Rick Santorum’s Wife Breaks Down As Her Husband Addresses ’96 Death Of Their Newborn Son

Santorum has never once said abortion is wrong when a mother’s life is at risk, nitwit. As far as Alan Colmes goes, he’s evidently as attractive on the inside as the outside.

In all my 65 years, I have never heard of such inhumanity as these two taking a deceased baby home to confirm to their other children that the lifeless dead baby was, indeed, their brother…this is absolutely beyond sick…and the people who will vote in caucus tomorrow evening in Iowa either do not know of this derranged man or, more incredible, do not care. Since santorum came out today saying states have the right to deny contraceptions to anyone in their state if the people in that state do not want them, and has said abortion in any form, even to save the mother’s life (one of those great Catholic beliefs!), should never even be considered, it would seem that ms. santorum did, in fact, take something to hasten the birth of a fetus that died shortly after delivery…then was paraded around the house, lifeless. These are sick ultra-conservative evangelical religious right folks who are dangerous to the very life of this country should they assume any office beyond garbage collector!

While it does seem kind of odd I believe people tend to grieve in different ways and I am not going to pass further judgment (aside from my initial comment) on the Santorums behavior after the loss of Gabriel.

Still would never vote for him in a million years on ideological disagreements.

OK idiots, how is taking a drug the same thing as willingly killing the child? The only person who equates the two is person who is moronic or just trolling others. Preventing the situation is different than letting it go through. Modern medicine is making the issue less relevant every day. Deciding you dont want the child is different, which is what people are really fighting for. After all its a womans choice, right? To do with the fetus what they want? Just listen to how liberals talk about babies. Alan could only say “it” over and over again. Some of these liberals are on camera saying it should be OK up to the age of even 3.

To those who think this was “sick”, have you ever lost a newborn child? No? Then you have no right to judge. Also, what is normal? It wasn’t that long ago that the “normal” thing to do when a loved one died was to dress them up in their best clothes, prop them up in a chair, and take family photos.

Everyone has a right to grieve in their own way. The only thing that is “sick” is that there are people in this world that would condemn others because of how they choose to grieve.

I don’t like Rick Santorum … don’t think he has any business running for office … we booted him out in Pennsylvania because he has some extreme ideas that he proposes to inflict on other people. That being said … how he and his wife chose to handle the loss of their child, and whatever bizarre method they might have had to handle their grief, it is not right to attack him on this issue. We should accord him the respect to follow his own instincts in this matter. He is not the type to allow other folks this luxury … which is why he is not fit to hold public office!

Rick Santorum, as hinted at by the many references to his incident of bringing home a dead baby to show his children, is not merely wrong for America, he is dangerously superstitious.

Any sort of person who has this view of human life (and I’m very strongly pro-life and also Catholic, though not Roman Catholic) can not be trusted to make rational decisions, especially when it comes to war and peace. Lunatics like this sent young teenagers to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Children’s Crusade several centuries ago.

We lost a child at 20 weeks due to cervical incompetence inducing pre-term labor. I had to go through the entire birthing process, KNOWING that there was no way that our child would live. I chose an epidural to save myself the physical agony and I chose Pitocin to speed up the delivery to get through the horror as quickly as possible. (In no way did I consider taking those drugs an act of aborting my child or assisting in his death.) While we did not take our dead child home with us, we did arrange to have a funeral home pick him up. 36 hours later, we chose to see him one last time at the funeral home (tearfully) before he was taken away to be cremated. We kept his ashes. A year later, we gathered up the emotional strength to plant a plumb tree with his ashes. It is the most pampered and sacred tree in our garden.

Losing this child was an amazing shock and terrible wound. “I did not know that living life could hurt this bad!” Is all that I could think or express for several weeks. I slept with my son’s baby blanket draped over my belly for 2 months following his birth/death and my husband and I both rode the tides of every single stage of grief. I patiently endured well meaning friends “comfort” me by saying things like “at least you he didn’t die when he was a baby that you had a relationship with.” And that was the easiest part of it all.

Therefore, I, a pro-choice liberal, find myself in no position to judge the actions/reactions of this family to the loss of their child. I DO think that Alan Colmes is a Fox News contributor for the SPECIFIC purpose of making “liberals” look bad on their station. Regardless of political opinions, spinners and commentators in all camps aught to know what subjects are simply taboo. Otherwise, they accomplish nothing but making themselves look like total jack@sses while simultaneously making the targets of their abuse all the more sympathetic to the general public.

you know, when I think of this I see a family that just lost a child and held a family funeral.
I see sadness, tragedy, pain.
When I read some of these heartless posts, it makes me wonder if it truly is not time to divide America into two countries, one Pro-Life and Creator and Constitution and
one Progressive, Pro-Choice and Athestic.
I don’t know how to divide the terriitories but would be willing to move my family to the Territory that sides with Pro-Life.

Hey, if it’s legal to take home a dead fetus to bond with it and he and his wife choose to do that then fine, knock yourself out. I won’t vote for you for President (because you’re crazy and/or emotionally fragile).

It’s entirely a different story when you inflict this horror show on your kids. They will have that horrible memory the rest of their lives.

Colmes needs to be fired.

I wonder what he would say if he saw family members of service men and women he intends on killing in the middle east sitting up their dead soldier and talking to it on the sofa for a couple of days before burial. That would be cute, they could pour food down the neck where the head used to be. He is a whacko, and anybody that ignores this probably needs to crawl back under the rock from wherest they came. Iowa is anybodies game right now, but the two with the strongest most ardent ground game will nab it. However, Romney will have to fight for all the other neo-con voters that support Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, etc. He will never convert a single Paul vote. Whereas, Paul may just get a few of Romney’s everyone else is a non-threat. And if Americans are such wimps to think that Iran poses any significant threat they are idiots. Shouldn’t we consider that Iran feels threatens by America and is acting in a reasonable manner? Wouldn’t we be doing the same thing if China were bullying us? Dems and Reps are hypocrites.

I’m sorry, but who here actually believes that the hospital let them take a dead baby home to sleep with, then TOOK IT BACK the next day?

My family lost a baby a few years back, my mother held my sister in her arms for the two hour car ride back to her hometown where the funeral would take place and my sister, Alexi, not “it” was shown to our family before preceding to the wake and funeral. Experiencing this myself, it is not weird. It is not “inhumane” It is not “crazy”, “gross”. I saw my sister dead and that respected the dignity of her life.
My family’s friend lost a newborn baby who died immediately after birth. This couple knew their baby would die early in the pregnancy but proceeded to have the child. Pictures were taken, the baby was held, and it was healing.

When my father saw what Alan Colmes said about Santorum and his family, he cried. Why do political debates have to be so cold and heartless? It truly makes me sick to my stomach that his family’s tragedy was even mentioned.

The risk of a child suffering and dying or being born damaged increases both with the age of the mother and with the number of pregnancies she has had. Her risk of damage or death increases also.

Caring for Gabriel’s dead body does nothing to atone for what the Santorum’s put him through because they wanted more children nor for the chance they took of losing their children’s mother.

I see nothing wrong with taking that little baby’s body home to spend a short time with all family members. I am old enough to remember when wakes were held in the family home, where people came and sat up all night and stayed all day with the family, bringing food and as much comfort as possible. My very young aunt and ten year old uncle were two examples of this practice in our family. It’s a personal choice and really none of our business how the Santorums, or anyone else, handles the death of a child. I have a daughter who does volunteer work with mothers of stillborn and SID’s babies and can say with certainty that the varied ways the women handle those tragedies would be a lesson to all those critical of the Santorums. Colmes is a pathetic example of an man and I actually feel pity for him.

Lose a baby first, then judge.

It is really sad to read these posts and to see how ignorant and how removed people are from reality of life and death. What do people think occurred in families before babies were born in hospitals and before people died in hospitals? Remarks that Rick Santorum’s children were some how traumatized by seeing and no doubt holding there little baby brother are ridiculous. Rick Santorum and his wife (who was a neonatal ICU nurse) clearly are highly present parent’s and I am sure they talked to their children, held them, prayed with them and together they bonded and grieved their baby as a family- like human beings have done since the beginning of time. Families used to wash the bodies of their loved ones and prepare them for burial. Just because our modern day society no longer does these rituals doesn’t mean they are “sick”, or “disgusting”. Sansham’s post saying “..no matter how you look at it, it was an abortion” , doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Karen Santorum developed an infection in her womb and went into premature labor, the baby was born too early to be viable and died within two hours.That is not an abortion. Rick and Karen Santorum bonded and grieved with their child at home for what I understood was less than 12 hours – instead of the hour or two at the most , that they would probably had in the hospital due to time constrains, staff availability etc. In our society how the Santorums chose to grieve their baby is considered” outrageous and morally wrong”, but over a million abortions a year in the US is morally fine and simply a women’s choice. Can someone explain that to me?