I have to disagree. Santorum has been out of line over and over again so he’s fair game and the question is perfectly understandable. Shall we do the whole “be a better person” thing? Where has that ever gotten any of us? People get tired of stupid so let’s not beat around the bush and just lay all our cards on the table. It’s a sad world, get over it.

What is there to gain from this, you ask? 
Piers Morgan getting exactly what Piers wanted which was to get plastered all over the internet and be adorned by all the pro-choice public. In short, a publicity stunt staged to increase his sad sack of a TV show.

Piers Morgan, again, a turd. SoWhat, you too. This is beyond politics, you just don’t go there implying trauma on a child. Good call Jane Dough.

Santorum’s position is a populist position.

When Santorum’s abortion philosophy is the law in America, it will cause suicides to plummet dramatically.

If you are trapped in poverty and you want to commit suicide, you don’t have to do that any more.

You simply rape a rich man’s daughter. Your child will be born into wealth!

Once your child is of legal age, he/she will use mommy’s money to support you!

win-win-win

the woman you rape gets a beautiful baby

the baby gets a wealthy life

you reap the rewards 18 years later for your “hard” work (at about the time you get out of prison)

Are you a big fan of a superstar basketball player or sexy movie star?

You can stay connected to them forever!

Just rape their daughter.

And then you can see what your child and the child of your hero would look like.

Prison won’t be that bad either. Because you’ll be famous too!

Did your girlfriend break up with you?

Did she give you a big speech about how she is in control of her own life?

Just rape her real good and get her pregnant. That’ll teach her whose in control of her life.

Now she has a choice:

Put her baby’s father in jail?
Go to jail for aborting her baby (thanks Santorum!)
Or just get back together with you?

I think that’s risk worth taking, don’t you? I mean this is a precious life we’re talking about, right? And if God didn’t want her to have your baby, He wouldn’t have put it in His plan for you to rape her, right?

You don’t even have to feel guilty. It’s God’s will (and Santorums).

As a death penalty opponent, I think it is perfectly fair to ask any death penalty opponent how they would feel if their own child was murdered.

I think we should give the death penalty to fake outrage and false equivalences.

Santorum actually answered this one as a moderate would.

The death penalty is a reasonable punishment for certain violent crimes where there was multiple witnesses.

But unfortunately, far more minorities–and MEN–receive the death penalty than whites. And far more people from the working class get the death penalty than wealthy people for the same crimes.

In order for the Death Penalty to be fair, there must be a very clear set of standards, followed to the letter of the law. While a jury should decide guilt, it should be up to a panel of judges to decide whether the criteria was met on a crime by crime basis.

The death penalty should not be decided at the time of trial. DNA tests should be done, as well as lie detector tests, to determine whether their is any doubt at all that the person committed the atrocity (all would be inadmissible in the jury trial or appeal). There should also be multiple independent witnesses. 

Death penalty should be a federal issue, not a State issue, since governors use it as a way to show the public how tough they are on crime. That makes the death penalty a politically motivated punishment under the current system.

Personally I get why he asked the question.  These politician say things and only stick by majority of what they say because it doesn’t concern them.  Its totally different when it happens to you or your family.    Its hypothetical people…and sometimes you have to place yourself in that position to give an accurate answer.

Ms. Tennery:  Mike Dukakis called, and would like a word.

He should have asked Piers, “Was it Bill Clinton d(Like Juanita Broderick)?

Piers Morgan is atwit!

You beat me to it, kringle…

What makes sites like Jane Dough et al so disappointing is that they’re staffed by 20somethings with no sense of history. They’re forever “outraged” by something that, er, happened in the 70s, when I was 8 years old.

Also? Dear Mediaite: hire a copy editor. Please.

I strongly disagree. People’s opinions are often shaped by their life experience. Santorum probably doesn’t know many family members or friends who have been raped and faced the abortion decision. But if even if he did, the public deserves to know whether he is a hypocrite or whether he follows his extreme views to their logical conclusion. And I would absolutely ask any death penalty opponent whether they would feel the same if their child were murdered. That’s when it gets real for those who haven’t yet had to face it in reality….

You whiz kids at Mediaite missed a huge factual error in Morgan’s question: Rick Santorum has *three* daughters, not two: Elizabeth, Sarah Maria and Isabella. The last daughter was born with a genetic defect that is usually fatal by age 1 (she is now three). Bad enough Morgan has to put the image in everyone’s mind of Santorum’s daughters getting raped, but it’s like he aborted the third daughter.

you’re an idiot.  It’s easy to sit with your and idiot too.