Rick Santorum: Prenatal testing encourages abortions VIDEO – Election 2012 – The Washington Post

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[Editor's Note: The fact that politics in the US have consciously included religion as an electable factor is a direct violation of the Constitutional law that guarantees a 'Separation of Church and State' in order to avoid the development of a theocratic government and captive social structure. Despite what Mr. Santorum and the other neoconservative candidates argue, poorly I might add, religions, all of them, have a very sordid history of un-religious behaviour as long as they have held power. Religious based governments have never produced fair, much less tolerant people centred societies. Religious-based nations are by default inherently intolerant and generally, quite belligerent towards both strangers and citizens alike. The popular attraction to religion can be quickly summed up as an emotional attraction to mass participation, fear of the natural world and mob rule under a centralised authority figurehead. Usually a single moral leader with a very strong personality who also serves as the political head-of-state and the 'party' until they are removed by a shift towards another faith-based paradigm.

The signs are there. Fascism has arrived in the United States. Don't be shortsighted into assuming that fascism as a ideal is limited to the German example. Fascism as we understand it was developed in Italy and also existed in Spain and Japan. Each respective instance harboured it's own particulars so we should not be lulled into believing that fascism could not be 'democratic' and unique in a North American sense.  The Euro-Settler population that claims mastery over the Americas has practised varying forms of totalitarianism against Indigenous Peoples and Africans in the Diaspora for centuries. Why is it deemed impossible for fascism to adjust to accommodate ever-changing circumstances? Hasn't the election of Barack Obama proven this to be true?  As racist as the American paradigm is, it has shifted, briefly, to adapt to a changing world. Intelligent analysis that is objective and a personal willingness to look further into the mirror of uncertainty is more than a commodity, it may just be the last means of survival in a world where the ridiculous is hoisted high above logical thought.

Haven't ethnic minorities, women and the Indigenous suffered enough? End the madness. Start asking questions. Now.

--TheAngryindian, editor-in-chief/APNS]

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“The bottom line is that a lot of prenatal tests are done to identify deformities in utero and the customary procedure is to encourage abortions,” Santorum said during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He said he was talking specifically about some, but not all, prenatal testing, and not about prenatal care in general. He said “there are all sorts of prenatal testing which should be provided free,” such as sonograms.

 

Santorum, whose young daughter Bella has the genetic disorder Trisomy 18 and was recently hospitalized, singled out amniocentesis, a procedure in which amniotic fluid is extracted to examine chromosomes and check for birth defects, as a form of testing that insurance companies should not be required to cover.

 

“Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions,” Santorum said. “That is a fact.”

Rick Santorum: Prenatal testing encourages abortions VIDEO – Election 2012 – The Washington Post.