My views on birth control

My views on birth control are strange but yet poignant. If Asperger's syndrome is a birth defect, then yes, I was born with one.

But had I been, in the womb, been found to have had a birth defect severe enough to have made my life way too difficult, or worse, a birth defect that would have caused me to be unable to live outside the womb, I would hope that I would have been aborted. Of course, no one should wish or ever think about abortion as an easy way out, but look at it this way: would you want a child you wished to bring into this world suffer a traumatic short life because of an eventual fatal health condition?

And there have been cases where children who were not allowed to be aborted by their parent(s) have gone on to lead horrid lives, lives I wouldn't wish on even my worst enemies.

And then there's Rick Santorum, a man whose a Class A, well, nut is too extreme a word, how about a Class A literal interpreter of the Bible and Catholic dogma? Quoting the New York Times:

What happened after the death is a kind of snapshot of a cultural divide. Some would find it discomforting, strange, even ghoulish -- others brave and deeply spiritual. Rick and Karen Santorum would not let the morgue take the corpse of their newborn; they slept that night in the hospital with their lifeless baby between them. The next day, they took him home. ''Your siblings could not have been more excited about you!'' Karen writes in the book, which takes the form of letters to Gabriel, mostly while he is in utero. ''Elizabeth and Johnny held you with so much love and tenderness. Elizabeth proudly announced to everyone as she cuddled you, 'This is my baby brother, Gabriel; he is an angel.' '' 

 I don't know if it is creepy or not to take home a deceased newborn, as I'm sort of one of those "to each his own" type of people, but it's at the least, well, unusual. But I guess if it gave the family comfort to say goodbye in that manner, how am I to disagree. I think it's nuts that Karen Santorum had another child at 48. Once my kids are old enough to have kids, it's condoms and quite possibly a vasectomy for sure. And my wife, well, I'll talk her into birth control as well. Or cutdown on the sex, or something.

UPDATE: Is it me or does Rick Santorum's kids all seem unhappy in photo ops?