Rick Santorum Thinks Abortions Just ‘Traumatize’ Rape Victims

[ashling]

Walking anal sex joke (Google: “Santorum”) and Republican presidential wannabe Rick Santorum, although massively lagging behind in the polls, appears to be competing with Bachmann and Perry in the far-right “ludicrous statement du jour” department on the issue of abortion.

The former Senator and GOP presidential candidate is renowned for offering stunningly maximalist positions on abortion. In the past, Santorum said abortion should be flatly banned, even in cases of rape or incest, and doctors who perform abortions should face criminal charges. Okay, we get it–Rick Santorum loves fetuses more than hate group special-interest money.

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“That child is an innocent victim,” Santorum replied. “To be victimized twice would be a horrible thing. It is an innocent human life, genetically human from the moment of conception. We in America should be big enough to try to surround ourselves and help women in those terrible situations who have been traumatized already. To put them through another trauma of an abortion, I think is too much to ask. So I would absolutely stand and say that one violence is enough.”

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/08/17/rick-santorum-says-abortions-just-traumatize-rape-victims/

BUT...

Santorum: Our Abortion Was Different
Rick Santorum is one dangerously confused denialist. The former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential aspirant is best known for his inability to associate his professed compassion for life at the level of the zygote, with the physical realities of human sexuality. He has equated loving same-sex relationships to bestiality. He is opposed to abortion under any circumstance. Almost.

In October, 1996, his wife Karen had a second trimester abortion. They don’t like to describe it that way. In his 2004 interview with Terry Gross, Santorum characterizes the fetus, who must be treated as an autonomous person, as a practically a gunslinging threat, whom the mother must murder in self-defense. Karen has had to justify her decision to save her own life by explaining that if she died her other children would have lost a mother.

Republican extremists in Congress and the statehouses propose to make abortion illegal even if it would save the mother’s life. Even the Santorums admit they would make that choice, while claiming that they didn’t.
http://oursilverribbon.org/blog/?p=188

[LaurenG]

1. Eewww. This upsets me no end.

and btw you still have 229 more posts to go.

[Hepburn]

2. Why does ANYONE think he/she has a right to dictate how a woman...

...controls her own body when they have less than -0- impact from her personal decision.

Insane-torum's defense of his wife's personal choice is not surprising at all...he is special and his rules only apply to others.

What a fucking asshole...and how fitting the slang for his name.

[Name removed]

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[hobbit709]

3. It's amazing how well he can stick his foot in his mouth while his head is up his ass.

[Hepburn]

4. Gads...

...the visual on this? Priceless! :rofl:

[lapislzi]

5. Rape traumatizes rape victims

While I commend any woman who would CHOOSE to bear a child conceived in rape, I can only imagine that a majority of rape victims would find such a pregnancy literally unbearable.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I am flabbergasted the trauma of an abortion is seen as somehow greater than...

the trauma of forced birth.

Edited for appalling grammatical ability this morning.

[xchrom]

7. 'forced birth' is exactly right. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I may not know what it feels like to contemplate an abortion, but...

I have given birth three times. My three pregnancies were wanted (granted, one was a bit of a surprise) and I cherish my children desperately. I had uneventful pregnancies and compared to other women, remarkably easy deliveries. Think water slide rather than birth canal.

I firmly believe no woman should ever experience that if she does not want to do so. Anyone with the gall to force women to go through childbirth against their will is cruel in my opinion.

[xchrom]

12. +1

[lapislzi]

9. + the trauma of 9 months' worth of daily reminders of the abomination

+ potentially 20 more years of daily reminders. How anyone could hope to heal under such an awful burden is beyond me.

A woman I know was born of a rape. It took her mother years to accept her, much less love her (this was the rural south in the 50s...) She has borne what she considers her birth stigma with great dignity, but she is still in constant pain.

[Hepburn]

10. I recall a message from another message board where I used to post...

...which board is long gone.

The post was about a woman who had been raped, became pregnant, had the child and gave him up for adoption.

Eighteen years later, her child contacted her and now that he had found his mother, he wanted to know who his father was.

Some times, the outcome is not that good when a rape victim gives up the child for adoption. I am sure the bio-mother did not tell him the truth, but the trauma to her???

How sad this is all the way around and Rick Santorum should be ashamed of his hate for victims ~~ especially victims of rape.

JMHO

[EFerrari]

13. I had a neighbor whose father was some unknown German soldier

who had raped her mother during the war. I don't know how she found out but there are really no secrets in families, just things people don't talk about until they do.

[RainDog]

15. why commend someone who chooses to have a child created by rape?

I think it is JUST as commendable for another female to have an abortion.

give me a break - there is NOTHING commendable about choosing to carry a pregnancy caused by rape to term. nothing.

I am SICK of people acting like abortion is some sort of terrible thing. It is a useful thing - most especially in situations like this.

[Hepburn]

18. +1,000

Abortion is a private matter ~~ a health service available as needed. PERIOD.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. +1,000,000!

[Ikonoklast]

8. No problem, remove the zygote from the woman's uterus and grow it elsewhere.

If it is a viable, living human being it will survive; if not, it's God's Will it doesn't.

Simple.

[RainDog]

14. crazy. if I were raped and got pregnant - there is NO WAY I would not abort

why should a woman have to bear a child b/c she was raped!?!?!?!?!??

of course, what I would do is take the morning-after pill - but if there was some way that was not available - I would have an abortion.

rape is trauma enough. someone doesn't need to have to deal with giving birth on top of it. this may sound cruel to some - but this is reality.

anyone who thinks a female should have to bear a child that was the result of rape is a sick, sick human who doesn't need to have any say or anyone's life.

[Iggo]

16. For a minute there I thought someone said 'Rick Santorum thinks.' (n/t)

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. LOL!

[Odin2005]

20. I feel like beating the SHIT out of him right now!

:grr:

[Iggo]

21. They just replayed his napkin/paper towel/ it-is-what-it-is moment...

...on a Daily Show rerun.

I wanted to crawl through the screen and adjust his attitude.

[ATLdemocrat]

22. Abortion ought to be such a non-issue

When Santorum gets pregnant from rape, THEN he can speak with authority about it being traumatic or not. Until then, he has nothing of value to say about the matter.