TYT: Santorum on Opposing Abortion After Rape - 'Make The Best Of It'

[ihavenobias]

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was asked what he would tell his own daughter if she begged for an abortion after being raped and impregnated. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss the clip from the CNN interview with Piers Morgan on The Young Turks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/rick-santorum-abortion-rape_n_1224624.html

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[DCKit]

1. I have a neice who did that. My only neice. She's severely damaged thanks to her Xian upbringing...

and obsessed with wanting to know the kid.

It is a hard choice, it SHOULD be a hard choice, but that choice shouldn't be coerced.

My sister (her Mom) thinks it was a mistake, not a rape.

[DeathToTheOil]

2. Dan Savage went WAY too easy on this nutfuck!

[Voice for Peace]

3. that too, should fall under "Choice" -- if a woman chooses to have a baby from a rapist because

despite the horror of the rape she feels an urge to mother the child, & has some kind of faith in a benevolent god -- that should be her choice.

There can be goodness in that, if it is a choice from her heart -- not a choice made out of fear.

But it's a matter of choice, not law.

Another woman has the right to make a different choice. If she chooses abortion and it turns out she goes to hell, that's nobody's business but hers.

[TruthBeTold65]

4. You know what would change the whole argument...

about rape and incest in regards to abortion...is if the bible said that any child from a rape or incest situation is the "devil spawn". You would see the conservative religious right killing babies all over the place.

[handmade34]

9. on ething that "would change the whole argument"

is if men had babies

[socialindependocrat]

5. Freedom of Choice

Whenever you have one group demanding that others follow their "rules and beliefs"
you have a lack of freedom.

Especially when the rule comes from a religion that is a belief
based on faith.

You believe what you believe and
get the hell out of my face.

If you want to make more restrictive rules and laws - go back to Europe!!

[20score]

6. K&R

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. This guy is insane, that the gops have a potential

presidential candidate who is insane is scary. He, not his wife, needs to raise a child who is the product of rape. Suppose his kids are the products of spousal rape, wouldn't put it past the closeted pervert. What a creep!

[Marnie]

8. Here's what you need to ask Man on Child Santorum.

The blood contains stem cells all the time. Everybody has them, but that makes them as old as you are, which is why embryonic stem cells are the best choice.

A stem cell, because it contains two chromosomes, just as a fertilized ova does, could potentially be stimulated into growing into a human. Labs have done this with cells from other animals.

So if some one near and dear to Santorum needed a blood transfusin of even a tissue transplant, should that be denied since the cells in those donated tissues contain the DNA of another human which could be used to grow a whole normal person?


So if Santorum refused, say his own child, a life saving blood transmission, to save the potential life of the stem cells in the donor blood, would he tell that child "just make the best of it?" Or "Just get along without that healthy kidney?"

[suzanner]

10. A zygote is not a person.

Santorum can have his beliefs, but it's a religious belief. Nothing more. Some churches don't allow dancing. Is that the next freedom to challenge? Some church-goers do all kinds of bad things. The idea that this is part of a political discussion, people trying impose religion into government, disgusts me. I'm suspicious of those who always cast the first stone and victimize women.

[ScottLand]

11. S@nt*r%m's god has a wicked sense of humour.

[LynneSin]

12. There is a place in hell where this man will rot for eternity

Shame on him for not reading the gospels. Jesus would never EVER say something like that. Jesus was love and he pretty much debunked all of the old testament except the 10 commandments.

[olegramps]

13. When he condemns birth control he has lost any credibility he may have had on reproductive issues.

This is the type of medieval thinking that members of Opus Dei embrace along with their Evangelical nitwits. People better wake up to the threat to their freedoms that these fanatic religious fundamentalists prose. They are zealots that believe that they absolutely know what is best and are empowered by God to impose their beliefs on others. This was the mentality of the Crusaders that stormed through Europe murdering thousands of Jews on their way to liberate the Holy Land from the godless heathen Muslims while their stay at home brothers entertained themselves by torturing and burning women at the stake for witchcraft. I have little problem seeing Santorum in a monk's costume dutifully overseeing the interrogation of innocent men, women and even children as they screamed out for mercy.