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Santorum’s Anti-Woman Agenda
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Rick Santorum has quite a habit of saying offensive things about women, their health concerns, and their control over their own bodies.
He has stated his position on contraceptives- he’s against them.
His position on abortion is clear, too. He’s for banning it completely, even in the instance of rape. He considers a pregnancy that is the result of a rape to be a “blessing,” a turn-lemons-into-lemonades scenario.
His latest statements are yet more out of touch.
Rick Santorum has expressed his belief that prenatal care should not be required for employee health plans. Why? Because according to Santorum, prenatal care leads to abortions.
That’s right. Rick Santorum thinks that women should have no access to medication to keep them from getting pregnant. No right to terminate a pregnancy, even if they’ve been raped. And no access to the care that would show them if they or their baby’s life were in danger once they DID become pregnant.
In short, he wants women helpless and powerless in their own reproductive life. I imagine “terrified” is also a goal, if women are constantly terrified they might have an easier time holding that aspirin between their knees.
Welcome back to the 19th century, home of Rick Santorum.
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on February 24th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
This article does not completely cover the issue of abortion, women’s rights, and Rick Santorum. Rick Santorum does not believe in banning contraceptives, however, as a Roman Catholic, he rightly believes that it is wrong to use them, and that states should be free to ban them if they so choose. You are correct in saying that he opposes abortion. Life begins at conception, and abortion, in any case, no matter how the mother came to be pregnant. As you said yourself, “No access to the care that would show them if they or their BABY’s life were in danger once they DID become pregnant.” From the moment a baby is conceived, it is a human life. You are right in saying that women should be allowed to control their own bodies. But does controlling themselves allow them to control the life of their baby? Does rape justify the killing of a life? Because one crime has been committed, should another crime be committed, the murdering of an unborn baby? NO! This is absolutely wrong! Over 53 MILLION abortions have been preformed in the US since the Roe vs. Wade case legalizing abortion. More children are killed every day in the US than people were killed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. More children are killed EVERY YEAR than people were killed in all of America’s wars COMBINED! This is shocking! While the Holocaust, one of the greatest tragedies ever, involving the whole world in war, took the lives of 11 million people, America’s Holocaust, the killing of 53 million Americans, has gone unnoticed and not acted upon. How can we let this happen? We can’t sit idly by while the next generation of Americans is murdered, one by one! In fact, the origin of abortion and birth control services began with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Her main objective in providing these services was to eliminate the black race. One of her quotes is, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” The whole goal of abortion, to kill unwanted children and eliminate African Americans, is the reason why so many Americans strongly oppose it. Rick Santorum is one of those Americans. Instead of violating the rights of the mothers, Rick Santorum is aiming to PROTECT the rights of the child! Who can say that children do not have the right to life? We all as Americans, have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Doesn’t that include every American, even unborn ones? Who knows what those 53 million aborted babies would have done. They might have been doctors, presidents, scientists, ambassadors, politicians, and could have impacted the world, but their lives have been snuffed out by “the right to choose”. When do we ever get to choose whether someone else lives or dies? Women do have rights, according to Rick Santorum. They have the right to not have unplanned pregnancies. They can put their babies up for adoption. They have the right to choose many things. But they DO NOT have the right to choose whether their child lives or dies, planned or unplanned, wanted or not, disabled or not, the cause of rape or sex before marriage. How can we make our country great if we are in the middle of the worst Holocaust the world has ever known? How can we protect our citizens from other countries, but kill them off ourselves? How can we sleep at night knowing that thousands of babies are being murdered each day in the name of “the right to choose,” and that we are doing nothing to stop it! Rick Santorum will! He will take steps to stop this horror forever! By his actions and beliefs, he is taking action to protect both the rights of the mother and her baby! We should never be willing to vote for a candidate that would deny our babies the right to life. EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LIFE!
For more information about abortion, see this video:
http://180movie.com/
IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER!
on February 26th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Almost all of your comment is based on one fallacy. You wrote, “…as a Roman Catholic, he rightly believes…”
He BELIEVES that he is right in his belief, but it is still a BELIEF. Not a fact.
If all I have ever been taught regarding faith is correct, it takes faith to maintain a belief where there are no facts. Like for the existence of God, or the virgin birth, or creation. To believe is to have faith. Which means that you can believe that from the moment of conception, a fertilized egg is a human life. But that does not make it so.
And forcing your beliefs onto other people who do not share them- particularly when they simply are not backed by facts- is against the Constitution.
By your logic, if being a Roman Catholic is right, than Jews should all be forcibly converted or killed. And that women who are raped should be forced to marry their attackers. And that every Tarot card reader or crystal ball gazer should be burned at the stake.
We have freedom of religion in this country- one of the most important principals of our founding. And until there are facts that support a fertilized egg being a human life, there is no room for religious dogma to dictate how women must use their bodies when it comes to their reproductive life.
on February 28th, 2012 at 11:06 am
Your entire argument assumes that beliefs are never facts. Beliefs are often facts. If you believe in absolute truth, you will know that there is only one true system of beliefs. Just because Santorum has faith in something does not make it his opinion. To use your example, the God, the virgin birth, and creation are beliefs which must be accepted by faith, however they are also completely true and factual. Faith is believing in things that are true, that there is not evidence for. However, believing that a fertilized egg is a human life is not based on faith, it is a scientifically proven fact. There is evidence to support this, which changes it from an opinion to truth. If believing something does not make it a fact, then why believe anything? You are just deceiving yourself. However, the fact that someone believes something does not make in an opinion if it is true. Facts are facts no matter who believes them.
Also, Rick Santorum does not want to force his beliefs on everyone, he wishes to support them and carry them out, just as every other candidate does. No political candidate keeps his personal beliefs out of politics, but that does not mean that they are forcing them on others.
Also, I did not say that Roman Catholicism is right; I said that the Roman Catholic belief about conception is right. I am by birth, Jewish, and do not support or agree with all beliefs of Catholics, however, I do agree with them on the issue of abortion and human life. I also did not say that fortune tellers should be burned at the stake, or that women who are raped should marry their attackers. You are taking my argument to the extreme, and using it to say things that I do not believe in. We do have freedom of religion in America, but abortion is not a matter of religion, it is a matter of science and valuing human life. While women should be able to dictate how they use their bodies, they should not be able to dictate the rights of their baby.
Also, there are facts to support that a fertilized egg is a human life. From the day a baby is conceived, its body contains all its chromosomes and DNA. From the third week after conception, the baby’s heart begins to beat. The unborn child is not even a part of the mother’s body; it is a separate living being. The mother and baby do not share the same DNA, and often have different blood types. This clearly shows that he is not a part of the mother; he might not even be the same gender! Also, unborn babies begin to grow from the minute they are conceived. Scientists have never discovered anything that breathes, has a beating heart, and has brain waves, that is not alive, yet you are willing to classify unborn babies as not alive. If something does not have brain, heart, and lung movement, then you could properly classify it as dead, or nonliving, but something that does, is obviously a living being. Another important point is that you are reducing life to something that we should be able to control for our convenience. If we degrade and devalue human life, it will spread to other things, euthanasia, killing the terminally or mentally ill, and killing disabled people. If you are still not convinced, use the acronym SLED to compare unborn babies to newborn babies, whom I’m sure you believe are human beings.
Size: Does how big you are determine who you are?
Level of development: Are twenty-year-olds more human than five-year-olds, since they are smarter?
Environment: Does being in a house make you more or less of a person than someone outside of a house? Does being in his mother’s body make a child less human than a child outside of his mother’s body?
Degree of dependency: Does dependence upon another person determine your humanity? Is someone with Alzheimer’s or on kidney dialysis less of a person than they were before they contracted the disease?
If you look online, there are dozens of websites that clearly give scientific facts proving that a fertilized egg is a human life from the moment it is conceived. If you use clear and logical scientific reasoning, you cannot help but know that this is true. In fact, most pro-choice believers know that this is true, but refuse to believe it, because they cannot accept the facts.
http://www.mrconservative.com/2012/02/1903-19-facts-about-abortion/
http://www.abort73.com/
http://180movie.com/
on February 28th, 2012 at 11:47 am
“If you believe in absolute truth…”
Again, here is your great flaw.
Science does not believe in absolute truth. Science relies on continually testing and retesting theories, not in accepting them at their face value.
And science has never proven that a fertilized egg is a human life. It has only proven that a fertilized egg maintains the qualities that we consider, “life.” Not sentience, not humanity. In fact, science has provided us with a variety of tests to continually use on a fertilized egg, embryo, and fetus, in order to determine if it can in fact BECOME a human life.
Your arguments are entirely based on your beliefs as person of faith. Which is fine, but does not make them facts. They remain your beliefs.
Is an organelle that might one day become a heart ACTUALLY a heart? This is not a matter of science, it is a matter of philosophy. And theology.
Not of public policy or law.
on February 29th, 2012 at 9:39 am
Science does believe in absolute truth. They do not accept things at their face value, but after testing and retesting their theories, they can accept their conclusions as truth. According to your logic, we could say that although grass has the qualities of a plant, maintains the structure of a plant, and preforms the functions of a plant, it is not really a plant. We could say that it is a scientist’s opinion that grass is a plant, but that does not make it a fact. That is logical, but it IS a fact, which is why they believe it. Science does accept some things as facts, to move on to explaining more complex things. Some things ARE scientifically proven to be facts.
You said that my arguments are based on my beliefs, which does not make them facts. However, the reason that I believe them is that they ARE facts! I have thoroughly researched this, and all scientific evidence leads to the conclusion that a fertilized egg is a human life from the moment it is conceived. The mere fact that someone believes something does not make it an opinion. If you believe that your opinions are facts, then you believe in absolute truth.