Question About Santorum's Views on Contraception

02/16/2011 | self

[MiddleEarth]

Many contraceptives can also be abortifacients, making it so that the embryo cannot attach to the uterine wall and then the mother will miscarry.

[Perdogg]

I am pro-life, but this parsing of Rick Santorum is silly. At this end of the day, this election is going to be about the economy and our freedoms.

[donna]

You’d have to see the entire interview to understand what he said, and even then you’d have to wonder what they edited out.

[NoPinkos]

The underlying issue is whether someone trusts the people or thinks that they need a government shepherd. Rick is on the wrong side of that divide.

[MiddleEarth]

Oops, misread your question. Not every contraceptive is an abortifacient so I imagine he meant those forms. As a Catholic he should believe that contraceptives inhibit God’s involvement but that he cannot regulate those decisions.

[b4its2late]

Agreed!

[AnnGora]

“I am pro-life, but this parsing of Rick Santorum is silly. At this end of the day, this election is going to be about the economy and our freedoms.”

You are right, Perdogg. The MSM is going after the non-question contraceptive question to destroy all pro life candidates, particularly the Catholic ones: Rick and Newt.

Republicans should not be stupid enought to fall into this trap.

[Gator113]

Hey n00b,

If you’re looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you’re looking for trouble
Just look right in my face
I was born standing up
And talking back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
Because I’m evil, my middle name is misery
Well I’m evil, so don?t you mess around with me

Oh heck, I don’t know... Newt is my guy, well, so is Elvis. ;>)

GO NEWT GO—it’s about the survival of our country!!

[MiddleEarth]

So, he wouldn’t pass laws that curb non-abortifacient contraceptives, I imagine.

[donna]

It was always a state issue until federal judges started creating laws. If we are to survive, it must return to being a state issue.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

When women voters hear that contraception is even an issue for Rick, they will not vote for him. He will be lucky to get 40%. It would be a national blowout.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

He won’t be passing any laws on contraception since voters won’t give him that opportunity.

[MiddleEarth]

I, for one, am very happy Santorum’s actually done the research to find out that some forms of contraceptives could actually kill a newly formed baby. He sticks to his guns no matter how it may go over.

[joesbucks]

Geez. wish I were a n00b. Been here since around 96 or 98.

[Trailerpark Badass]

He won’t be passing any laws on contraception since voters won’t give him that opportunity.

Uh, the President won't be passing any laws unless and until Obama wipes his ass in public with the Constitution.

[Williams]

He meant birth control pills, etc., he did not mean the morning after abortion pill.

[MiddleEarth]

If you want to read about some of the contraceptives which can also cause early abortions, you can read about them here:

http://www.all.org/nav/index/heading/OQ/cat/Mzc/

[LibLieSlayer]

Rick said that he personally does not believe in contraceptives nor do he and his wife use them. He said that it goes against his Catholic faith and that his view is a private religious belief and that he thinks that contraceptives should be available for women who want to use them but that it is a personal private decision and that the government does not have the power to force anyone elses religious beliefs on others. I believe that Abortion is murder... I believe that the Constitution gives a fetus certain unalienable rights. I also do not want this fine Republic turned into a theocracy.

LLS

[Responsibility2nd]

In an interview in 2006, Santorum said: “I vote and have supported birth control because it is not the taking of human life.”

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Joe, are you shilling for Mitt? Why not print the truth? The entire quote.