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In case you missed it, this weekend Rick Santorum said that in addition to believing that employers should be able to opt-out of covering contraception, they shouldn't have to cover prenatal testing, because many women abort fetuses with Down's syndrome.
1) Even if you planned to carry this pregnancy to term, wouldn't it be helpful to know that the child has Down's syndrome, a difficult and potentially life-threatening condition?
2) I thought conservatives were opposed to a "nanny state." Yet here Santorum is saying information should be withheld (or made difficult to get) because sometimes that information leads to a LEGAL decision he disagrees with.
How quickly we move from "Respecting the church's long-held opposition to birth control" to "Not doing a really important pre-natal test just because I don't think we should." NOW do comments about your employer "opting out" of covering diabetes treatment, HIV tests, etc seem paranoid?
By the way, Santorum didn't simply observe that he disagrees with prenatal testing. As always with santorum, it's even frothier and more disgusting than that: he said that the Affordable Health Care Act requires free prenatal testing because our President wants all Downs Syndrome babies to be aborted. Nothing but class on this guy.
Love this part of your article by the way: "it's even frothier and more disgusting than that". Nice :).