I think its a story any self respecting conservative should stay the hell away from. I don’t know anything about it and don’t care to.
It’s creepy but, then again, all but Santorum and Bachmann on the Republican side straight scare me.
I find it hard to believe the hospital, any hospital, would allow them to take the corpse of the baby home. It is pretty disturbing. My nephew an his wife lost two babies at 6 months, each survived a day or less. They had both baptized, a funeral, burial, etc. I never heard they’d even considered taking the bodies home. I guess different families grieve differently.
Very very strange. Not a reason not to vote for him. But still, pretty disgusting if you ask me.
Kinda strange, but then I have never experienced the pain and suffering of losing a child ( thank the Lord) so who am I to judge what one would do in times like that?
While I fully understand it, I don’t think the electorate would.
Losing a child in birth is hard on family’s.
The slimes has to release this to cream a guy polling at 2%
This election is going to be brutal.
Ghoulish. That is all I can say about this.
Just dealing with grief from the loss of a loved one. Old school Italians often had viewing of the deceased at home. What scares moderates and liberal is his absolute certitude that Gabriel was a full member of the human family.
Would it make more sense if they put the body on a table in the parlor, then invited family and friends for a wake?
I think many will find this touching and sad.
“Bath-House” Barry supporters (The New York Times and it’s readers), on the other hand, will welcome this story of parents’ grief as a tool to try to beat down Santorum.
Supporters that consider Obama’s throwing abortion survivors into the trash while still breathing as “acceptable” couldn’t possibly relate to mourning the death of a newborn, in ANY fashion.
This is a very lengthy article and your excerpt was only a small part of it. I urge everyone to read the article in its entirety, even though it does require accessing the New York Slimes website. I have a more favorable opinion of Santorum having read it. As for the excerpt, I consider it a personal matter and will not pass judgement. I have never lost a child and so cannot relate.
Bizarre. At least they didn’t take the baby to the taxidermist.
I don’t think I would choose to do this, but it used to be customary to bring the deceased home, lay them out on their bed, and hold a wake, with family and friends.
I don’t see anything to criticize here, if they wanted to say farewell to their dead child at home.
In the modern world, people prefer to leave it to funeral homes and directors. But that is mostly because the modern world is unwilling to confront death, and wants someone else to deal with it.
Moreover, if Rick’s bereaved and grieving wife wished to do it this way, should he have denied her? I think not.
The Santorums lost a child. Imagine a political enemy trying to make mileage of that, and voila you’ve got the New York Times.
Who is acting the creepiest, the Santorums or the New York Times?
Why of course it would have to be the Santorums. The stately prestigious New York Times, the paper of record could never be judged to have no moral conscience whatsoever, to have stooped to the level of a craven animal closing in for the political kill, against two young people who had just lost a new baby.
Or could it?
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