Rick Santorum Wants to Save You From Being Euthanized



Teh crazy Santorum

 As if declaring women's contraception as being "bad for woman", wasn't crazy enough, presidential hopeful and Catholic extremist crack-pot, Rick Santorum is now claiming that the Dutch government is wilfully euthanizing the elderly as a way to eliminate the weak in society.

Santorum brought up the subject of euthanasia at a forum hosted by conservative leader James Dobson, founder of the conservative organization " Focus on the Family."

“They have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every year, and it’s 10 percent of all deaths, half of those people are euthanized involuntarily in hospitals, because they are older and sick,” Santorum said. “So elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go to the hospital. They go to another country. Because they’re afraid because of budget purposes they will not come out of that hospital if they go in with sickness.”

Santorum also said some Dutch wear bracelets saying, “Don’t euthanize me.”


A quick fact check reveals what a fear mongering liar this guy is, (as if we didn't know that by now)

Santorum claimed legal euthanasia is responsible for “10 percent of all deaths for the Netherlands.” Government statistics show euthanasia is climbing, but represented only 2.3 percent in 2010, according to the most recent data.

Santorum added that half of the people euthanized were killed “involuntarily.” A representative of the Royal Dutch Medical Association said “there are no forced cases of euthanasia.” Dutch euthanasia review boards found nine cases in 2010 where doctors “had not acted in accordance with the due care criteria,” mostly for how the procedure was performed — not because it was against anyone’s will.

Santorum claimed the Dutch elderly wear bracelets that say “do not euthanize me,” but the Dutch government and medical association say no such bracelets exists. Santorum “might be confused with a ‘do not resuscitate’ bracelet or necklace” worn by some patients, a medical association representative said.

Santorum discussed euthanasia in the Netherlands during a Feb. 3 forum at the Grace Bible Church in Columbia, Mo. Dr. James C. Dobson, who has endorsed Santorum, moderated the discussion. Dobson is the founder of Focus on the Family, a very scary right-wing Christian organization. These aren't Jesus loving Christians- these are "Crusades lovin" Christians.

Santorum is about as unhinged as a conservative can get. He seems to be the anti-candidate seeing he is against practically every advancement this country has made since slavery was abolished.

Rick Santorum would like to go back to the days where a woman's place was in the home,barefoot and pregnant, gays were relegated to second class citizen status, and abortion went back to the back alley. He has even gone so far as to say Liberals aren't Christians, and protestants are cultists.

So much judgement from a man of gawd.

There will always be lunatics and liars, and every country has them, but the issue here is that politicians are made mainstream not by their views or level of public support but by their ability to go unchallenged on television.

When things like this come to light, a media with any sense of public duty would be trying to drag Santorum onto their shows to be interrogated about where he got this nonsense and why he sees fit to spread pure lies about other countries when vying for the top job in politics.

One Dutch observer said (in reference to America) - "The American dream is only believed because you have to be asleep to believe it."


Couldn't have said it better myself.

So true it hurts.


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