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To: LadyDoc
Audio of Rick's entire speech (about 30 min.) can be linked to from here. It's a beautiful and charming speech relating how he grew into his faith and social conservatism during the fight over partial birth abortion. He actually was a fiscally oriented conservative before he was a social conservative. It helps you understand how and why he became the man he is now. And makes you confident he won't flip flop in the future; life has forged him into the leader we need now. It's worth a listen for any of his fans or any one with open minds willing to listen.

Rick, IMHO, comes off best in longer speeches and interviews when he can go into more depth. He's got plenty! When, at 20 weeks gestation an ultrasound showed his son had a 'fatal birth defect' they didn't accept that but chased down experts and actually had in utero fetal surgery and corrected it! Such surgery would have been in its infancy then and very rare. Alas, Karen's uterus became infected as a complication, she became life threateningly ill, went into labor prematurely and their child, Gabriel, only lived two hours. I'd only know bits of the story, not including the fetal surgery, until hearing this speech. The families reaction to this tragedy is all the more understandable when you realize it was a double tragedy, with an alas fleeting miraculous save interposed. To be happy and optimistic and full of faith after first Gabriel and now Bella makes him worthy of Job. He can take whatever the world can throw at him, he's already lived the Old Testament.

113 posted on 02/22/2012 12:05:29 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
A day before this controversy erupted, I found the Ave Maria site and they have santorum's speech there (which I haven't gotten around to downloading...internet problem here in the Philippines).

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santorum is on the list.

114 posted on 02/22/2012 12:12:37 AM PST by LadyDoc
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