Did Rick Santorum Really Use ‘Race Card’ in Critiquing Obama’s Abortion Stance?
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Liberals and many in the media are criticizing former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, R-Penn., for playing the “race card” during comments he made analyzing President Barack Obama’s stance on abortion.
Santorum told CNSNews Thursday that he found it “almost remarkable” that a black man like Obama would want to deny legal recognition for the human rights of an unborn child. Santorum’s comments came just after he noted his agreement with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who argued in his 1963 letter from Birmingham Jail that “a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God…”
CNSNews also notes that Santorum’s comments stemmed from a one-hour and forty-minute interview in the context of “a discussion about the advocacy of natural law by the first-century-B.C. Roman senator Cicero, the Founding Fathers’ belief in a God-given natural law–which Santorum said he shared–and the natural law’s application to contemporary policy issues.” Santorum used America’s past laws that allowed slavery as an example of an immoral policy that violated the natural law and needed to be changed.
Nevertheless, the Huffington Post dubbed Santorum’s comments a “racially-charged attack” on Obama.
“The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the constitution?” he said. “And Barack Obama says no. Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.’”
HuffPo characterized Santorum’s comments as “clumsy” and mischaracterized his sentiment, claiming he “seemed to suggest that it was objectionable for Obama to be pro-choice because he was black.”
Santorum‘s comments also raised the eyebrows of anchors at ABC News who wondered what effect Santorum’s “interesting” comments would have on his chances as a potential 2012 GOP nominee for president.
Other media outlets, including Politico, National Journal and the Daily Beast, also accused Santorum of playing the “race card.”
By Thursday evening, the Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell released a statement publicly defending Santorum’s comments and accusing the media of working to undermine conservative thought:
This has nothing to do with a supposed “race card.” This isn’t even just about Rick Santorum. The media whirlwind whipped up on these accusations are nothing more than the continuation of an ugly and dishonest attempt to distort, delegitimize and damn conservative principles and conservative leaders.
Anyone who actually watched this interview can see that Santorum paralleled what many pro-life leaders have compared in the past. Just ask Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Day Gardner, Rev. Childress or any number of other black leaders who have also called abortion the civil rights issue of our day.
It’s sad that many of these same outlets also failed to report news yesterday of the Philadelphia abortionist charged with the murder of 1 woman and 7 babies born alive and then killed with scissors. It doesn’t get more gruesome than that. But that story doesn’t threaten liberal ideology, so I guess it’s just not news.
Santorum does threaten liberal ideology, so they create a false controversy — and call it news.
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southernloyalty
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:47pmThese easy way to win against liberals is to ignore anything and everything they say. Act as if they do not exist. What doesn’t exist cannot harm you.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:25amThey can’t be ignored entirely. Their lies and misrepresentations must be
Report Post »exposed. Rick S. needs to stand up and be counted. Once he has
addressed their “lies” then we can drop it, ignore them, and stop fanning
the flame. Jeez these people make me literally sick to my stomach.
Socco
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 1:14pmNo SouthernLoyalty, that is not the answer. I’ve done that, and for the last 30 years they have infested the schools and universities like a plague. And what do we do? We march our children right into their waiting arms.
We will not go back to sleep.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:39pmGood for him…The truth hurts the progressives!
Report Post »nptden
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:37pmHe will never be a GOP candidate. He’s too stupid…Allen West should be the candidate. The lefties won’t be able to play any race card….I believe hard working black Americans would follow him. Of course the ACORN blood-suckers will stay with the left. But they are a minority.
Report Post »nmontague
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:20pmI don’t see how he is possibly playing the race card. The race card centers on using race to make oneself or someone else a victim. He didn’t make anyone a victim there.
Report Post »BigPaulie
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:05pmOf course he didn’t. More baseless charges from the ridiculous left.
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:52pmI say all the progressive commies can take a flying leap ! He was saying nothing that could in anyway be construed as racist ! It is the way the left is working things, if you dont like yomama and his policies then your a racist !! Well horse crap ! We are Americans and have the damn right and the obligation to speak out against anything that is hurting America !
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:50pmWho needs a “Pravda” when we have ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBE and NY Times, Washington Post, etc, etc. They do what communist media did back in the old Soviet days: LIE, DENIGRATE, MAKE UP FACTS and whatever it might take to destroy political opponents. The reason LEFTISTS ALWAYS resort to such tactics is because they cannot win the debate honestly. Instead they must rely on underhandedness!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:47pmRightpolitically – Excellent point. We are slowly loosing our free press. Hopefully, the citizens of our country are stronger of mind than the communist propaganda machine.
Report Post »hikinggussie
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:41pmSantorum is a great conservative…..he has a point…..how could anyone truly support such a bad thing like abortion – there may/may not be conditions where it is necessary, but certainly it should not be rampant. We all need to lean more towards life, instead of getting rid of the unborn.
Report Post »PlanetXenu
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:39pmhe was talking about the irony of a black man (ancestors were slaves and “not considered people”) saying who is or is not a poeple. unless, of course, you really NEED an hour and forty minute long interview to clear that up. I”m starting to see that this website is just the opposite of Media Matters.
:( Blaze… I thought you were different! he took a religious issue and turned it into a race issue, then YOU GUYS are trying to point out that it was originally a religious issue… well OBVIOUSLY IT WAS A RELIGIOUS ISSUE (“was” being the keyword there). in context…stiiiillll racist.
Report Post »portague
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:44pmnot racist and even black people have come to the same conclusion
Report Post »PlanetXenu
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:50pmis too! :)
Report Post »portague
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:08amNow thats a silly response :P
Report Post »ECCLESIASTES10-2
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:35pmWDAWG–You give up your color and your political affiliation by your username & your posts. Blacks are the ones that keep the division alive in this country. Their culture, music, ebonics, etc. tell us they have no intention of mending the racial divide. Blacks are the most racist people in this country. “KILL THE CRACKAS AND THEIR CRACKA BABIES” BTW WHAT4—He didn’t comprehend the word “context”
Report Post »sandyn
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:33pmI am thinking the abortion doctor got the low profile because he was black. One had to look hard to find a photo. In the real world he is who he is, in the lame stream media it doesn’t fit with their vision.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:36pmHe gets a pass. If he is Black AND a Muslim he gets a double pass.
Report Post »civilunrestnow
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:30pmover 90% of blacks sin by proxy when they vote for Democrats. Many blacks claim to be Christian, but living in the spirit is the direct opposite of sinning by proxy. Anyone who upholds the Democrat agenda of abortion on demand has committed murder in the eyes of God and shall be judged as such. Although the liberals don’t want to hear it (mainly because most don’t believe in God)
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:34pmAnyone with a D next to their name cannot separate themselves from the issue. Guilt by association, but that’s between them and God.
Report Post »coreypaul
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:25pmSantorum says he was surprised that Obama would want to deny legal recognition for the human rights? Huh, funny, isnt that how all conservative Christians want to be able to treat gays, Muslims and all other non-conservative Christians?
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:48pmLegal recognition for Gays, Moslems-blahblahblah.
Report Post »I did not know Happy people needs legal recognition? Unhappy folks are not demanding legal recognition.
In fact, anyone can be a queer.It’s strictly their choice. One does not needs government permission to have same sex sex or live the abomination lifestyle.
Actually, Queers are now an officially government protected species. Can’t have any more government recognition than that.
As for Moslem, why do they need legal recognition? Is someone or others telling them they ARE NOT Moslems?If they are Moslems, they are Moslems, That’s just what they are. Unless they want to convert to Judaism,Christianity or Hinduism etc. But what da hey. It’s their heads.
Moslems have business all over the US. In fact many of them are in the convenience store bidniz. Many of them owns chains of bidnizes.hell! there are literally thousands of Mosques across the country. We can build even one Church in Saudi Arabia.
What U talking bout Willis?
spirited
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:14pmPresident Obama made reference to John Boehner‘s ’color’,
and said that “The police acted stupidly”
There was already a beer summit about that “teachable lesson”?
Aren’t we post color yet????
>Now, can we please take Washing on out of the box!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:14pmMore hate speech from the liberal media and Leftists. Gotta make a conservative look bad at all costs, because the Progressives certainly don’t look good!
Report Post »PlanetXenu
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:13pmtest
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:11pmRick Santorum is another gaffe-tastic politician. I understand what he mean, I just wish he had expressed it more carefully.
Reagan was great because he could communicate.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:25pmExactly! Right analogy, but the wrong man to apply it to. Hussein Obama is not descended from African Slaves, he does not share that experience. Which is yet another thing that makes him a fraud. That, and being a lawyer.
Report Post »MightyMouth
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:08pmSantorum has more brains and moral compass than the whole of ABC news combined!
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:17pmThats still not saying much. Just saying…
Report Post »orcainohio
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:03pmSantorum is a good man and is exactly right on the issue . An american person is created every time a human egg is fertilized and should be protected by all our might.
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:59pmThe marxists panties are in such a wad at this stage, if a conservative happen to make flatulence, (Ok, to hell w/ PC,) blow a fart during a TV interview , they (marxists)will sniff it and saiy it had tinges of racism in it.
Report Post »The marxists have had their arses handed to them in the last election, now they are desperate as hell.
BTW I just caught Herman Cain on Hannity. I think he will run. He can’t announce as yet or lose his job.
That would somthing to see,A true American kicking the moslem marxist Hussein’s arse in a debate.
Then Hannity or Greta will have Ruuuuudeee on tomorrow to possible announce his candidacy.
Oh, Um, Rudeeeee, don’t do it. You,Mitt, Newt and Huck can fergitboutit.Ya’ll go fishing or have a hoe-down w/ the Huckster.
Leave it this time to true cons.
TumbleBumble
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:58pmThe question asked was ‘What’s a comment like this going to do to (Santorum’s presidential run)?”
I say, it scores a whole bunch of points with me! If he keeps talking like this, without apology, he’ll have my vote.
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:51pmoh yea….got to be pc no cross hair or anything that might be from ARIZONA
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:50pmGlenn Beck says to shoot people in the head in his own words. Not mine, his!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcvbw6ExTQ&feature=player_embedded
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:58pmah poor you…………….there is this little thing called context………….try using it troll
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:00pmBeck has a good point.
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:03pmHahaha…. Thanks @PSYCHOSIS. You should tell that to your coward idle Glenn Beck!
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:06pmare you voulenteering WDAWG??
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:08pm@WHAT4 No thanks…. I dont like being in the presence of White Trash like yourself!
Report Post »portague
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:10pmI think he understands context and even when you listen to the whole sound bits he plays he not wrong. Where as that line you point to glenn used and Santorum when in context had no ill will. You might want to go work on that wdawg
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:11pmI saw that show, the WHOLE thing. Beck never tells anyone to shoot anyone else in the head. You have to do better than that. If you have no viable facts to back up your charges then please stop bringing the charges. Your attempt to make Beck appear to be an agitator or in some way violent is pathetic and an epic fail. He calls for nonviolent solutions constantly, maybe you should watch once in a while before you try to condemn him.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:12pmYou really want to be corrected on EVERY story…. you keep posting your lies and people keep correcting you … SLOW LEARNER? … short bus?
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:18pm@CATB I don’t need to be corrected. Thanks though. I just like to watch Blazers waste their time on me. Which seems to be working very well!
Thank you everyone who responded. And would like to add that after reading your comments I’ve decided I am in favor of abortion in cases of incest!
Report Post »davuf
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:46pmWow. So the show where Glenn Beck tells the politicians to watch out for the communists is hate speech?
I understand now. We have to burn all books. The telescreen will tell us everything we need to know. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia…
Report Post »Miser
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:09pmYou tried that same exact spin trick in a different article and it didn’t work. Learn from your mistakes.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:09pmWdawg
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:18pm
@WDAWGI don’t need to be corrected. Thanks though. I just like to watch Blazers waste their time on me. Which seems to be working very well!
Thank you everyone who responded. And would like to add that after reading your comments I’ve decided I am in favor of abortion in cases of incest!
Good thing your cousin-daddy wasn’t in favor of it, or you would never have been born. May you be blessed accordingly to what is in your heart.
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:04am@SOCCO Did the mental hospital test too many drugs on you today?
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 1:17amno wdawg i think glenn said you should do us a favor and shoot yourself in the head, use that unregistered/stolen gun commonly owned by you ********
Report Post »j_man
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 7:40pmForgive him for he know not what he does.
Report Post »We have to nudge my people (everyone) into understanding that nearly everyone in this country is a conservative. Illegal immigrants are Catholics who want to work. Then listen to our music; “Ima hustler” that’s pro capitalism, Dear Mama, pro-family values, and at the award shows first thing they will do is thank God for blessing them by taking them out the ghetto (there are no atheist in a foxhole.) They way we nudge is to have real immigration reform I.e. no walls, no deportation, instead assimilation learn the language, stop waving that Mexican flag, and no benefits. And repeal the war on minorities a.k.a. the war on drugs.
bikerr
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:47pmBy “anything” I mean legal.
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:05pmso sad that we have to cover our ass, in things that are said! I understood what you were saying BIKERR, the liberals dont speak the same english however!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:46pmAnything that helps stop abortion is a good thing.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:57pmNow the pro coice crowd will have something to jump up and down about. Of course abortion is nothing short of a mother murdering her child and it must be stopped. I wonder how much admiration planned parenthood would get from Obama and his followers if they knew Margaret Sanger had the genocide of blacks in mind when she was pushing the abortion clinics.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:02pmAmen to that. This is what you expect from liberals when a man of principle makes a stand.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:08pmSo it is okay to vote for someone because he is black .. but it is not okay to say that he is black?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:15pm@CATB –
Report Post »Hush your mouth, now; you’re confusing the Progressives!
cheezwhiz
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:23pmCatB
So it is okay to vote for someone because he is black .. but it is not okay to say that he is black?
Report Post »—————–
Its not the color of his skin that bothers me, its the color of his heart …..since he thinks its above his pay-grade to know when life begins. But its his business to decide who and how we should all live or not
godlovinmom
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:36pmwhy do conservatives continually go on these shows…it always backfires on them…personally who cares what their side thinks anyway…from what i’ve heard so far…its a bunch of garbage…some conservatives want to reach out via these shows…ie…glen beck on the today show…they never get it anyway…its not like their slogan is fair and balanced…
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:43pmOf course he didn’t, that’s silly. He was just talking. It wasn‘t like the analogy was something he’d thought through and realized would be a polarizing statement that would get a lot or press and controversy. He was just talking off the top of his head. He wasn’t trying to provoke the racial divide in the United States to get extra attention in the press.
Report Post »davuf
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:43pmI’m actually in favor of abortion, but I say do it right. If you want an abortion you must have a judge hear the case and rule. The issue is whether someone can be deprived of life limb or property without due process. To have an abortion there must be due process to defend the unborn child. This would be an excellent system if augmented with adoption so that anyone who wants to step up to raise the child may do so and save that child’s life.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:47pmOnly a totally biased, mentally ill liberal/socialist/communist would misconstrue what Rick said…paraphrasing it: He basically said that Obama, being a black man, should certainly understand how wrong it was to not recognize what constitutes a “human life”…BECAUSE…blacks were NOT CONSIDERED EQUAL humans (were considered INFERIOR) and thus were used as sub-humans and slaves! Once ALL MEN were considered to be HUMAN BEINGS…slavery was abolished!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:51pmBy the way…He’d have my vote!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 10:52pmAbortion rates are higher among minorities than it is for whites…..it is a race issue in that regard. Abortion remains a MORAL issue, for the most part. It is cruel and barbaric….it is also sinister….“reproductive rights” cannot be the real reason that Progressives fight so hard to keep it legal. I truly believe that it goes to the Progressive/Enviromentalist ideaology of population control….if more minority babies are murdered than white babies, so be it….just as long as the population decreases. Barak Obama was not elected because he is black. He was elected because he is a Progressive. That is why he can praise Planned Parenthood for “all of the good work” that they do.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:02pm@SHOWTIME …. (wink)
@CHEEZWHIZ .. I couldn‘t care less either about anyone’s color .. but as long minorities continue to try to “use” their color to promote their causes .. I think we are within our rights to note it.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:02pmeven though im on the right I realy question some people who dont think anything should be done about ectopic pregnancy and other life threatening complications. would you let your wife die right infront of you?
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:07pmBut at the same time i dont realy care one way or the other about abortions. Just like people being gay, in the end its between them and god. not my business
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:09pm@SONDERGARD
I have not heard anyone opposing medically needed procedures to save the mothers life. That would come under gynecology and not obstetrics.
But if you get into “mothers” mental health etc .. you are in a slippery area and many on the pro side try to say that if the mother “feels” she wants to not have the baby that is a medical reason .. that is ridiculous.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:13pm@HillBillySam1…You had me with you up until you said that Obama was not elected because he is black…I totally disagree with you…He was elected because he is black AND he is Progressive/Socialist/Communist…I honestly believe that Hillary wanted more than anything to be president…AND SHE AND BILL HAD THE POWER TO PULL IT OFF! (Bill and Hillary are an enormous threat to this Republic…but that is a discussion for another day)…BUT…I believe that the “power elite” (Soros and Company) chose him because he could guarantee the Black vote…AND HE GOT THE BLACK VOTERS TO COME OUT IN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS! Every black person that I know voted for Obama…and so did Hispanics…
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:14pmRick Santorum is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. His analogy is only false, simply because hussein obama is not descended from African slaves. Right analogy, but wrong person to apply it to.
Report Post »AngryMobOfOne
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:26pmThe point Sen. Santorum makes is a valid one, except for the fact that Obama shares no heritage with American blacks. A thoughtful descendant of slaves would have a problem with any human being treated as less than human, especially when codified in law. The same point could be made of Jews who have any regard for the dehumanization and suffering of Jews in the Holocaust.
The Left have spent decades trying to whitewash the history of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. She was a negative eugenicist, and therefore, by definition, a racist, who believed, like Hitler, that the “unfit” should be culled from the gene pool. She wrote that her goal was “to create a race of thoroughbreds”. Members of groups declared by Sanger as “human weeds”,“reckless breeders”,”spawning… human beings who never should have been born” should certainly take pause before joining her cause.
Report Post »Echad
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:35pmWhy do the abortionists call themselves pro-choice and people who believe in the sanctity of life are called anti-abortion?
Report Post »Shouldn’t we call it pro-life and the abortionists pro-death!
Sondergard
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 11:38pmMy wife had an ectopic pregnancy and after many trips to urgent care because of pain and bleeding one dr said congratulations your pregnant. we knew something was wrong and the dr said if you want an abortion you will have to go to planned parenthood. so that night we ended up in the er and she had to have a tube removed right before it ruptured. any later and she would have died. we were wanting a child but it was not ment to be I guess but the doctors incompetence pissed me off and almost took my wifes life.
now about the mental health being a medical reason, that is just a BS excuse to get tax funding i am against my tax dollars being wasted on it. However if someone wants to go pay their own money to get their child vacuumed out of them, that is between them and god. not my business as long as they keep their baby vac away from my unborn child
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:07amHow dare a conservative use the race card!!! Thats reserved for liberals only.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:12am@Echad: Excellent point!….However, “pro-death“ would just not fit the ”spin” they need to further their BS!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:21am@Socco: Awh, come on now…talk about “splitting hairs”…isn’t that just what the Progressives have done to create the discourse that exists today? Isn’t that the type of nit picking that keeps the debate always on the “fringe” so that they never have to deal with the actual “core” issues…Besides, not “allowing” Obama to be an “authentic” African-American would just open an entirely different can of worms!
Also, I’d rather have an “honest” not the sharpest knife in the drawer than a “dishonest” Quasi Harvard Law Professor in our WH!
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:22amDuring the Presidential debates, Obama sidestepped the abortion discussion by not revealing to the American viewers what his long-standing position on abortion was because he would have lost many black voters. Now that his position is known, there must be another misdirecting of attention about this issue because his presidential campaign is underway for the next election. And, he is likely to lose many votes over this issue and his ardent support of homosexuals. Actually, it will be those who support Obama that will be playing the race card, it’s one of the few they have.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 1:01am@ CatB
.. I couldn‘t care less either about anyone’s color .. but as long minorities continue to try to “use” their color to promote their causes .. I think we are within our rights to note it.
_________
What bothers me is that during the campaign, the MFM wanted us to focus on the blackness of his skin so that they could cover up the blackness of his heart.
Report Post »And since the campaign never stopped , the MFM is still deploying the same tactics.
CatB
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 1:30am@SOUNDERGARD
What you got was a bad doctor .. he should have done an ultra-sound or sent your wife where she could get an ultra-sound, unfortunately many doctors fail to LISTEN to the patient…. I know about bad doctors I was in a Womans Clinic at one of the Top Teaching Hospitals in the country and they were fooling around with a cancer positive pap-smear (another test come back in two weeks.. and again) … I took it into my own hands (so to speak) and found a doctor who took it seriously, I was in his office the next day after calling and explaining what was going on .. he had me to an oncologist within days .. if I hadn’t “pushed” for my own care .. I probably would be dead now. I am glad that your wife was saved … People need to know .. NEVER fear to question a doctor or if you are not getting listened to– find a doctor who will.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:03amAny negative statement or remark in relation to someone’s political and moral principles, if that person happens to be black, makes you a racist. Personally, I agree with Rick Santorum that any black man should be against abortion. Slavery was permitted for several hundred years in America for the same reason abortion is permitted today. Blacks simply weren’t ” full human-beings ” and therefore could be enslaved, beaten and killed at the whim of their owners.
Report Post »Pro-abortionist use the same argument to legally kill thouands of little babies each year in America, saying that a fetus is not a ” human-being ” and therefore can be legally killed or disposed of in the most inhuman manner. It’s only logical for a black president to be pro-life and adamantly opposed to abortion at any time of prenancy. if he or she is anti-slavery in their politics.
Untameable-kate
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 7:42amOn the other hand, it’s a pay now or pay later choice though. All those unwanted black fetuses are cheaper to deal with than unwanted welfare babies-children-adults.
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 7:51amRick Santorum on Bill Bennetts Morning in America Today (I listen on KNZZ AM1100) Has had a better than average program He has documented others who have said similar things without his coaching.
Report Post »Ronald Reagan, Jesse Jackson(when he was prolife), He had credibly defended himself. That would be a radio transcript worth having a copy of. And one that ought be taught in any political science class, or civics(do they still teach such? Or Journalism. Hey he is in top form.
TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:58amPeople do not have the “right” to terminate a pregnancy. The rights of one individual end where the rights of another individual begins. This includes the rights of unborn children. This is especially true for those able to survive outside the womb.
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:26amLiberal media must latch onto any comment to generate outrage and discredit conservatives.
Report Post »If an obvious opportunity to attack conservative ideas doesn’t present itself, then they will manufacture it!
Watch for the attacks to become more and more farfetched and outrageous.
smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:42amWhat makes you think plan parenthood is anything more than a way to control ghetto population.
Report Post »It’s eugenics packaged in a women rights issue. 5 minority children are aborted for every one white child….hmm looks like Sanger got some of what she wanted.
HillBillySam1
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:51am@AZDEBI
Report Post »I agree with your points. My point was that the Democrats saw Barak Obama as the “reliable” Progressive. I believe that there is a lot of mistrust by liberals towards the Clintons because of how Bubba was willing to compromise during part of his Presidency. Wasn’t it odd that Hillary declared herself a “early 20th century Progressive” during the Democratic primaries? I believe that she was trying to re-assure the Progressive base that she was willing to fight for their ideaology. Remember early in the Healthcare debate, many Progressives felt “abandoned” by Obama because he wasn’t fighting hard enough in their estimation? There is no doubt that no one will be nominated by the Democrats unless he/she is a hard-core Progressive. I believe that Obama recieved the nomination more out of a “trust” issue because the Clintons certainly had the political machine geared up for Hillary. That is why she shed the tears….all of those best-laid plans gone to waste. No doubt electing a black man as President gave validation and cleansed the guilt of the white liberals, but I still think that it all came down on who they thought that they could trust more.
VoteBushIn12
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 11:08amSomeone answer me this question.
If unborn babies are considered “living” (both in the eyes of God and the eyes of the state) then why does a child not get a SSN until birth. And why is someone life (as defined on gravestones, obituaries, and death certificates) defined as from birth until death?
If you really want to make the case that life starts at conception then we need to start issuing Social Security Numbers to fetuses in the womb.
As far as I am concerned, you are not alive until you can live on your own. Until such a time the mother has much right to remove it as she does to remove her own kidney.
Report Post »jeffile
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 12:11pmPlease. The term is pro abortion not pro choice.
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