What with all the abortion excitement in the air, I was wondering when one of the wingnuts was gonna lose it. You can’t get a bunch of baboons this overheated without something ugly happening. And, whaddyaknow, it was the godbotherer Rick Santorum who said something nearly too stupid to believe.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, Rick Santorum displayed his culture-warrior side in full force, as he harshly attacked President Obama by suggesting the president wanted to see more disabled babies aborted and accusing him of projecting his values – which Santorum claimed were not rooted in the Bible – on the Catholic Church.

The reporters pressing, the cameras flashing. The disabled children. It was electric.

He lambasted the president’s health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, “because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.”

Wow. A presidential candidate that opposes prenatal testing. I have never heard anything so shocking in . . well, hell. What an utterly uncivilized moron.

Why would you not want to know about the health and development of your child? Now that doctors can identify and correct problems in utero, why would you refuse to do it? This is so stupid, it’s barbaric.

And there are cases which, even if you hate it, require you to consider abortion, I think. 1 in 10,000 pregnancies results in a malformation of the fetus’ head and brain called “anencephaly.” See the Wikipedia article here, I won’t post pictures of it.

For lack of a better description, the fetus lacks the upper part of the head. The child never comes to consciousness, and death is certain. When you’re faced with the tragedy of an anencephaly pregnancy and you’re aware of the risks of carrying any pregnancy to full term, to reflexively rule out abortion is reckless. It’s dangerous.

But Rick Santorum despairs of this America, the one that wants to know about the health of developing children in the wombs of American mothers. To willingly know nothing of the fetus, although we could perhaps save it, and maybe to block others from knowing anything as well, though there are commonly cases where a sick child will certainly die, is what Rick would still prefer. And if the mother develops a horrific case of pre-eclampsia and dies in the hospital, that’s the mystery of Jesus for you. Or something. And isn’t Rick a wonderful person?

“That, too, is part of Obamacare, another hidden message as to what President Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country,” Santorum said.

Good golly. Yes, he’s such an elitist, he’d like to kill disabled people. I cannot believe we have a man running a presidential campaign on this message. America is a fucked-up place.