rick on abortion
Santorum opposes abortion and believes it should be illegal under all circumstances, including rape, incest and cases in which the mother's health is threatened. "I believe that any doctor who performs an abortion should be criminally charged for doing so," he told NBC in June. "I've never supported criminalization of abortion for mothers, but I do for people who perform them." He also supports a constitutional amendment that would define fetuses as people and thus make it murder to abort one: "At conception it is biologically human, and it's alive," he said. "It's a human life. It should be a person under the Constitution."
He does not believe in any exceptions to anti-abortion laws. In an interview in June, he recalled that when he sponsored a bill to ban late-term ("partial-birth"
abortions in 1998, some of his fellow senators "wanted a health exception, which of course is a phony exception which would make the ban ineffective." He also claimed that, far from benefiting victims of rape and incest, abortion traumatizes them.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/268881/20111217/rick-santorum-2012-positions.htm
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