IowaPolitics.com: Santorum draws most enthusiastic applause from anti-abortion crowd
Four Republican presidential candidates vying for Iowa’s social conservative vote all delivered tough talk Wednesday night about their opposition to abortion.
But former Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, the self-proclaimed “social conservative candidate,” drew the most enthusiastic applause and whistles from 1,400 Iowans who attended the screening of “The Gift of Life,” an anti-abortion film, at Hoyt Sherman Place.
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Huckabee attended Wednesday’s screening and received a standing ovation from the crowd.
Bachmann made the issue a personal one, sharing her stories of childbirth and miscarriage, as she has when she’s spoken in Sunday morning church services in Iowa.
“I will be the first president of the United States who has willingly participated with the lord God almighty in bringing forth human life, not once, but five times. We have five biological children,” Bachmann said. “We also have another child that is in heaven, one that came to us and ended its life in the form of miscarriage.”
Gingrich told the crowd that movies like “The Gift of Life” really matter in winning people’s hearts and minds and turning them against the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
“As the country became more and more aware of the meaning of Roe v Wade, it has turned more and more against abortion,” Gingrich said. “This has been a cultural thing. It’s been normal, everyday people saying ‘no,’ this is wrong.”