Economy only please

Rick's next target: women wearing pants.

Headline: Santorum makes prenatal testing a campaign issue

Please do.

In fairness to the GOP, more downs syndrome births today means more potential GOP voters tomorrow.

germ78: Are these stories repeats or is Santorum going double-down on full retard?
/I can't tell anymore

I think this particular example of Santorum's pants-on-head retarded fundiederp is from a few days ago, but as far as I can see this is the first time it's gone green.

Came out with the same crap on Face the Nation this weekend. I still don't understand how it is better to make someone wait through a full pregnancy and then find out that something is horribly wrong with the baby than it is to be able to make a fully informed decision about taking a pregnancy to term.

This is what happens when you let fundies drive your political bus.

These are not the fetuses you're looking for. She's free to go about her business. Move along.

germ78: Are these stories repeats or is Santorum going double-down on full retard?

/I can't tell anymore

I was just wondering that.

twobux: Economy only please

Santorum has an economic platform?

One miscarriage and one kid with a fatal genetic disorder.

That's all there is to say really.

The Diane Rehme show today on NPR had a pro life advocate, a pro choice advocate and a reporter (a normal panel set up on the show) and the pro choice person was hinting at this.

Great show, though. Diane knows how to interview. Too bad her voice is shot to sh*t.

SphericalTime: twobux: Economy only please

Santorum has an economic platform?

More babies = more demand for baby products.

Therefore, Gerber and Pampers will lead the recovery!

SphericalTime: twobux: Economy only please

Santorum has an economic platform?

I'm assuming it's a Jesus-based economy.

Aarontology: SphericalTime: twobux: Economy only please

Santorum has an economic platform?

More babies = more demand for baby products.

Therefore, Gerber and Pampers will lead the recovery!

Gerber and Pampers and Stoli.

I really hope that this whole War on Women thing the GOP is deciding to run with goes on for a bit. Long enough that the people in the Republican party who don't actively hate women (which I'm hoping is a significant amount) start to leave or actually manage to take some positions of power inside the party, causing them to take up some reasonable party views. I use to be pretty strongly in the "both parties are bad" camp and would focus on third parties or ignore the national elections and try and focus on local elections, but now it's more like one party is kind of bad in a few ways and the other party is super villain attempting to destroy the Earth level evil.

The US needs more harlequin babies!

/Please don't ever GIS "harlequin baby"

ManateeGag: Headline: Santorum makes prenatal testing a campaign issue

Please do.

If Santorum wins, or if these stupid social issues are somehow the focus of the election, the election will be a bloodbath. And in the meantime, important issues like the economy, jobs, deficit, foreign policy, fixing Obamacare, etc... will be overlooked.

Michigan. The fate of a nation is in your hands. Don't screw this up.

As Santorum noted, studies show that in the vast majority of cases where amniocentesis reveals Down syndrome, women decide on abortion.

I still don't get why this is a problem...?

Never has the "Dumbass" tag been used more appropriately

Weaver95: As Santorum noted, studies show that in the vast majority of cases where amniocentesis reveals Down syndrome, women decide on abortion.

I still don't get why this is a problem...?

Eugenics!!!!!

That's my guess.

Diogenes: Weaver95: As Santorum noted, studies show that in the vast majority of cases where amniocentesis reveals Down syndrome, women decide on abortion.

I still don't get why this is a problem...?

Eugenics!!!!!

That's my guess.

He's counting on marshalling a vast army of troops with Downs to march on major US cities to combat sin.

Weaver95: As Santorum noted, studies show that in the vast majority of cases where amniocentesis reveals Down syndrome, women decide on abortion.

I still don't get why this is a problem...?

Because every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great

I have a question for "pro-lifers" in re pre-natal screenings.

If you could tell early - or at any time, really - that an embryo had a terrible disorder (which then became a fetus with a terrible disorder, which then became a baby with a terrible disorder), yet you insist that it be carried to term in accordance with your "pro-life" views, how do you justify letting embryos with, say, Tay-Sachs Disease develop and come into the world?

FYI: Tay-Sachs is a degenerative disorder that systematically destroys all physical and cognitive abilities. Most afflicted die before their fourth birthday. Most of the preceding time was "lived" with respirators, feeding tubes (having lost the ability to swallow or breathe). Sufferers are often doped into a coma to avoid the excruciating pain of their condition.

Very, very few live beyond four years, and most of those years are spent heavily drugged and on life-support.

If you could tell, from pre-natal screening, that your child-to-be was affected with T-S and would live a short life of constant pain, then die before he was four, would it be moral to carry that fetus to term?

twobux: Economy only please

but that's a guaranteed losing campaign platform. Better to be a shyster and have a chance then be honest and be assured failure. I mean look at RON PAUL.

Lionel Mandrake: I have a question for "pro-lifers" in re pre-natal screenings.

If you could tell early - or at any time, really - that an embryo had a terrible disorder (which then became a fetus with a terrible disorder, which then became a baby with a terrible disorder), yet you insist that it be carried to term in accordance with your "pro-life" views, how do you justify letting embryos with, say, Tay-Sachs Disease develop and come into the world?

FYI: Tay-Sachs is a degenerative disorder that systematically destroys all physical and cognitive abilities. Most afflicted die before their fourth birthday. Most of the preceding time was "lived" with respirators, feeding tubes (having lost the ability to swallow or breathe). Sufferers are often doped into a coma to avoid the excruciating pain of their condition.

Very, very few live beyond four years, and most of those years are spent heavily drugged and on life-support.

If you could tell, from pre-natal screening, that your child-to-be was affected with T-S and would live a short life of constant pain, then die before he was four, would it be moral to carry that fetus to term?

Because they're equally opposed to youth in Asia.

Is there a pre-natal test for derp?

I was hoping this was an exaggeration.
I see that it isn't.