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Subscribe to RSSRick Santorum accused President Obama of requiring free prenatal testing in the health care plan he signed in 2010 because it would detect if children were disabled, encourage more abortions and save money.
"One of the things that you don't know about ObamaCare in one of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing," Santorum began telling about 400 people here. "Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That too is part of ObamaCare -- another hidden message as to what president Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country."
Santorum has a young disabled daughter, who has had several health complications.
Many doctors and medical experts would dispute Santorum's reasoning that the sole explanation for pre-natal testing is to have an abortion. There is value in pre-natal testing, because it can detect potential problems in utero or at delivery and allow parents and doctors to get the proper care for their child.
"Early detection of a fetal condition gives parents the opportunity to terminate the pregnancy in an early stage or to make the preparations necessary to best care for an affected child," Clare O'Connor, Ph.D., of the Biology Department at Boston College, wrote in Nature Education.
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what an a$$hole.
this is just getting comical. santorum comes up with one outlandish zinger after another. he really has to be careful, before middle-of-the-road america just automatically scoffs at everything he says. who knows? that may already be happening.
"WOMEN of AMERICA UNITE and VOTE for YOUR RIGHTS"
"OBAMA 2012 / CLINTON 2016"
Every parent has the right to know about their child before their bron in order to make an educated plan of action if their child does have a medical complication. On a side note if I knew my child was going to be severely deformed and that they would have a VERY low quality of life I might consider an abortion a HUMANE responce.
Good grief; I think I killed off more than a few brain cells attempting to read and rationally comprehend the article.
Seems like the GOP is bent on declaring war on women. All I can say is good luck with that come November.
Santorum.... the name says it all... look it up on Google!! What a looney tune! Why would anyone with a brain pay any attention to this big wad of crazy??? Even Miss Non-Congeniality Sarah Palin makes more sense than this guy. All he wants to do is keep his "woman" home raising as many offspring as he can squirt into her - and expects the rest of society to do the same! What a complete freak!
Santorum talks about Jesus a lot, has been seen on television at prayer gatherings, and has commented on Mr. Obama's religious beliefs or the lack thereof. Shame on him. We do not live in a theocracy, and though the faiths of our founders certainly helped shape America, so did many other things. This isn't Jesus Land. Our national identity embraces religion but also transcends it so as to protect the rights of the religious AND of those who think otherwise. Protestant reformer Martin Luther once said that "Faith and reason are enemies of faith, to be crushed and destroyed." A lot of fundamentalists believe this still, and would change or tweak laws that touch on their right to believe, into laws that would impose their religious beliefs on others.
Rick Santorum accused President Obama of requiring free pre-natal testing in the health-care plan that passed last year, because it would detect if children were disabled, encourage more abortions, and save money. While I do not support abortion, I must admit that Rick Santorum is a good example for one being in support of abortions. He slipped through the test undetected. Republicans amaze me to no end. They take no shame in telling lies and where there are no lies to tell, they go out of their way to make up lies. The sad thing is that they have lied so much now even they are beginning to believe their own lies. The entire party reminds me of Sarah Palin back in 2008.
Red States receive more Government Benefits then Blue States. Here is the Map, courtesy, N.Y. Times;
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/12/us/entitlement-map.html
It isn't like he lacks intelligence that bothers me. It's that he refuses to use it.
One more GOPer goes off the rails..........too many GOPer's marry other GOPer's and before you know it the gene pool is completely corrupt.
If I were having a baby I'd for sure want prenatal screening. It could turn up something that could possible be corrected or rectified. Maybe C-section before full term could give the child a chance for a normal life. Maybe an abortion would be the only way to save it from a life of torture like the GOP wanted to put Terry Schiavo through. All personal choices to be made by the parents with the advice of their doctors and nobody else. Maybe I could just make preperation to accomodate a child with disabilities. What I definitely know is that I would want to know before I was in the delivery room if at all possible so at least I could prepare myself and my family mentally and financially if I could. That's like, but worse than saying we shouldn't screen for cancer because, if we get cancer it's God's will that we die. Do these GOP hucksters even think a little bit before they open their mouths? Are they really this desperate in trying to find something to use against our President? Sounds like they realize that we have a real good president and don't know what to do. For some reason the idea of being even better just hasn't occured to them or they're just not capable of producing anything better than Bush or Santorum, Romney, Gingrich and the rest of those clowns who have already dropped out. I'm really left shaking my head with the realization that...this is the best they could come up with from the entire ranks of their party.
Rick Santorum is becoming "The Ugly American" in this campaign. I don't understand how any woman in America could consider voting for him. I would like nothing better than for him to become the GOP candidate in November so I could vote against him for the third time.
And I suppose Obama hates babies and dogs too. What a bunch of Republican mud-slinging crap!
Well he has a dog, he must hate them. !!???!!!??
"Adolf" Obama just encourages the growth of Planned Parenthood "Mengeles"..
.Elitist....
Don't worry yourself explaining Dr. Clare O'Connor! Nobody can tell me that in a nation of 300 million people sending people to space day and night, you can't find people of sufficient intellect or rather intellectual disposition (i.e. whether they are deliberately being unintelligent) to run for The Presidency! Really?
It's a shame!
Why is it that so many here keep bringing up the issue? "these leaders want to ban contraception" when that is not the issue. President Obama was very clear the goal of his mandate was to force insurance co. to Pay for these services.
the over reaching hand of gov't trying to force someone or some entity to Pay for someone elses contraception is the issue. not the act of using contraception .
lets tell a story bob says, Hey jim im gonna have sex with that woman but i need a dollar for a condom jim says, get your own condom with your own money. bob says, if you dont give me a dollar i'll call 911 they will make you give me a dollar Just Saying
vote-2012
Most insurance companies pay for Viagra. Why not birth control? Just sayin'
Okay Ricky has had his 15 minutes in the republican sun. Next batter.
The problem with these flavor of the month frontrunners is they believe their own press and then they open their mouths.
Republicans are going to be stuck with Romney and it is sad that he is the best this party has to offer this year.
Go grow a Vagina, Maybe then you'll grow an understanding about Pre-natal care . Dummy!
This guy, Santorum, is really creepy/scary! UGH! What's his campaign? To go around the country making up lies and belittling someone else? Clearly he has NOTHING going for him. I don't know about the rest of the country, but I just want to scream NO! GO AWAY! with every mention of him.
my wife is a lifelong, die-hard republican and she said there is no way she'll ever vote for santorum. he's too far out there on women's issues.
Bless her heart.
O Rick, you really don't think smart people are going to believe this, do you?
PS There aren't enough dumb people in this country to get you elected.
JUST SAY NO !!!!!!! ; to the weakest political attack of the president of the united states of america. SURE , SUUUURRRRREEEEEE MR. '' SENT TO ROAM '' , WE BELIEVE THE 1%ers ARE IN LOVE WITH THE DISABLED. simply because there are soooooo many of them in the 1% bracket. haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa heeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeurkillinmeheheeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, and he had it going for him, now he's proving he's as wacked as the other two once leaders in the gop race. What is it with them, making up all this off the wall on the verge of schizophrenia bunk. Thats about as stupid a comment as anyone can come up with, but i will be waiting for the next, I'm sure it will get better.