Why Rick Santorum would have killed my daughter
Submitted by Barracuda_Trader on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 01:01Next month, my daughter Ella will turn 11-years-old. She’s a beautiful girl, with blond hair and green eyes. She’s an amazing artist, a brilliant writer, and she can do the splits without even warming up.
And if I hadn’t had an amniocentesis, she would have died the day she was born.
Just over 11 years ago, I received a call from my obstetrician’s assistant to let me know that there was an anomaly in my recent blood test. “It’s probably just a testing error,” she assured me.
But when I returned the following week to have the blood test redone, the anomaly showed up again. There was a foreign antibody in my blood stream that shouldn’t have been there. I was six months pregnant, and up to that point my pregnancy had been completely normal.
Rather than turning to my local politician for prenatal advice, I followed the guidance of my obstetrician, who sent me to a perinatologist, who recommended I have an amniocentesis. Because he had a medical degree and years of experience treating pregnant women, I followed his recommendation.
http://open.salon.com/blog/sarah_gale/2012/02/19/why_rick_sa...
Santorum is definitely a "do what I SAY" - "not what I DO!"
And I do not feel it would be 'proper' for me to share what he and HIS wife decided re a difficult choice in THEIR personal lives. (And it was written by someone I believe to be reliable in news reporting.)
Regardless, I abhor his "sanctimonious" postion. If his holier-than-thou can roll off his tongue with the admonition that HE will be OUR ENFORCER, he is one dangerous Elitist.
Susie 4 Liberty
The president doesn't have
any authority to outlaw this type of procedure.
He's delusional
'Thinks he wants to "protect life" when he's rabidly pro-war.
That is one seriously f***ed up individual.
I'm not aware of the specific
I'm not aware of the specific comments Santorum has made on the morality of this procedure, but from a legal perspective, I think this is an unfair attack on him, and this lady would probably apply this argument to Ron Paul too. She essentially states that because Santorum doesn't believe employers should be required to pay for this procedure, that he would have "killed" her daughter. Ron Paul holds this same position (that employers should not be required to pay for health care). Of course, she doesn't realize that health care would be a lot cheaper without all the government intervention, and health benefits come at the expense of wages (as an employer is concerned with the total cost, and not simply monetary wage payments, when considering how many people to hire and how to compensate them)
Santorum is a health insurance lobbyist
His two biggest contributors are Blue Cross Blue Shield & High Mark.
He claims if people can test with amniocentesis, they will euthanize defective kids or unwanted gendered kids.
Gales states;
"Because according to him, tests that give parents vital information about the health of their unborn children are morally wrong."
In the context of these paragraphs;
If Rick Santorum had his way, I wouldn’t have been able to get that test, and she most likely would have died. Because according to him, tests that give parents vital information about the health of their unborn children are morally wrong. Though he has no medical training, and no business commenting on the medical decisions that women and their doctors make, he argues that such tests shouldn’t be provided, or that employers at least should be allowed to opt out of paying for them on “moral grounds.”
Eleven years ago, my husband and I had two kids and a mortgage, and like most young families we didn’t have $2,000 to pay for a test that my husband’s employer might object to on moral grounds.
So, while Mr. Santorum may think that his blowhard opinions about when and where women should be allowed to have medical tests is righteous, I say it’s ignorance.
In the Catholic church where I was raised, pride, arrogance and an overinflated sense of oneself were considered sins. But in Rick Santorum’s world they are virtues, and they make up the foundation from which he proclaims how other people should live their lives.
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Yeah, I agree Santorum's view
Yeah, I agree Santorum's view on amniocentisis is loony, my comment was directed at the part where the writer criticizes him for not supporting mandated employer-sponsored coverage
Ayatollah Santorum
Ayatollah Santorum
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