Rick Santorum in OnTheIssues Fact Checking

On Families & Children: FactCheck: Yes, ISIS declared fatwa to kill disabled kids

Santorum said, "This week ISIS put out a fatwa on disabled children and killed dozens of them because of their disability. Now, I am the father of a disabled child. I have known the face of evil. And I, if you give me the opportunity, will defeat it."

Could that be literally true? We checked; indeed it is: "ISIS has issued an order to exterminate children with Down syndrome, the Mosul Eye reported. The Sharia Board issued a fatwa to 'kill newborn babies with Down syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled children.' The group confirmed more than 38 cases where the terrorist organization executed babies born with disabilities using either lethal injection or suffocation. The victims were ages 1 week to 3 months, and killed in Syria and Mosul. ISIS claimed that children born with Down syndrome came from "foreign fighters" who married Iraqi & Syrian women. The order was issued by the terror group's Saudi judge Abu Said Aljazrawi." (NY Daily News, 12/14, reporting from "The Mosul Eye").

Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on 2015 CNN/Salem Republican debate Dec 15, 2015

On Free Trade: FactCheck: Several other candidates support EXIM Bank too

Santorum said, "I'm a supporter of the EXIM bank. Everybody else in the entire field is opposed to it." Is that true? Santorum refers to the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency which fosters export financing.

Ted Cruz (R-TX), 8/2015: EXIM Bank is corporate welfare
Rand Paul (R-KY), 3/2012: EXIM Banks subsidizes multinationals
Bernie Sanders (D-VT), 6/2015: EXIM Bank is corporate welfare to multinationals
Donald Trump (R-NY), 8/2015, EXIM Bank is feather-bedding for politicians
Carly Fiorina (R-CA), 7/2014, EXIM Bank is marriage between big government & big business

Jeb Bush (R-FL), 9/2007: Secured $74M EXIM bank loan for exports to Nigeria
Hillary Clinton (D-NY), 11/2014, EXIM Bank is tool for competitive exporting
Martin O`Malley (D-MD), 7/2014: Reauthorize EXIM Bank
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), 7/2015, Voted for renewing charter of the EXIM Bank

Conclusion: Santorum is wrong no matter which party or group you look at. Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on 2015 Fox Business/WSJ GOP debate Nov 11, 2015

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