Kathryn Lopez: "Culture is downstream from politics," is how former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum put it before baring his soul at the recent Iowa forum. When asked to share personal stories about challenges they've faced, Santorum chose to talk about fatherhood and his youngest daughter, Isabella Maria, who was born with a condition known as Trisomy 18.
Santorum dealt with the stress of the diagnosis with a novel but painful method: "To not love her ... because it wouldn't hurt as much if I lost her," he remembered. Holding her finger as she lay on an emergency room table at 5 months of age, Santorum realized his mistake.
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