Posted on 01/05/2012 5:36:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
First Colmes, now this guy. Is the way Santorum grieved for his dead child really going to be part of the lefty commentariat’s oppo playbook this year? Really? Even after Santorum’s wife was reduced to tears by what Colmes said? If she had aborted the baby a few weeks earlier and let the body be dumped in the trash, these cretins would be marveling at how much more “progressive” she is than her husband. Instead she carried the child to term and the two of them brought the body home for a few hours so that the family could mourn together, and Robinson’s prepared to disqualify him for elected office because of it. Vote Democrat.
Via Peter Wehner, here’s how “weird” this is according to the American Pregnancy Association. Advice to parents of stillborn babies (Santorum’s son was born alive but lived only a few hours):
After the tests are completed, you will usually have the choice to spend time alone with your baby. You can find comfort in looking at, touching, and talking to your baby. Most parents find it helpful to make memories of this precious time that will last a lifetime…
With the loss of your baby, your family members will also grieve. Your baby is someone’s granddaughter, brother, cousin, nephew or sister. It is important for your family members to spend time with the baby. This will help them come to terms with their loss. If you have other children, it is very important to be honest with them about what has happened by using simple and honest explanations. It is your decision whether you would like the children to see the baby. Ask for a Child Life Specialist at the hospital; these are trained professionals who can help you prepare your children for the heartbreaking news, and prepare them to see the baby if you wish.
They suggest bathing the baby, taking photos as a keepsake, or even singing it a lullaby. Go figure that, knowing they’ll have only a precious few hours to share with a lost child, some people want to do what they can to capture the moment. I wonder what Robinson thinks Santorum and his wife should have done instead. Is it a simple matter of venue, i.e. he should have brought his kids to the hospital to see the baby there instead of bringing it to them at home? He did that, I assume, only because he wanted the family to have time together in a normal setting, not an antiseptic obstetrics ward. And yet this personal story, which has zero policy implications but does vividly illustrate Santorum’s belief that dead babies are family members too, somehow has unnerved not one but two pro-choicers to the point where they feel obliged to remark about its “weirdness” on TV. Again, go figure. Click the image to watch.
To someone like Eugene Robinson, it would be weird. If he doesn’t understand it already, no one could explain it to him.
Wonder if Gene is aware that Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln kept the coffin of their young son in a place where they could open it for months after his death
What is really weird is that this straight up racist and Liberal hack still has more than 20 people reading his crap. The 20 people being the staff and so called “talent” at PMSLSD.
The news sure gets campy when they think a person with genuine religious convictions is getting too uppity.
I haven't heard the left squawk like this since Sarah Palin was in the news. It's a productive sound. I get nervous when they're too comfortable.
How DARE Rick Santorum place value on his son’s tragically short life? I think that his decision was wise, and a beautiful moment for familial bonding. Everyone was able to grieve together, and give thanks for a wonderful life lost. Bob
Perhaps Eugene would like to research his genealogy and tell us about the death practices of his particular forefathers.
Maybe to Robinson a dead baby is like a fetus aborted and dumped in the trash can, but to those who are pro-life, a baby is not a trash discard.
Staying up with the dead was a common practice in America in the past. I don't find this story at all strange. It was his grief and he and his wife could choose how to grieve.
Is this all they can find on Santorum?
The least they can do is find something substantial worth the read.
What is the fully traditional means of treating the body of a deceased Christian in the Latin West? I know that Orthodox custom calls for the body to be washed in wine and dressed for burial by the family (in the case of laymen or those in minor orders), and for psalms to be read over the body from the time of death until a priest arrives to serve the First Pannakhida.
If the very traditional among Latin Christians have similar practices, some needs to start pointing this out loudly every time these nitwits in the media bring this up, calling them on the carpet for showing cultural intolerance toward Sen. Santorum and his family.
Keep in mind that these are the self identified
“Elites”.
Cretins, all of them.
Eugene Robinson is friggin’ WEIRD....
If I were Axelrod, I’d send a cease and desist memo to all of my allies in the press on this one. This conversation leads directly to Obama’s opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Do they really want to have that discussion? McCain let him off the hook on that and all life issues in 2008. Santorum won’t.
I hope they keep running their mouths. The contrast between the two candidates on the issue couldn’t be any starker.
How people treat their dead says a lot about them. Santorum's opposition -- we know what they do to infants. On what grounds do they criticize him honoring a dead child, when their pet passion is killing them?
Pure evil.
I think you nail it.
I had never heard of Eugene Robinson. He sounds quite intolerant of how others grieve. He must be a liberal.
Yeah, this is about the old story of when Santorum's child died after birth. They took the baby home for the night to spend one night with their child.
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