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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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Santorum and those who support him are why for the first time I'm going to get involved with the political process beyond just voting.
America has to realize the religious right is incredibly dangerous. I think they've gained the power they have because too many don't think the theocracy they so clearly want could ever happen here.
It can, and we have to put them back where they should have been all along: voice shouting themselves hoarse in the wilderness.
The good news about the Religious right is that they aren't reproducing.......cuz you will go to hell...or some crazy a$$ thing...
You think so? What's the latest Duggar-family head count as of this morning?...
Mitty just put his coin purse back in his front jean pocket....call off the attack poodles,this guy will take himself out....after he wins Michigan...Haaaa!!!
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” Susan B. Anthony, 1872.
Bye Bye loony man Santorum. Your time is up. ...NEXT!!
Obama/Biden 2012
Hey Cowboy... Heard his mother did that attempting an at home abortion. Too bad she failed, but that's what the retards would like to bring back. Coat hangar abortions.
I don't know of anyone who does not get pre-natal testing. It is not just for the health of the child but also the mother. Will someone please tell this 'effing nut, that the baby can be treated in the womb...IF THEIR PROBLEMS ARE DETECTED soon enough!!!
My daughter is catholic and would not get an abortion, yet she was pre-cautionary tested to make sure all was well. If not, maybe there would have been things they could have done for the child.
This man needs to shut the he!! up and take a biology lesson from 2012...not 1712!
SANATORUM IS A G.D. freaking piece of scum.
He is aweful! He is crazy!
You lost Santorum at 'health of the mother.'
Why are Republicans backing this lunatic? Pre-natal care is one of the best things that can be done for a pregnant woman and her baby. Of course requiring it will save money, but not in the way Santorum fears!
Santorum is a desperate little boy with a serious mental problem who is running a campaign AGAINST SEX AND AGAINST WOMEN. Maybe he thinks women are too stupid and pathetic to vote their self interest.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” Susan B. Anthony, 1872.
Grasp all the straws you want Santorum, it won't keep you afloat. Maybe you should have checked the voter rolls for gender. There are more women than men. Bye Bye loony man your time is up. ...NEXT!!
Obama/Biden 2012
I suspect you'll see insane comments like this from Santorum every day. Just remember he isn't talking to the sane people in these states. He's running in Republican primaries and the base of that party agrees with every word. The republican base is crazy and will gladly vote for one of their own. Romney has a real problem because he will be unable to out crazy Rick. The only candidate who can do that is Gingrich.
The stage is set...enter SARAH !!! Seriously,she is waiting for the convention,she knows,and is encouraging,a brokered convention, its eminent. She avoids all the debates,all the cost,all the scrutiny,and jumps in with both feet. What could be a more perfect end to the GOP as we now know it !! I hope the next GOP is better...
She can't wait to do some fancy pageant walkin'
Actually, cowboy, a brokered convention is the Republic Party's best hope. They have at best a marginal chance with Romney as the nominee, but the base doesn't want him. The few pros left in the Republic Party know they will face historic landslide losses with either Gingrich or Santorum, but the base loves them both. The party leaders will surely want a chance to square this particular circle at the convention...
This guy is such an idiot, do they really think they have a chance against brains?
"Do they really think...?" That's the entire question. And the answer is an unequivocal no.
They're all amygdala, no pre-frontal cortex.
Dave,
As someone who is in the field as you obviously are I loved your comment. All amygdala and on top of that they suffer from severe cerebralanalopothy.
What a brilliant word for it! Can't wait for a chance to use it in conversation.
I typically go with something like craniorectal inversion/insertion, but that's not as original. I will no doubt spend the next while working on new variations.
Thanks for that. Made my day.
What a nut job.
Free pre-natal care is critical to ensure that women are healthy and babies are born healthy, thus reducing lifetime medical costs for women and their children.
Is there ANY limit to the stupidities this guy utters?
So now pre-natal tests are out of the question because HE says that they are used to perform abortions. And the sad fact is that the vast majority of the people who believe him, VOTE!!!!!
And here I thought Ron Paul was the candidate with the crazy conspiracy theories. Guess Rick's touching all the bases for the right wing extremos.
If this lunatic were elected, he would make the Muslim fanatics look like choir boys.
sanatorium they should have aborted you because your so stupid
So we send Newt to the Moon,Rick to Uranis,and Mitty to the Milky Way........and leave Ron Paul alone...he's sleeping...
Can anyone believe this moron?
Obama makes America unsafe... Obama is imposing a different moral theology... Obama looks down on the disabled...
Just goes to show what a GOP hopeful will resort to in order to be in THE position of power.
Please nominate him for 2012... PLEASE!
Complete bull. Obama wants to help those of us with disabilities, hence his health care plan, even though it still uses the current insurers. My only gripe is that he didn't go far enough and establish a single-payer system.
Tea Partiers are the ones who don't want those of us with disabilities getting health care with their "keep your government hands off my Medicare" insanity.
So.........Overall everybody seems to really like Rick..........haaaaaa!!!!
Dear MSNBC.com,
Here's a headline you can use for all of your Santorum articles:
Santorum opens mouth, idiocy pours out
It pretty much qualifies as the whole article, as well.
You're welcome.
Santorum says Obama looks down on disabled... whereas the GOP doesn't look down, they just would let them die.
"Obama kicks puppies when no one is looking, more on that at eleven." - Kent Brockman
Bahahaha!!!
Keep talking Rick; you're making President Obama's re-election campaign as easy as pie. You're a Democrat's dream candidate!!
More proof that Santorum is a card carrying member of the Christan Taliban Movement.
Its scary how many people support him and his movement to create a government under his religious beliefs at the expense of our Constitutional protections.
THE RULE: No matter what time, political affiliation, religious pretense, location or state of inebriation, if a man who is not married to me mentions my vagina, discusses my reproductive choices or insinuates himself into the abortion question, I WILL VOTE AGAINST HIM. That is my inviolable pledge.
Go jam your nose up your own vagina???
Go jam your nose up your own vagina
I'm pretty sure republicans don't do that.
Everything else? Spot on! If you won't ever be in a position to make Any of the decisions women may have to make, shut the hell up. Oohhh... maybe women should start making decisions about their prostates and what not...