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Senator Rick Santorum Defends Life on NPR

On Monday, August 30, Senator Rick Santorum (R, PA) offered an eloquent defense of the pro-life vision in an interview for National Public Radio's Fresh Air program. Sen. Santorum eloquently responded to tough questions from host Terri Gross on the pro-life plank in the Republican platorm, judicial activism in Roe v. Wade, partial birth abortion and embryonic stem cell research.

Questioned about granting a "fertilized egg" the same Constitutional rights as a woman, Santorum responded:

First of all, the "fertilized egg" is a little girl or a little boy -- it's not a fertilized egg anymore. It's genetically not going to change at all. It is exactly as you or I or any other person in America or the world was at that point and time in our lives, and should be respected. . . . We have to take responsibility for that child.

Sen. Santorum presented the pro-life vision in this twenty-minute interview as more reasonable, democratic and philosophically consistent than the pro-abortion view. He showed that he is not just a politician with an official pro-life position, but is a man deeply committed to defending the lives of unborn human persons.

• Listen to the Santorum interview with RealPlayer
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• Notes on the Fresh Air interview at NPR site

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