Isn't is wonderful that Palin had the "right to choose"?

Question

Whether to have a mentally challenged child?

Doesn't this prove that choice works both ways?

And isn't easier to make the choice she did when you can actually afford the health care a Down Syndrome child needs?

Answer 1

The decision she made was wonderful but the idea she could just as easily destroyed that precious little life is barbaric..

The President and VP have no say on such issues anyway..

Answer 2

I believe if you asked her she would tell that abortion was never an option.  Abortion is not in her beliefs.  So, to say she had the right to choose is not entirely correct.  The only choices she had were to get pregnant and raise the child that she was given by God.  I find it very disturbing that when something difficult is thrown into the lives of some Americans today that the easy way out is usually the course that is chosen.  BS!  I applaud Sarah Palin for her stance and her faith to live by her decisions.  Most politicians will preach it but not live it.  Its too hard, I can't handle it.  Personal Responsibility - Stop looking to the Government to solve your problems - do it yourself.

Answer 3

As a parent of a child born wit a birth defect, I am happy (as I am sure Mr. and Mrs. Palin are) that I got to experience God's plan of bringing a wonderful person into our lives who has grown up to be an absoulte joy. Where there's life, there's hope. I pray for the people who did not get to experience this joy, and whose lives are now filled with guilt and sadness over their sad "choice."

Answer 4

Yesterday you said she was a drag queen.

Now your drag queen is having babies... You have been watching way to much Oprah.

Answer 5

I think you have it in your mind that a child with down syndrome is of less value then an healthy child. Everyone has a purpose in this world and a child with down syndrome is just as important as one who is healthy. No it is not wonderful to chose a child solely on whether the child is healthy.  

Answer 6

Well, if she and McCain get into office...the rest of us won't have that choice you can bet on that.  Palin is TOO extreme.

Answer 7

Every woman has the right to choose whether to get pregnant or not, except for rape.

Answer 8

Sassy one the real debate is about women who see abortion merely as a form of "birth control" like oppps....I got pregnant, don't want it, better get an abortion.

I don't think many people disagree with it in the case of a bad pregnancy or rape.

Answer 9

If she indeed attended an energy conference in TX on Apr 18 as reported, felt her water break at 4am, stayed to give the keynote address at the luncheon, and flew home on Alaska Airlines without notifiying the airline of her condition, counter to most hospital policies against flying in the last trimester, not to mention strongly increasing the infection risk that could have led to the child's death, yes, Palin had a choice and made an extremely irresponsible one.

I'm sorry but there are so many issues surrounding this story that don't jive with the known realities of pregnancy, labor and delivery.

To start with, she did not announce her pregnancy until she was 7 months pregnant (Suspicious but understandable considering complications, possibility of miscarriage etc. that are more prevelant in older women.)



But posing in Vogue 2 mos earlier with not even the slightest indication of a protrusion ?? And was wearing a straight skirt with barely a bump the day of the conference. Must be her extraordinary level of fitness if nothing else is going on here...

Answer 10

i'm a poor boy in poor small city and i know people who do not have health insurance,and i know no one who has went without medical care when needed

Answer 11

No, it's wonderful that she is strong enough to handle the consequences of her actions, even if the baby is special needs. Palin would rather have no choice, as would any human being with morals. There is absolutely no logical case to support abortion. I have yet to hear a reason why giving the kid up for adoption isn't the best alertenative to murder.  

Answer 12

It's only wonderful that she had that right if it is true that the unborn fetus is not a human life.  If it is a human life, then it's a tragedy that the right to terminate life on arbitrary grounds exists.

I don't think anyone questions whether or not choice works both ways.  The question is whether or not the choice is morally wrong.

Sure, it's far easier to decide to keep a child with disabilities (or, for that matter, a perfectly healthy child) if you have adequate resources to care for the child's needs.  But, that moves away from the question of what is right to the question of what is convenient.

Answer 13

Yes.

It's sad how such people want to take away peoples rights and attempt to call other's sexual preference a 'sin'. They need to mind their own business.

This is supposed to be the Land of the Free. In a Democracy you have to put up with things you may not like.

Answer 14

yes it is wonderful but her personal view on abortion wont make it illigal in america ,

america doesnt work like that , from what i understood if the place,she can have her belifes but it doesnt mean it will get band .... at least i hope not.

Answer 15

Where is the child in the family photo she has all over the net. Thats one question. Second question, how in the heck does the country have faith in a woman that is totally radical, actually mentions as if it matters that her husband won on a ski do race,,duh..and anyone that can kill and gut an animal well that is not usually something a woman can do, sorry but true, she seems radical. She was handling a small area as Mayor, she is NO way able to stand in for VP as a backup for McCain (who is old sick and not able to speak in a speech and relying on the sympathies of army vets) he is clever, insensitive (left his wife upon returning from war, she had had a terrible accident and was left handicapped, he started with another woman right away) She makes me sick she is radical and can go with all guns blazing at the first provocation. If you think Bush almost ruined your country. Think AGAIN

Answer 16

Yes, I am pro-choice.  My problem is a generation that is too lazy to use birth control and use abortion to perform that task for them.  

Answer 17

It's great to be able to remove "mistakes" since it's only a blob of cells, and since no one has the paygrade to know, that makes it even more palatable.  

Answer 18

Giving new life is not a financial decision.

If you can't afford, or don't want a baby, don't have intercourse with men, really, how obvious and easy is it?

Answer 19

Yes, it is wonderful.  It's also wonderful that she and her husband are both hard working people who chose NOT to have kids that they couldn't afford....  

Answer 20

It's a strategy --

if they overturn Roe v. Wade, all the unwanted children can be raised by pro-lifers and then sent off to fight McCain's war -- which will still be raging if he has his way...

Answer 21

I have to wonder about that, she had the right to choose as to whether or not to get pregnant at 43 too, knowing that when you are over forty you have a significant increase in the probability of having a child with Downs syndrome.  Since she has four children already its not like she came to this party late and wanted a baby.  I could question her judgment just on that, especially knowing she would not choose abortion.  

Its one thing to have a baby late in life, its another to have to make provisions for it when you are gone, with modern medicine the other problems Downs kids have will keep them alive much longer than used to be the norm.  Who will take care of him then?

Many have criticized her for taking on the responsibility of a special needs newborn and a candidacy of epic proportions, which will require her to be away most of the time, unless she plans to wear the Baby Bjorn herself on the trail.  I guess shes not into breastfeeding.

I hope.

She must stay employed though, she will be needing that health insurance, and she may find it difficult to obtain with a special needs child having a preexisting condition.

Palin wants to make it illegal to have an abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.

I want to reserve the choice if my twelve year old is raped.

I don't want her to make it for us.

McCain is on record as saying he intends to pack the Supreme Court with anti choice judges, since the Court is in the balance with two judges ill and old, I won't take that chance.

Millions of American women could easily wake one day and find their government has made pregnancy compulsory.

And, by the way, its grounds for divorce in many states to tell your husband that you won't have s*x with him.  Birth control dosn't fail only for the unmarried.