Read this NOW.
According to the Washington Post:
In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.
Upon their son’s death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen’s parents’ home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.
“That’s my little guy,” Santorum says, pointing to the photo of Gabriel, in which his tiny physique is framed by his father’s hand. The senator often speaks of his late son in the present tense. It is a rare instance in which he talks softly.
He and Karen brought Gabriel’s body home so their children could “absorb and understand that they had a brother,” Santorum says. “We wanted them to see that he was real,” not an abstraction, he says. Not a “fetus,” either, as Rick and Karen were appalled to see him described — “a 20-week-old fetus” — on a hospital form. They changed the form to read “20-week-old baby.”
Rick Santorum will ultimately lose because he has a screw loose. The “Creep Factor” will come into play if he ever gets to the general election. This is a man with serious issues that include the fetus situation and his obsession with homosexuality. There is something profoundly wrong with Santorum and it will be his undoing.
If not – I guess we will all have to scurry to Canada before he destroys America with his lunacy.
This. Explains. Everything.
Having miscarried, I sort of understand that this would be a painful incident in the Santorum family’s lives, but this is….something else. I especially feel sorry for his poor children who have lived much longer than two hours. I can’t see that treatment as anything but traumatizing. I honestly don’t see how Santorum is taken seriously as a candidate for any office, never mind president.
Ditto regarding Perry, and I’m a Texan.
Yikes. I just pictured a pickled fetus in a jar ostentatiously placed on a chair at the inauguration in 2013.
Canada, or Spain… I’m working hard to get that done this year.
I’m glad you posted this. Voters need to be aware of this.
“I guess we will all have to scurry to Canada before he destroys America with his lunacy.”
To be fair, America survived the W. years (barely). In the unlikely event that Santorum secures the White House, I have faith that progressives and moderates will speak out against his far-right agenda, just as they did against W. The important thing will be to VOTE in 2012 so that doesn’t happen.
My brothers hardly needed anything like this to understand Mom’s second miscarriage was another sibling. Hell neither did I and I was the next pregnancy. This is just sick.
Why you have to rain on his parade? It’s not every day that Santorum surges from Romney’s behind!
http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2012/01/santorum-surges-from-romneys-behind.html
Seriously, I’d call him a clown, but see no reason to heap on clowns like that.
At 20 weeks? Dude, that’s a miscarriage, it’s a fetus, and showing something like that to children (let alone teaching them that it’s a “baby”) should be considered psychological abuse.
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