Santorum Has New Rumors
Jun. 16th, 2011 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutBasically, if you're reading something quite spectacularly hypocritical about him it is probably not true. Here is Project Vote Smart's transcript of Terry Gross' 2004 interview in which he describes the events in question.
http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=130783
It's later in the interview; searching on "wife" gets you right to it.
I had actually heard this story about the Santorums before, in a context in which purportedly liberal people were freaking out that they had brought the body home and went through a mourning process. I was somewhat offended that anyone would mock an approach that struck me as sensitive and respectful of the shock associated with a late miscarriage/perinatal death. It is not helpful to a family to sort of pretend it didn't happen. There are a lot of ways to deal with this shock and the one chosen by the Santorums deserves respect.
Unlike their politics.
http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=130783
It's later in the interview; searching on "wife" gets you right to it.
I had actually heard this story about the Santorums before, in a context in which purportedly liberal people were freaking out that they had brought the body home and went through a mourning process. I was somewhat offended that anyone would mock an approach that struck me as sensitive and respectful of the shock associated with a late miscarriage/perinatal death. It is not helpful to a family to sort of pretend it didn't happen. There are a lot of ways to deal with this shock and the one chosen by the Santorums deserves respect.
Unlike their politics.
Re: exceptions
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However, it was a real live issue.
We may have to agree to disagree about how a doctor would likely respond to the Santorums' situation. I think I'm paying attention to some details of the situation (baby will not make it and the longer we drag this out, the more likely the mother will have a bad outcome and we'll get sued over that) while you are attending to others (mother wants to keep baby, try to keep baby). I don't think there's any way to answer the question (can you _imagine_ trying to word a poll question?!?).
Just to be utterly clear: I find the Santorums politics despicable and their unwillingness to respect other people's decision making reprehensible. But I think that representing their beliefs accurately will make that clear without having to impute to them things they do not believe.