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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

So wrong so many ways.

Santorum has never indicated that he wants to outlaw contraception. Period.

The idea that Griswold was wrongly decided not because it involved contraception but because it expanded federal powers may be beyond you.

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

So wrong so many ways.

Santorum has never indicated that he wants to outlaw contraception. Period.

The idea that Griswold was wrongly decided not because it involved contraception but because it expanded federal powers may be beyond you.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control

Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw contraception during an interview with ABC News yesterday, saying, “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 statues they have.” Watch the Jake Tapper interview:

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Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president. As he told CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart in October, “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,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained. “It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

But an overwhelming majority of Americans — virtually all women (more than 99 percent ) aged 15–44 have used at least one contraceptive method — rely on contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies and limit the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases. In fact, the Guttmacher Institute estimates that contraceptive services provided at publicly funded clinics helped prevent almost two million unintended pregnancies. Without funding from Medicaid and Title X, “abortions occurring in the United States would be nearly two-thirds higher among women overall and among teens; the number of unintended pregnancies among poor women would nearly double.”

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ORIGINAL: Notsweet

Although it's true that the citizens of each state should decide what they want for themselves, and not the federal government, Santorum is still a fucking nightmare. His ideas regarding social conservativism make me scream. And people assume that what comes out of his crazy face is what all conservatives think. I cringe whenever I see him.
But the one thing he's right about--and maybe this a bit of the anarchist in me--the states have GOT to make their own choices, and not have the federal government sucking money out of them, then giving it back and telling them what to do with it. What Congress knows about the needs of any one state could dance on the head of a pin.

Thing about power going to Washington...it doesn't come back where we can see and decide on it locally. But that's where we have to live with it.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

The only one that has any true potential is Paul, imo... and even that is scary. Its not that he doesnt have great ideas... he does. He also has some that are so whacked out that the good cant outweigh them.

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Griswold did not expand federal powers over the state, what it did was expand PERSONAL powers over the intrusion of the state.

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Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw contraception

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: Notsweet

Although it's true that the citizens of each state should decide what they want for themselves, and not the federal government, Santorum is still a fucking nightmare. His ideas regarding social conservativism make me scream. And people assume that what comes out of his crazy face is what all conservatives think. I cringe whenever I see him.
But the one thing he's right about--and maybe this a bit of the anarchist in me--the states have GOT to make their own choices, and not have the federal government sucking money out of them, then giving it back and telling them what to do with it. What Congress knows about the needs of any one state could dance on the head of a pin.

Thing about power going to Washington...it doesn't come back where we can see and decide on it locally. But that's where we have to live with it.

making the assumption that we cannot tell the difference between santorum, perry, cain, romney, Paul, bachmann or any republican/conservative/rightie. is insulting, but I guess thats ok huh

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

And people assume that what comes out of his crazy face is what all conservatives think.

Lucy's response...

making the assumption that we cannot tell the difference between santorum, perry, cain, romney, Paul, bachmann or any republican/conservative/rightie. is insulting, but I guess thats ok huh