Rick Santorum Compared An African American To A Fetus

[DemocratSinceBirth]

How far down the primordial ooze do you have to go to find filth like him?

[Kali]

1. well, everybody was one once - any context or a link or

something else??? I have no clue about whatever this is.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Here

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133093474/santorum-slams-obama-for-abortion-stance

[badtoworse]

2. How about a link or some details?

FWIW, he considers a fetus to be a person with a full right to life. I can't think of any other context where a comparison might have any meaning.

[mmonk]

3. I call him worse things.

How far down the primordal ooze? Single cell organisms.

[LeftishBrit]

5. From what I could gather from his extremely confused and confusing remarks...

was that he was implying something like: 'African Americans were once treated as less than persons; therefore no African American should regard anything as less than a person - including a foetus'.

The point is of course that this requires accepting Santorum's view that a foetus *is* a person; otherwise no one should regard a dog, turtle, dandelion, pocket calculator, pebble or corporation as less than a person. (Actually I can think of dogs at any rate that are far more persons than Santorum will ever be!)

Actually, it's being charitable to say that Santorum regards *foetuses* in this way. He apparently regards fertilized eggs, which are far from being foetuses let alone persons, as having sacred personhood. By most medical definitions, conception includes implantation as well as fertilization; otherwise you'd have to say that God/Nature aborts about 70% of 'persons'.

You'd think that someone so concerned about the sacred human rights of a pre-implantation fertilized egg would worry about all the born people who get killed in wars, or die unnecessarily through poverty - but Santorum never seemed all that bothered about such issues.

[hughee99]

6. Ah, nevermind.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Joining him in the primordial ooze...

was/is Iain Duncan-Smith, former leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, and now the Secretary of Work and Pensions, subjecting poor, unemployed, or disabled people to Compassionate Conservativism: i.e. poverty is a dreadful thing; it's obviously caused by people making a lifestyle *choice* to be poor; therefore we should deter them from poverty by cutting benefits.

He is one of my most *hated* British politicians. Nevertheless, I was shocked to discover that he actually once co-authored an article with Santorum on 'A conservative vision of social justice', published in the Wall Street Journal in 2005. It doesn't seem possible to access the full article online any more; nonetheless there are a number of references to and quotations from it; e.g.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/commentators/2005/09/iain_duncan_smi.html

Ugh

Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh UGH!!!

[saras]

8. There's a good reason his family took the name Santorum

Google the term for more information. :evilgrin: