Rick Santorum pledges to defund contraception

[MountainLaurel]

Seriously?!

I would like to personally find and smack every person who has told me over the past 15 years that the pro-forced-birthers only cared about murdered babies, that they didn't not give a rat's ass about contraception, when the own words of the movement leaders indicated otherwise.

Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of procreation. “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. “It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be”:

SANTORUM: is supposed to be within marriage. It’s supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen…This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/19/348007/rick-santorum-pledges-to-defund-contraception-its-not-okay-its-a-license-to-do-things/:wtf:

[Nye Bevan]

1. I'm kind of starting to dislike that guy (nt)

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. But Rick, it keeps santorum off of one's private parts........

Rick is a jerk.

[murielm99]

3. So what if "it" is within a marriage?

Few married people want a pregnancy and a baby every year. Some people want only one or NONE.

All of this is choice, too. Geeze.

[MountainLaurel]

5. No kidding

Being one of those horrible married women neglecting my god-mandated duty to go forth and multiply, that was pretty much my first thought.

[murielm99]

6. I have three children.

They are each eighteen months apart. They know that they were planned. I figured that sets a good example for them in itself.

None of them have any children. They may choose to remain childless. That is up to them. I will never question their choices.

-another mother for choice!

[Kath1]

11. It Does Set A Good Example

My daughter knows she was planned as well and I have always thought of that as a good example. She is of college age and knows that decisions regarding birth control, childbearing, etc. are for her to make, not anyone else. She also knows I will support her decisions.

Count me in as another mom for choice!

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[Control-Z]

7. It just kills me

that his name is so close to my maiden name, my mother's married name, Santoro. There's some real twisted irony.

[iverglas]

9. yes, but

his is the "neuter" form of the Latin word. How ... odd, eh? ;)

Weirdest name I've ever heard. It isn't actually a Latin word I think, but if it were it would mean "holy thing" or something like.

[truevote]

8. Overpopulation

I'm sure Republicans will be more than happy to foot the welfare that's needed to make due with all these unplanned pregnancies. Cheers to reason....

[clockworkgirl21]

10. none

You mean people will only have babies that they want and can care for?

Dangerous indeed!