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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Has he ever been quoted as saying abortion should not be an option when the mother's life is in danger?  I thought that's why they ultimately induced labor.  She had several other children who needed a mother.  Not saying I agree with him, but I don't see an inconsistency here if he recognizes an exception for the life of the mother.[/quote]

This can probably be argued both ways. The reality of abortion politics means that proponents of both sides of the issues will often support half measures because that is better than nothing. In that vein, Santorum has supported -- and even introduced -- abortion bills that contained a "life of the mother" exceptions. At the same time, he has called health of the mother exceptions "phony." Then, of course, you have to split hairs between "life" and "health" of the mother. [b]Santorum also signed on in support of Personhood USA's "personhood" amendment which would ban all abortions without a life of the mother exception.[/b] But, you could argue that he did that in order to win Iowa. You can basically find enough facts to support any argument you want to make about this.

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I get the half-measures bit, that's the nature of pluralism.  Most politicians and leaders have to be for somethings that they're against in order to govern.   That said, no one should kid themselves in thinking he wouldn't support extreme positions when given the opportunity...because he already has.  The fact that he could support such a law given his own family's experience is disturbing, even if you can explain it away as a political calculation.  If it's not a political calculation (which is troubling enough in itself), then it's just pure hypocrisy.  And I use that term in the worst sense.  A man in his position would never have a problem getting around inconvenient laws.  Look at his team try to re-frame what really happened here so that, look see, no, there was no abortion at all!  They're already trying to get around inconvenient facts.[/quote]

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