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Jezebel is a known pro abortion website, and this is low even for them to start a malicious rumor.
Karen Santorum Did Not Have An Abortion and Rick Santorum Did Not “Authorize” One
Now that Rick Santorum has had his big political success in Iowa, the knives have come out. There is a story being circulated that this champion of life authorized an “abortion” for his wife Karen. The term “abortion” is not always understood. I have lost a child to miscarriage myself, but the doctor did not put “miscarriage” on the paperwork about it. He used the term “spontaneous abortion” even though the child died naturally, as did Gabriel Santorum, one of the sons of Rick and Karen Santorum. When we are speaking about abortion in the context of law, not medicine, the term “abortion” refers to willful and direct intentional killing of an unborn child in the womb.
Read “Gabriel’s Story” by Karen Santorum.
There is no truth to the claim that “Karen Santorum had an abortion”. There is also no truth to the claim that Rick Santorum “authorized an abortion” for his wife. He has said that he would have agreed to inducing labor if it had been necessary to save his wife’s life. Inducing labor to save the life of a woman is in no way, shape or form “abortion”. Abortion is the willful and direct intentional killing of an unborn child.
Even beyond the practice of inducing labor, the removal of an ectopic pregnancy is not “abortion” in that the direct action is to remove a part of the mother’s body with the intention of saving her life. The death of the child is unintentional and indirect and is, therefore, not abortion. In like manner, removal of a cancerous uterus of a pregnant woman is not “abortion” because the intent is to remove a part of the woman’s body, not to kill the child.
Willful and direct killing, including the willful and direct killing in every abortion, is murder. It is the ultimate rejection of life. The story of Rick and Karen Santorum and their son Gabriel is, to the contrary, a story of ultimate openness to life. It is for this reason that they were awarded the Poverello Medal, the highest non-academic award given by the orthodox Catholic university Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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Karen Santorum Did Not Have An Abortion and Rick Santorum Did Not “Authorize” One
Now that Rick Santorum has had his big political success in Iowa, the knives have come out. There is a story being circulated that this champion of life authorized an “abortion” for his wife Karen. The term “abortion” is not always understood. I have lost a child to miscarriage myself, but the doctor did not put “miscarriage” on the paperwork about it. He used the term “spontaneous abortion” even though the child died naturally, as did Gabriel Santorum, one of the sons of Rick and Karen Santorum. When we are speaking about abortion in the context of law, not medicine, the term “abortion” refers to willful and direct intentional killing of an unborn child in the womb.
Read “Gabriel’s Story” by Karen Santorum.
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[INDENT]I am married to United States Senator Rick Santorum, who in 1996 led the debate on a bill to ban partial-birth abortion—which even several pro-choice senators refer to as “infanticide”. The procedure is justified by its advocates as necessary in cases of fetal abnormalities detected late in pregnancy. They implied that Rick had no right to speak on the issue because it had not not touched his life.
One week later at a routine sonogram, the 20 week old baby in my womb was diagnosed with a defect that is always fatal without surgery. Through our immense heartache came the most basic of parental emotions: We had to save our child. After many tests it was determined our son was eligible for the operation that could save his life. It was a success, but an infection developed in the amniotic sac, and I was rushed to the hospital with a high fever, having contractions. I begged the doctors to stop my labor, but they said it would be malpractice, for I would surely die since these infections are untreatable.
Gabriel Michael Santorum was born at 12:45 AM on Friday, October 11, 1996. He was a beautiful boy. He did not give a cry or open his tiny eyes. We baptized him, bundled him, and held him ever so close. We sang to him, held his little hands and kissed him. Gabriel lived for two hours. In those two hours something simple but profound happened. Rick and I became parents to a newborn baby and welcomed him into our family. That was all….but it was everything. His life was so brief, yet his impact so great. In two hours we experienced a lifetime of emotions. Love, sorrow, regret, joy—-all were packed into that brief span. To have rejected that experience would have been to reject life itself.Even beyond the practice of inducing labor, the removal of an ectopic pregnancy is not “abortion” in that the direct action is to remove a part of the mother’s body with the intention of saving her life. The death of the child is unintentional and indirect and is, therefore, not abortion. In like manner, removal of a cancerous uterus of a pregnant woman is not “abortion” because the intent is to remove a part of the woman’s body, not to kill the child.
Willful and direct killing, including the willful and direct killing in every abortion, is murder. It is the ultimate rejection of life. The story of Rick and Karen Santorum and their son Gabriel is, to the contrary, a story of ultimate openness to life. It is for this reason that they were awarded the Poverello Medal, the highest non-academic award given by the orthodox Catholic university Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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but our attempts require prudence. For reasons I have noted, I believe aiming for leaving social issues to the states is more prudent than trying to get federal bans. Simply my best judgement.
