Rick Santorum: Chump of the Week AND Featured Chump
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Getting a ticket out of Iowa wasn’t the only thing Rick Santorum won this week. His incredible statement about birth control on Monday has earned him our first Chump of the Week Award (let’s call it COW for short). And he gets the double honor of being named Chump of the Week on the same day he is newly listed as a Featured Chump.
When asked in an interview if a state has a right to make a law against a married couple using contraception, Santorum said, “The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have.”
But this wasn’t just a theoretical civics question — Santorum is on record warning about the use of birth control in any form. "One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay." We’ll give him points for that — we can’t recall any major presidential candidate talking about the “dangers” of birth control either.
With an overwhelming majority of Americans (more than 99 percent of women who have been sexually active) having used at least one method of contraception, it’s beyond comprehension that someone would attempt to enact these narrow-minded views which fall far outside mainstream public opinion (particularly for a guy who invoked the word “freedom” five times in less than four minutes in his speech on Tuesday).
This is just the latest example of his anti-women’s health agenda, and why we need your voice in the fight to protect women’s health. It’s time to let candidates like Rick Santorum know that women are watching across the country.
Santorum got our attention through his virtual tie with Governor Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s Iowa Caucuses. We’ve always known he’s a strong opponent of women’s health across the board — his lifelong zero rating from Planned Parenthood Action Fund, taking credit for every anti-choice piece of legislation in the last 20 years, and unabashed opposition to Title X funding among his many out-of-the-mainstream positions. But the guy whose position on abortion Fox News characterized as “about as far right on the issue as a GOP candidate can get” demands our scrutiny (and our scorn).
Read Santorum’s full Chump profile, including details about his support of the personhood amendment or his statement calling for doctors who perform abortions to be thrown in jail.
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