Why did Sarah Palin risk "her baby's" life on a 10 hour flight?

Question

What pregnant 44 year-old discovers that her water broke (according to her) finishes a speech in Texas, then GETS ON A PLANE for a ten-hour flight to Alaska to give birth. It sounds very risky. http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/sarah-palin/22236/the-fully-vetted-sarah-palin/

According to new recommendations from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), healthy women with low-risk (i.e. "normal" or "uncomplicated") pregnancies can safely fly up until their 36th week, or one month prior to their due date. Women who should not fly at any time during their pregnancy are those at risk for complications or pre-term delivery, including women with poorly controlled diabetes, pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, or sickle cell disease, which can be worsened by high altitude.

Answer 1

If her water already broke that means she has started labor. You shouldn't fly in the third trimester because the high altitude might cause you to go into an early labor.

Answer 2

what's with attacking the Republicans' medical records ?  First it was McCain and his age, now it's Palin's pregnancy and delievery.  I find this line of attack bizarre!!

Answer 3

I don't know about that, but why are liberals so desperate to trash this woman and her family? What happened to the issues?

Answer 4

Gee I didn´t know you cared so much.  How thoughtful.

Answer 5

Because it makes a good story.  

Answer 6

She cared more about her career, than her family.

She is trying to have it all, at the risk of causing harm to

the baby. I hate to say this, because the infant has a problem.

I don't think she felt any more damage could be done.

I don't wish this on anyone's child, under any circumstance.

I love children and they should be protected.

Answer 7

why do the same questions come up time after time after time? soon we'll go through the "she's not the mother" questions again.

Answer 8

She apparently decided to have her baby in her home state. Please post your M.D. so we can see that you are actually qualified to make a judgement on this.

Until then...

Next smear.

Answer 9

you are concerned with her "risking" her babies life while the demo crates don't want to give a baby the chance at life?  

Answer 10

If you know what you were talking about, you would be dangerous!!!! "seething over Sarah "" are ya!!!

Answer 11

oh cry me a river, pregnant women do it all the time, babies have been born out of hospitals since the beginning of time...complain about things that would disqualify her from being VP, not something that should be put in a different topic other than elections

Answer 12

She's a nut case!  Imagine her running our country as VP or better yet as the President when something does happen to McCain.

Answer 13

I was wondering if people like you ever learned to make newspaper kites?  Please, if you did, make one and go fly it.  Use your trash for something useful.  What a loser you are.

Answer 14

Because she knows that being a woman does not necessarily mean she's some sort of fragile flower.  She's tough!

Answer 15

I have no idea. Perhaps she had physician approval before she flew.

Answer 16

there is a rumor that Sarah Palin's oldest daughter was pregnant.

maybe the daughter is realy her daughters and she is raising the kid because her teenage daughter isn't in a position to do so.

which in it's self is a nice story but if it's true the way they are handling it raises issues on how much we can trust Pulin to be honest when she is in office.

Answer 17

Palin's decision to do this shows almost as much of a reckless lack of judgment as McCain for choosing her to be the potential commander and chief of the United States.

Answer 18

u guys are getting desperate  

Answer 19

Keep reaching, dude.  I still don't think you're gonna find anything that's going to prevent her from becoming the next VP of the United States.

Answer 20

Why was her baby's life at risk apart from the normal risks of being on a plane?

Answer 21

Your link is claiming she wasn't pregnant at this time. Please get the lies straight.  

Answer 22

And followed by a 45 minute drive to a remote clinic instead of into the hospital where she landed.

There is a fishy smell and it is not from the cannery.

Answer 23

Oh give me a F'en break! If that's the best you can come up with, the rest of us are home safe!

McCain/Palin '08

Answer 24

You people can not even get the rumor right. The baby was a premature birth. Now it was a speech in Texas. Why don't you change to she was down in Cuba. Oh yah and Bill Clinton is the father.