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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/03/396516/santorum-states-should-have-the-right-to-outlaw-birth-control/Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control
By Igor Volsky on Jan 3, 2012 at 10:25 am
Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw contraception during an interview with ABC News yesterday, saying, The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have. Watch the Jake Tapper interview:
Video @ link~
Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Courts 1965 ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president. As he told CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart in October, One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the former Pennsylvania senator explained. Its not okay. Its a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.
But an overwhelming majority of Americans virtually all women (more than 99 percent ) aged 1544 have used at least one contraceptive method rely on contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies and limit the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases. In fact, the Guttmacher Institute estimates that contraceptive services provided at publicly funded clinics helped prevent almost two million unintended pregnancies. Without funding from Medicaid and Title X, abortions occurring in the United States would be nearly two-thirds higher among women overall and among teens; the number of unintended pregnancies among poor women would nearly double.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That's been the goal from the get-go; overturn Griswold, outlaw birth control.
hlthe2b
(101,719 posts)birth rates among white populations... While paradoxical at first, given that any outlaw of birth control and further abortion restrictions/bans would undoubtedly cause birth increases among minority and poor populations across all races, it would not be the first time RETHUGS have not fully considered the consequences of their policies. Comprehensive, complex thought is not their strength, after all. But it is hard to deny that there is a lot of white nationalism, racism, homophobia and extreme nationalism among some Republicans, conservatives and libertarians--including the RW Xian fundy factions. So, I have to wonder....
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Wow, that has to be painful.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)That won't fly with the majority, Rick. Now let's talk about the abortion that your wife had and admitted she would have again in the same circumstance...the one you want to criminalize for every other woman in the same circumstance.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)It is only moral.
wandy
(3,539 posts)public. Christan 'law' is good and should be inforced on the general public. I just don't understand these republican A**holes.
MH1
(17,537 posts)That's the main reason they're in a snit about "sharia".
My theory, anyway.
starroute
(12,977 posts)That would get them where they live.
And somehow they say this with a straight face WHILE citing the constitution.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)qb
(5,924 posts)because their use of condoms doesn't interfere with procreation? That still puts a lot of women at risk.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)which is for men to have headship over women.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)They have seven kids.
Also, I googled "Santorum."
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Amazing that this guy thinks he can speak for how things are supposed to be.
Talk about arrogance.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)His sex hangups will out.
--imm
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Burqas for everybody!
Seriously folks, these people are the Taliban .
Whisp
(24,096 posts)outlaw birth control?
fuck you 9 ways to Tuesday with a rough 2 x 4 you despicable lump of feces.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)because people didn't KNOW he was a total loon.
I don't know too many people who would support banning birth control. Even among Catholics, the support for birth control is near 90%.
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/aboutme/birthcontrol.html
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)I mean, most of them other than the Duggars, of course, but I doubt that you would find many (any?) Republican women whom aren't on the pill or at least some form of contraception. I'll bet $10K that few Republican men or women dreaming of having double-digit amount of children.
If there is one *nice* thing about the Tea Party and the hard lurch to the right that the Republicans have made since the last election is that they seem to no longer feel constrained by political (and practical) realities and are more willing to admit what we've suspected that they actually believe all along.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)Childcare, Education and Parenting classes. Cause if this because that law of the land, it's going to be needed.
struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" ...
MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, delivering the opinion of the Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
see: http://supreme.justia.com/us/381/479/case.html