In a televised interview with Cybercast News Service about year ago, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Obama over the concept of personhood in regards to the abortion issue, which the conservative candidate feels is not even a debatable issue being that he favors a constitutional (read:government sanctioned) ban on abortion and implied that President Barack Obama should be pro-life also. Why?
Because he’s black.
“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 a televised interview. “Well if that person — human life is not a person — then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘we’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.”
What is frightening fact that Rick Santorum is practically tied for first place in the republican presidential contest after the Iowa caucus. In the interview, he actually attempts to bring up an intellectual and philosophical stance that compares the claim that a fetus should be called a person
to that of a black person’s right to be declared as such. As if a black person’s rights as a human being should be – or should have ever been for that matter – questionable in this country.
And if I were to stick with his playing of the race card, then can it be said that a white person would be more likely to be pro-choice because there has never been an issue about his humanity in this country?
Yeah–sounds stupid, doesn’t it?
As a so called Christian-neoconservative whose general stance on most of the important issues of the day are anti-science, anti-revelation, anti-philosophical, anti-progressive, etc., it would be a waste of time to get into any type of constructive debate with the likes of a Mr. Santorum. I will, however, like to assure him and others who think like him, that they have as much right in determining what a women does with her uterus as they do determining what a man does with his penis.
And for your viewing pleasure: Check out Rachel Maddow’s “vetting” of the ‘Almighty Santorum’ on her show this evening. Once Rachel’s findings make their way into the hands of his opponents, I think the “family values guy ” of the GOP will go the way of Trump, Sarah, Michele, Perry, Herman, and Newt. Mitt Romney will relieve the final endorsement and we can finally get this show on the road. Bring it on, indeed!
