Do you think Sarah Palin is courageous or just stupid?

Question

Sarah Palin chose to carry a pregnancy to term even though she knew four months in advance that the child would be born with Down's Syndrome. Does that make her courageous or just stupid?

A third-generation freethinker

Answer 1

Sarah Palin is a believer and a powerful woman in her own right.  I will vote for her and Senator McCain.  I think they will do a GREAT job!!

D1

Answer 2

Have you actually ever spent any amount of time with a Downs kid?

It's pretty challenging to raise a child with Downs Syndrome, but when you love your child and have the energy and strength needed for the difficulties that may arise, it is still a blessing.

Not everyone is cut out for it. I myself am not, and I will gladly admit it.

My step-brother has downs, and he is an awesome kid. I don't know how my mom and step-dad do it... but they do.

Neither regrets having him in their life, regardless of how tough it can be.

Answer 3

Courageous!

It's not easy to tend to a disabled child but I highly respect her for her courage to stick to her morals and keep her baby.

If anyone has ever worked with Down Syndrome kids/adults, they can be the most loving, accepting individuals you'll ever meet. We need more people like that today not less.

Answer 4

Courageous.

She stood by her beliefs.

She's got my vote.

Answer 5

how does that make anyone stupid? how is that not a noble thing to do? abort a baby coz it's defected? what are you a n**i?

Answer 6

I think she is wonderful!  It makes me think she has a lot of courage and knowledge to take on something like this.  It was her CHOICE and she knows what she is doing.

Answer 7

neither, but it's nice that she understands that a Downs child can have a happy life and deserves the chance to.

Answer 8

if your parents knew in advance you had something wrong with you

would you think it would be alright to terminate your life even if you were alive long enough in your mothers womb to feel the pain of getting ripped limb from limb, don't have childrenyour not old enough

yet

Answer 9

I dont see anything wrong with it, I mean come off it? Do you think we should just send all the mentally ill on a train some where like they did and germany and say bye bye. Have some compassion man

Answer 10

It makes her unselfish, moral and compassionate.  

Why did she have the right to decide the value of another human life?  Wasn't Mozart deaf?  What if someone had decided that his disability made his life less valuable than someone who did not have any disabilities?  Look at all the great things he brought to us.  What about Steven Hawking, isn't he the scientist in the wheelchair who can't even talk on his own?

Besides I have known people who were told their child would be birn with defects and then it was not.  

People with Downs Syndrome can function well in society, so long as people like you stop trying to de-value their role in society and their role as humans.  So first we don't tolerate people with disabilities and we kill them- then what is next in our quest for the perfect Human race?  Wait isn't that what Hitler was trying to get a perfect race of humans?

When we start placing the value of one human above that of another at the scale you suggest, then we are headed to another Holocaust.

Answer 11

Not a murderer`

Answer 12

She is committed to life and not giving up on a child just because it would be an inconvenience to her or her way of life.. Abortion would have been the easy selfish way out..

I can tell you one thing.. Obama and Biden better watch their step when attacking Palin because people know she's a woman of integrity and such a move would backfire badly in their faces...

Answer 13

I think that she is a loving mother I would like to think all mothers would be that loving, Obviously yours was as well, from what I can tell by the intelligence of your question

Answer 14

If she wanted to take  care of a child like that,then that makes her courageous.

I think even if a child is born with an illness like that,doesn't mean they are doomed and should not experience life just because they have something wrong with them.

Answer 15

Well, she's dedicated at least. I would not have wanted to bring a child into this world that had Down's.

My cousin has Down's Syndrome and I see how hard it is for her parents to take care of her... she's 5 now and she's still the size of a 2-year-old. =(

Answer 16

Your value of human life speaks for itself.

GKC said "freedom" always ends up in death.

Is this Sparta now? We will give everyone an IQ test at birth?

What say you death-thinker?

God love you!

Edit: You are young and single so you really don't understand, but people of diminished capability can lead productive lives.

You should try it.

Answer 17

I dont know, I certainly dont mean to offend anyone, but downs syndrome people sure look happy compared to normal people.  I mean, they get excited like its christmas when they get to go outside or the see a dog or other animal, etc....  

Sometimes I think more people need down syndrome.

Answer 18

Neither. I see it as having been HER choice.

Answer 19

How would she be stupid by anyone's measure?

She acted on her values and beliefs.

She values human life and doesn't care whether it is perfect or not.  I wish all politicians were so strong in their values.  Sadly, many are without values, morals or a spine.  She seems to have all three.

Answer 20

It makes her a loving mother, likely no more courageous than your average mother.

As far as disabilities go, dude, Downs is pretty manageable. Don't tell me you don't know anybody with Downs? I worked with a girl who had it and she was SOOOO good with money. Her change drawer was never a penny over or a penny under. She was the best cashier we ever had.

It's too bad to think that so many think she should have been aborted. She is a wonderful person and she has a wonderful life.  

Answer 21

just stupid...

Answer 22

She's just a mother who loves her child no matter what and believes she has received a gift from God.  All children are a blessing.  

Answer 23

You are stating this because of her latest position in life.

Leaving politics out of this.  I am 77, I have six children (all adults now), five were adopted at birth and one pregnancy.   IF any of those five young babies had been born with Down Syndrome, I would have welcomed it with open arms, just as I did with them all.,

If my pregnancy had shown that my daughter had Downs Syndrome, I would have given thanks for such a blessing.  Have you ever known a child with Downs?

They are the most loving, openly honest, kindest, sweetest human beings on this earth.  Any women who choose to go through with such a birth, is full of love and hope AND courageous.   I am an ardant Obama supporter, but you have given me reason to admire this lady who has been nominated for Vice President.  She must be a very special person.

Answer 24

*Shrugs* Difficult to call. I'm pro-choice, but I certainly wouldn't denounce her for not aborting the kid. However, I have to wonder if she fully considered the quality of life the child would have. But then again, if she is pro-life and considers that life begins at conception (I'm just assuming here, but it seems like a safe assumption) then the fact she carried the baby to term was the only moral decision to make from her standpoint, so fair enough.

Answer 25

Neither and both. Just hope she never gets close to being in charge of America.

Answer 26

Its the unselfish and correct thing to do.

Answer 27

I don't think she's either.

Lots of woman have had babies with problems and it was just the cards they were dealt.

I don't think it's a big deal.

Answer 28

I think you judging her as a man for chosing to keep her child is just plain stupid. How dare you insinuate that the life of someone who is retarded is not worth living.

Answer 29

Neither. How many other women make the same choice???

The child's quality of life might suffer, but if she is willing to deal with that guilt over the guilt of aborting it, let her. Its her life...