"Throughout the partial birth abortion debate, through all the distortions, all the untruths, all the back and forth between both sides, one very compelling inage remained, I think, in the minds of many Americans. That image was of a very sick infant destined to die shortly after birth and the anguished parents who thought they had no choice but ot end their child's life with a partial birth abortion. This image became the fault line of the whole debate, the so called 'hard cases' argument used by its supporters, the supposed reason for sanctioning this procedure.

Gabriel, I wish we coludl take that image -- the image of agoniced paretns compelled to chose virtual infanticide -- and replace it with the image we knew.

When you were born and lived for two hours, something simple but profound happened. Your Dady ad I became the parntes of a newborn baby and welcomed you into our family.

That was all.

But that was everything."

-- Letters to Gabriel
Karen Garver Santorum
p.103

"I call heaven and earth today to witness against you. I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holidng fast to him"
The fifth book of Moses, commonly called Deuteronomy, 30:19-20