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Bob Schieffer And Santorum Clash Over His Belief That Prenatal Care Leads To Abortions

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During a recent campaign stop, Rick Santorum brought up the inclusion of prenatal care in the Affordable Care Act, and made a bold proclamation that giving women prenatal care leads to more abortions. On Face the Nation today, Bob Schieffer challenged Santorum on his assertion, asking him if what he was saying is fundamentally unscientific and against what the majority of doctors would advise.

RELATED: Piers Morgan To Rick Santorum: ‘Does Rick Santorum Like Women?’

Schieffer asked Santorum to clarify his remarks, because many people see prenatal care as having less to do with abortion and more to do with the general health and well-being of an expectant woman. Santorum argued that most prenatal testing is done to identify deformities in utero, and so he doesn’t have an issue with overall prenatal care. However.

“I didn’t say prenatal care shouldn’t be covered. We’re talking about specifically prenatal testing and specifically amniocentesis, which is a… procedure that creates a risk of miscarriage when you have it and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb, which in many cases, in fact, most cases, physicians recommend, particularly if there’s a problem, recommend abortion.”

Santorum got emotional as he explained how his child was diagnosed with trisomy 18, a genetic disorder caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in the cells of an infant, and in most scenarios, children with that disorder are encouraged to be aborted. Schieffer pointed out that Santorum also had a child that was still-born, meaning it died in the uterus, but Santorum interrupted to note the baby was alive for two hours before passing away.

RELATED: MSNBC Contributor Eugene Robinson On Rick Santorum’s ‘Weird’ Reaction To Death Of Newborn

Schieffer shifted back to asking Santorum if he would prevent all mothers from getting prenatal testing. Santorum did not go that far, noting that sonograms are important for a pregnant woman to get, but he did say women should not be “forced” to undergo every single test. He went after Obama for his support of partial-birth abortion.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    Can someone please send this neurotic to the mental hospital.  Please!

  • Katechon Phosphene

    Looks like Santorum’s withered relic of a belief system will define him and his fleeting flirt with a GOP nomination. He has a tendency to make one’s skin crawl.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Santorum winning the Republican nomination equals 4 more years of Obama!!

    Independents realize that Santorum is a religious zealot disguised as a politician!!

    The Republican Party’s extreme views on social issues will cause them to become extinct within the next 20-30 years!!

  • Anonymous

    Bob, you should be ashamed of asking Saint Rick a “gotcha question”. After all, he has a direct pipeline to the Man upstairs. In the meantime, every time he opens his mouth, he confirms the reasons why he suffered one of the greatest beatdowns of any incumbent senator in history. But do not let him stop there. He wants to continue this winning streak by suffering one of the greatest beatdowns in the history of presidential elections.

  • http://twitter.com/mattparkerfl Matt Parker

    There is little debate as to the question of whether Rick Santorum is an electable candidate, a man able to carry the Republican mantle forward in a positive way this summer an d fall against Barack Obama. Santorum is a radical whose philosophy lies well outside the mainstream in America today. He amounts to little more than a protest candidate, a modern day Goldwater meant to stick it to Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment. This is no longer about winning an election for conservatives. They have lost their minds.  http://www.sunstateactivist.org

  • Anonymous

    When do the Republicans begin their war on repealing gravity?

  • Anonymous

    The Culture wars are back. I guess the GOP and the tea folks are bringing back the old fights.

  • Jane

    Rick Santorum, running for Papist in Chief.    Hey, Little Ricky, Opus Dei has some openings.     

  • Anonymous

    Nice. 

  • Anonymous

    Anybody want to see photos of what a fetus looks like after an abortion? No, well think about abortions the next time you eat a cherry pie. Pretty much looks the same.

  • Katechon Phosphene

    Much like cherry pie, abortions are delicious.

  • Anonymous

    What if you have to get an abortion because of life threatening reasons?

    It’s kind of weird to see Rick Santorum impose his beliefs on abortion when his wife had a relationship with an abortion doctor. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but its kind of weird.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1148287639 Alma Jimenez-Russell

    Nooooooooooooooooooo!  LET him be the Republican nominee….please.  I know there’s a one in a million chance he could win and become President, but I am willing to take those odds.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum needs to get his own uterus and see how he likes other people telling him how to care for it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani
  • Anonymous

    This is madndss.

  • Katechon Phosphene

     Wasn’t that the doctor who helped deliver her? If so, that is also kind of weird.

  • Anonymous

    It’s an issue fraught with emotion, obviously, but if Santorum had his druthers (with the power of Congress behind him) then some women in this country would be forced to have children they know are going to be seriously handicapped, with little chance of living more than a few years. It’s a personal choice, but I don’t think most families want to go through what the Santorums did: 9 months of pregnancy to have your baby die hours after delivery, or even a few years later. 

    For some of us who don’t see this through the lens of a 2,000 year old myth, there is no point in making the child or the parents suffer in such cases. 

  • Anonymous

    The Republican war on the word care continues as gosh darn it, it’s a real vote winner. Everyone knows anything that takes care of people’s health is a terrible, socialist thing, so bad, wrong and kills babies. :)

    Next up, Newt Gingrich versus the Carebears, followed by Romney

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    If Ron Paul is not president expect to pay $10/gallon or more for gasoline in the next 3 years or less.  

  • Anonymous

    If I didn’t want the media to focus on social issues in my campaign I would probably stop bringing them up at every opportunity.

  • Anonymous

    “Only” 25th on the list of worst beat-downs by an incumbent Senator. He was #1 since 1980 but Blanche Lincoln took that honor away from him with her 20.95% drubbing in 2010.

    http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2010/08/senator_blanche_lincoln_headed_for_a_historic_defeat.php 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572292487 Nancy Wade-Hull

    I saw the malformed 12 week fetus my body spontaneously aborted years ago.  Many fertilized embryos end that way, & some take the mother with them.  You throwing that comment into the mix shows you speak of that about you know precious little.  Have a good day, sir.

  • Anonymous

    Is Santorum running for president of Saudi Arabia?

  • Anonymous

    Screw life threatening reasons. A woman should have that baby boy or girl sucked out of them through a quarter inch hose into a lumpy red gravy for any selfish reason they want. You shouldn’t deny a woman’s right to be selfish!

  • Anonymous

    With Santorum leading the way, the Republican party will win every state in the Bible belt, plus Utah. Congratulations on becoming a regional party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572292487 Nancy Wade-Hull

    http://oursilverribbon.org/blo…     Did you read the link? Obviously not, as you are still bloviating.

  • Anonymous

    If your wife/daughter has to get an abortion to save their life, doctors told you the featus has been infected with trisomy 18 there is an 80% chance of the baby being stillborn.

    Do you think its the mothers choice to make that decision? if she should get an abortion or not?

  • Anonymous

     oh yeah it was…

  • http://twitter.com/Zamir Zamir

    wait, he’s against prenatal care, so i guess he’s against the Virgina’s new law about sonogram before abortions, right?

  • Anonymous

    It’s only a theory, and it shouldn’t be taught in schools. 

  • Anonymous

    Then we should invest in Green Energy / Clean Energy

  • Anonymous

    Santorum is an unelectable idiot but, to be fair (WHAT?! FAIR?! IN POLITICS!!?? I MUST HATE AMERICA!!) he’s not saying prenatal care directly leads to abortions. It’s more like prenatal care, specifically one certain type of test, leads to results that are likely to make prospective parents consider aborting their child. 
    That said, Santorum is a scary, scary man. He’s holds horrible views on pretty much every subject that matters to me. 

  • Anonymous

    Hey Rick.  Have you heard?  Women won the vote.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum is one crazy dude, he wants to take women back to the 40 & 50′s…He needs to be put out of his misery in this race…..The more his views are becoming public knowledge, the more out of touch this man looks…

  • Anonymous

    The wingnuts simply do not get it. If abortion is outlawed, what doctor in their right mind will ever perform one even if the mothers life is in danger without a court order? None, because their decision would be subject to second guessing and they would face jail time if they were wrong. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m so glad this idiot has absolutely no chance, plus his sudden popularity is only due to the fact that the Republicans will take anyone but Romney. Say hello to your second term, Mr. Obama!

  • Anonymous

    Right, because Paul could just snap his fingers and get OPEC, Congress and all of the world’s oil speculators to lower the cost of crude. Even an absolute monarch in this country would have limited ability to affect the price of gas, and the president has nowhere near the power of a king. If Paul can do it, he really is a wizard. 

  • Anonymous

    You don’t care what I think so it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you believe its OK if a woman has that abortion if there is no health problems and that she can have as many as she likes.

  • Anonymous

    Nice, as well.

  • Anonymous

    Paul says the government shouldn’t get involved, and we know the free market loves to throw money at macro-economic changes like clean energy without the reassurance that a government is behind it. I guess we should just wait for Exxon and others to go green, under a Paul presidency. 

  • Anonymous

    What if there is health problems?

  • Anonymous

    Either the party reconnects with sane people or you’re right — the party is finished as a political operation in a few decades.

  • Anonymous

    But I thought the tea party wasn’t interested in social issues? At least so their leaders repeatedly told us.

  • Anonymous

     You sir are an idiot. When you can carry a fetus inside your own body then you will be entitled to an opinion,no matter how foolish it is.

  • Anonymous

    Again, Santorum’s right. With our third child, my wife and I went in for an ultrasound at 24 weeks. The doctor doing the ultrasound said our daughter had “soft markers” for Down’s and Trisomy 18. He very casually (and I mean VERY CASUALLY) said that if we wanted an abortion, we’d need to do it soon. And he was gone. We both just sat there dumbfounded – and scared as heck. He did nothing to put the situation in context, and we didn’t feel better under we did some Google research later. The “soft markers” (a choroid plexus cyst and excess fluid around the kidneys) were both gone by 30 weeks. My wife delivered a beautiful, healthy baby girl two months later.

    People are having elective abortions due to concerns about physical deformities – sometimes at the mere suggestion of a *possibility* of deformity. There’s no doubt that these screenings increase the number of abortions because nobody is aborting a Down’s child, for example, unless they know or perhaps only *think they may be* carrying a Down’s child.

    Heck, look at China – the one-child law coupled with the aspect of pre-natal care that informs parents about the SEX of their baby is responsible for the genocide of an entire generation of females. It is now against the law to tell parents because the state recognizes that parents are choosing to abort based on the disappointment of knowing a female fetus is in utero.

    We live in a pretty diseased culture when many people take greater issue with Santorum’s view on this than with Obama’s support for the absolutely ghoulish practice of partial-birth abortion.

    Of course, it’s obvious one of the chosen Dem narratives for Santorum is “he doesn’t like women” (thanks for being a good soldier, Piers Morgan) and they are going to pound this non-issue into the ground in an attempt to misrepresent him.

  • Anonymous

    Guess what, a fetus is another life – inside the mother’s body, but not HER body. Women have every right to do what they want with their OWN bodies, but when you infringe on another human life you’ve crossed the line – just as I have the right to do what I want with my body, but I do not have the right to kill others. You and I have the ability to protest were someone to attempt us harm. The pro-life movement speaks for the most vulnerable that cannot speak for themselves.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, she can.. because not everyone has to subscribe to your beliefs.

    This issue was closed a long time ago, you don’t get to decide what I do, or what strangers do, sorry.

  • Anonymous

    Viagra has a new law?!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    Nope.  Green energy is expensive because of all the interference due to lobbying by Exxon and the likes.  If the government does not cater to these Oil companies, green companies will flourish in no time.  I know, I cannot prove it to you because the analysis will take an essay to explain how total non-interference can promote what is best for the society.

  • http://twitter.com/Rickstersays Rickster Rickster

    i’m betting even the pope wishes he’d just shut the hell up.

  • Anonymous

    BOB SHIEFFER TRY MAKE FROTH LOOK STUPID! FROTH NOT STUPID! THIS MAKE FROTH VERY ANGRY!!!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Bum’s Rush

    In 2006, Rick got tossed like a bum
    A premonition of things yet to come
    ‘Cause once voters vett him
    They”ll surely regret him…
    No more hot, frothy, surging Santorum!
    __________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney
     

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATE GRAVITY!

  • http://twitter.com/Rickstersays Rickster Rickster

    that partial birth abortion nonsense is a load of b.s.and always has been.  those children  HAVE NO BRAINS.

  • Anonymous

    ” Again, Santorum’s right”            You lost credibility with this first line. You can have Rick Santorum. People who live in the real year of 2012 have rejected him already.

  • Anonymous

    I get a little tired of mostly men making arguments on these issues. Let the women decide….I am personally willing to have referendum voting for women only..i’ll stay out of it…… and how about the men just shut up for a while…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    Nope.  If we don’t spend so much on the wars the value of the dollar will rise there by making Oil less expensive.  Oil has become more expensive because of printing the dollars not so much because of high demand.  Ron Paul, and I agree with him, criticizes the GOP more than he criticizes Obama, why? because the Iraq war, started by Bush cost us $4Trillion, whereas, Obamas social programs I believe would cost somewhere around $1Trillion.  He opposes Obama on civil liberties issue.  And why should one spend more on wind energy if solar energy is cheaper?  Let the markets duel it out and government not take sides by financing one over other.  Moreover, who ends up paying for it anyways, money doesn’t grow on trees somebody still has to pay for it.  And sooner or later we will have to pay for it in form of taxes or inflation.

  • Anonymous

    From your mouth to God’s ears!

  • Anonymous

    Republicans Pro-Life and Pro-War what a contradiction.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum seems to have a problem explaining himself properly. If I had only watched that speech of his which Schieffer played then I would come away thinking Santorum opposes ALL prenatal care. And judging by his opposition to testing it seems that he would rather have a team of hospital staff kick in the door to the delivery room after your child is born and yell “SURPRISE!!!!, YOUR BABY HAS PALSY!!!!!!”, complete with confetti, balloons and kazoos.   

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    The GOP have had their share of crazy religious nuts but Santorum is in a class of his own.

  • Anonymous

     lmao!

  • Anonymous

    Honestly you can turn this “Froth” thing into a MEME and make a website to make money from this.

  • Hout Bosques

    And even if that black swan shows up & Santorum gets elected, we still win, because he will hasten the collapse of the country, & Marx finally gets another chance to be proven correct.

  • Hout Bosques

    And if he IS, then expect to pay $20/gallon. Another WIN-WIN situation! Let’s trample Darwinism & all of science while we’re doing in Keynes. Who needs species progress – or survival even?

  • Hout Bosques

    No no – it’s important to get Santorum to the general election debates in the fall & for the country to hear all his arguments & discuss how sound they all are BEFORE he gets dismissed to the trash can of history. It’s the only way to appease the religious right once & for all. Go Rick go!

  • Anonymous

    No one bought into that story line.

  • Hout Bosques

    That’s too extreme. It should be taught WITH A WARNING that it’s only a “theory”, & alongside it should be taught the Biblical alternative. I’m not sure where that alternative is located in the Bible but I’m reasonably sure it’s somewhere in there. An invisible work crew of angels pushing down on everything maybe.

  • Anonymous

    Ketan, I mean no offense and I think your heart’s in the right place, but your description on what’s going on with the value of the dollar and the markets seems much too simple. Governments, in certain cases, can screw things up but keep in mind that many of the major industries we have today were started only because of government intervention. 

    Entrepreneurs often won’t spend money in a new and tumultuous market because they have a high chance of losing money. This is true even when they know the markets have huge potential. In many cases throughout history, it’s been the government that has invested money in research and projects. They’ve helped support private market ventures until the point when the market is self-sustainable. See the expansion of railroads in the West, the development of computers, the creation of cellular phones and the use of GPS. The U.S. government and U.S. tax dollars helped investors and inventors make those things possible. 

    By the way, Paul has been predicting horrible inflation any day now for the past decade. Where is it? 

  • Hout Bosques

    And they’re great together! This argument is about as cogent as looking at pictures of surgically removed cancerous growths & liposuctioned masses.

  • Hout Bosques

    But no one’s ever going to raise any of that weirdness in the general election. It won’t happen. Never. It’ll never even get mentioned. Not once. 

  • Hout Bosques

    “What matters is that you believe its OK if a woman has that abortion if there is no health problems and that she can have as many as she likes.”
    If I were a woman, that’s something I’d certainly go for. But since I’m not, it’s just SELFISH.

  • Hout Bosques

    We should handle this the traditional way, like baby Jesus would: only men get to vote. 

  • http://twitter.com/FranDavey Frances Davey

    Contrary to what the Right To Life movement would have us believe, the percentage of partial birth abortions that are performed for capricious reasons is miniscule to none. A woman who has carried a baby for 20 weeks or more isn’t simply “changing her mind” about having a baby. There is a real crisis occurring. Often times, the baby is already dead and was not miscarried. It is sad and your condemnation of women who have had to endure this procedure is both disrespectful and unfeeling.

  • Anonymous

    The GOP continues to pretend like it’s 1955 in America. Demographics are changing just as are opinions. The issues that the social conservatives want to want to make a big deal about–gay marriage, contraceptives, etc–are non-starters. It’s a bit like someone arguing in the 1980s that we need to roll back civil rights. Sure, there are some people who believe that but the tide has shifted against the GOP long ago.  

    I disagree that it’s finished though. The party will change its platform like it has done in the past to keep power. 

  • Hout Bosques

    But what’s so special about the fetus? Why not the zygote? Why not the unfertlized egg? Haven’t you heard of paragenesis? It’s a fact of nature. And why not the sperm, there’s more than enough stuff in there to have trillions spent on labs turning eggless spermatozoa into fully fledged Republicans. Come on Congress – show us some spunk for the spunk! We’re allowing jizzjillions of eggless little helpless spermies & gatrillions of unfertilized eggs to go to waste. We could get this planet up 50 billion humans in no time!

  • Hout Bosques

    King. Saudi Arabia is a kingdom. He’s running for king.

  • Anonymous

    That is exactly where he belongs, a mental hospital, he is seriously crazy.  What about the economy, the jobless, the deficit, all the other things we should be concerned about, all this nutcake cares about is interfering with women’s health and rights, as well as the rights of doctors to do legal procedures.  He calls a pill that prevents conception an abortion pill.  We should be ashamed that this man ever served in congress much less is being considered as a candidate for President.  I know Obama would beat him badly, but even as a candidate he would be an embarrasement.

  • Hout Bosques

    Government authorized rape isn’t rape rape.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez

    I’m glad Rick didn’t let Bob get away with that misspoke still-born comment. 

  • http://twitter.com/FranDavey Frances Davey

     Also, you have a piss-poor excuse for an OB.

  • Hout Bosques

    “Santorum is a scary, scary man. He’s holds horrible views on pretty much every subject that matters to me.” Then he’s a perfect presidential candidate for the Republican party. Go Rick go!

  • Hout Bosques

    We can always reverse that mistake.

  • Hout Bosques

    That’s no argument: most voters HAVE NO BRAINS.

  • http://twitter.com/FranDavey Frances Davey

     No. He thinks that sonograms and amnios lead to partial birth abortion.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party never quite figured out what they were mad about. They were just mad. 

    I read multiple comments on the Daily Caller not long ago in which people were calling a Charles Krauthammer a “DUMBOCRAT” and claiming that Obama wants to raise taxes on our payrolls to fund Solyndra. That’s the sort of person I think represents the confusion of the Tea Party. Factually incorrect, misdirected anger. 

  • Hout Bosques

    Listen to FR0TH! He sometimes right.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    The GOP have sold their soul to the teabaggers and religious kooks and now the bill is coming due.

  • Katechon Phosphene

     You added the frothy drool! Meme-tastic!

  • Anonymous

    We all know why they were mad…  It has something to do with pigment.

  • Katechon Phosphene

    Nor will the fact that he took…their dead child…home…to meet their other kids. I feel wrong just bringing that up, but holy moly. We are into psychological horror territory here.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans are nuts.  My goodness.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum: leader of the nanny-state movement.

  • Anonymous

    I am very glad that you had a beautiful baby girl.  However, this isn’t about a single case or whether or not you opted for ‘abortion’.  Women have these tests for a variety of reasons.  AND they do not all ‘choose’ to ‘abort’.  They may have to take drugs, change their diet, etc. etc. to take care of what is found.  To play this game ‘well I knew someone’ is disingenuous.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    Granted, that many of them were started, but at what cost?  I don’t see any moral justification in supporting a Military Industrial Complex that kills millions of innocent civilians overseas.  The media rarely reports a true account of the blood that is on our hands.  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mEj0Gj5vsQ 

    With regard to other beneficial industries, who is going to decide at the federal level what projects are beneficial to the society.  At the very least these projects should be financed locally at the state level.  If Texas has a lot of wind and they want wind energy then let the voters of Texas decide to finance wind energy not the ones in Nevada who may want to finance Solar energy.

  • Pablo

    He says he thinks such services should be covered. How is he interfering?

    If he’s so crazy, why do you have to misconstrue what he’s saying?

  • ProChoiceGrandma

    Rick Santorum thinks all women should be stay-at-home moms and be happy to have as many Trigs and Bellas as Gawd grants them.  (He even said a rapist’s child is a Gift from Gawd!)  However, Santorum does not want those disabled children to have health care for the HUGE medical expenses associated with their extreme disabilities.  How can couples ever hope to pull out of poverty if FORCED to have a child with severe genetic disabilities?  It is one thing to choose to commit to the life-long care and expense of having a severely mentally retarded child, it is quite another to be forced to carry a fetus to term that you know will have severe mental retardation.  All one has to remember is how Rick Santorum inserted himself into the Terri Schiavo case, and know that he would force his flat-earth beliefs on all of us.   

  • Anonymous

    If he could I’m sure Santorum would nominate the Pope to the Supreme Court.

  • Pablo

     Oh, like anthropogenic global warming!

  • http://twitter.com/FranDavey Frances Davey

    I’m beginning to think that Santorum believes that women are inherently baby-killers and that unless they are forbidden by men and by law, they will do so frivolously.

  • OSTL

     u and froth related? seems like it

  • OSTL

     nice

  • Anonymous

     Well said Prochoicegrandma.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/MGT5Z37LPY7KQN6TCOHBJ33YAE Dee

    Since he mentioned that women shouldn’t be forced to undergo testing procedures does that mean he is against the forced vaginal probe of women in Virginia and other non-medically necessary ultrasound laws for women seeking abortion? Somehow I think he’s pretty much all for forced testing and other invasive measures if it comports with his insane ideas and supports his hatred of women.

  • OSTL

     sez the former anti war nut…

  • Anonymous

    I sincerely hope that Santorum is the GOP nominee…. Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, Virginia, Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, North Carolina  - All Obama.  but he only needs a combo of 2 or 3 of those to win..  GOP is toast , and they know it.  Look for more escalating, self-destructive freakouts, like this latest from Pope Rick,  in the months to come as the panic sets in.
    (I’ll throw Missouri and West Virginia in there too)

  • Anonymous

    It’s in Genesis…..the beginning

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    Do you anything to back it up? Or is your day job starts and ends with criticizing others.

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

    You may think Rick Santorum is the greatest thing since sliced bread (that would be lily white bread of course).

    But you need to be concerned about his electability.

    Even stalwart social conservative Bill O’Reilly said Rick had a bad week last week. Then he starts off this week with this flap over prenatal care.

    He also got a little prickly with the always gentlemanly Bob Schieffer. That can’t help with independent voters looking for a president who can work with dems.

    Vote for him if you must. But it is extremely likely you would be giving Obama four more years. That is not to say Stewart-Colbert-Maher would not be delighted to see him win the primary race,
     

  • OSTL

     cork it philby

  • OSTL

    why did obama rail against medical care for babies born to botched abortions?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    He is saying one thing to a religious audience(watch the speech) to get their vote and tones it down to a national audience watching TV.  In light of his other statements that he has made I cannot give him the benefit of doubt.

    He thinks God chose him and his dead son to outlaw abortions
    http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-satan-systematically-destroying-america 

  • OSTL

     lol

  • Anonymous

    Cus that’s worked so far…

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t women understand that this middle-aged religious white conservative male knows what’s best for them?

  • Pablo

    What other statements?

    You know what Ron Paul thinks about abortion, right?

    http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/abortion/

    That said, this isn’t an abortion question. Why do you need to lie about what he said if he’s so nuts? Why isn’t what he said ammo enough?

  • Pablo

     Where do you see him imposing his belief? Where did you get the idea that a POTUS can do such a thing?

    Oh. Obama. Silly me.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     And pro death penalty

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Great link.

    Thanks

  • ORAXX

    I doubt that there has ever been a loonier candidate, that had a legitimate shot at winning a major party’s nomination, than Rick Santorum.  I really, really, hope he gets the nomination too!!.  Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964 will look great by comparison and maybe the Republicans will reconsider their ties to religious conservatives and return to something more in line with the mainstream.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Can we abort republicans?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah its working actually. I’m sure you have a cell phone or an ipad or laptop…10 years ago there was never a battery powerful and small enough to fit that device.

    New technology is being made everyday.

  • Cecelia

    Who knew that prenatal screening is comprised entirely by the specific tests mentioned by Santorum.

    Thanks, as always, dear media, for your relentless default into the most cartoonish of political narratives.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH DO ANYTHING FOR FANS. FROTH LOVE FANS!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Oh, yes, I guess in his “spare time” he went to MEDICAL SCHOOL?  ASS!

  • Anonymous

    I remember hearing how controversial it was that Pres. Kennedy was Catholic – I guess this is why.  Extreme adherence to dogma (though John F. didnt seem to have that problem).

    This guy is a fake.  If these were real convictions he would advocate prison sentences for abortion, certain prenatal care, and, if he read St. Thomas Aquinas – masturbation (never mind St. Tom was a reformed drunk and frequent patron of prostitutes).

  • Anonymous

    If  you have not seen the photo of the “vaginal probe” please look it up — it is on line along with descriptions of how it is terribly INVASIVE!  Looks like an “instrument of torture” and from all I have read is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY!

  • Anonymous

    http://tini.cc/09D
    Catholics for Choice
    CHURCH & STATE
    Breaking the Opus Dei Code
    “Santorum is also pegged as a possible member. In 2002, Santorum attended an Opus Dei event in Rome, during which he attacked President John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 endorsement of church-state separation. Santorum said the Kennedy vow not to enforce Catholic doctrine through civil law has caused “much harm in America” and went on to describe President George W. Bush, a Methodist, as the nation’s first true Catholic president.”

  • Dead_Air
  • Anonymous

    When it come to amniocentesis testing facts are what they are – if it’s a down syndrome baby 90% abort. That is eugenics.

    To the larger point, I wouldn’t call 3000 abortions a day in America frivolous i would call it sad.

  • Anonymous

    removed as duplicate posting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Soren-Kay/100001270456452 Soren Kay

    Santorum

  • BooBoo Bear

     What about an ectopic pregnancy? Since you’re a guy..I’ll use terms that you can even figure out…You get a growth in your windpipe. As is grows to about the 4th month it cuts off your air supply to your lungs and you will stop breathing and within 4 minutes your brain will have died too. Should she have kept the fetus any longer both the woman and fetus would be dead.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum’s is a perfect example of why our founders believed in the separation of church and state. 

    And before someone who thinks they are a Constitutional scholar and authority writes back that no where in the Constitution does it state, “a wall of separation between the church and state”, I’ll direct you to the Jeffersons letter to the Danbury Baptist’s in I believe in 1802.  This is the letter the court’s have traditionally relied on to interpret what Jefferson meant when he wrote the first Amendment.

  • LindaLeigh

    I hope this will be the beginning of the end of Santorum’s presidential run. The more I read about him the more I feel for his wife and daughters.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VMSGMKVTOQDL5MTU7PXYD5QI2Q Kenneth

    Yo snoop, better call the Rev. Al and register your stupid ideas with him

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    See Rick Santorum’s phony theology posit that prenatal care is a bad thing for women and babies.  See the social conservative posit tin foil hat theology is the best kind of theocracy.  And they claim they revere the constitution? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Kirkland/100000195274498 Brian Kirkland

    Please let this man beat Romney.

    In what universe are women being forced to undergo medical procedures? Amnisocentesis isn’t even recommended for women below a certain age.

    Late pregnanies, such as that undergone by Ms. Santorum, presumably because the HAVE to procreate at each coupling, usually result in a recommendation for amniocentesis. They could have refused it and the option not to carry the child to term always exist, even with a healthy pregnancy. Amniocentesis, like abortion is not common.

    Santorum DID say prenatal care. He’s lying. He’s suggesting some kind of Nazi era eugenics being practiced by Obama, which is outrageous. Advocating options for women who are pregnant does not come under the heading of eugenics, which is forced, government sanctioned “culling”, as he put it, of the unfit.

    Look at the guys eyes. There’s something missing there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Rick Santorum is trying to manipulate Americans with his perverted theology.

  • Anonymous

    Bill Adkins… You must have listened to a different clip than I did. Santorum simply stated what his opinion was. And he pointed out that Obama was in favor of late term abortions.

    Tell me which of the 2 are more perverted?

  • BooBoo Bear

     Yahoo projects Obama to win 303 Electoral Votes vs 235 for a Republican.
    The 2 states that States that they have behind Obama Ohio & Virginia with less than a  55% chance of an Obama victory would still give Obama the election by a vote of 270 to 266. With the new Vaginal Rape of a woman without her consent being green lighted by the VA legislature will surely get the women’s vote out to vote their bums out will probably give that state to Obama. And given the liberal views of most of the larger city’s in Ohio, with the exception of Cincinnati will probably also give Obama the state.

    Obama will win every state north of the Maryland/NJ/Delaware line in the Atlantic states. Obama is also projected to win the Midwest with the exception of Indiana.
    And the West Coast along with New Mexico, Colorado, and Iowa.(All of those States have more than a 63% chance of Obama winning them)

  • Anonymous

     GRRRRRRRRR FROTH HATE HEALTHCARE!!!

  • Anonymous

     FROTH MAKE GOOD PRESIDENT!

  • Anonymous

     FROTH HATE GREEN/CLEAN ENERGY!  FROTH LIKE BROWN ENERGY!

  • Anonymous

     WHAT ABOUT FROTH MAKE SKIN CRAWL?  FROTH GIVE KISS?

  • Anonymous

    UTAH WILL HATE FROTH SOON.  FROTH INTENDS TO BASH MORMONS TO PUT ROMNEY AWAY.

  • Anonymous

     IT NOT THEORY!  BIBLE IS REAL!

  • Anonymous

    Better to just leave some of their batcrap weirdness back in the cave where it belongs.I’m just counting my blessings I don’t have to live in that cave!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Republicans love small government, until it comes women
    s health. Then they want a white male in every doctor’s office so women don’t get uppity and make a decision for themself. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    You lost me.  What lies?  There are many priests that are religious and I respect them because they preach and whoever wants to hear can listen to them.  I hate the ones who go out trying to convert others.  I also hate when there is hypocrisy, speaking one thing to one audience and something else to others.

    With regard to Ron Paul we must protect all life except make  ”emergency abortion” available in case of a rape.  He has a heart.  Santorum has a book.

  • Anonymous

    Throw in Pro Death Penalty and you have a Trifecta!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Sorry,I hadn’t read the posts before that moment of clarity hit me.

  • Anonymous

    No,just the cave people.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/4DQSYU4RSWXAO7RGD57MNQSCSY lucas

    God why couldnt Barrack Obamas mother been offered free contraceptives and or a free abortion.. if Barrack Obama’s mamma just would have had an abortion it would have saved America 5 trillion dollars and a whole lot of misery.

  • http://twitter.com/FranDavey Frances Davey

     So you also believe that women are inherently baby-killers.

  • stephen rhymer

    my latst granddaughter wold be dead if it weren’t for amniocentesis.

    Santoru has to go – he’s not intellectually qualified to be president.

  • labman57

    Santorum appears to believe that the Biblical “Forbidden Tree of Knowledge” is a metaphor for scientific literacy and preventative health care. Prenatal testing is simply an example of taking a bite of the apple – a sin to be sure.

  • Anonymous

     Just watch what happens come the next election. There will be plenty aborted Republican/Tea Party members everywhere.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5SSERQW6SJ2P25IBO5ITGLPU3I Susan

    This sounds awfully similar to what Islamists (creeping Sharia) want.

  • Anonymous

    YOU LIE!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Santorum because he is a hypocrite.  His son may have lived for a couple hours, but the “abortion” of his son was induced to save the life of his wife. 

  • Anonymous

    His obsession about abortion and women’s health care could possibly come from his wife’s previous long relatiionship with a doctor who performed abortions in Pittsburgh.  Jealousy?

    Google “tom allen santorum”

  • Anonymous

    There is a new method of doing testing much earlier that the amniocentsis and without the potential of miscarriage.  To do an amniocentisis, they had to wait until the fluid came into the sac in order to get a  sample of the fluid and that was usually between the 15th & 20th week.  Then, a person had only until week 24 to make a decision if the test was positive for downs sydrome. 
    I know a lot of people will say “how can you have an abortion simply because the baby has downs syndrome”?  While it is true that so many children with downs are very happy children, they also have a lot of medical issues -some are more affected by the syndrome than others.  Some can’t talk for years and others can. 

  • Anonymous

    Is the doctor listening to the heart beat – is that considered taboo by Santorum?  What a klutz.

  • Anonymous

    Kind of reminds all us women of all those white men sitting at the conference table testifying at Issa’s congressional hearing about women’s health.

    Let’s watch that being played over and over again so that the republicans can see how it looks to a woman.,

  • Anonymous

    God, why are you such a jerk?

  • Anonymous

    Well, that seems to be something scientists believe, but it’s not in the Bible.  But then, all scientists have a liberal agenda, right?

  • Anonymous

    You know, I’ve been wondering why no one has brought up JFK’s famous speech in Houston in 1960 to reassure the Baptists that he wouldn’t be a Papist.

    Now we have an openly Papist candidate and the Baptists are his biggest supporters.

    Weird.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I guess that’s where we got the idea.  Want to make an argument against it now?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    I just can’t see that even the GOP are stupid enough to nominate ‘Taliban Rick’.

  • Anonymous

    Since when did the president set the price of gasoline? Seems to me the speculators do more harm to the price of gas then anyone else and then Iran isn’t helping matters nor are our allies threats to take action against them and then perhaps those assassinations might be having an affect too. You know, the ones with people riding up beside the cars of Iran’s scientists and blowing up their cars. Not that I support in any way Iran being able to create nuclear weapons, but I do support our need to make changes here to create more of our own energy and go to different kinds of energy. Then we won’t need the oil that comes through and from those countries.

  • Anonymous

    So everyone agrees that the point of amnio testing is to identify fetal abnormalities, and everyone agrees that the reaction to adverse test results is typically abortion.  It’s just that most people here want abnormal fetuses to be destroyed, and want the government to require insurance companies to encourage that process.  And many of these people believe that science supports that position.  

  • http://barbaricthoughts.com/ Kelsey

    “Santorum did not go that far, noting that sonograms are important for a pregnant woman to get, but he did say women should not be “forced” to undergo every single test.”

    Not sure having it covered in an insurance policy is the same as forcing them to have prenatal testing. I’m covered for many things I hope I never have to use. Having said that, children diagosed with disabilities are likely to be aborted, which is a tragedy. 

    What I think is crazy is that Obama gets to shape insurance policies now.

  • http://barbaricthoughts.com/ Kelsey

    Sick f**ks. Out of sight, out of mind - 
    http://amightywind.com/abortionf/abortion03.jpg

  • Smack80

    I know it’s pretty old stats but, according to Wiki, in 1986, 71% of women having late term abortions claimed that they didn’t realize that they were pregnant or that far along, not for any health reasons. While I don’t want Santorum and his buddies messing with my body, I really don’t like late term abortions. I think first and foremost fix our society. Abortion is just a symptom, we need to deal with the cause.

  • Anonymous

    what? lol

    You are for him before you are against him.  Good one.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you’d rather go to the 98% catholic women nonsense.  

    p.s. again, your post made no sense.  

  • Anonymous

    Neurotic???? He’s psychotic!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ITDUQCZVYGF4SMSWGO3RE24VHE bob

    Wow,how this social garbage become most important quest in presidential nominations 2012?Don’t abort them,just care for them,feed them,grow them and send them in Asia to die.Never ending saga of American psicho.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its distraction, really nice timing on the contraceptive issue Obama.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    You know what, Santorum is a good man. He has, to me, a strange faith.  But what do I know, I attend reverand wrights church.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Nazi era eugenics, Im pretty sure hes not suggesting that, but the shoe fits pretty good. Every man, woman and child should pray to whoever they believe in that Obamacare and Obama are stopped.

    Obama is deliberately trying to destroy the American economy as part of his first step in destroying everything. Obamacare isnt meant to actually work, but its a handy way to make trillions and trillions of dollars disappear.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    He has no “obsession”, its just that thats the only thing the left want to talk about.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    “how can you have an abortion simply because the baby has downs syndrome”? 

    I think there are worse reasons to have an abortion.

    But its not and never will be my decision.

    I think though, that someone should actually finish reading the Obamacare bill soon.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Anything to hurt his chances, thats all it is.

    Standard Saul Alinski tactics. The Feminists assigned to destroy Rommney.

    You know, the community organizer? (oh yeah, you know)

    Two of his other precepts are fostering dependancy on  government, and creating economic collapse.

    If there are any human Democrats,  I would suggest learning a little so you can see whats happening.

    Rommney/West
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Wow, it would be dumb to ask him. But I dont think he is running for governor of Virginia. I would guess if you ask him, he may indeed favor that. Would he legislate for that on a federal level? Of course not. The whole contraception thing is moot too, this whole argument boils down too…

    Obamacare? repeal or not? Im sure Rick is a yes on this. I think that are some intelligent women out there who may not want Obamacare forced on them. In fact almost any woman with a job is better off without it.

    Rick has so many bigger fish to fry than to worry about this. Hes a patriot and a man of faith.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    No he said that 3000 abortions a day is sad. I think each and every one is sad. You know if we fix the economy and get back to work, we will all have a higher standard of living and that number would drop a lot with no laws required.

    You and every other woman are free to make your own choices and always will be with Santorum as president (on a federal level, Im no expert on this). But isnt fewer abortion due to greater prosperity a good thing?

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I hope you never have to find out what the quality of care is like if Obamacare kicks in.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Lets pretend we dont have a crazy religious nut in the white house right now.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I am totally impressed hes done as well at answering all this stupid shyte they keep asking him as well as he does. On live TV even. wtg Rick.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    FR0TH SMART!! THE ANGRIER FR0TH GET THE SMARTER FR0TH GET!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Congrats on your baby!!

    Its Sal Alinsky at work, Obama has different groups to attack different candidates.

    If you look close you will see that Obamacare accomplishes a lot of Obamas goals and none of them any American would want to see accomplished.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I think a little bit of prosperity would help with reducing abortions without infringing on anyones constitutional rights and/or religious beliefs, but what do I know Im a racist.

    Rommney/West

    (which means conservative dont you know)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Hey, I noticed a Tea Party rally started up in San Francisco when Obama was visiting. Is the Tea Party, losing or gaining there? We are gaining traction in WA state too.

     Rommney/West

     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Please. The only thing Rick wants to legislate is the ouster of Obamacare, you think you are going to have more choices under Obamacarre? You will be lucky to find a doctor before you give birth but you will get to pay every month. Suggest you get as many free condoms as you can right away.

    Rommney/West 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Tasteless, but I laughed. The rotten thing is we will be lucky if anyone gets to vote.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    And somehow, the liberals are about to hammer you for that.

    Racist!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Doesnt care what you think, doesnt care what santorum(really thinks) he could justify GM and GE paying no taxes with one side of his mouth and spout that occupier/1%/fair share bullshyte with the other. And he likely is. Way to call it Tangled.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Geez louise. You do whatever you want with your dead babies and let Rick worry about his maybe?

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Thank you for sparing me the click, usual stuff eh?

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its really no surprise to me that Baptists might see Obama as barely one step removed from the antichrist himself. Me I never actually believed in the antichrist until we got this guy.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Oh you infer that, even if what hes talking about is represented correctly, Rick Santorum would make that a law?

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Ive read “multiple comments” on a lot of websites that say a lot of werd shyt. You shoud see the comments they make on the Michelle Obama stories.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I bet you could do some hilarious youtube stuff if you look like that and can do a good voice.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Of course Obama sat in reverand wrights church for how many years? Is that closer to the mainstream?

    And his political philosophy based on Saul Alinskis community organizing?

    If anyone on the entire planet is still on the fence this year, check into those two things.

    Then ask yourself, hmm what is Obamacare actually trying to do?

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    pfft. I heard that consevatives were kinda a little concerned about the economy.

    If the left thought they could beat Rick on that, thats what we would be talking about, but they feel they have a better chance killing him on this lame shit.

    Obamacare is the single worst bill ever passed bar none, even with free condoms.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    He isnt spewing hate or disinformation. I mean, he talks like the hulk and still makes more sense and seems far less psychotic than an Obomobot. (I dont think he supports Obama, hard to tell)

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Now that was some pretty impressive spin. I am giving that 5/5stars. I mean that sincerely I was impressed.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Habit mostly :) Also the paycheck…

    Rommney/West

    (godam, to the bottom this thread yet?)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    At this point Sandusky would make good president.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    You sir, are the most honest Obama supporter there is. I applaud you for having the courage to stand by your beliefs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Sooner than that… If Obama is elected expect to make millios of dollars a year. Obamas face will even be one the $1,000,000 bill.

    Rommney/West (Ron Paul is for real, I still dont think he can swing it)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well it might be beter to secure our supply of oil FIRST. And very soon the presidet will decide the price of everything. Look he decided condoms are free just yesterday.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Stupid question really…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I think Ron Paul need to be clear on how commander-in-chief Paul would deal with a war against Iran. It really is likely and he really hurt himself on the Iran issue.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well duuh. No one in the entire country is against that, however Obama has a really strange idea of what counts as an investment. If it involves billiions of dollars being funnelled to communist labor unions then hes all for it.

    Rommney/West

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Howd you get to work today…oh wait nvm.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    FINALLY! The end of the thread, I want to thank the liberal obamabots for actually trying to make reasonable arguments on some issues.

    Rommney/West

    PS Glenn Beck knows what hes talking about, he seems paranoid I know.

  • shonangreg

    mispost

  • shonangreg

    I like what Mencius has said here, Ketan. Try to keep to specifics here. How would the railroads be built under Paul’s administration? Keep in mind that any delay in building out a national rail system will result in other countries becoming relatively more powerful — militarily and economically.

  • Anonymous

    ECONOMY IS BAD SHARIA LAW IS TAKING OVER PEOPLE ARE HAVING SEX. WHO WILL SAVE US IN TROUBLED TIMES?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zw1AjW7Zs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    FROTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    WHY IT TAKE TEA PARTY SO LONG TO LIKE FROTH? TEA PARTY LIKE PALIN TRUMP BACHMANN PERRY CAIN AND GINGRICH BEFORE THEY COME AROUND TO FROTH. MAKE FROTH FEEL LIKE ROMNEY AND PAUL. FROTH HAVE MIXED EMOTIONS ABOUT TEA PARTY :/

  • Anonymous

    POPE > POTUS

    IF FROTH BECOMES POPE FROTH CHANGE NAME TO PETER THE ROMAN THE LAST POPE.

  • Anonymous

    America has their strategic reserves of oil and that is about the only “source” the president can control. More to the point are the other countries who have surpassed our consumption and keep the demand high, like China and India. So even though the US demand is much lower, we still see the increase.

    As far as condoms go- they have been free for a very long time if you paid a visit to your local health department and most any organization who preached safe sex, like HIV/AIDS organizations. And they are also available to purchase in most any drug store, grocery store, convenience store and frequently from machines at places men frequent. Not so with most forms of birth control for women where you need a prescription- which you generally can’t get without first undergoing an examination. And they aren’t as cheap as condoms.

  • BooBoo Bear

     Your seventh grade class is administering the IQ test tomorrow make sure you take it. Please let us know of your score…I would guess yours to be nearer to 70 than anything else.

  • BooBoo Bear

     While Obamacare is not perfect it’s probably the best that can be done in the US. We would really need to put all the insurance company’s out of business except for coverage up and beyond a national health service. Yes, it would mean higher taxes on everyone.

    I find it funny (not) that the US gives billions of dollars to Israel each year. The part I’m pissed at is that they have universal coverage. We need to cut that part of our aid to them ASAP. Until we have universal coverage nobody else that we support should have it.

  • Anonymous

    The headlline of the story is (probably deliberately) wrong.  There was no dispute whatsover about pre-natal “care”; there was a dispute about pre-natal TESTING, and then only insofar as whether Obamacare’s requirement that amniocentesis be provided “free” to expectant pregnant women.  Santorum said — correctly — that amniocentesis is used to ID children who are chromosomically challenged so that they can be aborted.

    That was the essence of the discussion.  But being a Liberal media outlet, Mediaite — just like Bob Schieffer — chose to distort Santorum’s viewpoint to suit its preferred storyline.  

  • Anonymous

    Okay, so he doesn’t think prenatal care leads to abortions, he thinks prenatal testing, specifically aminiocentesis, leads to abortions.  Since people do use the results of such testing to decide whether or not to have an abortion, is he wrong?

    Shame on whoever’s writing the headlines at Mediaite for creating a false impression.

    The more I learn about Santorum, the more I’m thinking his problems are a) he thinks things through more than a politicians or media types, and that thinking things through leads him to conclusions shallower thinkers don’t get; and b) he mainly gets into trouble not for saying things that are crazy or false, but for saying things that are uncomfortably true.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706926849 Monique Manna

    Amnios are not forced upon woman doesn’t this out of touch radical fantical know that! DUH!

  • Anonymous

    Since I despise Obama, if Santorum is the nominee I guess I’ll have to vote for some third-party candidate.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, yes, he is utterly wrong.

    “Although I find no direct stats on how many of the amnios done here result in terminations, for what he said to be true, a majority of amnios would have to show serious abnormalities, and 100 percent of expectant parents who got bad news would then have to choose to abort.

    As I know from personal experience, ’35 is the recommended age tobegin amnio testing because that is the age at which the risk of carrying a fetus with such a defect roughly equals the risk of miscarriage caused by the procedure — about one in 200,’ or 0.5 percent.

    Even one report marshaling arguments against abortion that I found noted that a 1991 study showed ‘as many as four out of every 1000 recognized pregnancies are terminated in the second trimester for fetal abnormality.’ The Guttmacher Institute, which began as an arm of Planned Parenthood, doesn’t even list genetic anomalies as a major reason given for aborting.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/santorums-take-on-amnios-doesnt-add-up/2012/02/19/gIQAtqI4NR_blog.html#pagebreak

    Got that?  The best that a PRO-LIFE study could do was argue that .004% of pregnancies are terminated for this reason.  There are many reasons that these tests are important.   Just ask pro-life Sarah Palin, who would never have known about Trig’s Down Syndrome had she not undergone an amnio.

  • Anonymous

    Why did Sarah Palin have an amniocentesis?  

  • Anonymous

    If everyone agrees that the point of amnio testing is to detect and abort fetuses with abnormalities, why did Sarah Palin have one?

  • Anonymous

    So why did Sarah Palin have an amniocentesis?

  • Anonymous

    He’s dullard.  He is not worldly in any way.  I think he does this at night: http://rat-mantheseries.com/episodes.html

  • Smack80

    I think that would help but the issues go much deeper.

  • Anonymous

    You know what else prevents abortions, probably more than any other single factor?

    Access to affordable contraception.  Which is EXACTLY what the pro-life movement would advocate IF its obsession was truly about “life” and not about preventing sex.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum…in a word….loser.

  • Anonymous

    I’m beginning to think that Santorum is a better candidate than Mitt Romney.  I’m not a Santorum supporter.  If the election happened right now I would vote for the president, but Romney can’t connect to working class Americans like Santorum can and Santorum appears to be doing better in tossup states like Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina (101 EVs).  The only tossup states I could see Romney win would be Florida, Nevada, and New Hampshire (39 EVs).  I think Santorum is a bigger risk but the risk would be worth it for the Republicans.

  • Anonymous

     No you are not gaining anything in Washington state.

  • Guest

    .

  • Anonymous

    So you support having a serial child rapist for president? 

  • Anonymous

    West who?

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes you just get the low hanging fruit first!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    So effin’ stupid you can’t even spell your favored candidate’s NAME right?    I bet that’s exactly how much attention you pay to everything else you do and think.

  • http://twitter.com/Twiddle723 MaryAnn

    What kind of life does Bella have?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-checkup/post/bella-santorum-has-trisomy-18-what-is-that/2010/12/20/gIQAxrOVcQ_blog.html 

    If the Santorum’s choose to give birth to a child and watch it struggle and suffer for what will undoubtedly be a short life, that’s their choice. To force that on other women/couples is wrong. This man is trying to cram his religious beliefs down my throat and I have to say in all honestly, I’m already gagging. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Love/100001295587771 Dave Love

    Santorum thinks a woman’s uterus belongs to the state.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    They don’t want to PREVENT sex.

    They want to PUNISH people for having it.  

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    That creepy old politician would fit right in, wouldn’t he?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    Fear!   Fear!   FEAR! FEAR! FEAR!

    That’s all you fools have got.   I’m already hearing from folks who are *delighted* that, thanks to Obamacare, their recent college-grad kids are now covered during those tricky years where they’re trying to establish careers.

    Compared to having your insurance cancel all your coverage the minute you get seriously sick (something that has put several of my friends into bankruptcy and one into a homeless shelter), Obamacare sounds pretty good.

    Fox makes you stupid — stupid enough to not even realize that you don’t know how to spell “Romney”.   Dimbulb.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    That’s easy.   We don’t.   Are there any stupid lies out there from the right that Neil Murphy DOESN’T believe?

    You’ve been deceived.    And you love it, Neeilll Murrrphhhhy.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

    Considering that Ricky doesn’t agree with the Pope about helping the poor or respecting immigrants or not rushing into war for idiotic reasons, I bet the Pope would be thrilled to see the last of this grandstanding misogynist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJJSILKHBQ2XBN7MX6FUFMDJM4 Dr. M

    If Santorum would get off his knees and look around he would find he is not in the Vatican but in a restroom.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Bucher/100003121100854 Joe Bucher

    A prime example of just how blind Schieffer is to anything outside his narrow “progressive” world.

  • Jovani Olivares

    Hes OBSESSED! Poor guy…

  • ShootFirstThenAim

    MrPorkChops, did it ever occur to you that there is a sizeable time lag between investing in research and bringing a product or service to market? What do you expect to do in the meantime?

    We have cheap, clean sources of energy available now: nuclear power, natural gas, and- yes- oil and coal when used with modern technology. Yet instead of embracing any of these as at least a temporary, stop- gap measure until your ‘green energy’ is widely available, the administration shuts down Gulf oil production, blocks a pipeline and refuses to grant permits for nuclear power plants and new refineries!

    Instead, it gives its fund- raising cronies millions to start sham businesses like Solyndra! 

  • Jay Hanig

     I live in the Bible Belt and you can be confident I won’t be voting for him.  The more moderate they are, the better I like them.  Santorum is a zealot.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Well shoot..As far as the Keystone pipeline. How about we pour poison into the Mississippi River..The water source of millions of people. The Pipeline was to be built over the Ogallala aquifer. You might know it as the source of water for many Nebraskans, as well as the water source for Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. Just how would you replace the peoples water when the oil pipeline burst and contaminated the aquifer? Would you be in favor of constructing a massive network of aqueducts from the Mississippi?

    Do you favor importing wheat into the US? Do you favor the abandonment of the use of Bread, Buns, Dinner Rolls. and other wheat products? Do you favor importing Corn? And the abandonment of most of our morning cereals? Might as well shut down Kellogg’s, Post, and all the other cereal company’s. You might also be in favor of the replacement of US made bread with the importation of Bread from Canada. But I’ll give you a hint. They don’t produce enough to replace what we, the US, would lose. Be ready for that $5 loaf of bread. Can’t wait until you see the price’s of products of Wendy’s, Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s, McDonald’s, Burger King and all the other restaurants and drive thru’s. Can we build the pipeline in your backyard? Didn’t think so.

  • Anonymous

    The democrats must be writing Santorum’s remarks for him.

  • Anonymous

    I guess if all he wants is that women not be forced to take any specific test then he is happy with the status quo. Glad he raised it though.

  • Anonymous

    Neil, how is the weather on your planet?

  • Anonymous

    The should be very afraid if he starts mixing up some Koolaid.

  • Anonymous

    You are right Neil, it is not your decision. There is a woman carrying the baby who should have a least some say in the decision.

  • Anonymous

    Boring tactic. Santorum makes another stupid remark and you try to deflect to something Obama did not say.

  • ShootFirstThenAim

    MrPorkChops, Thank you for your response. You seem to start your argument with the assumptiion that the proposed pipeline would because of its construction or because of some failure causing a spill, totally destroy our water supply! I must tell you, I’ve seen a lot of arguments pro and con the pipeline, but I never saw one matching your doomsday scenario. At the same time I note you praising technology in other posts “New technology is being made every day.”); why, the, are you so negative concerning pipeline technology?

    If we are to accept arguments like yours, we would never build anything. Perhaps that is what you really favor? A technological ‘freeze’ at our current state? That seems more like someone who fears the future, fears change!

    Just a last question: you do know that your cell phone, I Pad or lap top runs on electricity, don’t you? And that electricity is created by power plants, using water power, Nuclear power, gas, oil, or coal? You are not one of those who think electricity just comes out of the wall? 

  • Anonymous

    Just liberal women.

  • Anonymous

    You would have to ask Sarah Palin.

  • Anonymous

    And do you realize how deep those sources of oil and gas are under the ground?   By the time it is dug up, and the money is spent to dig it up, it won’t be worth it at all.    That source of gas isn’t worth the destruction of natural reserves.    The reason it’s even fostered is because of political reasons only.    Investing in Green Energy will save far more in the long run.    Just because Solyndra failed, doesn’t mean you give up on the project.    What would have happened if people who tried to fly stopped because the first flight failed?     Even though Solyndra was a republican idea (and Bush pushed it, even on his last day in office) doesn’t mean we give up on alternative energy.    Even though some ideas like the republican mandated health care program that Obama is pushing is causing a stir, it might also be useful.

  • Anonymous

    It is time for churches to get out of the hospital business.And perhaps it is time to review this famous speech, especially today – President’s Day, when there are so many points that the Catholic and Evangelical churches are trying to shove down the throats of the American people just trying to get by and pay for their own healthcare. Read it – every bit of it.On this President’s Day, I  think it is important that we take a look at the wise words of a former president:

    “It is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in — for that should be important only to me — but what kind of America I believe in. I believe in an America… •where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; •where no church or church school is granted any …public funds or political preference; •and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.I believe in an America… •that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; •where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and •where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril. Finally, I believe in an America where… •religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; John F. Kennedy

  • Anonymous

    Why did Santorum’s wife have an abortion?  Yes, it was an induced abortion. 

  • Anonymous

    I want to know if the priests are insisting that THEY be the ones to do the vaginal probes?????

  • Anonymous

    You know what has been happening in Wisconsin when the republicans overstepped their boundaries for the unions?
    Think about what can begin to happen in Virginia because the white men in the legislature and the male governor decided someone should be looking up women’s vaginas.

    it is time to recall all the legislature and the governor in Virginia.

  • Anonymous

    He has a psychological hangup because his wife lived with a doctor for 6 years who did perform abortions.  I think he has a problem with Dr Tom Allen – Pittsburgh.  Google him.

  • Anonymous

    Think about all the money we as taxpayers would be paying for special education not to mention the cost to Social security for all the Trigs and Bellas if they weren’t aborted.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eOsMc2Fgg&feature=related Phaerisee

    Santorum isn’t perfect, but Mitt Romney is too much of a weirdo for me to vote for.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100138018/mitt-romney-suffers-from-the-weirdo-factor/

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eOsMc2Fgg&feature=related Phaerisee
  • Anonymous

    buddy’s ex-wife got paid $20025 the prior week. she makes money on the computer and moved in a $435400 condo. All she did was get lucky and follow the tips revealed on this web site……http://alturl.com/ig48h

  • corri anderson

    Hey Shootfirst, did you know the US is producing oil at it’s highest level in 8 years?  Did you know that the US is relying on foreign oil at the lowest seen for 16 years?  Did you know that the pipeline was put on hold due to the NIMBY attitudes of the States where the proposed pipeline was to be built?  Do you rememer the BP oil disaster that destroyed the livelihood of many of the region?  Also, coal is not clean, in fact it is worse environmentally than oil.  http://www.gaia-health.com/articles/000032-Coal-Pollution.shtml  You certainly do shoot first and then aim, don’tcha? 

  • corri anderson

    You are really good at asking questions but horrible at creating factual contexts to argue your points.  Yes, you hate Obama, we get it. 

  • ShootFirstThenAim

    Corrie Anderson, You are wrong. I do not hate Mr. Obama. If you read my comments on this article and elsewhere you will see I am critical of both political parties. I try earnestly to ‘call them like I see them’, and let the facts speak for hemselves. I urge you to do the same.  

  • ShootFirstThenAim

    Yes, Jamgraw, I do realize how deep those resources are. But that is not the issue, because- deep as they are-others are opening them up. Since many of the pools are ‘in our back yard’, why shouldn’t we?
    But you are ignoring my original comment that we must not be too quick to abandon existing energy sources. Instead, we must continue with them until practical, economically feasible ‘green’ alternatives are available! I believe we need to take advantage of all safe, reliable and economical sources. Read my original comments. Again, my concern is that too many think we can simply change our energy sources (invent new technologies, build new powerplants and distribution systems, etc.) overnight.
    Finally, two quesions: First, does it really matter which political party first pushed Solyndra and similar boondoggles (think Ethynol)? Let’s uncover and clean up the corruption, wherever it leads.
    For the record, ABC News reported that Solyndra submitted a loan application in the last days of the Bush Administration, but neither the White House nor the Department of Energy approved that application. The application was not acted upon until the Obama Administration took office, when it became a priority.)
     Second, what ” republican mandated health care program” is Mr. Obama pushing? The Health Care Bill was written by the Mr. Obama’s allies at the Tides foundation!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Ward/100000135233619 Mark Ward

    You incredible MORONS!

    It is the (so-called) “Main Stream” Media (and dinosaurs like Bob Schieffer) who are bringing up “Contraception” (after Obama tried to FORCE religious institutions [and NOW "just" their Insurance Companies] to GIVE AWAY “contraception”).

    You want to screw your brains out?  FINE!  BUT, you DON’T have a “RIGHT” to have SOMEONE ELSE (ESPECIALLY NOT a Religious Institution) PAY FOR your “contraception” (or abortions after YOU failed to exercise self-control or “safe sex”).

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