Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal
Thank you Mediaite and CBS, for the video.
This pro-forced birth proponent is downright scary. Women, get ready to unite big time, because I’m doing what I can to work on that very plan with people who can make it happen.
“I didn’t say prenatal care shouldn’t be covered. We’re talking about specifically prenatal testing and specifically amniocentesis, which is a… procedure that creates a risk of miscarriage when you have it and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb, which in many cases, in fact, most cases, physicians recommend, particularly if there’s a problem, recommend abortion.”
Santorum also stated that women should not be “forced” to undergo every single test. Does that include rape ultrasounds, Ricky? No, no sadly it doesn’t.
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum wants to call the shots, he wants women to hand over control of their own bodies and minds to him and people who think like him. People like me should know our place, right Ricky?
Heaven forbid decisions be made by those whose bodies are actually, you know, affected. Nope, men like Santorum want to force their will on others (this is their version of “small government”), men like him and like those on that farce of a Issa contraception hearing panel.
All this despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled that access to contraception was covered by the constitutional right to privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). And then there’s that pesky Roe v. Wade thing that they use the way, well, the way conservative males use women.
Republicans have nothing to run on, so they concoct diversionary wedge issues to attract voters. This somehow may be playing to his advantage in the GOP primary circus, but once a candidate has to face a broader electorate, their backwards, radical, red meat, extremist politics will have a much less receptive audience.
At least, let’s hope that’s the case. If not, this country is in much worse shape than many of us thought.







