By R. Brownell
5. Believes women should have to carry their rapist’s baby
Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, Santorum made it clear in his 2012 campaign that if you are raped by a man and it results in impregnation, you should not have the option of consulting your doctor over whether abortion should be an option on the table:
“Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, that that, too, could ruin her life. And this is not an easy choice, I understand that. As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child. And whether she has that child or she doesn’t, it will always be her child, and she will always know that.”
