Santorum Votes to Protect Incestuous Fathers

Senator Rick Santorum (R-VA) voted yesterday to protect fathers who have impregnated their daughters through sexually abusive relationships. The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a crime for anyone (grandparents?) to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion. This means a teen girl being abused by her father must get his permission to make that "short ride" (as Joe Loserman calls it) to another state in order to receive appropriate medical care.

Rick Santorum and the Republicans rejected an amendment which would have protected these girls.

This is one more attack on women's rights by the neo-christian right. Bob Casey said he also would have supported this legislation.