What Santorum's Rigid "Morality" Leads To

It's getting really hard to keep up with the insanity pouring from the piehole of ignorant theocratic bully Rick Santorum. Whether proclaiming that birth control leads to immorality and saying states should be allowed to ban it, or claiming that most Christians aren't Christian because they don't adhere to HIS so-called "values," or calling Obama a "phony Christian" (look in a mirror, Rick), he is a fountain of religion-based bigotry.

Now he's going after pre-natal tests — tests that are used by doctors to gather information about the health or the mother and the fetus and make decisions about necessary treatments and interventions.

This weekend at the Ohio Christian Alliance lunch in Columbus that I mentioned in a post yesterday, he said this:

One of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing in every insurance policy in America. Why? Because it saves money in health care. Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.

Someone should snatch Rick, handcuff him to something, and read this article to him:

http://open.salon.com/blog/sarah_gale/2012/02/19/why_rick_santorum_would...

I wonder if he even has enough of a heart to be moved by it and enough humility to admit he was wrong.

Author Sarah Fister Gale relates the story of her 11-year-old daughter who had Rh factor disease, which occurs when the mother's blood type is negative and the fetus' is positive, resulting in the mother's body attacking the fetus' blood cells. It used to be almost always fatal, resulting in a stillbirth or a baby that died shortly after birth or one that was profoundly handicapped. Now it can be treated if discovered in time.

Gale says,

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.

Hear that, Rick? You do not have a medical degree.

She goes on to say,

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.

Gale's moving article reveals the cruelty behind Santorum's sanctimonious — and yes, phony — Christianity.

She nails him when she says,

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.

One more reason why he's the last thing we need in a presidential campaign, let alone in the White House.