"we in America should be big enough to try to surround ourselves and help women in those terrible situations who have been traumatized"

On a national stage this past Thursday evening, a Catholic lay person defended the sanctity of human life with a missionary zeal that would have made Saint Thomas More proud:

• "the Supreme Court of the United States on a recent case said that a man who committed rape could not be killed, could not be subject to the death penalty, yet the child conceived as a result of that rape could be. That to me sounds like a country that doesn’t have its morals correct. That child did nothing wrong. That child is a, is [interrupted by applause]....That child is an innocent victim. To be victimized twice would be a horrible thing. It is an innocent human life. It is genetically human from the moment of conception, and it is a human life, and we in America should be big enough to try to surround ourselves and help women in those terrible situations who have been traumatized already. To put them through another trauma of abortion. I think it’s too much to ask and so I would absolutely stand and say that one violence is enough" (Rick Santorum, Iowa GOP Debate, 8/11/11).