Opus Dei Santorum slams Romney for helping rape victims

[Chris]

St. Charles, Missouri (CNN) – Rick Santorum opened a new front Tuesday in his battle to paint Mitt Romney as moderate who sided with Democrats on key issues, accusing the former Massachusetts governor of mandating that hospitals provide emergency contraception to rape victims.

In an op-ed Tuesday, Santorum said that in December 2005, then Gov. Romney "required all Massachusetts hospitals, including Catholic ones, to provide emergency contraception to rape victims."

Opponents point to a law passed while Romney was governor of Massachusetts that required hospitals - including Catholic ones - to provide emergency contraception to rape victims.

A spokeswoman for the Romney campaign said he had vetoed the original bill. That veto was overruled by the state legislature.

Romney Communications Director Gail Gitcho pointed to the context that comes from the full "heart of hearts" quote.

"My personal view, in my heart of hearts, is that people who are subject to rape should have the option of having emergency contraception or emergency contraception information," Romney said in 2005, according to Gitcho.

Santorum slams Romney on contraception mandate for rape victims – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

 

[auditor0007]

Well at least Santorum isn't suggesting that rape victims should have to marry their rapists. Oh wait.....

 

[Chris]

Well at least Santorum isn't suggesting that rape victims should have to marry their rapists. Oh wait.....

 

[Lakhota]

Santorum has come a long way - toward radical Christian fundamentalism/Taliban insanity...

 

[Lakhota]

Santorum's self-actualization. He has arrived...

 

[Chris]

The three great evils in the world, the Catholic Church, Islam, and the Republican Party, all hate birth control.

They want to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

 

[Lakhota]

IMO, Santorum is religiously insane - or just plain insane.

Rick Santorum doesn't care when women die, unless it's his wife - National Anti-establishment | Examiner.com

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[ScienceRocks]

Looks like Santorum(George w Bush II) will be our next president. So you people better get used to it!

 

[Lakhota]

Looks like Santorum(George w Bush II) will be our next president. So you people better get used to it!

America ain't that crazy - yet.

 

[Chris]

Looks like Santorum(George w Bush II) will be our next president. So you people better get used to it!

Santorum is going to get stomped like a rat in the closet.

 

[oreo]

Well at least Santorum isn't suggesting that rape victims should have to marry their rapists. Oh wait.....

Santorum may sign an executive order to do just that. I have come to the conclusion that Rick Santorum is insane.

Here he is actually blaming the State of Mass. for the sexual child abuse committed by Catholic priests.

In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston’s liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese.

“Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture,” Santorum wrote. “When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.”

In a speech, Kennedy, D-Mass., called for Santorum to retract his remarks and apologize to the people of Boston and Massachusetts and the nation.

“The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say,” said Kennedy.
Robert Traynham, a spokesman for Santorum, said his boss recognizes that the church abuse scandal was not just in Boston, but all over the country.

Throughout the United States, sexual abuse by priests has cost the Catholic Church more than $1 billion. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has said that its records show 44 priests have been “credibly” accused of molesting minors since the 1950s.

Kennedy rips Santorum for abuse remarks - politics - msnbc.com

Rick Santorum is mentally UNFIT to be POTUS.

 

[oreo]

Santorum's self-actualization. He has arrived...

Man does that picture tell it all.

Here's another.

 

[auditor0007]

Santorum's self-actualization. He has arrived...

Man does that picture tell it all.

Here's another.

The only scary thing about Santorum is that a reasonable percentage of Americans agree with him.