Pious Bologna: So Rick Santorum’s Wife Had a Partial-Birth Abortion?

Jan 09, 2012 13 Comments by

I really wish someone in the media or campaign trail would ask Rick Santorum about this. I could be wrong, but him being pro-life and all, this sorta sounds like murder, no? I mean, isn’t this what him and his evangelical buddies are against? You know, a woman’s right to choose? Not that I’m biased in any way. But I remember Rick Santorum saying something outrageous, that president Obama should be against abortions because he’s a Black man. Whatever that means I have no idea. However, clearly Rick and his wife’s whiteness isn’t against partial-birth abortions.

This vis The Cagle Post:

Rick & Karen Santorum

Two days later, she became severely feverish. She was rushed to the hospital and placed on intravenous antibiotics, which reduced her fever and bought her some time, but could not eliminate the source of infection: the fetus.

Karen 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.

I wonder if Rick thinks the doctor who did this procedure for his wife should be “criminally charged” as should all abortion providers as he has openly stated? Further, I wonder of God is still mad at him and Karen for this? More importantly, I wonder why he isn’t asked about this on the campaign trail?

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  • MaggieWasAHero

    More idiotic nonsense. Do you ever get ashamed?   Maggie Sanger was right – Black Abortion is good, that is why she started planned parenthood. Considering most blacks seem incapable of birth and impulse control just imagine how many mouths we would have to feed if abortion wasnt a easy free taxpayer funded option. It’s out of control as it is.  What santorum meant that is obviously beyond your limited ability to understand is that abortion for Blacks in New York in example 3k of 5k pregnancies ended in abortion. So keep killing em this way I don’t have to feed em.

    • http://rippdemup.com/ RiPPa

      Are you really this afraid of Black people, oh racist one?

      • MaggieWasAHero

        With the way you think? What is there to be afraid of?. You would wind up cutting your own head off if you had a sword and blame somoene else for making you “hab ta do it”   Again, I like the way you think, keep killing the babies, glad you are on the side of the KKK.

  • http://twitter.com/eshowman Friday Foster

    MaggieWasAHero  is probably sitting in trailer park somewhere with her meth addicted cousin/husband. Pay the inbred idiot no attention

  • NLK

    She did not have an abortion, and definitely not a partial-birth abortion (in which the child’s brain is literally sucked out. The doctors had to induce labor or both mother and baby would die. Inducing labor gave them BOTH a chance to live. That is completely different from deliberately taking the life of your baby.

    • S A Barton @Tao23

      Given that the earliest known premature infant to survive was 21 weeks, 6 days’ gestation, and that child was born in 2006, considerably later than Mrs. Santorum’s case (meaning that there have been quite a few improvements in medical technology since then, allowing earlier-born infants to survive now than then)… http://preemies.about.com/b/2010/01/20/preemie-spotlight-amillia-taylor.htm

      …it’s pretty clear that the reason you say Mrs. Santorum ‘delivered’ rather than ‘had an abortion’ is her political and religious affiliation. I suspect if we were talking about a Democrat and/or a non-Christian delivering a 20-week fetus at a time when 25 weeks was considered the earliest viable birth, you’d be talking about how that dirty harlot murdered her baby via abortion to save her own selfish, godless self.

    • Mcleera

      The abortion pill given in the first months of pregnancy doesn’t actually kill the fetus itself, it just induces labor at a point when there is no chance for viability . Sounds awfully similar to what Rick and Karen did.

  • Ltrickett09

    We have standards that must be met by most people such as CPA’s, Lawyers, Doctors, Airline pilots but we will let any goof ball be a politician. We are the idiots!

  • guest

    This was a personal tragedy – not a choice to kill a fetus.  How cold of you to think that two caring parents – still reeling over the death of a real child – would kill it by choice. Here is her personal, emotional explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFyAJXyJA28.  The truth is you don’t like Santorum’s politics, and no one ever taught you civility.  You are exactly what is wrong in American discourse, politics and society.  Get to church and save your soul, buddy.   

    • Andrew McLeer

      ”
      You are exactly what is wrong in American discourse, politics and society.  Get to church and save your soul, buddy.”

      So basically, what I get out of this statement is that those who aren’t churchgoers are somehow destroying America. If the basis of being pro-life is religious, and freedom to practice religion is protected by the Constitution, why should one be bound to being pro-life? Additionally, if the basis for being pro-life is religion, and the government can’t prefer one religion over others, why should atheists, agnostics, Unitarians, etc. have to live under a theocratic anti-abortion law?

      That Constitution is a really inconvenient document, isn’t it, buddy?

    • S. A. Barton @Tao23

      It WAS a personal tragedy. Even when an abortion is so clearly the right choice, any mother worth a damn– Christian, Hindu, Atheist or anything else– will HURT in the making of that decision. I’m not so cold that I do not think making that correct choice to have that abortion hurt the Santorums.

      But I DO think it is ICE COLD for Mr. Santorum to say repeatedly in public that the hard choice that he and especially Mrs. Santorum had to make to abort that baby should be illegal for other women who are NOT named Santorum, that THEY should instead die where Mrs. Santorum chose to live and be a mother to her other children.

    • photoglyph

      Well, if you had an abortion, he would call it criminal. It’s really pretty simple. Do as Rick Santorum asks, not as he does.

  • Caveman420

    What about Santorum’s kids who had to hold their dead baby brother for a photo op?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v47Se2PoRo&context=C426ecc1ADvjVQa1PpcFORBtgC-aKbYbs8zH7pUDpl0k4gOPjcubU=

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