{"id":26527,"date":"2012-02-19T20:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/santorum-thinks-ignorance-is-bliss.html"},"modified":"2012-02-21T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:45:48","slug":"santorum-thinks-ignorance-is-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/santorum-thinks-ignorance-is-bliss.html","title":{"rendered":"Santorum thinks ignorance is bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santorum ups the crazy factor by arguing against coverage for prenatal testing &#8230; because <i>sometimes<\/i> such testing causes <i>some<\/i> parents to seek abortions.  So it&#39;s clearly to simply not know about a major (or even minor) developmental problem, and just pray that everything will be okay, right?  Of course, more babies might die that way, too, but at least that will be the way Santorum&#39;s zany religious ideas <i>wants<\/i> them to die.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.i.com.com%2Fcnwk.1d%2Fi%2Ftim%2F2012%2F02%2F18%2FSantorum021812_175x131.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57380887-503544\/santorum-attacks-obama-on-prenatal-screening\/'>Santorum attacks Obama on prenatal screening &#8211; Political Hotsheet &#8211; CBS News<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClaims free prenatal screening leads to selective abortions, says president&#39;s healthcare plan meant to &quot;cull the ranks of the disabled&quot; Read more by Rebecca Kaplan on CBS News&#39; Political Hotsheet.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santorum ups the crazy factor by arguing against coverage for prenatal testing &#8230; because sometimes such testing causes some parents to seek abortions. So it&#39;s clearly to simply not know about a major (or even minor) developmental problem, and just pray that everything will be okay, right? Of course, more babies might die that way, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/19\/santorum-thinks-ignorance-is-bliss.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Santorum thinks ignorance is bliss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27346,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/santorum-quits-the-race.html","url_meta":{"origin":26527,"position":0},"title":"Santorum quits the race","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Apr-12 3:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While having Santorum as the GOP candidate would make it more likely, in my opinion, for Obama to win the White House, it would still hold a finite chance of Santorum becoming President ... so this news cheers me immensely. #ddtb Embedded Link Santorum drops out of 2012 race GETTYSBURG,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27132,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/this-might-even-make-me-vote-for-santorum-if-he-supported-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":26527,"position":1},"title":"This might even make me vote for Santorum if he supported it","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Mar-12 9:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, no, it wouldn't. And the chances of Santorum supporting \"Firefly\" are passingly small.Gingrich, on the other hand ... #ddtbReshared post from +Helena BertinelliLol (:","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26662,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/25\/santorum-was-for-college-before-he-was-against-college.html","url_meta":{"origin":26527,"position":2},"title":"Santorum was for college before he was against college","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Feb-12 9:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"What a difference six years makes ... #ddtb Embedded Link Flashback: In 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send All Pennsylvanians To College TROY, MICHIGAN \u2014 At an Americans For Prosperity-sponsored tea party rally here Saturday, Rick Santorum trumpeted his connections to the working class by attacking President Obama\u2019s plan to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26242,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/rick-santorum-has-a-persecution-chip-on-shoulder.html","url_meta":{"origin":26527,"position":3},"title":"Rick Santorum has a persecution chip on shoulder","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Feb-12 11:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Worse yet, he thinks it's a cross.Hey, Rick -- the guillotine was not used just to execute people of faith. 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