Rick Santorum Abortion

Rick Santorum - Abortion

(Page 4 of 4 of Rick Santorum's speech at Ave Maria University. Rick Santorum begins this section describing when he began to oppose abortion. Click to see basis for Rick Santorum's opposition to abortion (see Abortion Bible Verses and the proof that Abortion Is Murder.)

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Rick Santorum:

Now throughout that whole time, up until the time I got elected to the United States Senate, I worked in the United States Senate as a Reformer. But not one time did I ever mention the word abortion on the floor of the House of Representatives. Not one time did I talk about marriage. Not one time did I talk about any controversial issues, particularly social issues. I was a man on the move. I was someone who was just working hard. Oh, I went to church on Sunday, sang in a folk choir. That tells you a lot, doesn't it?

But my faith was here. It was part of me. It was important to me. But it wasn't me. It wasn't central to who I was.

When I got elected to the United States Senate, this man on the move who was running every two years, overcoming odds, leaping tall buildings in a single bound, had six years to well, just think. And one of the things I thought was, you know, maybe I have time to think of what God has planned for me, because I wasn't thinking very much about that. I mean, I was doing. I wasn't really thinking. I'm not ordinarily a contemplative kind of guy. But at that point you have a little time and you think.

I joined a Bible study. I went to - one of the great blessings - I went to a great church in northern Virginia, Saint Catherines of Sienna of Great Falls. Great priest by the name of Jerome Fasano. Great priests can do so much good. Well, this great priest starting to challenge me in ways priests never challenged me before. He knew who I was, and I felt like, just about every sermon he gave was directed at me.

And so, I went through this period both in the Senate with a Bible study and a prayer group that I started where my faith just started to take off, blossom. And it was incredible. And it felt like I was a whole new person.

And I'll never forget, it was November of 1995, a year into doing this, a year of just throwing myself, and Karen was the same way. We were just both just alive with this idea of the true Catholic faith and be motivated by it.

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