Q: Are you in favor of Plan B, the morning-after pill?
SANTORUM: It is an abortifacient in certain circumstances. If the egg has been fertilized and the pill is taken, it does cause an abortion. It’s inconsistent with his previous position and violated his principles.
Q: If you believe that life begins at conception, then why do you support exceptions for rape, incest, and life of mother?
SANTORUM: Yeah, I would vote for things like that.
Q: But it’s the taking of a life.
SANTORUM: The Hyde Amendment allows rape, incest, life of the mother. That is the common ground we could get, and I would support that.
Q: But by your standards, it’s the taking of a life.
SANTORUM: It is, there’s no question it’s the taking of a life. But it is an attempt for me to try to see if we can find common ground to actually make progress in limiting the other abortions. So yes, that’s what I would do.
PA 2006 Senate Debate, Tim Russert Moderator, Sep 3, 2006
Q: In June, you said, "I believe that any doctor who performs an abortion should be criminally charged for doing so." You would allow no exceptions for cases of rape and incest?
SANTORUM: You know, the US Supreme Court 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 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've been traumatized already. To put them through another trauma of an abortion I think is too much to ask. And so I would absolutely stand and say that one violence is enough.
Iowa Straw Poll 2011 GOP debate in Ames Iowa, Aug 11, 2011
Voted YES on Banning Partial Birth Abortions Except for Maternal Life – Bill S. 3; vote number 2003-51 on Mar 12, 2003
Voted YES on Maintaining Ban on Military Base Abortions – Bill S.2549; vote number 2000-134 on Jun 20, 2000.
Voted YES on Banning Partial Birth Abortions – Bill S. 1692; vote number 1999-340 on Oct 21, 1999.
Voted YES on Banning Human Cloning – Motion to invoke cloture on motion to proceed to Bill S. 1601; vote number 1998-10 on Feb 11, 1988.
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Santorum has a minor change in his opinion to one slightly more “extreme”, rather than more moderate like most politicians do, so I wouldn’t really call that a flip of any sort and is pretty consistent on his voting record.
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