My response to "rape is a gift" Rick Santorum
Here's a petition to ignorant control-freak Rick Santorum regarding his remarks about pregnancy and rape: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/dont-punish-rape-with-pregnancy/
My response (somewhere in the petition many pages back and I've edited it a bit since):
Let's have a closer look at the men behind the war on women, shall we Mr. Santorum?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/the-men-behind-the-war-on_n_1069406.html
It's unfortunate Mr. Santorum, that you’d rather be right than be compassionate. That you'd rather be right than solve problems. That you would rather oppose abortion than prevent it. And you do NOT prevent it by outlawing it. In fact, a recent study has shown that in countries who outlaw abortion, the actual rate of abortion INCREASES.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/abortion-rates-higher-countries-illegal-study_n_1215045.html
As far as what's medically safer for women (not that you care about that), it's actually medically safer for a woman to have an abortion then to go through childbirth.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/01/24/abortion-safer-than-giving-birth-study-says/
Here's a very enlightening article about how conservative Christianity's obsessions actually *promote* abortion:
http://www.alternet.org/story/153869/3_Ways_Conservative_Christianity%27s_Obsessions_Promote_Abortions/
A quote from one of the above articles:
"The most effective way to reduce abortion is to de-stigmatize sexual education, de-mythologize virginity, and invest in broad access to the most effective contraceptives available. In the highly secular Netherlands, that formula has knocked abortion down to 7 per 1000 women annually, one third the U.S. rate. So why does the Religious Right keep their focus on restrictive laws instead of contraceptive access? Why do they promote person-rights for zygotes, in contradiction to the very essence of personhood? Why do they oppose medically accurate sex ed? Why do they pledge to defund Title X family planning?"
I'll tell you why Mr. Santorum. It's because you care more about being "right" than about human rights. You care more about controlling women than about compassion. You are not interested in PREVENTING abortion, Mr. Santorum. You are only interested in opposing it. And those are two very different things with two very different motives behind it.
You cannot control the behavior of other people when it comes to personal decisions like abortion, as vehemently as you may try. There is ONE person's behavior you can control. YOURS. And you need to talk to a psychiatrist about your pathological need to control others' personal decisions.
Isn't it odd that once a baby is detached from a woman's body, that you no longer care about that baby anymore? It's only when the baby is attached to a woman's womb that you "care" about that baby. Isn't it interesting how you parasitically attach yourself to a woman's womb and her physical ability to reproduce as a means of controlling her?
Because that's what this is about: Controlling women. It's not about "protecting innocent lives". If you cared about "innocent lives", you'd be railing against the millions of "innocent lives" that were taken in Iraq, many of them children and babies. If you cared about "innocent lives", you'd be promoting programs to end child poverty and child abuse here in the U.S.
But you don't . . . you don't because you don't care about "protecting innocent lives". You care about controlling women. You care about opposing abortion, NOT preventing abortion. You just want control, not prevention.
You are only hurting your alleged "cause", as the facts and recent research clearly show. You will never win the control you crave over women, Mr. Santorum. Never. And you need help for your pathological obsession. Please get it soon.
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and people need to call them on their crap. I really wish somebody would do a primetime segment on this. All these articles, facts and research and all these inconsistencies in their pretentious bullshit arguments need to be called out. 
Of course I know it'll never happen.
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How could having an abortion after being raped be any more emotionally traumatizing/scarring for a woman than knowing you're carrying your rapist's baby and, more importantly, that that same person that raped you is now "linked" with you vis a vis the child for the rest of your life? Santorum obviously doesn't understand the wider implications of what he is saying. There's more involved with having children than just gestating them in a woman's body and delivering them but I'm sure that people like Santorum are either unwilling and/or unable to understand it.
The psychological trauma these children experience when they someday find out that they were conceived via rape and that their "fathers" were loathsome sexual offenders of the worst sort has to be devastating (and some people might think the worst thing you would ever have to tell a child is that they are adopted). Is Ricky also in favor of these "Daddy Rapists" visiting and/or having legal rights to these children when they (eventually) get out of jail (if they are even prosecuted in the first place)? After all, he and his ilk believe in the innate supremacy of "intact" two parent heterosexual families, right? Has he ever met any of these children? Has he ever met any women whom say that they are "proud" of the fact that they decided to have their rapist's baby?
