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Santorum on Obama: 'Remarkable for a Black Man' to Support Abortion Rights
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Jan 20, 2011 02:38pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 20, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who is considering a bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, invoked President Obama's race during an interview with the conservative CNS News network show "Online with Terry Jeffrey" as a reason the president should oppose abortion.
"The question is -- and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer -- is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no," Santorum said in the interview, which was posted online Wednesday. "Well if that person, human life is not a person, then, I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.'"
Opponents of abortion in recent years have compared the status of fertilized eggs, even pre-implantation, to that of pre-Civil War slaves who were not considered fully human. For example, materials from the Illinois Right to Life Committee argue that "The court decisions on slavery vs abortion demonstrate an equivalent denial of personhood for two different categories of human beings, slaves and unborn children."
As well, opponents of abortion rights argue that legalized abortion has led to a "black holocaust" and that African Americans ought to be against abortion for this reason. |
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