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Rick Santorum: Pregnant Rape Victims should “Make the Best out of a Bad Situation”

Posted: January 23, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, abortion rights, U.S. Politics, Violence against women, Women's Rights | Tags: , , , , , |21 Comments

Rick and Karen Santorum were on CNN’s Piers Morgan show on Friday night. I saw a little of it, but I missed this part. Via Think Progress, Morgan asked Santorum about his extreme anti-choice opinions–his goal of criminalizing all abortions, (and prosecuting doctors who perform the procedure) even in cases of rape or incest. Morgan also asked Santorum how he would respond if his own daughter were raped and became pregnant.

SANTORUM: Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, that that, too, could ruin her life. And this is not an easy choice. I understand that. As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child. And whether she has that child or doesn’t, it will always be her child. And she will always know that. And so to embrace her and to love her and to support her and get her through this very difficult time, I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you. As you know, we have to, in lots of different aspects of our life. We have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible. But, nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.

Morgan didn’t ask Santorum about incest victims. What if an 11-year-old girl is impregnated by her own father? Should her father then tell her she has to “make the best of a bad situation” because the embryo or fetus is a “person?”

What about the girls and women who have been brutalized by rape and incest? Santorum seems unconcerned. Not only should they suck it up and take care of the “life” that has been forced upon them, they should also have to follow laws based on Santorum’s personal religious beliefs.

Santorum even had the nerve to claim that references to persons and life in the Constitution were “intended” to include fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses. Yet at the time of the writing of the Constitution, abortion was not even illegal.

This man is dangerous to all girls and women.

21 Comments on “Rick Santorum: Pregnant Rape Victims should “Make the Best out of a Bad Situation””

  1. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    January 23, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    Let’s hope brainwashed cult member Rick Santorum doesn’t get anywhere near the WH. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Mitt asked him to be on the ticket.

    • northwestrain's avatar northwestrain says:
      January 23, 2012 at 4:45 pm

      Either mitt or newtie could choose little Rickie.

      These guys are really pushing for new age slavery — or they worship the sperm.

      I have a friend who is a retired Doctor — and she worked in various 3rd world countries. She’s seen far too many women die because of the religion of their husbands or fathers. In her view those men were guilty of murder — to allow women to die in the era of modern medicine.

      “State Sponsored Terrorism”

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        January 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm

        Newt would have to pick someone from the north or midwest, some one a little less crazy than he is.

    • minkoffminx's avatar Minkoff Minx says:
      January 23, 2012 at 5:25 pm

      I think you are right BB…Ricky or Christie is who I am guessing on…for Mittens VP.

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        January 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm

        Would Christie go over in the South? He’s moderate on a lot of issues, remember–he appointed a gay judge and basically said anyone who didn’t like it could shove it.

      • thewizardofroz's avatar thewizardofroz says:
        January 23, 2012 at 9:57 pm

        I can’t imagine Christie accepting the VP slot. He’s too full of himself to play second fiddle.

        Roz in NJ/NYC

  2. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    January 23, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    Bless his little heart. I hope that if he ever gets cancer he just lies back and lets nature take its course and makes the best of a bad situation. Oh, he can pray all he wants. He can even have his psycho cult friends join in!!!

  3. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    January 23, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    No man should have any say whatsoever in whether abortion is legal. We have no dog in this fight, except in the most tangential way, and should really shut up about it.

  4. peggysue22's avatar peggysue22 says:
    January 23, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    This fetus fetish is downright creepy. As is the whole ‘make lemonade out of lemons’ philosophy that Sharron Angle infamously dropped on the public. It’s what happens when ideology overrides good sense. It is also decidedly anti-woman. No one would ever suggest that Rick Santorum and his wife consider abortion. It’s their personal choice to do and think what they will. But imposing their beliefs on others is a step too far. The Religious Right is having a hissy fit that Obama okayed contraception in the health insurance program that will roll out. The thinking on the Far Right is positively medieval. I’m waiting for the Barefoot and Pregnant Bill to be introduced.

    Women have a right to decide their own destiny without the Santorums of the world interfering. For someone who wants a hands off approach to everything else, the exception of a woman’s womb is the height of hypocrisy. And the idea that the Constitution ‘intended’ to include eggs, embryos and fetuses is absolutely ludicrous.

    We’re walking back into time instead of forward when it comes to social issues.

    I always think I cannot be surprised. But then I am.

  5. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    January 23, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    I just noticed that Santorum has an op-ed in the WSJ today, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade decision.

    I believe that all life is precious. I know life begins at conception. I know that every person, every child conceived in the womb, has a right to life. I know that life is a right endowed by our Creator, that it is inalienable, laid down in the Declaration of Independence, and should be guaranteed under the Constitution. The right to life is the first right. Without its protection, no other rights matter.

    This anniversary is both a day of sadness for the more than 40 million babies who have been killed since Roe v. Wade and a day of hope as more and more Americans embrace a culture of life and as more and more young people march in Washington and around the country in support of life.

    The 14th Amendment states explicitly: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

    The Constitution is clear. The meaning is inconvenient.

    I have learned lessons about the value of all life from my children. I grieve for the children lost and for the mothers who have been deceived by a society selling selfishness. I am thankful for the faithful workers around the country who serve at pro-life pregnancy centers providing women honest information and additional choices.

  6. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    January 23, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    More Kompassionate Konservative Kristofascists News:

    Arkansas Democratic Campaign Manager Comes Home To Find Child’s Cat Murdered, ‘LIBERAL’ Written On Dead Body

    http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/23/409443/arkansas-democratic-campaign-manager-comes-home-to-find-childs-cat-murdered-liberal-written-on-dead-body/?mobile=nc

  7. djmm's avatar djmm says:
    January 23, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Thank you for this post. Former Senator Santorm is batsh-t crazy on this issue (as he is on many others).

    djmm

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