Rick Santorum
Old Boys' Club Dictating "Wisdom" on Contraceptive Coverage?
Rachel Maddow plays a video of Rick Santorum speaking to a conservative website saying contraception is "not okay." She discusses the absurd fact that this point of view is the current norm amongst GOP candidates, not the obviously furthest right-wing view, as it has been in the past.
Rick Santorum Advances the Lie That Abortions Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
Said Santorum on Fox News Sunday: "I don't believe breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization that does abortions where you've seen ties to cancer and abortions." There is factually no known link between breast cancer and abortion, but perhaps, in the words of Jon Kyl, this was "Not intended to be a factual statement." [via HuffPost Politics]
Komen Messes Up, Primary Gets Uglier, and MRAs Analyzed
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
February 5, 2012 - 11:38pm (Print)
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Santorum: Marriage Only Exists for the Purpose of "Continuing Society"
This is an interview with Rick Santorum last April (2011), before his presidential campaigning began. Here, during an interview on gay rights, his socially conservative views on issues like gay marriage, DADT, DOMA, abortion and contraception all come together at one single core belief: that the institution of marriage exists for the purpose of reproduction alone.
America: Whose "Moral Enterprise?"
by mycultlife, My Cult Life
January 26, 2012 - 11:46am (Print)
The men who lobby against women's rights, partnered with candidates like Santorum who literally believe that "America is a moral enterprise" (in effect, America is a fundamentalist Christian moral enterprise) will do anything within their power to ensure that their personal religious beliefs make their way into the legislation that affects everyone, regardless of their beliefs.
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Rick Santorum: A Baby Created Through Rape is a Gift
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that female rape victims who become pregnant through the ordeal should "make the best of a bad situation" and welcome their "horrible gift from God." He said that he would even urge his own daughter to have any child a rapist conceived in her.
Is Florida Turning Into an Anti-Abortion Primary?
Former Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Fla., discusses how important rolling back abortion rights might be to Florida Republicans.
Santorum: Baby Created in Rape Still a "Gift"
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
January 23, 2012 - 10:14am (Print)
Asked whether he would refuse to allow his own daughters to obtain abortions if raped, Santorum explains that despite the facts of the conception, the baby is still a "gift."
A Setback in Texas, and the GOP Primary Heats Up
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
January 22, 2012 - 9:56pm (Print)
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Will Jim Bob Be Santorum's V.P.?
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
January 18, 2012 - 2:26pm (Print)
Those Duggars sure are spending a lot of time on the campaign trail.
