Former Sen. Rick Santorum says it is surprising that the nation's first black president is willing to deny civil rights to fetuses.
Santorum, who is a potential Republican presidential challenger to President Barack Obama in 2012, linked civil rights with abortion during an interview posted Thursday with the Christian Broadcasting Network. Santorum, who lost his 2006 Senate re-election bid in Pennsylvania, is an outspoken critic of abortion rights.
Santorum notes that for decades, slavery allowed African-Americans to be treated like property. And he says fetuses are denied the right to life because they are considered property.
Santorum says he is disappointed that Obama, a former law professor, refuses to treat fetuses as humans under the Constitution.
The White House declined to comment on Santorum's criticism.
The comparison between the Civil Rights movement (which was about gaining rights) and the anti-choice movement (which is about stripping away the right women have to their own bodies) is ridiculous and upsetting.
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This kind of stuff happens from Progressives too. Like when people say that Obama shouldn't cite the Constitution as an example of compromise (a tame and mild observation if there ever was one) because the 3/5ths clause was a compromise, and he is Black.
@ Tony Wu so what because of that, we shouldn't point this comment out for being racist?
@ Renee where did I say that?
The only comforting thing about all of this is that Santorum is coming in at polls as having a less than 1% chance of winning the Republican nomination.
Santorum is the perfect example of a person who suffers from:
male privilege
white privilege
probably some class privilege too.
In short, he lives in a world that doesn't exist, a world that never has and never will.
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