Religious liberty. Those are the two bulwarks of America. Faith and freedom. But it is what makes America unique in the world. He added that while other countries, such as Italy , Greece , Turkey and China , had changed over time, the United States had not. He earned his master's degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a J. Santorum worked as an attorney before transitioning to politics and was elected into the House of Representatives in He added the two ended their relationship in because Karen wanted children and that was something Allen "had already done," he said.
Once Karen married Rick, they immediately started a family and she never practiced law, according to Newsweek. Rick became one of the most staunch anti-abortion legislators in Congress, saying that doctors who perform abortions should be "criminally charged for doing so," that a threat to a pregnant woman's health shouldn't be an allowed exemption for abortion, and that "most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb. The most publicly visible part of Karen's marriage to Rick came in , when the Santorum's fourth child, Gabriel Michael Santorum, died tragically just after birth.
Early tests had revealed that the fetus had a defect, and they decided to have a risky surgery performed to fix it while the fetus was still in Karen's womb, according to Examiner. Karen became very ill after the surgery, and doctors determined that both Karen and the fetus could die from infection if the fetus wasn't removed.
Thus, in order to save her life, the Santorums allowed a doctor to induce labor at 20 weeks. Did Karen ever think she could be first lady? And I still don't even go there," she responded.
They've come a long way since they met by chance 24 years ago in Pittsburgh, when then-Karen Garver was offered a job at the firm where Santorum worked. He was with a group of lawyers who took her to a recruiting dinner. He was so kind, funny, friendly. And I went home that night and I wrote in my diary, 'I met the guy I am going to marry. They married in , the year Rick Santorum was first elected to Congress.
Less than two years later, Elizabeth, the first of their eight children, was born. The Santorums are devout Catholics. Rick Santorum's strongly conservative views on social issues - he's anti-abortion and is morally opposed to birth control - have led critics to question his views on women.
He continues to be surrounded by strong women in his daily life, and the best, some of the best staffers he has ever had, from press secretaries to scheduler and the issues people, have all been women. If I wanted to work full-time as a lawyer, he would have been percent behind me.
One hundred percent? If I told him tomorrow, 'Rick, you know what? He and Karen lived above the office together for nearly five years, until the house in which Allen now resides was finished after a lengthy renovation the couple broke up a few months after they moved into the house.
Photographs of them together throughout those years show her as a fresh-faced, freckled young woman with wavy hair and a shy grin that grew more confident after Allen paid to have her teeth straightened. Garver often came in to get the doctor's car serviced, says Katz. Garver's parents were scandalized by the pairing, which strained their relationship with their daughter, according to Allen's youngest daughter, Candy, who, at 51, is the same age as Mrs.
Karen's parents did not return calls requesting comment. His own children weren't too happy either but bore it largely in silence. Mary and Herbert Greenberg, longtime friends of Allen's through Herbert's job as concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, recall that Karen had seemed entirely familiar and comfortable with the subject of abortion when the couples socialized.
In October , Mary Greenberg who had moved to Baltimore with her husband flew to Pittsburgh to consult Allen about an abortion. He directed her to colleagues at the Women's Health Center; Karen, recalls Mary, immediately offered to accompany her to the clinic. The Greenbergs say Allen happily gave Karen a cultural education.
When she told him she wanted to learn to play the piano, he bought her a Steinway upright which still stands in his living room. He took her to Europe several times as well as to Hong Kong for the wedding of one of his friends.
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