Video: Rick Santorum’s Beautiful Answer to a Tough Abortion Question in Last Night’s GOP Debate
By , Published August 12th, 2011

Last night candidates for the Republican presidential nomination squared-off in Iowa. Watch former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s answer to a tough question on abortion in cases of rape … and listen to the positive reaction from the audience to his comments:

Here’s a transcript I jotted down:

Question: You would allow no exceptions for cases of rape and incest. Polls have long shown that large majorities of Americans support at least some exceptions for abortion. Are your views too much even for many conservatives to support?

Rick Santorum: You know the Supreme Court of the United States on a recent case said that a man who committed rape could not be killed, could not be subject to the death penalty, yet the child conceived as a result of that rape could be. That to me sounds like a country that doesn’t have its morals correct. That child did nothing wrong. [Applause.] That child is an innocent victim. To be victimized twice would be a horrible thing. It is an innocent human life. It is genetically human from the moment of conception, and it is a human life, and we in America should be big enough to try to surround ourselves and help women in those terrible situations who have been traumatized already, [to] put them through another trauma of abortion? I think it’s too much to ask and so I would absolutely stand and say that one violence is enough. [Applause.]

I have nothing to add.

[Cross-posted at CatholicVote.org]

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  • Mt76cifrino

    amen!

  • Guest

    I must say I’m impressed.  I would say that he’s earned my support, but that would be meaningless as I can’t vote in it (I’m not an American).  Santorum’s response sharply contrasts those given by two of the other candidates to a similar question in June’s New Hampshire debate:

    http://liveaction.org/blog/how-should-candidates-explain-opposition-to-abortion/

    Both candidates darted around the issue by stressing its rarity, then proceeded to toot their own horns.  Afterward, it was virtually impossible to tell where the candidates stood.  This response was different, as the candidate honestly explained his potentially controversial position.  I think that this type of political courage is what we need more of in elected representatives.

    This site goes into more detail on the rape case:

    http://www.rebeccakiessling.com/index.html

    There’s also the question of how the abortion industry actually deals with cases of rape and incest:

    http://liveaction.org/monalisa

  • Hollyhansard

    Wow, that is a beautiful answer! Tears!

  • Hollyhansard

    Play this again, and again and again! Share this with your friends! Put this on your ipods and MP3 Players!  Share this answer of Rick Santorum from the house tops, from every mountain top, from every valley!  Share this with your friends on Facebook! Share this with your friends and family everywhere! Share this with your neighbors! Share this, share this, share this! This message needs to be heard!  Whether or not Rick becomes president this message is tops!  Never mind the messenger, it’s the message that counts. And, this message that came  out of the Mouth of the Messenger…  is a message of Love! Enough is enough!

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7O2YDF6U6NBUAZB3UKAF4A2ATE jon

      Whether or not Rick becomes president this message is tops!  
      never, never . .this video just destroyed any slim chance he had

  • Dmullarkey

    I agree with this man – I will vote for him in our primary because I vote my conscience and not just for who is most popular

  • http://twitter.com/MikeDargan Mike Dargan

    The santorum is a bit frothier than usual tonight.

  • Mobled76803

    Yeah, here is the problem  for Rick and other people of conscience.  Even a rational and clear response such as his will be buried by the screams of outrage among the high priestesses of the church or progressive liberalism because unfettered abortion is their only sacrament.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BRTWHHOWGIX4J6WXN5VF6IJCVA rocky raccoon

      awww…..nooo….forcing people to have rapist babies , will not work . . . . 

  • renee

    wow! God bless him!

  • Matthew Tanner

    We need to be removing the rapists’ genes from the gene pool, not promoting them.

    • Guest

      Good to know that Nazi-style genetic cleansing ideologies are alive and well today.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7O2YDF6U6NBUAZB3UKAF4A2ATE jon

    having rapist babies  . ..yeaaaaaaa right . .., earth to the delusional crowd
    play the video . . .I have nothing to add . . . this horse just lost the race..

    • Guest

      I think he was catering towards potential voters who know the difference between a baby and a rapist.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7O2YDF6U6NBUAZB3UKAF4A2ATE jon

        Its a RAPIST baby . . .flush that  . . . nobody should be forced to have a rapist baby . Idiots!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BRTWHHOWGIX4J6WXN5VF6IJCVA rocky raccoon

    are you people high? having rapist babies ? ? REALLY ? ? 
    bye bye taliban rick . . . .