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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSantorum Cites Racist Author To Defend His Views On ‘The Dangers Of Contraception’
At last nights GOP presidential candidates debate, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) was asked why hes promised to address the dangers of contraception in this country if elected president. In response, he cited a particularly unfortunate author:
"What I was talking about is, we have a society Charles Murray just wrote a book about this and its on the front page of the New York Times two days ago which is the increasing number of children being born out of wedlock in America, teens who are sexually active. What were seeing is a problem in our culture with respect the children being raised by children, children being raised out of wedlock, and the impact on society economically, the impact on society with respect to drug use and a host of other things, when children have children. And so, yes, I was talking about these very serious issues. and, in fact, as I mentioned before, two days ago on the front page of the New York Times, theyre talking about the same thing."
First of all, Santorums decision to justify his skepticism of contraception by citing the problem of unwed mothers is like something out of the Bizarro Planet. Here in the actual world, contraception is the solution to the problem of unplanned pregnancies, not the cause.
Likewise, Santourms decision to rely on Charles Murray is no less distressing. Murray co-authored The Bell Curve, which argues that black people score lower on IQ tests because they are genetically inferior to whites. To reach this conclusion, Murray relied on studies backed by the Pioneer Fund, whose original mission was to pursue race betterment for people deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/23/430916/santorum-cites-racist-author-to-defend-his-views-on-the-dangers-of-contraception/
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Santorum Cites Racist Author To Defend His Views On ‘The Dangers Of Contraception’ (Original Post)
SunsetDreams
Feb 2012
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. Rick is thowing his pointy hat into the ring
to run for Pope
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)2. "which is the increasing number of children being born out of wedlock in America, teens who are
sexually active"
Sounds like an argument FOR contraception, idiot.