Senator Sanatorium
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As Hrafnkell Haraldsson says of Rick S. in Politicususa, “He is a dangerous man who wants nothing good for America and nothing good for its citizens.” This is a strong condemnation, but it is not without evidential support. Senator Sanatorium has publicly proclaimed his passionate opposition to anal sex, abortion access, contraceptive availability and use, pre-natal care, pornography, same sex marriage, and the separation of church and state. He has sounded the alarm about Satan’s attack on America, women in combat and hatred of the Crusades. On every one of these topics, Sanatorium’s views have been sectarian at best and completely fallacious at worst. Most of the time, his comments have been both bigoted and deceitful.
In regard to anal sex and homosexual relations in general, Senator Sanatorium has earn infamy on the Internet because of his extreme ranting. In 2003 in an interview with an Associated Press reporter, Rick S. said, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society?” This answer was a response to a question about the right of homosexuals to have sex. Without prompting from the reporter, Senator Sanatorium went on to say, “That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.” In short, he comingled homosexuality with child molestation, bestiality, or any other unnamed aberration. What mental framework makes such connections? A mentality that is dominated by dogma and seething with resentment.
Concerning abortion Senator Sanatorium is so opposed to this medical procedure that he makes no exceptions. During a June 2011 appearance on Meet the Press he said, “That would be taking a life, and I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.” There are few limits to the errors Senator Sanatorium spews in regard to abortion. For example, Santorum wrongly claimed that “one in three pregnancies end in abortion” in the U S. Then, he charged that abortion was to blame for funding problems for Social Security and Medicare. Sanatorium said: “The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies ends in abortion.” Not only are his remarks ludicrous they are also wrong. Less than one in four pregnancies was aborted in 2008 the most recent year for which data is available, but he assumes that the population is lower by a number equal to the total abortions. Once again, he is wrong. He also ignores the fact that an unknown number of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions – also called miscarriages – every year. If he believes induced abortions are murder, does he believe miscarriages are manslaughter? He ranges farther afield. In his 2005 book, Senator Sanatorium claimed “female suicides and crime were “much worse” after Roe v. Wade.” As usual, facts tell a different story. “Since the Supreme Court decision made abortion legal, female suicides dropped from 6.5 per 100,000 women in 1973 to 4.1 in 2001, the most recent stats at the time, according to the CDC. As for crime, the Department of Justice’s annual survey showed a drop in both property and violent crime since 1973. (For the record, the female suicide rate is still lower than 1973′s–4.8 as of 2007. And property and violent crime have continued to drop.)” [http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Rick_Santorum_Abortion.htm]
In case his own statements did not make his position sufficiently clear, Senator Sanatorium signed the Pro-life Presidential Leadership Pledge. This commits candidates to the following:
“I will only support candidates for President who are committed to protecting Life. I demand that any candidate I support commit to these positions:
FIRST, to nominate to the U.S. federal bench judges who are committed to restraint and applying the original meaning of the Constitution, not legislating from the bench;
SECOND, to select only pro-life appointees for relevant Cabinet and Executive Branch positions, in particular the head of National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health & Human Services;
THIRD, to advance pro-life legislation to permanently end all taxpayer funding of abortion in all domestic and international spending programs, and defund Planned Parenthood and all other contractors and recipients of federal funds with affiliates that perform or fund abortions;
FOURTH, advance and sign into law a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion. Not surprisingly as a signatory to this pledge, Senator Sanatorium has a pro-choice voting record scored 0% by NARAL.
Although Senator Sanatorium and his wife have made their choices about pregnancy multiple times, he is resolutely opposed to denying all other American couples and every American woman the chance to have and make real choices in this context. One of the choices the Sanatoriums made is especially relevant in this context: Karen Santorum had a second trimester abortion in October 1996. The Santorum’s, however, like to describe it as a medically induced miscarriage not an abortion. For many, this is a distinction without a difference. Mrs. Sanatorium became severely ill while pregnant and she and her husband were told that if she did not induce her labor, she and the baby would more than likely die. The decision was made to induce labor, and abort the fetus. On a nationally broadcast news program, Senator Sanatorium effectively argued that the doctors who saved his wife’s life in the fall of 1996 should be criminally charged for doing so.
The Sanatoriums did not want to terminate Karen’s pregnancy in 1996, but they chose to do so and Karen is alive in 2012. If presidential candidate Sanatorium has his way, however, American women in the future would not have the same lifesaving opportunity granted to Karen Santorum.
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