Monday, January 23, 2012

Rick Santorum on Making Lemonade from Life's Lemons

Whenever Piers Morgan interviews some of the totally dangerous nutjobs that inhabit our political stratosphere on the US side of the Pond, he must wonder if the money CNN pays him is really worth it. Nadine Dorries, aside, some of our politicos make the late Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Looney Party look normal.

Quite recently, Morgan interviewed Rick Santorum, the mega ueber conservative Republican, who believes in protecting life, until you're actually born, and then, it's every man (or woman) for himself or herself. But that's par for the course with Republicans.

What seemed to baffle Morgan the most, from the look of total bewilderment on his face, was Santorum's absolute regard for the total illegality of abortion and the fact that he would force a woman, a girl, who'd become pregnant as a result of rape or incest, to bear the child.

Santorum insists that he's not imposing his religious beliefs on others in his instance, but if you listen to the sacerdotal way in which he explains his convictions to Morgan, it's obvious that he does; for in forcing a woman to bear a child conceived as a result of rape or incest, he's forcing her to accept that his religious beliefs are the right ones, even in the language he uses about the child being a "gift from God" - albeit a broken one.

I totally admit that, anytime a pregnancy be a result of rape or incest, the child is the true innocent in all of this, but so, also, is the woman who, if Santorum had his way, would be forced to carry the child to term, forced to go into labour and give birth. Some women very well may hold Santorum's belief and be able to do this. I applaud their fortitude and their courage for choosing to do this.

But one man's (or woman's) medicine is another's poison, and for many women who have become pregnant because of these crimes, the pregnancy is a vivid reminder of what happened to them. A child should be conceived in love, and if a woman feels, under the circumstances of rape or incest, that she cannot carry to term and deliver this child because of the instances surrounding its conception, she should also have the choice to terminate such a pregnancy.

When I was raised in the Catholic Church, one of its basic premises was the sanctity of life. Rick Santorum wants to protect life until birth, but Rick Santorum also believes in the pre-emptive bombing of Iran and the continuation of the death penalty.

There is something mightily incongruent here, and this man is dangerous for America's future.

You can watch the creepy interview below (shudder):-

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