Rick Santorum, getting creepier by the day. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Rick Santorum was really on a roll this weekend, apparently assuming that his surge means that he'll be the nominee, putting President Obama in his incredibly skewed sights. First, he stepped in it over
Obama's "phony theology." Having gone there, it wasn't much of a stretch to turn Obama into a
eugenics-supporting monster. Because, in Santorum's world, the fetus is king.
He lambasted the president's health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, "because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society."
"That, too, is part of Obamacare, another hidden message as to what President Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country," Santorum said.
He went on in this vein in his
Face the Nation appearance on Sunday.
The— the bottom line is that a lot of prenatal tests are done to identify deformities in— in utero and the customary procedure is to encourage abortions and in fact, prenatal testing that— that particularly amniocentesis. I'm not talking about general prenatal care. You said prenatal care. I— I didn't say prenatal care shouldn't be covered. We're talking about specifically prenatal testing and specifically amniocentesis, which is a— which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb. In— in which in many cases and in fact most cases a physicians recommend, particularly if there's a problem, recommend abortion. [...]
When asked specifically by Scheiffer if Santorum meant to say that "the President looks down on disabled people," Santorum doubled down, and went on a rant about late term abortion, concluding "The president has a very bad record on the issue of abortion and children who are disabled who are in the womb."
President Obama wants to kill special children, that's the message. While free prenatal testing might sound like a critical tool for women to have the healthiest pregnancies and babies, it's really a trick to get rid of "those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country."
But when that severely disabled child is born, either because affordable prenatal testing wasn't available or the parents decided to keep the fetus, well, that family is on their own. Suck it up, Santorum has told one parent struggling to afford to keep her child alive.
11:43 AM PT: Excellent reminder from middleagedhousewife in the comments: the kind of testing Santorum is talking about is not mandated to be free in the ACA.