Monday, August 15, 2011

Rick Santorum on Abortion, Rape, Incest

Rick Santorum on Abortion, Rape, Incest

Former United States senator from Pennsylvania and current candidate for the GOP nomination for president Rick Santorum posed a very pertinent question at last Thursday’s Republican debate, pertinent but largely ignored by Obama’s mainstream media. Santorum asked why it was unacceptable in our nation to execute a convicted rapist yet legally condoned and fully permissible to kill the innocent product of rape.

Many states in America spare the lives of everyone from sadistic rapists to mass murderers because capital punishment is deemed barbaric in civilized society although snuffing out pre-born life is considered civilized even though the methods employed in abortions cause excruciating pain for the aborted.

That truth hasn’t fazed the City of San Francisco which is attempting to close pregnancy counseling centers which don’t provide and advocate abortions, http://bit.ly/qJgLGR, nor has it dissuaded abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood and others from pushing for more business.

Long before fetal pain was documented, former abortionist-turned-pro-lifer Dr. Bernard Nathanson released his graphic “Silent Scream” video which showed to any reasonable viewer the atrocious reality of abortion but, for political and personal reasons, relatively few people cared or chose not to care.

Santorum evidently cares a great deal and last Thursday cited a recent Supreme Court case in which the majority ruled a rapist could not be executed for that crime. That would be the same Court that decided in 1973 that a woman’s vague constitutional right to privacy superseded the right to life of a pre-born infant.

As Santorum said with regard to saving the rapist, “That to me sounds like a country that doesn’t have its morals correct. That child did nothing wrong. That child is an innocent victim. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5213)

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