALL of them!