Salon.com: Karen Santorum did not have an abortion

[Dr.Doctor]

14. It was an abortion

If "deliberate killing" is speeding labor during a septic miscarriage in a woman running a 105 degree fever, already at the verge of sepsis itself, and letting the child be born alive tho too premature to survive... actually, it's stabilizing the condition of both.

Doing anything which will cause labor and delivery of a 20wk fetus is not "stabilizing" it, it is causing its death.

Make no mistake-- Karen Santorum had an abortion. In a way she had two-- the spontaneous septic abortion ("miscarriage" in common parlance), followed by the deliberate induction of labor afterwards. The latter was lifesaving and the only realistic medical option-- but is something Rick Santorum's preferred policies would certainly curtail. (Actually it's hard to imagine anyone continuing to work as an OB-GYN or neonatologist under a Santorum regime, but I digress)

The point, though, is that Santorum had a choice for herself as well as the option of termination if/when all else failed-- this is the kind of choice she enjoyed and would deny other people. In my book that makes her a bad person.