"Santorum, originally pro-choice[1], opposes abortion, describing it as "infanticide", and his arguments seem to be very deeply felt. When his wife suffered a second trimester miscarriage in 1996, they named the dead fetus Gabriel after the Biblical archangel, and presented its lifeless body to his family. Their children, including three kids under seven, spent several hours cuddling and kissing Gabriel, singing lullabies in his ear, because Santorum wanted them to "absorb and understand that they had a brother." Santorum's wife wrote a book of Letters to Gabriel, a collection of prayers and anti-abortion arguments, including a stirring call for Gabriel's support of anti-abortion legislation, and Santorum read from the book in debate on the Senate floor."