A Friendly Reminder that Santorum Pledges to Allow Ban on ALL forms of Birth Control

 

"No soup for you!"

Rick Santorum is once again discussing the dangers of contraception in his bid for president. His reason? Contraception allows people to “do sex things.”

SANTORUM: [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It’s supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen…This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

 

That snippet and worse goes down at the 17:40 mark.


For the record, more than 99% of women between 15 and 44 who have ever had sex have used at least one form of contraceptive. 7 out of 10 women of reproductive age who are sexually active do not want to become pregnant – but could be should contraception be made unavailable to them.

Look, if sex is an activity reserved solely for the purpose of procreation in the Santorum household, that’s just fine. It’s sad, but fine. If Rick and Karen chose to only have sex the seven times it took to create their children, that’s their decision. It explains a good number of things about Rick’s attitude toward sex to be frank, but again, their decision.

But this sex-as-procreative-instrument attitude that the Santorum’s possess is not the attitude that the overwhelming majority of the Americans believe. Hundreds of millions of Americans have sex for pleasure first, with child-bearing factoring in somewhere on the top ten list sandwiched in between “a tool for conflict resolution” and “there’s nothing good on television.”

Again, 99% of all women who are of age to become pregnant use or have used birth control. Santorum isn’t just threatening the LGBT community or making racist remarks toward African Americans this time. Now he is targeting 51% of our country.